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Game #4797

Aston Villa

Saturday, 20 March 2004

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Lost

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Blackburn Rovers

Villa Park

Attendance: 37,532

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-2

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Blackburn Rovers

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 20 March 2004

🥅 | 26’ Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Garry Flitcroft
🔁 | 29’ Sub off, Gareth Barry, Sub on, Peter Whittingham
🥅 | 36’ Goal, 0-2, (Blackburn Rovers), Jon Stead
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-2 Blackburn Rovers
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Nolberto Solano, Sub on, Luke Moore
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Peter Crouch
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-2 Blackburn Rovers

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

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 20 March 2004
  • Villa are surprisingly defeated at home by relegation threatened Blackburn as they suffer a home defeat for the first time since January but remain in 8th place in the table after a run eight wins in fourteen top flight games under David O'Leary.

  • Liam Ridgewell makes his 1st start in a Villa shirt on his 8th appearance to make it W5 D0 L3 so far in his Villa career.

  • Thomas Hitzlsperger makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (56 Starts) to make it W29 D15 L31, 9 Goals, 12 Assists and 8 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

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

Blackburn Rovers

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2001-02

FIXTURE HISTORY
Blackburn Rovers
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Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

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

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2003-04 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Game | #29 |
Manager Game | #36 |
Saturday, 20 March 2004

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🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Andy D'Urso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Essex, 1999-2005
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

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

🕒 36 | 🟩 | 16 🟨 | 7 🟥 13 | 1.53

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Andy D'Urso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Essex, 1999-2005

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Andy D'Urso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Essex, 1999-2005
🕒 11 | 🟩 3 | 🟨 4 | 🟥 4 | 🆘 : 1
Cards 🟨 15 | 🟥 1 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 2 |

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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None

CARDS
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🟨 Lucas Neill
🟨 Andy Todd |

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

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Liam Ridgewell makes his first Villa start in place of Ronny Johnsen.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.45 |

Oldest Player |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 29.64 |

Youngest Player |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.68 |

Referee

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Graeme Souness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Blackburn Rovers

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Michael Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Lucas Neill | 🇦🇺 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CB Craig Short | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Andy Todd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (🟨)
M Tugay Kerimoğlu | 🇹🇷 |
M Martin Andresen | 🇳🇴 |
M Garry Flitcroft | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Brett Emerton | 🇦🇺 |
CF Andrew Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Jon Stead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29’ |
🔁 CF Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 46’ |
🔁 CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Lucas Neill | 🇦🇺 | (CB Markus Babbel | 🇩🇪 |)
🔁 | CF Jon Stead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Lorenzo Amoruso | 🇮🇹 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
CF Matt Jansen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |

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

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 6/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 8/16

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

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

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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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🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
“You saw the formation by the end of the match. “We had a lot of youngsters on the pitch and the midfield hardly had a player over the age of 21. “We have got some good youngsters but we need more experienced players to come in if you want to be in the top six.” Juan Pablo Ángel
Quotes

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Monday, 22 March, 2004
*Rovers are Souness mended* Graeme Souness eating humble pie and a prestigious trophy bearing claret-and-blue ribbons were just two ingredients in a cocktail of wonders at Villa Park on Saturday. Almost as unlikely before kick-off had been the prospect of a Blackburn side riven with internecine strife and threatened with relegation beating a buoyant Aston Villa who had the whiff of Europe in their nostrils. The Rovers strikers Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke had arrived in the wake of some very public criticism of Souness’s management methods. Yet at the end, after Rovers had completed an untroubled win to strengthen their Premiership foothold, the pair were left to restore their toys to the pram after Souness reclaimed the high ground with an apology. “I am far from blameless in terms of what has gone on in the last seven days,” he said. If that was an unlikely occurrence, then how about the name of the Rovers striker Jonathan Stead alongside those of Thierry Henry, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Alan Shearer at the top of the Premiership’s scoring charts? Stead has scored 21 goals this season, 18 of them for Third Division Huddersfield Town before he moved to Rovers in January. “The goalscoring charts do look good from my point of view,” he said. “It’s a bit surreal really. At the moment it is going well but I won’t get carried away, however nice it looks. Obviously I want to be up there on merit one day.” The seamless transition Stead has made to life in the Premiership suggests he may well be: his expertly executed goal following Gary Flitcroft’s opener took his tally to three in four games for Rovers. For the home side not even the sight of Jim Lewis, the Villa supporting owner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Best Mate, parading the trophy at half-time could inspire a line-up shorn of experience and supplemented by colts. Villa were already missing Gavin McCann, Ronny Johnsen and Mark Delaney when Gareth Barry went off because he was unwell and then Nobby Solano pulled a hamstring. It left Villa’s manager David O’Leary with no option but to turn to his youngsters, with Liam Ridgewell making his full debut and Luke Moore and Peter Whittingham later pitched into a largely one-sided contest. “You saw the formation by the end of the match,” said the Villa striker Juan Pablo Angel. “We had a lot of youngsters on the pitch and the midfield hardly had a player over the age of 21. We have got some good youngsters but we need more experienced players to come in if you want to be in the top six.” In the meantime Angel is prepared to try to lessen the problem by asking Colombia to let him play in next Saturday’s game against Charlton Athletic. Colombia are due to play a World Cup qualifier against Peru on Wednesday week and Angel hopes to be given permission to report a day late. “I plan to speak to the Colombian coach and persuade him that I need to play against Charlton and then catch a plane on Sunday,” added Angel.
Reports

🟥 20 Mar 2004, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

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