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Game #4697

Aston Villa

Sunday, 6 January 2002

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Lost

3rd Round

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥

FA Cup

Manchester United

Villa Park

Attendance: 38,444

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

2-3

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Manchester United

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🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 6 January 2002

🟨 | 21’ Booking, Darius Vassell
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester United
⚽ | 51’ Goal, 1-0, Ian Taylor, Assist by Paul Merson
⚽ | 53’ Goal, 2-0, Own Goal, Gary Neville
🥅 | 77’ Goal, 2-1, (Manchester United), Ole Gunnar Solskjær
🥅 | 80’ Goal, 2-2, (Manchester United), Ruud Van Nistelrooy
🥅 | 82’ Goal, 2-3, (Manchester United), Ruud Van Nistelrooy
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, George Boateng, Sub on, Gareth Barry
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Alan Wright, Sub on, Steve Stone
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Paul Merson, Sub on, Mustapha Hadji
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-3 Manchester United

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 6 January 2002

  • Villa lose in the FA Cup third round against Manchester United despite being two goals to the good with 13' left to play as the victors celebrate like they've won the League, Cup and Champions League treble on one night.

  • Villa go two goals up only to lose as heartbreak in the FA Cup causes seismic reactions around Villa Park. 

  • Peter Schmeichel concedes 3 goals for the 5th time this season on his 26th appearance and is now without a clean sheet in 9 games to make it W11 D7 L8, 1 Goal, 30 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.15 goals per game and 9 Clean Sheets (35%) so far in his Villa career.

  • Paul Merson makes his 135th appearance in a Villa shirt (119 Starts) to make it W50 D43 L42, 18 Goals, 22 Assists, 7 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.38 games played so far in his Villa career.

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, 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

Manchester United

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2000-01

Aston Villa

Manchester United

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Manchester United

Previous 5 vs. United: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #32 |
Manager Game | #188 |
Sunday, 6 January 2002

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🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Kick off:
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 2-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
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

🕒 187 | 🟩 | 81 🟨 | 50 🟥 56 | 1.57

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: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Matches Officiated: 20
🟩 : 9
🟨 : 7
🟥 : 4
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 17 Apr 01, Villa 3-3 Charlton (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Darius Vassell

🟨 Laurent Blanc

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

George Boateng, Paul Merson and Juan Pablo Ángel return for Dion Dublin, Steve Stone and Hassan Kachloul.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.44 |

Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 38.16 |

Youngest Player |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.79 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

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 Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |

MANAGER

Alex Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Manchester United

GK Roy Carroll | 🇬🇧 |
RB Gary Neville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Phil Neville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Laurent Blanc | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
LB Mikaël Silvestre | 🇫🇷 |
M Juan Sebastián Verón | 🇦🇷 |
M Nicky Butt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Roy Keane | 🇮🇪 |
M Paul Scholes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W David Beckham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ole Gunnar Solskjær | 🇳🇴 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |86’ |
🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 86’ |
🔁 M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 86’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Nicky Butt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Luke Chadwick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Luke Chadwick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Ruud van Nistelrooy | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ | ⚽ |)

Substitutes

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Raimond Van Der Gouw | 🇳🇱 |
CB John O'Shea | 🇮🇪 |
M Michael Stewart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11

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

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

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

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

"We handed them the opportunity to get back into the game and I'm still finding it difficult to come to terms with the fact that we've not won." John Gregory.
Quotes

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Monday, 7 January, 2002

Van Nistelrooy breaks Villa in three-goal comeback Manchester United snatch victory from jaws of defeat as Beckham is restored to the starting line-up Manchester United answered one fusillade of goals with another here last night to deprive Aston Villa of a victory which would have revived their flagging season. Two goals down with 13 minutes remaining and another early exit from the FA Cup beckoning, United scored three times in five minutes to earn a fourth-round visit to Wimbledon or Middlesbrough. Until that point it looked as if Sir Alex Ferguson’s side would once more find themselves swept out of the Cup by a dash of claret. Taking their cue from West Ham, United’s conquerors in the fourth round at Old Trafford last season, Villa had found the net twice in two minutes early in the second half. What it is to have golden options. Ferguson had left Ruud van Nistelrooy on the bench to nurse a groin strain but he brought the Dutchman on once Villa had scored their second goal. Some groin injury! After Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had given United a glimmer of hope in the 77th minute Van Nistelrooy won them the tie with sublime pieces of finishing in the 80th and 82nd and in so doing became the first United player to score in seven successive matches. His total for the season is now 21. Thus an initially tepid tie ended up performing an extraordinary double somersault. Even by United’s standards of escapology it was an outstanding recovery. Thus Villa suffered much as they had done at Arsenal in the Premiership a month earlier, when they led 2-0 only to lose after two late goals from Thierry Henry. Had Juan Pablo Angel accepted a chance to put Villa further in front the contest might have been beyond even United’s reach. Then again, who knows? United set out to outpass their opponents. The theory seemed to be that the longer Villa were denied the ball the less they would know what to do with it. Yet though this probing football was pleasant to watch it threatened only in theory. There was neither Ryan Giggs, resting a hamstring, to provide the ammunition nor, initially at any rate, Van Nistelrooy to fire the shots. Nevertheless United should have taken the lead in the 37th minute and had already lost Nicky Butt, another groin victim, forcing Ferguson to reorganise. Paul Scholes joined Roy Keane in a deeper, more central role and the substitute Luke Chadwick offered United a more plausible alternative to Giggs on the wing. When Solskjaer caught Villa’s defence square with a finely angled pass Chadwick was the recipient, springing through in the inside-right position. He should have scored; his shot beat Peter Schmeichel but also missed the far post. Within a minute of the second half Keane’s quick pass sent Chadwick clear but only to waft a shot over. It was a miss soon regretted. Villa, having spent half the game striving to unlock United, now leant against the door and opened it with a couple of nudges. When Angel drew Laurent Blanc and Gary Neville out of position as Lee Hendrie sent a short pass through, Ian Taylor was well placed to hold off Phil Neville’s challenge and drive in a shot under Roy Carroll. Scarcely had United recovered their wits than they were two goals down. This time a canny lob from Paul Merson caught their defence square and, with Taylor lurking, Phil Neville’s header back caught Carroll out of position and compounded United’s problems with an own-goal. Ferguson’s immediate substitution of a substitute, replacing Chadwick with Van Nistelrooy, was accompanied by echoes of stable doors closing; false echoes as it turned out. Yet had Angel managed to touch in a chest-high cross from Darius Vassell just past the hour Villa might have felt safe. A glimpse of salvation was all United required and, once Mikael Silvestre had set up Solskjaer to force his way in front of Olof Mellberg to score, survival was always a possibility. Then possibility quickly became probability as David Beckham headed down a cross from Scholes and Van Nistelrooy took the ball on his chest before driving it into the net. The rest was predictable. A through-pass from Solskjaer and there was Van Nistelrooy again, calmly rounding Schmeichel to roll in the winner. Ferguson and the United bench understandably went berserk. Less forgivably, some United fans held up play by invading the pitch.
Reports

🟥 6 January 2002, Villa 2-3 United, Villa Park.

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