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Game #4827

Aston Villa

Sunday, 26 December 2004

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Lost

10th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Chelsea

Stamford Bridge

Attendance: 41,950

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

Chelsea

1-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 26 December 2004

🥅 | 30’ Goal, 0-1, (Chelsea), Damien Duff
🕒 | HT Chelsea 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Mark Delaney, Sub on, Nolberto Solano
🟨 | 59’ Booking, Nolberto Solano
🟨 | 60’ Booking, Liam Ridgewell
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Luke Moore
🟨 | 82’ Booking, Olof Mellberg
🕒 | FT Chelsea 1-0 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

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 26 December 2004
  • Villa lose for the fourth time in five winless games as they are beaten at Stamford Bridge to leave them 10th in the Premier League under David O'Leary having sat 5th five games earlier.

  • Ulises de la Cruz makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (56 Starts) to make it W30 D19 L26, 2 Goals, 6 Assists and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Mathieu Berson makes his 1st start in a Villa shirt (4 Appearances) to make it W1 D1 L2 so far in his Villa career.

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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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

Chelsea

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

FIXTURE HISTORY
Chelsea
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Previous 5 vs. Chelsea: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨

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

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2004-05 |
Matchday | #21 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #66 |
Sunday, 26 December 2004

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🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Peter Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northamptonshire, 2004-2011
Kick off: 1.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

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

🕒 66 | 🟩 | 27 🟨 | 18 🟥 21 | 1.52

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Peter Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northamptonshire, 2004-2011

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Nolberto Solano
🟨 Liam Ridgewell
🟨 Olof Mellberg

CARDS
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🟨 John Terry
🟨 Tiago Mendes
🟨 Arjen Robben

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

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Lee Hendrie Mathieu Berson (first start of the season) and Liam Ridgwell (first start in 9) replace Jlloyd Samuel, Gavin McCann and Nolberto Solano.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.56 |

Oldest Player |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 30.41 |

Youngest Player |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 20.00 |

Referee

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steven Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Mathieu Berson | 🇫🇷 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |

MANAGER

José Mourinho | 🇵🇹 |

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Chelsea

GK Petr Čech | 🇨🇿 |
LB Wayne Bridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB William Gallas | 🇫🇷 |
CB John Terry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
RB Paulo Ferreira | 🇵🇹 |
M Claude Makélélé | 🇫🇷 |
M Frank Lampard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tiago Mendes | 🇵🇹 | 🟨 |
W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Arjen Robben | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Eidur Guðjohnsen | 🇮🇸 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 🟨 | for RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 80’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | (M Aleksey Smertin | 🇷🇺 |)
🔁 | W Arjen Robben | 🇳🇱 | (RB Glen Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Eidur Guðjohnsen | 🇮🇸 | (CF Didier Drogba | 🇨🇮 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Václav Drobný | 🇨🇿 |
F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Carlo Cudicini | 🇮🇹 |
CF Mateja Kezman | 🇷🇸 |

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

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 7/16

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

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

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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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🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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MATCH QUOTES
“If you take the goal away there wasn’t much in the game.” David O’Leary.
Quotes

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 26 December 2004
Damien Duff’s first-half winner ensured Chelsea maintained their five- point advantage at the Premiership summit. Duff scored after 30 minutes, beating Villa keeper Thomas Sorensen after a fine run by Arjen Robben. Chelsea were not at their fluent best, but fully deserved the win against a Villa side that rarely threatened. Robben had a shot kicked off the line by Mark Delaney in the first half, while William Gallas and Eidur Gudjohnsen missed second half chances. Injury-hit Villa made a bright start, with Juan Pablo Angel unfortunate not to get on the end of a cross from Ulises de la Cruz. And Lee Hendrie then had a shot saved as Villa opened confidently, but Chelsea were soon into their stride and took the lead on the half-hour. It was a trademark Chelsea goal, Robben breaking from inside his own half before feeding Duff. who cut inside Gareth Barry before beating Thomas Sorensen at his near post. Chelsea then started to extert authority, with Robben having a shot kicked off the line by Delaney and John Terry’s header flashing inches wide. Villa were forced into a change on the stroke of half-time, with the limping Delaney being replaced by Nolberto Solano. Chelsea continued in the ascendancy after the break, with Gallas narrowly off target and Gudjohnsen denied by a brave diving save from Sorensen. But Villa were always in contention while Chelsea failed to extend their lead, and Petr Cech needed to be alert to hold on to a 25-yard Solano drive. Robben, as ever, was the catalyst for most of Chelsea’s best moves. And he almost set up a goal for substitute Didier Drogba with a cross that flashed past the face of goal.
Reports

🟥 26 Dec 2004, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge

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