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Game #4731

Aston Villa

Sunday, 3 November 2002

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Drew

15th (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨

Premier League

Blackburn Rovers

Ewood Park

Attendance: 23,004

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

Blackburn Rovers

0-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 3 November 2002

🕒 | HT Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Stefan Moore
🟨 | 73’ Booking, Stefan Moore
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Dion Dublin, Sub on, Peter Crouch
🟨 | 83’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🕒 | FT Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not reported

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 3 November 2002

  • Villa record their 3rd draw in 5 winless games to make it just 3 wins in 12 Premier League games under Graham Taylor.

  • Villa fail to score for the 8th time in 12 games under Graham Taylor.

  • Villa now have 6 wins in 25 Premier League games under Graham Taylor.

  • Peter Enckelman keeps his 10th Premier League clean sheet on his 44th appearance (31 League Games) to make it W15 D13 L6, 40 Goals Conceded at a rate of 0.91 goals per game and 16 Clean Sheets (36%) (32% League) so far in his Villa career.

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood 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

Blackburn Rovers

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2001-02

Aston Villa

Blackburn Rovers

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Blackburn Rovers

Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #17 |
League Game | #12 |
Manager Game | #30 |
Sunday, 3 November 2002

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🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
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

🕒 30 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 8 🟥 14 | 1.07

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 17 Dec 01, Villa 2-1 Ipswich (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Stefan Moore
🟨 Gareth Barry

🟨 Damien Duff

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Juan Pablo Ángel replaces Stefan Moore.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.36 |

Oldest Player |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.44 |

Youngest Player |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.61 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Öyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Graeme Souness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Blackburn Rovers

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Nils-Eric Johansson | 🇸🇪 |
CB Lucas Neill | 🇦🇺 |
CB Craig Short | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Garry Flitcroft | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M David Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CF Andrew Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Dwight Yorke (ex) | 🇹🇹 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 70’ |
🔁 CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 76’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Martin Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Tugay Kerimoğlu | 🇹🇷 |)
🔁 | M David Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Keith Gillespie | 🇬🇧 |)
🔁 | F Dwight Yorke (ex) | 🇹🇹 | (CF Egil Østenstad | 🇳🇴 |)

Substitutes

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Alan Kelly | 🇮🇪 |
CF Corrado Grabbi | 🇮🇹 |

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

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 2/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/16
Homegrown: 4/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“Dion is sat in the dressing room and just can’t believe it. “It’s almost become a psychological barrier. We had the best chance of the game but all our strikers don’t seem able to score. We’ve had some quite incredible misses. “In all the time I’ve been a manager I cannot think of a similar run. It’s mystifying. “It’s still a good point for us after the draw at Manchester United,. “We’ve produced two good performances, but the points we’re getting are not appreciated because they don’t move us very far up the table.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Monday, 4 November, 2002

*Wasteful Dublin fails to cash in on Glasgow gloom* Glasgow provided a depressing Uefa Cup result for Blackburn in the midweek Battle of Britain, and Dublin should have done the same for their Premiership ambitions yesterday. Dion Dublin, the Aston Villa striker, was guilty of a miss which was extraordinary even by the recent abysmal standards set by Graham Taylor’s team, who have found goals so elusive this season. With 69 minutes gone, Dublin met Jlloyd Samuel’s cross six yards out but sliced his shot woefully wide, taking with it Villa’s chance of their first away win of the season. “Dion is sat in the dressing room and just can’t believe it,” said Taylor. A look at Villa’s scoring record shows only seven goals in 12 games and makes you wonder why Dublin was so shocked. This was the eighth time they had failed to find the target, and he and the other five strikers in their squad have managed only three goals between them. Taylor said: “It’s almost become a psychological barrier. We had the best chance of the game but all our strikers don’t seem able to score. We’ve had some quite incredible misses. “In all the time I’ve been a manager I cannot think of a similar run. It’s mystifying.” The fault doesn’t lie entirely with the strikers, however. They were left to feed on scraps yesterday as Villa created only two other clear opportunities - when Juan Pablo Angel headed wide in the 30th minute and Ian Taylor’s close-range shot was blocked by the Blackburn keeper Brad Friedel. With his attack so devoid of inspiration, it is vital for Taylor’s future at Villa Park that his defence remain as organised as they were here. The midlands club have conceded only 11 goals this season, although they lived dangerously at times as Blackburn pursued their third successive Premiership victory. Dwight Yorke was the threat Villa highlighted before the start. It seemed preordained that Yorke, so impressive against Celtic, would score on his 31st birthday against his former club. Instead he couldn’t muster a single attempt on goal and was replaced by Egil Ostenstad after only 20 minutes of the second half. His partner Andy Cole was responsible for their best moments, prompted by Damien Duff, who was an increasingly influential figure as the game wore on. Cole went closest to a Blackburn goal after only three minutes when his header was touched against the bar by the keeper Peter Enckelman. Garry Flitcroft also shot over from a good opportunity created by David Thompson. Otherwise it was a first half to forget. After Friedel made his excellent save from Ian Taylor in the 47th minute Blackburn enjoyed their best spell. Enckelman saved Duff’s deflected shot with his trailing leg and there were openings for Flitcroft and Duff on either side of that escape for Villa. Blackburn’s final chance vanished when Cole was sent clear by Tugay Kerimoglu’s 78th-minute pass and scooped the ball over the bar, leaving Graeme Souness to open another debate about tired footballers. “We looked jaded and the very obvious reason is the hard game we had on Thursday. We didn’t get back until after 3am and there was the emotional factor of playing Celtic. “We were a yard off the pace because of Thursday’s game and, without it, we would have caused them a lot more problems. Those who starred in Glasgow found it difficult to get back to that level. “That’s the price of the ticket, though, and something we have to live with as long as we are in the Uefa Cup. Anyway, I’ve seen us lose games like this one, so I suppose I should be happy.” Taylor was certainly happy enough. “It’s still a good point for us after the draw at Manchester United,” he said. “We’ve produced two good performances, but the points we’re getting are not appreciated because they don’t move us very far up the table.”
Reports

🟨 3 November 2002, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

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