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Game #4766

Aston Villa

Sunday, 14 September 2003

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Lost

16th (-2)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Manchester City

City of Manchester Stadium

Attendance: 46,687

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

Manchester City

4-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Lee Hendrie | 31’ |

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 14 September 2003

⚽ | 31’ Goal, 1-0, Juan Pablo Ángel, Assist by Lee Hendrie
🔁 | 37’ Sub off, Olof Mellberg, Sub on Alpay Özalan
🕒 | HT Manchester City 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 48’ Goal, 1-1, (Manchester City, pen), Nicolas Anelka
🥅 | 50’ Goal, 1-2, (Manchester City), Michael Tarnat
🟨 | 52’ Booking, Ronny Johnsen
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Ronny Johnsen, Sub on, Mustapha Hadji 🔴
🥅 | 68’ Goal, 1-3, (Manchester City, pen), Nicolas Anelka
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Dion Dublin
🥅 | 83’ Goal, 1-4, (Manchester City), Nicolas Anelka
🕒 | FT Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 14 September 2003

  • Despite taking a deserved first half lead Villa are well beaten in the second half to leave them with one win in five Premier League games under David O'Leary to sit 16th in the table.

  • Villa's first 5 games under David O'Leary suggest the hangover from the dreadful 2002-03 campaign under Graham Taylor has not fully cleared. 

  • Villa now have 3 losses, 1 win and a draw under David O'Leary but the apparent rejuvenation of Juan Pablo Ángel following his travails under Taylor and a more adventurous brand of football already being witnessed suggests better times may cautiously be ahead. 

  • Midfielder Mustapha Hadji, 32, makes his 47th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (30 Starts) before moving on to RCD Espanyol on a free transfer in January 2004 and leaving with a record of W15 D11 L21, 3 Goals, 2 Assists and 5 Bookings.

  • Juan Pablo Ángel contributes his 30th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 52nd start (69 Appearances) to make it W26 D15 L28, 23 Goals, 7 Assists and 6 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.73 starts so far in his Villa career.

  • Lee Hendrie contributes his 21st assist in a Villa shirt and his first since December 2002 on his 224th appearance (174 Starts) to make it W89 D58 L77, 24 Goals, 21 Assists, 40 Bookings 3 Red Cards at a goal involvement rate of one for every 5.09 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | 2001-03 🕒 47 | 30 (17) | ⚽ 3 | 🔥 2 | 🇺 7 | #755 |

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Aston Villa

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

Manchester City

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

Aston Villa

Manchester City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Manchester City

Previous 5 vs. Manchester City: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2003-04 |
Matchday | #5 |
League Game | #5 |
Manager Game | #5 |
Sunday, 14 September 2003

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🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟥 1-4
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

🕒 5 | 🟩 | 1 🟨 | 1 🟥 3 | 0.80

Villa Career Form:

Relegation

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013 🆘
Matches Officiated: 12
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 4
🟥 : 4
🆘 : 3
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 11 May 03, Villa 1-3 Leeds, (a) 🆘
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Ronny Johnsen

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Marcus Allbäck replaces Darius Vassell.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.18 |

Oldest Player |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 | 34.28 |

Youngest Player |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.03 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 |

MANAGER

Kevin Keegan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Manchester City

GK David Seaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Michael Tarnat | 🇩🇪 | ⚽ |
CB David Sommeil | 🇬🇵 |
CB Silvain Distin | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jihai Sun | 🇨🇳 |
M Joey Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Steve McManaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Trevor Sinclair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Shaun Wright-Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Paulo Wanchope | 🇨🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | for CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 37’ |
🔁 M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | 🔴 | for CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 | 66’ |
🔁 CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 76’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Joey Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Antoine Sibierski | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Paulo Wanchope | 🇨🇷 | (M Claudio Reyna | 🇺🇸 |)

Substitutes

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Nicky Weaver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CF Robbie Fowler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/16
Homegrown: 4/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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MATCH QUOTES

"Villa substitute Alpay, on for injured captain Olof Mellberg, tugged at Paolo Wanchope on the corner of the penalty area, but could have had little inkling that his foul would be so emphatically punished."
Quotes

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 14 September, 2003

*Anelka hat-trick sinks Villa* *Nicolas Anelka fired a second-half hat-trick as Manchester City finally claimed their first win in the Blue Camp.* The new City of Manchester Stadium looked as though it might still be waiting for a first home win as Villa deservedly led at half-time courtesy of Juan Pablo Angel’s header. But City, inspired by another former Real Madrid man in debutant midfielder Steve McManaman, roared back in spectacular style after the break to move up to third place in the Premiership. McManaman was the driving force behind Kevin Keegan’s team. The summer signing from Madrid was the only City player to carry any real threat in a disjointed first half and continued to pull the strings as Villa choked after the break. It was McManaman’s mazy run early in the second half that sparked the City turnaround. A determined drive into the box only ended when Mark Delaney handled under pressure, giving Anelka the chance to slam City level from the penalty spot. Two minutes later, City’s dizzy turnaround was well under way thanks to a stunning free-kick from German full-back Michael Tarnat. Villa substitute Alpay, on for injured captain Olof Mellberg, tugged at Paolo Wanchope on the corner of the penalty area, but could have had little inkling that his foul would be so emphatically punished. Tarnat had only one thing in mind as he wound up for a fierce free-kick which Sorensen waved a fist at but only saw as a blur as the ball fizzed past him. Villa’s stretched defence was missing the steadying influence of captain Mellberg and they were pulled apart again as City grabbed a third midway through the second half. It came from another penalty after Shaun Wright-Phillips and Sun Jihai combined superbly down the right and Peter Whittingham clumsily ended the flowing move with a blatant trip on Chinese international Sun. Anelka gratefully accepted the chance of a second from the spot, driving into the top corner despite the hapless Sorensen getting his fingers to the ball. And the French striker superbly completed his hat-trick seven minutes from time when he easily outpaced the bemused Alpay and rattled a shot beyond Sorensen. The remarkable turnaround ensured that Angel’s opener was little more than a distant memory for the City fans. Angel remains Villa’s record buy having signed for £9.5m more than two years ago, but is like a new signing under David O’Leary. The Columbian striker nearly opened the scoring on 16 minutes when he brilliantly flicked the ball over his own head and volleyed into the side netting. But he found his range on 32 minutes when loose City defending allowed Hendrie to swing over a cross for Angel to arch a header beyond the reach of David Seaman. The lead was no more than Villa deserved and the scoreline prompted a chorus of boos from the home fans at the half-time whistle. But the jeers soon turned to cheers as City clinically turned the game on its head in the second half.
Reports

🟥 14 September 2003, Villa 1-4 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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