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Game #4721

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 28 August 2002

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Won

13th (+4)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Manchester City

Villa Park

Attendance: 33,494

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

1-0

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Manchester City

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🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 28 August 2002

🟨 | 28’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester City
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Alan Wright, Sub on, Jlloyd Samuel
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 1-0, Darius Vassell, Assist by Peter Crouch
🔁 | 88’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Marcus Allbäck
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City

Match Statistics

Not reported

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 28 August 2002

  • Villa stop a run of three defeats as they win for the first time in five to secure their first Premier League win of the season by beating top-flight no hopers Manchester City, climbing to 13th under Graham Taylor.

  • Peter Schmiechel returns to Villa Park following his acrimonious departure under Graham Taylor.

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

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

Manchester City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1975-76

Aston Villa

Manchester City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Manchester City

Previous 5 vs. Manchester City: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #7 |
League Game | #3 |
Manager Game | #20 |
Wednesday, 28 August 2002

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🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: David Pugh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1996-2004
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 20 | 🟩 | 5 🟨 | 5 🟥 10 | 1.00

Villa Career Form:

Relegation

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: David Pugh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1996-2004
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 23 March 2002, Villa 0-0 Ipswich, Portman Road.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Gareth Barry

🟨 Steve Howey
🟨 Jihai Sun
🟨

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Juan Pablo Ángel is recalled for his first start of the season in place of Ulises de la Cruz.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.26 |

Oldest Player |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 33.63 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.52 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Kevin Keegan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Manchester City

GK Peter Schmeichel (ex) | 🇩🇰 |
LB Niclas Jensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Steve Howey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Silvain Distin | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jihai Sun | 🇨🇳 | 🟨 |
M Ali Benarbia | 🇩🇿 |
M Eyal Berkovic | 🇮🇱 | 🔁 |
M Marc-Vivien Foé | 🇨🇲 |
W Shaun Wright-Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Darren Huckerby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 |

Line Ups

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 88’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Eyal Berkovic | 🇮🇱 | (LB Danny Tiatto | 🇦🇺 |)
🔁 | W Darren Huckerby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Shaun Goater | 🇧🇲 |)

Substitutes

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Carlo Nash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Terry Hurlock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/16
Homegrown: 5/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“It’s a relief for everyone.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 28 August, 2002

*Vassell sinks City* Aston Villa finally registered their first win of the season after a closely fought game at Villa Park. Darius Vassell scored the only goal of the game - and Villa’s first of the season - courtesy of a teasing Lee Hendrie free-kick. But the goal was the only bright spot in a disappointing match. Visitors Manchester City never really threatened the Villa goal, despite the presence of talismanic playmakers Eyal Berkovic and Ali Benarbia. The opening half was generally a woeful affair with both sides lacking creativity and guilty of misplaced passes. City created the first decent opportunity after 14 minutes when Sylvain Distin threaded a pass into the path of Nicolas Anelka. The French striker managed to make room for a shot despite the presence of Steve Staunton but screwed his low effort across the face of the Villa goal. Vassell then broke towards the City goal in a two-on-two attack but he failed to find strike partner Juan Pablo Angel, making his first appearance of the season. Five minutes before half-time Anelka was unlucky when his glancing header from a Shaun Wright-Phillips cross hit the crossbar, but he was adjudged to have strayed offside. Villa striker Peter Crouch squandered the best chance of the half two minutes before the interval. Lee Hendrie and Angel stepped over the ball to leave Crouch with only Peter Schmeichel to beat but his low shot was not cleanly hit and the former Villa keeper saved easily. Villa came out for the second half in a much more positive mood and Crouch missed another great opportunity to put Villa in front. Hendrie supplied an inviting cross from the right flank and Crouch got clear of the City defence only to send his header wide of the post. Hendrie then embarked on a mazy run which took him into the City penalty area before he was crowded out by a cluster of defenders. The deadlock was finally broken on 62 minutes after a foul by City defender Sun Jihai on the impressive Hendrie. The midfielder sent over a free-kick from the left flank and Crouch got a touch on the ball before it broke to Vassell who made no mistake with a shot from 10 yards. Kevin Keegan responded by making an instant substitution, bringing on Danny Tiatto in place of Eyal Berkovic, but the visitors were unable to find a response.
Reports

🟩 28 August 2002, Villa 1-0 Manchester City, Villa Park.

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