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Game #4791

Aston Villa

Saturday, 31 January 2004

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Won

11th (+1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Leicester City

Walkers Stadium

Attendance: 31,056

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

Leicester City

0-5

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Thomas Hitzlsperger | 50’ | 56’ | Gareth Barry | 60’ | Peter Crouch | 64’ | Mark Delaney | 68’ |

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 31 January 2004

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Nolberto Solano
🟨 | 9’ Booking, Olof Mellberg
🕒 | HT Leicester City 0-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 50’ Goal, 1-0, Darius Vassell, Assist by Thomas Hitzlsperger
⚽ | 56’ Goal, 2-0, Peter Crouch, Assist by Thomas Hitzlsperger
⚽ | 60’ Goal, 3-0, Darius Vassell, Assist by Gareth Barry
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 4-0, Dion Dublin, Assist by Peter Crouch
⚽ | 68’ Goal, 5-0, Peter Crouch, Assist by Mark Delaney
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Sub on Peter Whittingham
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on Marcus Allbäck
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Mark Delaney, Sub on Ulises de la Cruz
🕒 | FT Leicester City 0-5 Aston Villa

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

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 31 January 2004
  • Villa bounce back from their difficult January to end the month with a stunning performance and result on the road at Leicester inspired by new signing Nolberto Solano and the returning Peter Crouch. 

  • Nolberto Solano, 29, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Newcastle United for a fee of £1,800,000 earlier this month to become the 773rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Solano's signing was nothing short of a coup, arguably Newcastle had let their best player leave to a rival for a relatively small fee, and Villa suddenly had a piece of the jigsaw that had been missing for the last couple of seasons.

  • Peter Crouch scores his 1st goals in a Villa shirt in 24 appearances and contributes his 5th assist on his 31st appearance (20 Starts) to make it W10 D6 L15, 4 Goals, 5 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.44 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Darius Vassell contributes his 50th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 166th appearance (93 Starts) to make it W62 D39 L65, 38 Goals, 12 Assists, 15 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.32 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Thomas Hitzlsperger makes his 50th start in a Villa shirt (69 Appearances) to make it W26 D14 L29, 7 Goals, 10 Assists and 7 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Mark Delaney contributes his 5th assist in a Villa shirt on his 142nd appearance (126 Starts) to make it W54 D41 L47, 1 Goal, 5 Assists, 19 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | #773 | £1,800,000 signing from Newcastle

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

Leicester City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1999-00

FIXTURE HISTORY
Leicester City
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Previous 5 vs. Leicester: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

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FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2003-04 |
Matchday | #30 |
League Game | #23 |
Manager Game | #30 |
Saturday, 31 January 2004

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MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1995-2004
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 5-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

🕒 30 | 🟩 | 13 🟨 | 6 🟥 11 | 1.50

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1995-2004

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Olof Mellberg

CARDS
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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

David O'Leary hands Nolberto Solano his Villa debut in place of Lee Hendrie.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.01 |

Oldest Player |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.80 |

Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 21.84 |

Referee

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 🔥 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 🟢 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 | ⚽ |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Micky Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Leicester City

GK Ian Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Callum Davidson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Ben Thatcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nikolaos Dabizas | 🇺🇾 |
RB John Curtis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Billy McKinlay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Steve Guppy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Keith Gillespie | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
CF James Scowcroft | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Marcus Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 71’ |
🔁 F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | for F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 71’ |
🔁 RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | for RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 81’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | RB John Curtis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Frank Sinclair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Billy McKinlay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (CB Matt Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Keith Gillespie | 🇬🇧 | (W Craig Hignett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Danny Coyne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
LB Jordan Stewart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 6/16

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 15/16

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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MATCH QUOTES
"Darius Vassell and Peter Crouch scored two apiece as Villa ran riot in a one-sided spell of 18 minutes."
Quotes

🟩 31 Jan 2004, Villa 5-0 Leicester, Walkers

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 31 January, 2004
Aston Villa enjoyed a resounding win with five second-half goals to keep Leicester City mired deep in relegation trouble, three points from safety. Darius Vassell and Peter Crouch scored two apiece as Villa ran riot in a one-sided spell of 18 minutes. Vassell’s two long-range strikes sandwiched a far-post Crouch header from a Thomas Hitzlsperger corner. Dion Dublin made it four, benefiting from poor keeping by Ian Walker, before Mark Delaney set up Crouch’s second. Vassell and Crouch were only starting together because of the continued absence through injury of leading scorer Juan Pablo Angel. But the pair, after a quiet first-half, took centre stage to help Villa to only their second Premiership away win of the season, and their first at Leicester. The visitors took time to get into their stride, but slowly and surely imposed themselves on the game. New boy Nolberto Solano, coming in for the injured Lee Hendrie, curled a free-kick over the bar and Gavin McCann thundered a volley onto the woodwork. Vassell also forced a good save from Walker after breaking down the left. Villa played the better football in the first-half, and the floodgates opened after the break. Four minutes in Vassell broke the offside trap and let fly from 20-yards for a deserved lead. Leicester were also forced into changes in attack with Paul Dickov suspended and Les Ferdinand injured. Foxes manager Micky Adams pushed James Scowcroft up front alongside Marcus Bent, but the pair struggled to gel. Scowcroft made little impact and Bent, who was unable to hold up the ball, missed an opportunity to equalise when unmarked at a corner. Moments later Crouch showed him how to do it, stooping low to meet Hitzlsperger’s corner at the far post for his first Premiership goal in 20 months. From there on in it was one-way traffic, with three goals in eight minutes. Vassell again let fly with a low first-time left-foot drive from Gareth Barry’s lay off. A Hitzlsperger free-kick caused chaos in the Leicester box, and Dublin, aided by Walker’s lax efforts with his mind wandering, turned in Crouch’s knock down. And then the gangly striker made it a five-star show with his second of the match, showing good footwork to collect and score from Mark Delaney’s cross. Leicester’s problems could increase, with goalkeeper Walker facing potential disciplinary after pushing a supporter to the ground.
Reports

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