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Game #4799

Aston Villa

Sunday, 4 April 2004

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Drew

7th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨

Premier League

Manchester City

Villa Park

Attendance: 37,602

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Manchester City

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Assist(s) | Thomas Hitzlsperger | 25’ |

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 4 April 2004

⚽ | 25’ Goal, 1-0, Juan Pablo Ángel, Assist by Thomas Hitzlsperger
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Peter Crouch
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Luke Moore
🟨 | 79’ Booking, Jlloyd Samuel
🥅 | 82’ Goal, 1-1, (Manchester City), Sylvain Distin
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City

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

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 4 April 2004

  • Villa concede a late equaliser to top-flight no hopers Manchester City to remain in 7th place in the Premier League table under David O'Leary.

  • Juan Pablo Ángel contributes his 50th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 82nd start (99 Appearances) to make it W40 D22 L37, 41 Goals, 9 Assists and 7 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.64 starts so far in his Villa career.

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, 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: 🏆
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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Manchester City

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

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

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2003-04 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Game | #31 |
Manager Game | #38 |
Sunday, 4 April 2004

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🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Uriah Rennie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1994-2009
Kick off: 2.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

🕒 38 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 | 8 🟥 13 | 1.55

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Uriah Rennie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1994-2009
Matches Officiated: 14
🟩 : 6
🟨 : 6
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 7 Feb 04, Villa 2-0 Leeds (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Jlloyd Samuel

CARDS

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🟨 Jihai Sun
🟨 Richard Dunne

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

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

David O'Leary names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.59 |

Oldest Player |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 | 34.84 |

Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 22.01 |

Referee

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 🔥 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Kevin Keegan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Manchester City

GK David James (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Michael Tarnat | 🇩🇪 |
CB Silvain Distin | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |
CB Jihai Sun | 🇨🇳 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Claudio Reyna | 🇺🇸 | 🔁 |
M Paul Bosvelt | 🇳🇱 |
W Shaun Wright-Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve McManaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Paulo Wanchope | 🇨🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Jonathan Macken | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 46’ |
🔁 F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 67’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Claudio Reyna | 🇺🇸 | (W Trevor Sinclair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Paulo Wanchope | 🇨🇷 | (CF Robbie Fowler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Jonathan Macken | 🇮🇪 | (CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Árni Arason | 🇮🇸 |
M Joey Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

"If Angel was tired, the lethargy appeared to spread to his team-mates as the visitors began the brighter."
Quotes

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 4 April, 2004

Sylvain Distin snatched an 82nd-minute goal to rescue a point for Manchester City and ease their relegation fears. Distin’s header was helped in by Robbie Fowler after Juan Pablo Angel had given Villa the lead in the first half. The Colombian international, who only returned to England on Saturday after international duty, was on hand to head in Thomas Hitzlsperger’s corner. But City, with Nicolas Anelka and Fowler on the bench, continued to press and deserved their late equaliser. After only three league wins since 1 November, City opted to partner Jon Macken and Paolo Wanchope up front. For Villa, Darius Vassell was declared fit after recovering from the ankle injury he picked up for England in midweek. He joined Angel up front, who started despite a gruelling 34-hour round flight to Peru for a World Cup qualifier. If Angel was tired, the lethargy appeared to spread to his team-mates as the visitors began the brighter. Fit-again Steve McManaman, still seeking his first goal for City, made a good break forward after exchanging passes with Michael Tarnat, but he sent a fierce shot wide. Shaun Wright-Phillips cut inside Lee Hendrie but he was denied a shooting opportunity by a superbly timed tackle from Olof Mellberg. Villa were struggling to impose themselves on the game, with only the pace of Vassell causing the visitors any problems. But as City rued missed opportunities, Villa snatched an unlikely lead. Hitzlsperger swung an inswinging corner to the far post where Angel was waiting to head home his 21st goal of the season. City pressed again and Mellberg again came to the rescue with a tackle on Macken, who was setting himself to shoot six yards out. At half time, Villa boss David O’Leary elected to rest Angel and bring on Peter Crouch. The former Portsmouth player was soon in the thick of the action and Sun Jihai had to come across and clear into touch as Crouch looked favourite to win a chase with David James to reach a through ball. At the other end, City again threatened an equaliser but Sorensen was alert enough to palm the ball away from the Wanchope’s feet ater he was released by Macken. Moments later, Jlloyd Samuel put in a quickfire challenge to deny Wanchope after a cross from Tarnat had picked him out by the penalty spot. Jihai became the first player to be yellow carded after 66 minutes for handball - and from the resulting free-kick Villa should have doubled their lead. James failed to hold Hitzlsperger’s blistering free-kick and the rebound fell to Gavin McCann eight yards out but he lofted his shot into the Holte End. City assistant boss Arthur Cox, standing in for back injury victim Kevin keegan, finally let loose Fowler and Anelka after 68 minutes. And City got their equaliser eight minutes from the end, Distin rising to meet Michael Tarnat’s cross, with Fowler getting the final touch as the Sky Blues moved four points clear of the bottom three.
Reports

🟨 4 Apr 2004, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH VIDEO

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