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Game #4849

Aston Villa

Saturday, 20 August 2005

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Lost

12th (-5)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Manchester United

Old Trafford

Attendance: 67,934

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

Manchester United

1-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 20 August 2005

🟨 | 12’ Booking, Olof Mellberg
🔁 | 20’ Sub off, Jlloyd Samuel, Sub on, Eric Djemba-Djemba
🕒 | HT Manchester United 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 66’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester United), Ruud van Nistelrooy
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Ulises de la Cruz, Sub on, Nolberto Solano
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Peter Whittingham, Sub on, Luke Moore
🕒 | FT Manchester United 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

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 20 August 2005

  • Villa suffer a narrow defeat at Old Trafford to leave them winless in their first two Premier League games of the season under David O'Leary as his sniping at his own players immediately comes to the fore.

  • Olof Mellberg collects his 15th booking in a Villa shirt on his 154th appearance to make it W53 D42 L59, 5 Goals, 5 Assists and 15 Booking at a rate of a card every 10 games so far in his Villa career.

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

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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 United

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2003-04

FIXTURE HISTORY

Manchester United

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Previous 5 vs. United: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

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

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #2 |
League Game | #2 |
Manager Game | #88 |
Sunday, 20 August 2005

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🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Kick off: 12.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
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

🕒 88 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 23 🟥 32 | 1.39

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 23 Oct 04, Villa 2-0 Fulham (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Olof Mellberg

CARDS

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🟨 Paul Scholes
🟨 Wayne Rooney

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

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Liam Ridgewell, Ulises de la Cruz and Peter Whittingham replace Martin Laursen (season ending injury), Nolberto Solano and Kevin Phillips.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.73 |

Oldest Player |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 31.05 |

Youngest Player |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 20.65 |

Referee

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 🔁 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |

MANAGER

Alex Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Manchester United

GK Edwin van der Sar | 🇳🇱 |
LB Mikaël Silvestre | 🇫🇷 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
RB Gary Neville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ji-sung Park | 🇰🇷 | 🔁 |
M Roy Keane | 🇮🇪 |
M Darren Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Paul Scholes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Ruud van Nistelrooy | 🇪🇬 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Eric Djemba-Djemba | 🇨🇲 | for RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20’ |
🔁 W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | for RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 73’ |
🔁 F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 73’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 | (CB Gabriel Heinze | 🇦🇷 |)
🔁 | M Ji-sung Park | 🇰🇷 | (W Cristiano Ronaldo | 🇵🇹 |)
🔁 | CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Alan Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Tim Howard | 🇺🇸 |
RB Kieran Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16
Homegrown: 6/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

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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

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MATCH QUOTES

“We defended really well until Olof Mellberg made a mistake and we gave a stupid ball away. “I am an attack-minded coach and like to take people on but circumstances dictated my plans because we had a few players injured. “Everyone is working to bring players in. Within the budget we are trying to do that but we have to get on with it. That’s life. The only worry I have is we will lose players through injury.” David O’Leary.
Quotes

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 20 August 2005

Ruud van Nistelrooy scored the only goal as Manchester United continued their assured start to the season. Thomas Sorensen made a brilliant save to deflect a shot from Park Ji-Sung against the crossbar, while a Wayne Rooney volley was cleared off the line. Park missed a good chance after exchanging passes with Rooney before Sorensen saved headers from both Gabriel Heinze and Cristiano Ronaldo. But Van Nistelrooy eventually scored, tapping home from Ronaldo’s cross. It means United have now won their opening two Premiership games as they seek to win back the Premiership title after two barren years. Sorensen was in brilliant form for Villa but he was eventually beaten as David O’Leary’s awful record at Old Trafford continued. The Irishman has yet to register a win at United in 14 attempts as a manager. The match started promisingly for Villa and the first half hour was much as O’Leary would have wanted - a low key affair, illuminated only by the energy and industry of Park. United pressed and probed for chinks in the Villa defence, which held firm despite the early loss of Jlloyd Samuel through injury. Park cut inside after 28 minutes and unleashed a thunderous right-footed strike that Sorensen did superbly to tip on to the crossbar. Minutes later Rooney adjusted his body shape and volleyed goalwards direct from corner but Peter Whittingham cleared. Sir Alex Ferguson had opted to select the same team that defeated Everton last Saturday, starting with Park and Darren Fletcher out wide and Ronaldo on the bench. As a consequence United struggled to get behind the Villa defence and the visitor’s restricted the home team to long-range efforts, though Scholes went close with a curling 25-yard strike on the stroke of half time. United enjoyed more success after the break. Minutes into the second half a delightful one-two between Park and Rooney opened up the Villa defence, though the Korean dragged his shot wide from a good position. Park was replaced by Ronaldo - and John O’Shea with Gabriel Heinze - just before the hour mark. And both replacements came close to scoring headed goals within minutes of their introduction - Heinze with a solid contact from a free-kick and Ronaldo from a cross headed across goal. Both, however, failed to find a way past Sorensen. The pressure eventually told when Olof Mellberg attempted to head Ronaldo’s cross clear but only succeeded in directing it goalwards and Van Nistelrooy tapped home from a yard. The outstanding Sorensen kept his team in the match with a point-blank save from a Scholes header. Sorensen saved again from Scholes close to full-time but, apart from a corner that he easily collected, United keeper Edwin van der Sar had little to do at the other end of the pitch *Aston Villa manager David O’Leary:* “We defended really well until Olof Mellberg made a mistake and we gave a stupid ball away. “I am an attack-minded coach and like to take people on but circumstances dictated my plans because we had a few players injured. “Everyone is working to bring players in. Within the budget we are trying to do that but we have to get on with it. That’s life. The only worry I have is we will lose players through injury.”
Reports

🟥 20 Aug 2005, Villa 0-1 United, Old Trafford

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