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Game #4748

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 28 January 2003

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Won

12th (+2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Middlesbrough

Riverside Stadium

Attendance: 27,546

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

Middlesbrough

2-5

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Aston Villa

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🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 28 January 2003

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Joey Guðjónsson
🥅 | 33’ Goal, 0-1, (Middlesbrough), Massimo Maccarone
⚽ | 34’ Goal, 1-1, Darius Vassell
🥅 | 35’ Goal, 1-2, (Middlesbrough), Jonathan Greening
⚽ | 31’ Goal, 2-2, Joey Guðjónsson
🕒 | HT Middlesbrough 2-2 Aston Villa
⚽ | 47’ Goal, 3-2, Gareth Barry, Assist by Thomas Hitzlsperger
🟨 | 51’ Booking, Joey Guðjónsson
🟨 | 73’ Booking, Dion Dublin
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Stefan Moore, Sub on, Steve Staunton
⚽ | 81’ Goal, 4-2, Darius Vassell, Assist by Jlloyd Samuel
🔁 | 89’ Sub off, Joey Guðjónsson, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 5-2, Dion Dublin, Assist by Thomas Hitzlsperger
🕒 | FT Middlesbrough 2-5 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not reported

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

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ON THIS DAY

Tuesday, 28 January 2003

  • Villa record their biggest win of the season, winning for the 1st time in 3 games under Graham Taylor. 

  • Villa make it 12 Premier League wins in 38 matches under Graham Taylor.

  • Joey Guðjónsson, 22, makes a goalscoring debut after joining from Real Betis on loan for the remainder of the season earlier this month to become the 769th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Darius Vassell scores a brace to collect his 30th goal in a Villa shirt on his 127th appearance (62 Starts) to make it W46 D30 L51, 30 Goals, 9 Assists, 12 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.26 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Thomas Hitzlsperger contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 35th appearance (30 Starts) to make it W12 D7 L16, 5 Goals, 5 Assists and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Olof Mellberg secures his 20th win in a Villa shirt on his 67th appearance to make it W20 D20 L27, 1 Goal, 3 Assists and 3 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Jlloyd Samuel makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (56 Starts) to make it W26 D20 L29, 5 Assists, 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Joey Guðjónsson | 🇮🇸 | #769 | Loanee from Real Betis

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

Middlesbrough

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Middlesbrough

Previous 5 vs. Middlesbrough: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #34 |
League Game | #25 |
Manager Game | #47 |
Tuesday, 28 January 2003

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🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: Dermot Gallagher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxfordshire, 1990-2007
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 2-2
FT Score: 🟩 5-2
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

🕒 47 | 🟩 | 16 🟨 | 10 🟥 21 | 1.23

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Dermot Gallagher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxfordshire, 1990-2007
Matches Officiated: 16
🟩 : 8
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 2
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 18 August 2001, Villa 0-0 Tottenham, White Hart Lane.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Joey Guðjónsson
🟨 Dion Dublin

🟨 George Boateng

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Darius Vassell returns as Joey Guðjónsson makes his debut with Lee Hendrie and Ian Taylor dropping out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.98 |

Oldest Player |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33.79 |

Youngest Player |
F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.35 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Joey Guðjónsson | 🇮🇸 | 🟢 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Steve McLaren | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Middlesbrough

GK Mark Schwarzer | 🇦🇺 |
LB Frank Queudrue | 🇫🇷 |
LB Tony Vidmar | 🇦🇺 |
CB Andrew Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Stuart Parnaby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M George Boateng (ex) | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
M Jonathan Greening | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Njitap Geremi | 🇨🇲 |
CF Massimo Maccarone | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ |
CF Joseph-Désiré Job | 🇨🇲 | 🔁 |
F Szilard Németh | 🇸🇰 |

Line Ups

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | for F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 78’ |
🔁 M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Joey Guðjónsson | 🇮🇸 | 89’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Joseph-Désiré Job | 🇨🇲 | (LB David Murphy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Mark Crossley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
LB Colin Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Luke Wilkshire | 🇦🇺 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 5/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 6/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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Not reported

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

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MATCH QUOTES

“It’s the end of an embarrassing record, and at least it was not a 1-0 win. “It was our first away win in the Premiership this season as everyone will know, and we are very, very pleased about it. “I couldn’t believe it that we were 2-0 up and just threw it away, as defensively we have been excellent all season, but great credit to the players for overcoming that. “I’m very happy with Joey, he’s a 22-year-old boy on loan until the end of the season when we have an option to purchase. “I’m quite excited with him, he gives us an edge in midfield we have not had all season. “His age is right, the competitiveness about the boy is right, he will get better and I’m very hopeful we will be able to make it permanent. “We put him on the free-kicks and were expecting him to shoot - but not from 40 yards. “He’s only played five games for Betis this season, this was his first in the Premiership so I’m very, very pleased with him.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Wednesday, 29 January, 2003

*Vassell leads Villa’s high five* Aston Villa, who had previously scored only four away goals in 11 away games, more than doubled that tally as they ended the Premiership’s only unbeaten home record in stunning fashion. The Villa manager Graham Taylor, who confessed to being embarrassed by his team’s abysmal record, was a relieved man as they finally achieved their first win on their travels. The first half was barely believable, particularly for the Villa supporters who had witnessed only four goals away from home this season. It was easy to see why for 23 inconsequential minutes before Graham Taylor’s team suddenly improved their strike-rate by 50% with two goals in quick succession. Darius Vassell claimed the first when he turned away from Stuart Parnaby’s unconvincing challenge and surged forward before beating Mark Schwarzer from 14 yards. The Australian goalkeeper, given no chance by Vassell’s crisp finish, was certainly culpable seven minutes later when he presented Joey Gudjonsson with a goal on his debut. Schwarzer should have routinely collected the the Icelandic midfielder’s 30-yard free-kick, but inexplicably allowed it to elude him. Middlesbrough were stunned and their plight would have been even worse if Thomas Hitzlsperger had accepted a close-range opportunity in between the two Villa goals. However, Steve McClaren’s side were not prepared to relinquish their unbeaten home record meekly and they responded with two goals in the space of three minutes. Geremi was the provider with a 33rd-minute cross which Massimo Maccarone headed in after an inventive touch from Joseph-Desire Job. Then Jonathan Greening eased away from Olof Mellberg on the edge of the area before steering in his first goal of the season. Villa were soon ahead again when Hitzlsperger was off-target with a fiercely-driven shot which ended up at the feet of Gareth Barry near the penalty spot. He calmly steered it past Schwarzer as Middlesbrough’s defenders appealed for offside. Villa were now a team oozing confidence and almost stretched their lead when Maccarone cleared off the line from Stefan Moore in the 61st minute. Their fourth goal was no surprise. Vassell scored with an angled shot past Schwarzer following a cross by Jlloyd Samuel. Dion Dublin completed the rout.
Reports

🟩 28 January 2003, Villa 5-2 Boro, Riverside Stadium.

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