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Game #4739

Aston Villa

Saturday, 14 December 2002

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Won

15th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Premier League

West Bromwich Albion

Villa Park

Attendance: 40,391

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-1

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West Brom

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🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 14 December 2002

⚽ | 16’ Goal, 1-0, Darius Vassell
🥅 | 29’ Goal, 1-1, (West Bromwich Albion), Jason Koumas
🟨 | 35’ Booking, Jlloyd Samuel
🟨 | 45’ Booking, Steve Staunton
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 West Bromwich Albion
🟨 | 68’ Booking, Steve Staunton
🟥 | 68’ Sending off, Steve Staunton
🟨 | 86’ Booking, Lee Hendrie
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 2-1, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Assist by Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-1 West Bromwich Albion

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

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 14 December 2002

  • Villa win for the first time in 3 Premier League games to make it 6 wins in 18 under Graham Taylor as they remain 15th in the table.

  • Villa secure their 9th win in 31 Premier League games under Graham Taylor courtesy of a last gasp Thomas Hitzlsperger special.

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

West Bromwich Albion

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1967-68

FIXTURE HISTORY

West Bromwich Albion

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Previous 5 vs. Albion: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨

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

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #25 |
League Game | #18 |
Manager Game | #38 |
Saturday, 14 December 2002

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🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa 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: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🕒 38 | 🟩 | 13 🟨 | 9 🟥 16 | 1.26

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022 🆘

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022 🆘
🕒 5 | 🟩 3 | 🟨 2 | 🟥 0 | 🆘 : 1
🕒 5 | 🟩 75% | 🟨 25% | 🟥 0% | 🆘 : 20%
Cards 🟨 9 | 🟥 1 | 2.00 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 |
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

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

CARDS

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🟥 Steve Staunton
🟨 Steve Staunton
🟨 Steve Staunton
🟨 Jlloyd Samuel
🟨 Lee Hendrie

CARDS

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🟨 Jason Koumas

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Steve Staunton replaces Ulises de la Cruz.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.99 |

Oldest Player |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 33.92 |

Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 20.71 |

Referee

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, 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 Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔥 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | ⚽ |
M Öyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darius Vassell​ | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Gary Megson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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West Bromwich Albion

GK Russell Hoult | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Neil Clement | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Darren Moore | 🇯🇲 |
CB Lárus Orri Sigurðsson | 🇮🇸 |
CB Sean Gregan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Igor Bališ | 🇸🇰 |
M Derek McInnes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Andy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Jason Koumas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
CF Jason Roberts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Lee Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CF Jason Roberts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Scott Dobie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Lee Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Danny Dichio | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Joe Murphy | 🇮🇪 |
M Ronnie Wallwork | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Adam Chambers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/16

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

"But just when it seemed they had managed to hold Villa to a second draw they lost the match to another of those mighty wallops from the left foot of Thomas Hitzlsperger, which is beginning to look as if it came from the Krupp factory."
Quotes

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Monday, 16 December, 2002

*Albion find all’s flat that runs flat out* West Bromwich Albion could go down like a slow puncture. However much they pump themselves up for a match they all too often end it looking a little flat. Saturday’s defeat by Aston Villa was typical of much of their season. Albion recovered strongly from conceding an early goal and deserved to be level at half-time but from then on the air steadily went out of their game. Even when Villa were reduced to 10 men for the last 23 minutes, after Steve Staunton’s dismissal, Albion could not recapture the initiative they had held for a period in the first half. Only a combination of bar, post and more outstanding goalkeeping by Russell Hoult held out the prospect of some reward for Albion’s honest efforts. But just when it seemed they had managed to hold Villa to a second draw they lost the match to another of those mighty wallops from the left foot of Thomas Hitzlsperger, which is beginning to look as if it came from the Krupp factory. The goal, it is true, owed much to a deflection off Derek McInnes, who was moving in to close the German down. Yet the fierce trajectory of the ricochet still came from the power that Hitzlsperger achieved and his readiness to have a go at the merest glimpse of a chance. Hitzlsperger had scored in a similar fashion at Arsenal a fortnight earlier and Graham Taylor said that the way the player moved in from the right to set himself up for a shooting opportunity with his left foot reminded him of Bruce Rioch. It was an apt comparison by the Villa manager although happily Hitzlsperger shows no sign of picking up the Rioch habit of committing horrendous fouls that were out of tune with the rest of his game. The nature of the goal probably hurt Hoult as much as the collision with Staunton which laid him out in the third minute. When Hoult recovered he further enhanced his England potential with a series of agile saves, the best of them an extraordinary recovery to touch the ball clear after a headed lob from Dion Dublin had caught him out of position. The reservation about Hoult must be that, like two other England hopefuls, David James and Paul Robinson, he is being kept busy and is therefore catching the eye. With Albion he will not get many opportunities to demonstrate his powers of concentration by pulling off saves after long spells of inactivity, which was a particular strength of Ray Clemence. For Aston Villa this victory, following defeats by Arsenal and Newcastle United, should have arrested another drift. Villa must be a frustrating team to follow, so often do they raise supporters hopes only to toss them casually aside, and until Hitzlsperger won the game in stoppage time they looked like doing so again. Against the raucous background of a midland derby Taylor’s team went ahead just past the quarter-hour when Jason Koumas argued about a free-kick which the referee, Mike Dean, promptly advanced 10 yards into scoring range. Hitzlsperger’s shot rattled off the wall like a piece of shrapnel before falling to Darius Vassell, who scooped the ball gratefully in. Falling behind drew a healthy response from Albion as McInnes began to bring the ball forward at speed, linking effectively with Andy Johnson and Koumas, whose technique and vision often caught the eye. It also caught out the Villa defence on the half-hour when Koumas calmly made space for a low 20-yard shot past Peter Enckelman. For the rest of the half West Bromwich looked Villa’s equals even if a 25-yard shot from Lee Hendrie did hit their crossbar. But in the second half, with Hendrie keeping McInnes preoccupied defensively, Villa were predominant. Staunton, cautioned for dissent in first-half stoppage time, was sent off for elbowing Danny Dichio in the ribs, yet the pattern of the game did not change. In the 83rd minute a free-kick from Hendrie grazed the head of Larus Sigurdsson before rebounding from a post but, if Albion thought their luck was going to hold, Hitzlsperger cruelly proved them wrong.
Reports

🟩 14 Dec 2002, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park

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