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Game #4717

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 31 July 2002

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Drew

Semi Final

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨

Intertoto Cup Semi Final

LOSC Lille

Stade Grimonprez-Jooris, Lille

Attendance: 14,437

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

Lille OSC

1-1

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Assist(s) | Olof Mellberg | 76' |

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 31 July 2002

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Stefan Postma
🕒 | HT Lille OSC 0-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 46’ Booking, Jlloyd Samuel
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Mustapha Hadji, Sub on, Darius Vassell
⚽ | 76’ Goal, 1-0, Ian Taylor, Assist by Olof Mellberg
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Marcus Allbäck, Sub on, Steve Stone 🔴
🟨 | 83’ Booking, Steve Staunton
🥅 | 90’ Goal, 1-1, (Lille OSC), Fernando D’Amico
🕒 | FT Lille OSC 1-1 Aston Villa

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

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 31 July 2002

  • Villa face LOSC Lille for the first time in competitive football, Lille become the 149th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football, Villa’s 33rd continental European opponents and their third from France following their meetings with FC Girondins de Bordeaux and Stade Rennais F.C. in previous campaigns.

  • Villa score a crucial away goal through Ian Taylor but concede in the last minute to leave the tie in the balance. 

  • Goalkeeper Stefan Postma, 26, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from De Graafschap for £2,000,000 earlier this month to become the 762nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Peter Crouch makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W3 D3 L4, 2 Goals and 3 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.00 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • In less positive news, Graham Taylor’s clear out of the Gregory era team continued as 30 year old midfielder Steve Stone is shown the door and follows Paul Merson to Portsmouth on a free transfer. Stone, seemingly underused by John Gregory despite his high fee signing from Forest, and then jettisoned early by Taylor, made 121 Appearances (86 Starts) across his 5 seasons with Villa to leave with a record of W42 D40 L39, 7 Goals, 13 Assists and 15 Bookings.

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 | #762 | £2,000,000 signing from De Graafschap

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1999-02 🕒 121 | 86 (35) | ⚽ 7 | 🔥 13 | 🇺 11 | #734 |

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

Aston Villa

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

LOSC Lille

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Ligue 1 Champions: 🏆🏆
Coupe de France Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Coupe de la Ligue Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1954-55

FIXTURE HISTORY

LOSC Lille

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Previous 5 vs. Lille: None

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

LOSC Lille

PREVIOUS MATCH

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LOSC Lille

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #3 |
Manager Game | #16 |
Wednesday, 31 July 2002

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🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Željko Širić | 🇭🇷 | 1993-2006
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🕒 16 | 🟩 | 4 🟨 | 5 🟥 7 | 1.06

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Željko Širić | 🇭🇷 | 1993-2006
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Jlloyd Samuel
🟨 Steve Staunton

CARDS

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🟨 Fernando D’Amico

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

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa hand a debut to Stefan Postma in place of Peter Enckelman and Jlloyd Samuel returns as Mustapha Hadji makes his first start of the season. Lee Hendrie and Michael Boulding drop out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.32 |

Oldest Player |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.18 |

Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 20.33 |

Referee

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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Aston Villa

GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 | 🟢 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🔥 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Claude Puel | 🇫🇷 |

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LOSC Lille

GK Grégory Wimbée | 🇫🇷 |
LB Grégory Tafforeau | 🇫🇷 |
CB Matthieu Delpierre | 🇫🇷 |
CB Abdelilah Fahmi | 🇲🇦 |
RB Stéphane Pichot | 🇫🇷 |
RB Matthieu Chalmé | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Fernando D’Amico | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Sylvain N’Diaye | 🇸🇳 |
M Philippe Brunel | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Mile Sterjovski | 🇦🇺 |
CF Matt Moussilou | 🇨🇬 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | 69’ |
🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 | for F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | 81’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | RB Matthieu Chalmé | 🇫🇷 | (CF Djezon Boutoille | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | M Philippe Brunel | 🇫🇷 | (M Nicolas Bonnal | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Matt Moussilou | 🇨🇬 | (CF Héctor Tapia | 🇨🇱 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Michael Boulding | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Grégory Malicki | 🇫🇷 |
M Christophe Landrin | 🇫🇷 |
CB Rafael Schmitz | 🇧🇷 |
CF Marc-Antoine Fortuné | 🇬🇫 |

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

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/17
Homegrown: 6/17

SQUAD STATS

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Home Nation 🇫🇷 : 8/14

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Not reported

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

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MATCH QUOTES

"Midfielder Ian Taylor looked to have won it for Villa just seven minutes from time when he scored from close range following a corner."
Quotes

🟨 31 Jul 2002, Villa 1-1 Lille, Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 31 July, 2002

*Villa share spoils in France* A last-gasp goal denied Aston Villa victory in their Intertoto Cup semi-final first leg match in Lille. Midfielder Ian Taylor looked to have won it for Villa just seven minutes from time when he scored from close range following a corner. But Fernando D’Amico levelled in the closing moments to leave the tie finely balanced ahead of the return. Graham Taylor’s side will now have to hope that having at least scored an away goal in Lille they can make home advantage count in the second leg on 8 August. Villa nearly got off to a dream start after just four minutes when Peter Crouch found the back of the net, but the goal was disallowed. The assistant referee adjudged the ball to have already gone out of play before Thomas Hitzlsperger’s right-wing cross came in. Lille finally found their way into the game and had their first effort on goal thanks to a Philippe Brunel free-kick but goalkeeper Stefan Postma, making his debut in place of the injured Peter Enckelman, dealt with it comfortably. The French side looked a little short of ideas, following the departure of Bruno Cheyrou to Liverpool and Pascal Cygan to Arsenal, and it was Brunel who provided most of their inspiration. The 29-year-old attacking midfielder should have given the hosts the lead after 33 minutes but his lob drifted wide of the upright. Marcus Allback looked dangerous in tandem with Crouch and missed a great opportunity to open the scoring 10 minutes before the interval. The final action of the half saw Brunel firing just wide after Postma had rushed off his line to deny Mile Sterjovski. It was Villa who were on the attack immediately after the break when Allback dragged a left-foot shot just wide of the target only three minutes in, after linking up well with Crouch. Sterjovski went close for the home side in the 51st minute when he raced onto a through ball from D’Amico, but could only find the side netting. Villa were next to go close, but Gregory Wimbee in the Lille goal had no trouble saving Hitzlsperger’s 68th minute free-kick. In the 83rd minute Villa got the breakthrough they had been looking for. Olof Mellberg connected well with a corner from Hitzlsperger but saw his header parried by Wimbee, and Taylor pounced to poke the ball home. That was the spur Lille needed as they pushed forward for the equaliser and they forced two good saves from Postma. In the dying moments D’Amico latched onto Hector Tapia’s free-kick, slotting the ball past Postma to leave the second leg finely poised.
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