Game #4716
Aston Villa
Saturday, 27 July 2002


Won
3rd Round
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
Intertoto Cup 3rd Round
FC Zürich
Villa Park
Attendance: 18,349
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
Aston Villa
3-0

FC Zürich

Assist(s) | Peter Crouch | 32' | Paul Merson | 49' | Thomas Hitzlsperger | 77’ |
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park


MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 27 July 2002
⚽ | 32’ Goal, 1-0, Michael Boulding, Assist by Peter Crouch
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 FC Zürich
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Michael Boulding, Sub on, Paul Merson
⚽ | 49’ Goal, 2-0 Marcus Allbäck, Assist by Paul Merson
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Marcus Allbäck, Sub on, Stefan Moore 🟢
🟨 | 74’ Booking, Steve Staunton
⚽ | 77’ Goal, 3-0, Steve Staunton, Assist by Thomas Hitzlsperger
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-0 FC Zürich
Match Statistics
Not reported
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
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 27 July 2002
Villa once again overturn a two goal deficit to qualify for the Intertoto semi final.
Paul Merson, 34, makes his 144th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (125 Starts). Merson, a player with ability and influence far beyond the rest of the squad, who even as a cameo substitute could deliver a power of good to the team, was discarded. As a result in one move the team was robbed of much needed creativity. Merson would join Portsmouth on a free transfer the following month as Graham Taylor prematurely called time on a player considered to be one of the most talented and charismatic to have pulled on the claret and blue of Villa. Merson left with a record of W54 D46 L44, 19 Goals, 23 Assists, 7 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.43 games across his Villa career.
In sum then, this also ran Intertoto game, had implications far beyond the result on the pitch and signalled the huge challenges ahead for Villa.
Forward Stefan Moore, 18, makes his competitive debut in a Villa shirt after coming through the ranks of youth football to become the 760th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Swedish international forward Marcus Allbäck, 29, makes a goalscoring Villa debut after joining from SC Heerenveen for a fee of £2,700,000 earlier this month to become the 761st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Forward Michael Boulding, 27, scores on his home debut on what is his second and final appearance in a Villa shirt 6 days after his debut and despite only having arrived at the club 26 days earlier. Boulding who had 23 goals in 113 appearances across 3 seasons in the lower leagues of English football was a curiosity, an ex-tennis player who Graham Taylor immediately promoted to first team football and who clearly was not of sufficient calibre to cut it in the top flight despite his scrambled goal in the win over Zürich. Boulding would remain at the club until the new year without making any further squad appearances and on his departure from Villa he would return to plying his football trade in tiers 2 and mostly 3. 11 years later, Jordan Bowery would make a similar transition from the lower leagues into Premier League football under Paul Lambert but this time would be afforded a full season before once again time was called on the unlikely step up.
Peter Crouch contributes his 5th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 9th appearance to make it W3 D2 L4, 2 Goals and 3 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.80 games played so far in his Villa career.
Mark Delaney makes his 100th appearance in a Villa shirt (84 Starts) to make it W38 D31 L31, 1 Goal, 2 Assists, 13 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.
Olof Mellberg secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 37th appearance to make it W10 D14 L13, 1 Assist and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES
🟢 F Stefan Moore | 🏴 | #760 | Youth Team Promotion
🟢 F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | #761 | £2,700,000 signing from Heerenveen
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 F Michael Boulding | 🏴 | 2002 🕒 2 | 2 (0) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 3 | #759 |
🔴 M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 1998-02 🕒 144 | 125 (19) | ⚽ 19 | 🔥 23 | 🇺 11 | #727 |
Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
FC Zürich


European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Swiss League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Swiss Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Swiss League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1999-00
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #2 |
Manager Game | #15 |
Saturday, 27 July 2002
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🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: Roberto Rosetti | 🇮🇹 | Turin, 2002-2010
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 3-0
Aggregate Score: 🟩 3-2
Aggregate Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD

Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 2002-2003
🕒 15 | 🟩 | 4 🟨 | 4 🟥 7 | 1.07
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Roberto Rosetti | 🇮🇹 | Turin, 2002-2010
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

🟨 Steve Staunton
CARDS

🟨 Mario Raimondi
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Lee Hendrie, Ian Taylor, Steve Staunton, Olof Mellberg and Marcus Allbäck replace Jlloyd Samuel, Dion Dublin, Alan Wright, George Boateng and Steve Stone.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.30 |
Oldest Player |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | 34.17 |
Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 20.32 |
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 2002-2003

Aston Villa
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 🔥 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴 | 🔥 |
F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | 🟢 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Michael Boulding | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Georges Bregy |🇨🇭|

FC Zürich
GK Miroslav König | 🇸🇰 |
LB Yvan Quentin |🇨🇭|
LB Mario Raimondi |🇨🇭| 🟨 | 🔁 |
CB Alain Nef |🇨🇭|
CB Stephen Keller |🇨🇭|
CB Urs Fischer |🇨🇭|
CB Tariq Chihab | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Wilco Hellinga | 🇳🇱 |
M Luca Iodice |🇨🇭|
W Kanga Akalé | 🇨🇮 |
CF Alhassane Keita | 🇬🇳 | 🔁 |
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔴 | for F Michael Boulding | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 F Stefan Moore | 🏴 | 🟢 | for F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | 71’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Mario Raimondi |🇨🇭| (M Daniel Tarone |🇨🇭|)
🔁 | CB Tariq Chihab | 🇲🇦 | (RB David Pallas |🇨🇭|)
🔁 | CF Alhassane Keita | 🇬🇳 | (M Daniel Gygax |🇨🇭|)

🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 |
F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Davide Taini | 🇨🇭 |
LB Marc Schneider | 🇨🇭 |
RB Sébastien Jeanneret | 🇨🇭 |
D Sherif Jashari | 🇨🇭 |
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
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | | 144 | 19* | 19 | 23* | 54* | 46 | 44 | - | - | 7 | 1 |
UNUSED
Player | 🇺 |
---|---|
GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 | | 2* |
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 5/18
SQUAD STATS

Home Nation 🇨🇭 : 9/14
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park
UNAVAILABLE

Not reported
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE


MATCHDAY PROGRAMME



🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park


MATCH QUOTES
🟩 27 Jul 2002, Villa 3-0 Zürich, Villa Park


MATCH REPORTS









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