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Game #4707

Aston Villa

Saturday, 23 March 2002

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Drew

7th (+1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Premier League

Ipswich Town

Portman Road

Attendance: 25,247

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

Ipswich Town

0-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 23 March 2002

🟨 | 44’ Booking, Dion Dublin
🕒 | HT Ipswich Town 0-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 57’ Booking, Mark Delaney
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, George Boateng, Sub on, Ian Taylor
🕒 | FT Ipswich Town 0-0 Aston Villa

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

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 23 March 2002

  • Outplayed by bottom club Ipswich, Villa manage to draw at Portman Road under Graham Taylor to leave them with one win in eight Premier League games since John Gregory's departure.

  • Peter Schmeichel keeps his 1st clean sheet in 16 games on his 33rd appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W14 D8 L11, 39 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.18 goals per game and 10 Clean Sheets (30%) so far in his Villa career.

  • Dion Dublin makes his 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (102 Starts) to make it W46 D38 L41, 40 Goals, 15 Assists, 10 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.45 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Mark Delaney makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt (91 Appearances) to make it W35 D29 L27, 1 Goal, 2 Assists, 12 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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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

Ipswich Town

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1980-81

FIXTURE HISTORY

Ipswich Town

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Previous 5 vs. Ipswich: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

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

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #42 |
League Game | #31 |
Manager Game | #6 |
Saturday, 23 March 2002

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🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: David Pugh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1996-2004
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🕒 6 | 🟩 | 1 🟨 | 2 🟥 3 | 0.83

Villa Career Form:

Relegation

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: David Pugh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1996-2004
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 24 October 2001, Villa 1-0 Charlton, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Dion Dublin
🟨 Mark Delaney

CARDS

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None

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

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Dion Dublin (first start in 11) and Steve Stone (first start in 7) replace Paul Merson and Hassan Kachloul.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.91 |

Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 38.37 |

Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 19.98 |

Referee

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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 Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

George Burley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Ipswich Town

GK Matteo Sereni | 🇮🇹 |
CB Hermann Hreiðarsson | 🇮🇸 |
CB Mark Venus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Chris Makin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB John McGreal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jamie Clapham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Matt Holland | 🇮🇪 |
M Jermaine Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Marcus Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Finidi George | 🇳🇬 | 🔁 |
CF Marcus Stewart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 80’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Chris Makin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Jim Magilton | 🇬🇧 |)
🔁 | CF Finidi George | 🇳🇬 | (CF Alun Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Marcus Stewart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Martijn Reuser | 🇳🇱 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 |
F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Pablo Counago | 🇪🇸 |

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

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 4/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH QUOTES

"We may not have played as well as I would have liked but there can be no accusations thrown at those Villa boys." Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟨 23 Mar 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Sunday, 24 March, 2002

*Trap door draws closer for Ipswich* Seven games to go and three of their last four fixtures are against Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool - Ipswich Town are back in the relegation zone with not much hope of forcing their way out of it. They had to win and on paper this looked like being the easiest match of their run-in. They were the better team, but they were held by a stubborn Aston Villa side and have now failed to win in six games. Villa, with nothing but pride to play for, tried hard enough, but Ipswich’s eager home support and greater need for points gave them a competitive edge, and there was more zip about their play. Their final pass was too often lacking in quality, though, and the Villa defence were not rattled often enough. Peter Schmeichel’s constant ranting was more likely to unsettle the Villa back four, but when Ipswich did break through the Danish goalkeeper played well enough to justify his tantrums. He made one good diving save to keep out a long-range volley from Finidi George in the 13th minute and then pulled off an outstanding, point-blank block to deny Marcus Bent, before reacting instantly to smother the Ipswich striker’s follow-up attempt. Dion Dublin was the focus of what little attacking play Villa offered, although he had only a header wide to show for his efforts by half-time. Neither he nor his team-mates really tested Ipswich goalkeeper Matteo Sereni until Darius Vassell burst clear with eight minutes to go and the Italian made an excellent low stop to his right. Schmeichel, however, had continued to show great reflexes when Marcus Stewart got on the end of a cross by Jermaine Wright with a skilful header on the hour. Each missed chance, coming so infrequently as they did, added to the anxiety of the Ipswich supporters - and the players, too, looked increasingly jittery. But they all thought they had scored with 22 minutes to go when Jim Magilton tried to steer in a Bent drive, only for Schmeichel’s feet to get in the way again. This time the rebound attempt clattered against a post. A tense finish followed, but that proved to be Ipswich’s best and last chance of the match. George Burley’s team will feel they deserved to win, but they have only themselves to blame for failing to do so. Indeed, they even might have lost had Sereni not made two superb, fingertip saves in the final minute of time added on at the end.
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