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Game #4706

Aston Villa

Sunday, 17 March 2002

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Lost

8th (-1)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Arsenal

Villa Park

Attendance: 41,520

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-2

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Arsenal

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Assist(s) | Mustapha Hadji | 69’ |

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 17 March 2002

🥅 | 15’ Goal, 0-1, (Arsenal), Edú Gaspar
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Hassan Kachloul, Sub on Dion Dublin
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Mustapha Hadji
💥 | 55’ Missed Penalty, Gareth Barry
🥅 | 61’ Goal, 0-2, (Arsenal), Robert Pirés
⚽ | 69’ Goal, 1-2, Dion Dublin, Assist by Mustapha Hadji
🟨 | 69’ Booking, George Boateng
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Paul Merson, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Arsenal

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 17 March 2002
  • Villa lose for the 3rd time in 5 games under Graham Taylor to fall back to 8th in the table.

  • Dion Dublin scores his 40th goal in a Villa shirt on his 124th appearance (101 Starts) to make it W46 D37 L41, 40 Goals, 15 Assists, 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.25 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • George Boateng makes his 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (117 Starts) to make it W50 D38 L37, 5 Goals, 1 Assist and 29 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Mustapha Hadji contributes his 5th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 28th appearance (19 Starts) to make it W13 D6 L9, 3 Goals, 2 Assists and 4 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 5.60 games played so far in his Villa career.

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

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

Arsenal

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1997–98

FIXTURE HISTORY
Arsenal
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Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Game | #30 |
Manager Game | #5 |
Sunday, 17 March 2002

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🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1995-2004
Kick off: 4.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🕒 5 | 🟩 | 1 🟨 | 1 🟥 3 | 0.80

Villa Career Form:

Relegation

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1995-2004

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 George Boateng

CARDS
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🟨 Oleg Luzhnyi
🟨 Freddie Ljungberg

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Paul Merson and Hassan Kachloul (first start in 10) replace Juan Pablo Ángel and Mustapha Hadji.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.85 |

Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 38.35 |

Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 19.96 |

Referee

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Arsène Wenger | 🇫🇷 |

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Arsenal

GK David Seaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Laurén | 🇨🇲 |
RB Oleg Luzhnyi | 🇺🇦 | 🟨 |
CB Igors Stepanovs | 🇱🇻 | 🔁 |
CB Sol Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Patrick Viera | 🇫🇷 |
M Edú Gaspar | 🇧🇷 | ⚽ |
M Freddie Ljungberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Robert Pirés | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |
CF Sylvain Wiltord | 🇫🇷 |
CF Dennis Bergkamp | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | for M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 46’ |
🔁 M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | 🔥 | for CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 80’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Igors Stepanovs | 🇱🇻 | (RB Lee Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Freddie Ljungberg | 🇸🇪 | (M Gilles Grimandi | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Dennis Bergkamp | 🇳🇱 | (CF Nwankwo Kanu | 🇳🇬 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Richard Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Efstathios Tavlaridis | 🇬🇷 |

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

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 5/16

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 2/11

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

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"We didn't really get playing until the second half. “We deserved to get something out of the game.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 17 March, 2002
*Arsenal see off Villa* Arsenal moved into second place in the Premier League with a tense victory over Aston Villa. The match turned on Gareth Barry’s 55th minute penalty, which David Seaman brilliantly saved. Arsenal were defending a slim 1-0 lead following Edu’s first-half goal - and five minutes after the penalty miss Robert Pires scored a superb goal to take the match beyond Villa. Substitute Dion Dublin scored after 69 minutes to give Graham Taylor’s team hope of salvaging a positive result. But despite his team’s valiant efforts to score an equaliser, Arsenal held on to collect a valuable three points as they challenge Manchester United for the Premier League top spot. Patrick Vieira should have opened the scoring in the seventh minute. The midfielder was completely unmarked as he met Dennis Bergkamp’s curling free-kick, but the Frenchman headed wide from six yards. Arsenal did take the lead after 15 minutes. Peter Schmeichel could only parry Sylvain Wiltord’s free-kick and Vieira - reacting first - shot goalwards from short range. Villa’s Danish goalkeeper again smothered the shot but the ball broke to Edu, who slotted home for his first Premier League goal. The home team felt aggrieved with the award of the free-kick, which was awarded for a supposedly high challenge by Hassan Kachloul on Edu. Villa almost immediately restored parity but David Seaman saved Darius Vassell’s shot from an acute angle. The home team forced several corners as they pushed for an equaliser but failed to trouble Seaman throughout the remainder of the half. Villa should have equalised after 55 minutes, but Gareth Barry’s penalty was amazingly saved by Seaman. Television replays showed referee Steve Dunn had correctly awarded the spot kick for a trip on Barry by second-half substitute Lee Dixon. But Seaman - diving to his right - made a brilliant one-handed save to preserve Arsenal’s lead in front of England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, who watched the game from the stands. Barry’s failure to score was further punished by Pires, who scored an amazing goal five minutes later. Pires latched onto a sweeping left-to-right pass, flicked the ball past George Boateng - completely taking the Dutchman out of the equation in the process - and lobbed it over Schmeichel from 14 yards. Villa forced their way back into the game with a goal created and scored by the two players manager Graham Taylor introduced at the start of the second half. Dublin headed Mustapha Hadji’s cross past Seaman after 69 minutes to set-up an exciting conclusion to the game.
Reports

🟥 17 Mar 2002, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Villa Park

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