Game #4754
Aston Villa
Saturday, 22 March 2003


Drew
14th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨
Premier League
Southampton
Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium
Attendance: 31,888
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
Southampton
2-2

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | Darius Vassell | 30' |
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's


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

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 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

DEBUT APPEARANCES
None
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 LB Alan Wright | 🏴 | 1995-03 🕒 329 | 324 (5) | ⚽ 5 | 🔥 26 | 🇺 6 | #705 |
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
Southampton


European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1975-76
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Game | #31 |
Manager Game | #53 |
Saturday, 22 March 2003
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🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
MATCH SUMMARY


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: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD

Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 2002-2003
🕒 53 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 | 11 🟥 25 | 1.17
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴 | Tring, 1997-2004
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

🟨 Gareth Barry
CARDS

None
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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 |
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 2002-2003

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 | 🏴 |

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 | 🏴 |
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | for CF Peter Crouch | 🏴 | 70’ |
🔁 F Stefan Moore | 🏴 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 87’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M David Prutton | 🏴 | (M Chris Baird | 🇬🇧 |)
🔁 | W Fabrice Fernandes | 🇫🇷 | (CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | M Jo Tessem | 🇳🇴 | (CB Danny Higginbotham | 🏴 |)

🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
CB Rob Edwards | 🏴 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | | 18 | 12* | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3* | 7 | - | - | 1 | 0 |
UNUSED
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 7/16
SQUAD STATS

Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/14
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's
MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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

Not reported
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME


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


MATCH QUOTES
🟨 22 Mar 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, St Mary's


MATCH REPORTS






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