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Game #4762

Aston Villa

Saturday, 16 August 2003

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Lost

14th

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Portsmouth

Fratton Park

Attendance: 20,101

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

Portsmouth

2-1

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🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 16 August 2003

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Thomas Sörensen, Gavin McCann
🟨 | 20’ Booking, Gavin McCann
🥅 | 42’ Goal, 0-1, (Portsmouth), Teddy Sheringham
🕒 | Portsmouth 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | Sub off, Peter Whittingham, Sub on, Thomas Hitzlsperger
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 0-2, (Portsmouth), Patrik Berger
🔁 | Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Peter Crouch
🟨 | 79’ Booking, Lee Hendrie
⚽ | Goal, 2-1, Gareth Barry (pen)
🟥 | Sending off, Gareth Barry, Foul & abusive language
🕒 | Portsmouth 2-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 16 August 2003

  • New boss David O'Leary takes charge of his first Villa game and although the Irishman is far from a universally welcomed appointment hopes exist that a repeat of the dreadful 2002-03 campaign can be avoided given his summer signings are significantly greater quality than other recent imports. 

  • Goalkeeper Thomas Sörensen, 27, makes his Villa debut after joining from Sunderland in July 2003 for a fee of £2,700,000 to become the 771st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Midfielder Gavin McCann, 25, makes his Villa debut after joining from Sunderland in July 2003 for a fee of £3,040,000 to become the 772nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Mark Delaney makes his 100th start in a Villa shirt (116 Appearances) - and his first in 6 months - to make it W43 D35 L38, 1 Goal, 2 Assists, 14 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

  • Lee Hendrie suffers his 75th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 220th appearance (170 Starts) to make it W88 D57 L75, 24 Goals, 20 Assists, 39 Bookings and 3 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

  • Peter Crouch comes off the bench to play his first game in 5 months to make it 26 appearances (18 Starts), W6 D6 L14, 2 Goals, 4 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | #771 | £2,700,000 signing from Sunderland
🟢 M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #772 | £3,040,000 signing from Sunderland

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

Portsmouth

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1949-50

Aston Villa

Portsmouth

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Portsmouth

Previous 5 vs. Portsmouth: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2003-04 |
Matchday | #1 |
League Game | #1 |
Manager Game | #1 |
Saturday, 16 August 2003

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🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1994-2004
Kick off: 12.30pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 1 | 🟩 | 0 🟨 | 0 🟥 1 | 0.00

Villa Career Form:

Relegation

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1994-2004 🆘
Matches Officiated: 21
🟩 : 7
🟨 : 6
🟥 : 8
🆘 : 3
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 22 March 2003, Villa 2-2 Southampton, Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium.
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟥 Gareth Barry, Foul & abusive language
🟨 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Gavin McCann

🟨 Dejan Stefanović
🟨 Amdy Faye

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

New boss David O'Leary hands debuts to Thomas Sörensen and Gavin McCann whilst Alpay Özalan and Ronny Johnsen are selected ahead of Olof Mellberg as is Marcus Allbäck over Peter Crouch. Peter Whittingham starts the first game of the season.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.59 |

Oldest Player |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 | 34.21 |

Youngest Player |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.95 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 🟢 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟥 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🟨 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Harry Redknapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Portsmouth

GK Shaka Hislop | 🇹🇹 |
CB Dejan Stefanović | 🇸🇰 | 🟨 |
CB Hayden Foxe | 🇦🇺 |
CB Arjan de Zeeuw | 🇳🇱 |
RB Boris Živković | 🇭🇷 |
M Nigel Quashie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Amdy Faye | 🇸🇳 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Steve Stone (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 | ⚽ |
F Teddy Sheringham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Yakubu Ayegbeni | 🇳🇬 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | for W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 59’ |
🔁 CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 77’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Amdy Faye | 🇸🇳 | (RB Sébastien Schemmel | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Yakubu Ayegbeni | 🇳🇬 | (CF Vincent Péricard | 🇫🇷 |)

Substitutes

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Harald Wapenaar | 🇳🇱 |
M Gary O'Neil | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Deon Burton | 🇯🇲 |

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

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/16
Homegrown: 5/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

"This club, with its infra structure, should be a top-six club. "But at the moment the top six is set in stone. We finished only three points off relegation last season. "Win or lose today I knew it would be a hard season ahead." What would represent success? "Improving on 16th place. If we finish mid-table, we've really improved." David O'Leary.
Quotes

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 16 August, 2003

*Pompey make dream start* Portsmouth’s veteran summer signings Teddy Sheringham and Patrik Berger gave the Premiership newcomers a winning start against Aston Villa. Former England striker Sheringham and Czech Republic midfield man Berger struck either side of half-time to make it a miserable start for new Villa boss David O’Leary at a vibrant Fratton Park. Gareth Barry pulled a goal back for Villa later on from the spot - but then piled on the misery for O’Leary when he was sent off for dissent with three minutes left. Portsmouth survived an anxious last few moments, but held on to make it a triumphant return to the top flight after romping to the First Division title last season. Villa new boy Gavin McCann’s debut got off to an eventful start as he had to leave the field after 10 minutes for lengthy treatment and five stitches in a head wound. He returned blood-spattered but was then harshly booked by referee Graham Barber for a foul on Sheringham. McCann was swiftly followed by Portsmouth debutant Amdy Faye after a clash with Lee Hendrie. Villa had the better of the first half - posing a particular danger from set-pieces. Marcus Allback had a header ruled out for a foul by Alpay - and then the Turkey defender missed a glorious chance to put Villa ahead after 31 minutes. Barry’s free-kick found Alpay totally unmarked eight yards out, but he sent a stooping header wide. And Villa paid a heavy price when Pompey took the lead through veteran Sheringham three minutes before the interval. Sheringham had already posted the warning signals with a 20-yard free-kick that drifted inches wide. And the veteran made no mistake when he scored from close range after Thomas Sorensen blocked an effort from Yakubu Ayegbeni. Villa threatened briefly after the break, but it was Pompey who doubled their advantage after 62 minutes, And it was another new boy Berger, who applied a brilliant left foot finish to instant control to punish hesitation in the Villa defence. Villa offered nothing in response until they were offered a very fortunate lifeline with eight minutes left. Barry stumbled under challenge from Boris Zivkovic, and referee Barber pointed to the spot despite no obvious contact. The Villa star recovered to score - but was then sent off five minutes later for dissent aimed at the referee’s assistant as Villa’s day ended in defeat
Reports

🟥 16 August 2003, Villa 1-2 Portsmouth, Fratton Park.

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