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Game #4695

Aston Villa

Saturday, 29 December 2001

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Drew

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Premier League

Tottenham Hotspur

Villa Park

Attendance: 41,134

🟨 29 Dec 2001, Villa 1-1 Spurs, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Tottenham Hotspur

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🟨 29 Dec 2001, Villa 1-1 Spurs, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 29 December 2001

🥅 | 39’ Goal, 0-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Les Ferdinand
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Alan Wright, Sub on, Steve Stone
🔁 | 89’ Sub off, George Boateng, Sub on, Ian Taylor
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 1-1, Juan Pablo Ángel (pen)
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

Match Statistics

Not recorded

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 29 December 2001

  • Villa end 2001 in 8th place in the Premier League table but with just one win in ten since topping the table in October.

  • Juan Pablo Ángel hits an injury time penalty but Villa can only draw meaning it is now 1 win in 11 under John Gregory.

  • Lee Hendrie makes his 175th appearance in a Villa shirt (135 Starts) to make it W74 D47 L54, 20 Goals, 17 Assists, 31 Bookings and 3 Red Cards at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.86 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟨 29 Dec 2001, Villa 1-1 Spurs, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Tottenham Hotspur

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1998-99

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Tottenham Hotspur

Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #30 |
League Game | #20 |
Manager Game | #186 |
Saturday, 29 December 2001

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MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Eddie Wolstenholme | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Preston, 1992-2003
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 185 | 🟩 | 81 🟨 | 49 🟥 55 | 1.58

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Eddie Wolstenholme | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Preston, 1992-2003
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 27 October 2001, Villa 3-2 Bolton, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

🟨 29 Dec 2001, Villa 1-1 Spurs, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa name an unchanged line up for only the third time this season.

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.99 |

Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 38.14 |

Youngest Player |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.77 |

Referee
Manager

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MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Glenn Hoddle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Tottenham Hotspur

GK Kasey Keller | 🇺🇸 |
LB Mauricio Taricco | 🇦🇷 |
CB Chris Perry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ledley King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Dean Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steffen Freund | 🇩🇪 |
M Gustavo Poyet | 🇺🇾 |
M Christian Ziege 🇩🇪 | 🔁 |
W Darren Anderton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Les Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Teddy Sheringham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 72’ |
🔁 M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 89’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Christian Ziege 🇩🇪 | (CB Anthony Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Les Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Sergei Rebrov | 🇺🇦 |)

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Neil Sullivan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Simon Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

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SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 4/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

"We deserved to win the game, let alone draw it, given the amount of possession we had. “We were by far the better team.” John Gregory.
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 29 December, 2001

*Angel rescues Villa* Juan Pablo Angel’s last-gasp penalty halted Tottenham in their tracks as Aston Villa grabbed a 1-1 draw. But a point apiece does little for two clubs who have both seen the promise of a return to the good times evaporate with dismal recent runs. Les Ferdinand had sent Spurs on their way with his 150th league goal, but Darren Anderton handled the ball in injury time to give Villa a spot-kick. It was particularly cruel on goalkeeper Kasey Keller - given his league debut for Spurs at the expense of the dropped Neil Sullivan - and Dean Richards. Both had been outstanding as the visitors sat on their lead. Villa enjoyed the better of the early exchanges, with Darius Vassell twice getting finding a way past the recalled Chris Perry. His first effort found the side-netting, and then Richards made up ground and produced a saving tackle to thwart his second. Hassan Kachloul had a low shot saved by Keller before Ferdinand saw a header hit the post in the 27th minute. Keller then saved Paul Merson’s shot - and Kachloul’s follow-up - before Ferdinand opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Christian Ziege passed to Teddy Sheringham and the England striker took two defenders out of the game by letting the ball run. Ferdinand read his fellow veteran’s dummy and although his shot hit Peter Schmeichel’s leg, it still bounced into the far corner. Soon after the re-start Lee Hendrie - who passed a fitness test just before the game - forced a fine save from Keller. A free-kick from Staunton eventually found its way to Hendrie, whose low shot from the edge of the area was turned around a post by the Spurs keeper. Tottenham were standing firm amid growing pressure from Villa. As the game moved towards the final 10 minutes, Keller saved a Steve Staunton header and then Richards threw himself in front of Steve Stone’s drive. Spurs might even have scored again in the closing stages as substitutes Sergei Rebrov and Tony Gardner threatened. But Anderton, despite all his experience, made a howler at the death and Angel made no mistake from the spot.
Reports

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