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Game #4754

Aston Villa

Saturday, 22 March 2003

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Drew

14th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

Premier League

Southampton

Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium

Attendance: 31,888

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

Southampton

2-2

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Aston Villa

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🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 22 March 2003

⚽ | 30’ Goal, 1-0, Lee Hendrie, Assist by Darius Vassell
⚽ | 36’ Goal, 2-0, Darius Vassell
🥅 | 43’ Goal, 2-1, (Southampton), James Beattie
🕒 | HT Southampton 1-2 Aston Villa
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Peter Crouch, Sub on, Marcus Allbäck
🟨 | 71’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🔁 | 87’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Stefan Moore
🥅 | 90’ Goal, 2-2, (Southampton), Kevin Davies
🕒 | FT Southampton 2-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not reported

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 22 March 2003

  • Villa stop a run of four consecutive defeats to draw with Southampton but now have just 13 wins in 44 Premier League games under Graham Taylor. 

  • Without a goal in 18 games, Peter Crouch makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (18 Starts) to make it W6 D6 L13, 2 Goals, 4 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.17 games played so far in his Villa career as life under the struggling Graham Taylor proves more difficult than most for Crouch. This would prove to be Crouch's final appearance under Taylor with the player having to wait 4 months and for the arrival of David O'Leary before he would pull on a Villa shirt again.

  • At a time when Villa desperately needed quality, experience and leadership, left back Alan Wright, 31, makes his 329th and final appearance in a Villa shirt before being the latest player to move to Middlesbrough, this time on a free transfer in June 2003. An unsung hero of Villa, Wright had spent 9 seasons at the club and left with a record of W140 D87 L102, 5 Goals, 26 Assists and 24 Bookings.

  • Darius Vassell contributes his 40th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 133rd appearance (68 Starts) to make it W47 D31 L55, 31 Goals, 9 Assists, 12 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.33 games played so far in his Villa career.

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1995-03 🕒 329 | 324 (5) | ⚽ 5 | 🔥 26 | 🇺 6 | #705 |

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Aston Villa

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

Southampton

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

Aston Villa

Southampton

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Southampton

Previous 5 vs. Southampton: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Game | #31 |
Manager Game | #53 |
Saturday, 22 March 2003

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🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1994-2004
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
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

🕒 53 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 | 11 🟥 25 | 1.17

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1994-2004
Matches Officiated: 20
🟩 : 7
🟨 : 6
🟥 : 7
🆘 : 2
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 18 December 2002, League Cup, Villa 3-4 Liverpool, Villa Park 🆘
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Gareth Barry

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🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Peter Crouch replaces Dion Dublin.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.90 |

Oldest Player |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 | 33.80 |

Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 20.98 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

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Aston Villa

GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Gordon Strachan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Southampton

GK Antti Niemi | 🇫🇮 |
LB Wayne Bridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Claus Lundekvam | 🇳🇴 |
CB Michael Svensson | 🇸🇪 |
RB Paul Telfer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Matt Oakley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Prutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Fabrice Fernandes | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jo Tessem | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
CF James Beattie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Brett Ormerod | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | for CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 70’ |
🔁 F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 87’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M David Prutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Chris Baird | 🇬🇧 |)
🔁 | W Fabrice Fernandes | 🇫🇷 | (CF Kevin Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | M Jo Tessem | 🇳🇴 | (CB Danny Higginbotham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
CB Rob Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Paul Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Paul Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 7/16

SQUAD STATS

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Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/14

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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MATCH QUOTES

"I'm happy, the manager's happy. ”If I keep making runs I know it will come. I'm not worried. I believe in my ability; I've done it before and I know it will come in time. I relish the challenge." Peter Crouch, "He's got to come through the situation. "He's 6ft 7in and lanky, and he's probably had the piss taken out of him since he was a kid but he's got to be confident enough to say, 'This is what I am.'" Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 22 March, 2003

*Saints fight back to deny Villa* An injury-time goal from substitute Kevin Davies salvaged a point for Southampton against struggling Aston Villa. Without a win in nearly two months it was cruel finale for a Villa side, who at one stage had led by two goals. Villa rediscovered the goalscoring habit - Graham Taylor’s side had failed to score in nearly five hours - in a match that exploded into life on 30 minutes. Lee Hendrie scored with a slick finish and Darius Vassell added a second six minutes later. Just before the interval James Beattie scored his 20th Premiership goal of the season and with time running out Davies popped up with that late finish. Standing forlornly amid the goalrush was the former Portsmouth striker Crouch, who has failed to score in any competition this season for Villa. Back on the south coast, he was roundly booed from the start and his confidence took a further battering as he missed a succession of chances. After four minutes Vassell pulled the ball back from the right, and Crouch completely missed his shot from eight yards. He then slid in at the far post but failed to touch Thomas Hitzlsperger’s cross home. Hendrie showed Crouch how to do it as the Villa midfielder sparked an enthralling passage of play. The ball squirted square to the little midfielder after a forward raid by Vassell - and Hendrie coolly stroked it past Antti Niemi. Claus Lundekvam’s then underhit his back-pass and Vassell took advantage to poke the ball past Niemi. After Villa’s first goal Beattie had met Fabrice Fernandes’ cross and powered a header against Stefan Postma’s left-hand post. His aim proved truer on 40 minutes when he latched onto a deflection to thump the ball home. Vassell then rounded Niemi but lost his balance and hit the post from right in front of goal. Niemi also saved from Crouch and Hendrie at the end of an thrilling 15 minute period of play. The pace and excitement of second half never matched the opening period, though Crouch delighted the home crowd when he headed wide from a great position. In the 68th minute Ronny Johnsen, on a forward raid, almost squeezed the ball past Niemi from a tight angle. Davies lashed home the equaliser in the 90th minute after a horrendous Johnsen error, slicing Wayne Bridge’s long ball high into the air.
Reports

🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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