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Game #4727

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 2 October 2002

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Won

2nd Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

League Cup

Luton Town

Villa Park

Attendance: 20,833

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

3-0

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Luton Town

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Assist(s) | Gareth Barry | 9' | Lee Hendrie | 25' |

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 2 October 2002

⚽ | 9’ Goal, 1-0, Ulises de la Cruz, Assist by Gareth Barry
⚽ | 25’ Goal, 2-0, Dion Dublin, Assist by Lee Hendrie
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Luton Town
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Stefan Moore
⚽ | 48’ Goal, 3-0, Dion Dublin
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Steve Staunton, Sub on, Öyvind Leonhardsen
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Dion Dublin, Sub on, Marcus Allbäck
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-0 Luton Town

Match Statistics

Not reported

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 2 October 2002

  • Villa seek respite from their League troubles as they see off Second Division side Luton Town to reach the League Cup third round.

  • Darius Vassell makes his 50th start in a Villa shirt (111 Appearances) to make it W41 D27 L43, 22 Goals, 8 Assists, 11 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.70 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Lee Hendrie makes his 150th start in a Villa shirt (195 Appearances) to make it W81 D51 L63, 22 Goals, 18 Assists, 33 Bookings and 3 Red Cards at a goal involvement rate of one for every 5 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Marcus Allbäck makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (5 Starts) to make it W4 D1 L5 and 1 Goals at a goal involvement rate of one for every 10.00 games played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

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

Luton Town

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1987-88

Aston Villa

Luton Town

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Luton Town

Previous 5 vs. Luton: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #13 |
Manager Game | #26 |
Wednesday, 2 October 2002

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🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: Colin Webster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000-2012
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Score: 🟩 3-0
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

🕒 26 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 5 🟥 13 | 1.12

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Colin Webster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000-2012
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

🟨 🟨

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ulises de la Cruz replaces Mark Delaney.

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.31 |

Oldest Player |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 33.72 |

Youngest Player |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.53 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | ⚽ |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Joe Kinnear | 🇮🇪 |

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Luton Town

GK Carl Emberson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Sol Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Coyne | 🇦🇺 |
CB Russell Perrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
RB Emmerson Boyce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Matthew Spring | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steven Robinson | 🇬🇧 |
M Peter Holmes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Steve Howard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Andrew Fotiadis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 M Öyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 | for LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 69’ |
🔁 CF Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | for CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Russell Perrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Alan Neilson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Peter Holmes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Ian Hillier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)
🔁 | F Andrew Fotiadis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (F Dean Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Cédric Berthelin | 🇫🇷 |
M Ahmet Brkovic | 🇭🇷 |

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

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/16

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

"Luton’s hopes of staging a second half revival were effectively killed off within three minutes of the restart through a fine second goal from Dublin."
Quotes

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 2 October 2002

Dion Dublin scored twice as Aston Villa cruised past Luton Town and into the third round of the Worthington Cup. Villa boss Graham Taylor played his strongest team and his side dominated proceedings from start to finish. Luton, who battled hard throughout, had the first half-chance of the game when Chris Coyne went close with a low drive following a corner from Peter Holmes. But Villa were soon in the ascendancy and just about their first worthwhile attack produced the opening goal after nine minutes from Ulises de la Cruz. Jlloyd Samuel crossed from the left flank and Gareth Barry turned the ball into the path of de la Cruz, who made no mistake from close range. Villa doubled their lead after 25 minutes through Dublin, who was again preferred to Peter Crouch and Marcus Allback as Darius Vassell’s strike partner. Dublin connected with a Lee Hendrie free kick and headed home from six yards out. Luton’s hopes of staging a second half revival were effectively killed off within three minutes of the restart through a fine second goal from Dublin. Luton substitute Ian Hillier cleared the ball out of the danger area but it quickly came back to Dublin, who controlled on his chest before sending a low volley past the despairing dive of Carl Emberson. Dublin was causing all sorts of problems and he thought he had completed his hat-trick after 57 minutes when he scored from close range after a Hendrie shot had been parried by Emberson into his path. But his celebrations in front of the Holte End were cut short as he was adjudged to have been marginally offside. Villa substitute Oyvind Leonhardsen then came close to registering his first goal for the club when his far post effort hit the post after he had got on the end of a de la Cruz cross.
Reports

🟩 2 October 2002, Villa 3-0 Luton, Villa Park.

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MATCH VIDEO

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