Game #4770
Aston Villa
Sunday, 5 October 2003


Drew
13th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
Premier League
Bolton Wanderers
Villa Park
Attendance: 30,229
🟨 5 Oct 2003, Villa 1-1 Bolton, Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-1

Bolton Wanderers

Assist(s) | Lee Hendrie | 58’ |
🟨 5 Oct 2003, Villa 1-1 Bolton, Villa Park


MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 5 October 2003
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Bolton Wanderers
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Thomas Sörensen, Sub off, Stefan Postma
🥅 | 46’ Goal, 0-1, (Bolton Wanderers), Kevin Nolan
🔁 | 56’ Sub off, Peter Whittingham, Sub on, Marcus Allbäck
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 1-1, Juan Pablo Ángel, Assist by Lee Hendrie
💥 | 85’ Missed Penalty, Juan Pablo Ángel
🟨 | 89’ Booking, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Bolton Wanderers
Match Statistics
Not recorded
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
🟨 5 Oct 2003, Villa 1-1 Bolton, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 5 October 2003
Villa draw for the second time in eight Premier League games to leave David O'Leary with three wins in all competitions in his first nine games.
Despite Juan Pablo Ángel scoring once again, Villa drop points in arguably their first home banker of the season, to leave David O’Leary’s side in 13th place after 8 games.
The footballing equivalent of a natural disaster, centre back Alpay Özalan, 30, makes his 71st and final appearance in a Villa shirt (69 Starts) before having his contract terminated by the club. Özalan would play against England in Turkey on 12th October and “Once again there was provocation and confrontation and this time it led to a mass brawl in the tunnel at half-time. Alpay in particular causing trouble wherever he could.” As a result the club released a statement on 23rd October that read "In the light of recent events, it would have been difficult for Alpay to represent Aston Villa again in the future and the player himself was aware that life in England had become increasingly difficult for him and his family. Therefore, both parties agreed that the best course of action was for the immediate termination of his contract.” Özalan who signed from Fenerbahçe S.K. for a fee of £8,100,000 in July 2000 would move on to South Korean side Incheon United after multiple fallings out, controversies, angry interviews and ostracisms across his 4 seasons and 71 appearances for Villa that had delivered W27 D19 L25, 1 Goal and 17 Bookings.
Juan Pablo Ángel contributes his 35th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 56th start (73 Appearances) to make it W28 D16 L29, 27 Goals, 8 Assists and 7 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.60 starts so far in his Villa career.
Stefan Postma comes off the bench and replaces Thomas Sörensen to make his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (8 Starts) and make it W3 D3 L4, 13 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.30 goals per game and 3 Clean Sheets (30%) so far in his Villa career.
🟨 5 Oct 2003, Villa 1-1 Bolton, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES
None
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 2000-03 🕒 71 | 69 (2) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 2 | #747 |
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
Bolton Wanderers


European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1957-58
🟨 5 Oct 2003, Villa 1-1 Bolton, Villa Park
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2003-04 |
Matchday | #9 |
League Game | #8 |
Manager Game | #9 |
Sunday, 5 October 2003
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🟨 5 Oct 2003, Villa 1-1 Bolton, Villa Park
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Rob Styles | 🏴 | Hampshire, 1996-2009
Kick off: 3.05pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006
🕒 9 | 🟩 | 3 🟨 | 2 🟥 4 | 1.22
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
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MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Rob Styles | 🏴 | Hampshire, 1996-2009
Matches Officiated: 9
🟩 : 6
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 19 Apr 03, Villa 2-1 Chelsea (h)
Cards: 🟨
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

🟨 Lee Hendrie
CARDS

None
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Olof Mellberg and Darius Vassell replace Ulises de la Cruz and Dion Dublin.
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.35 |
Oldest Player |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 30.37 |
Youngest Player |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴 | 19.08 |
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MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 🔁 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 🔴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🟨 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Sam Allardyce | 🏴 |

Bolton Wanderers
GK Jussi Jääskeläinen | 🇫🇮 |
LB Simon Charlton | 🏴 |
LB Ricardo Gardner | 🇯🇲 | 🟨 |
CB Bruno N’Gotty | 🇫🇷 |
CB Émerson Thome | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 |
M Iván Campo | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
M Kevin Nolan | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Per Frandsen | 🇩🇰 | 🟨 |
M Jay-Jay Okocha | 🇳🇬 | 🟨 |
W Stelios Giannakopoulos | 🇬🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 |
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SUBSTITUTES

🔁 GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 | for GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 46’ |
🔁 F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | for W Peter Whittingham | 🏴 | 56’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Kevin Nolan | 🏴 | (CF Jardel | 🇧 🇷 |)
🔁 | W Stelios Giannakopoulos | 🇬🇷 | (M Glen Little | 🏴 |)

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Kevin Poole (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Nicky Hunt | 🏴 |
CF Henrik Pedersen | 🇩🇰 |
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
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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 | | 10 | 2* | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3* | 4 | 13* | 3 | 0 | 0 |
UNUSED
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
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SQUAD STATS

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

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/16
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MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME



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MATCH QUOTES
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MATCH REPORTS






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