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Game #4867

Aston Villa

Saturday, 17 December 2005

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Lost

15th (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Manchester United

Villa Park

Attendance: 37,128

🟥 17 Dec 2005, Villa 0-2 United, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

0-2

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Manchester United

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 17 Dec 2005, Villa 0-2 United, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 17 December 2005

🥅 | 10’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester United), Ruud van Nistelrooy
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Manchester United
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, James Milner, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🥅 | 51’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester United), Wayne Rooney
🟨 | 61’ Booking, Juan Pablo Ángel
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United

Match Statistics

Not recorded

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 17 December 2005

  • Villa's four game unbeaten run comes to end as their annual Villa Park defeat to Manchester United comes round just in time for Christmas. 

  • Villa lose for the first time in five Premier League games but now have just four wins in seventeen under David O'Leary this season as the under pressure boss dribbles out more drivel post match.

  • Villa fall back to 15th in the table.

  • Villa how have just four wins in twenty two games under David O'Leary and have mustered just 19 from a possible 66 points.

  • Liam Ridgewell makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (38 Starts) to make it W18 D10 L22, 1 Goal, 1 Assist, 5 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Wilfred Bouma makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W3 D3 L4 so far in his Villa career.

🟥 17 Dec 2005, Villa 0-2 United, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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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

Aston Villa

Manchester United

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Manchester United

Previous 5 vs. United: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #20 |
League Game | #17 |
Manager Game | #106 |
Saturday, 17 December 2005

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MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Kick off: 12.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 106 | 🟩 | 39 🟨 | 27 🟥 40 | 1.36

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Matches Officiated: 13
🟩 : 5
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 29 Nov 05, Villa 0-3 Doncaster (a)
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Juan Pablo Ángel

None

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Steven Davis and Mark Delaney (first start in 6) replace Lee Hendrie and Olof Mellberg.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.48 |

Oldest Player |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 29.62 |

Youngest Player |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.96 |

Referee
Manager

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MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Eirik Bakke | 🇳🇴 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 |

MANAGER

Alex Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Manchester United

GK Edwin van der Sar | 🇳🇱 |
CB Wes Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 |
RB Gary Neville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ji-sung Park | 🇰🇷 |
M Darren Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Paul Scholes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ryan Giggs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Ruud van Nistelrooy | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🟨 | for W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Ryan Giggs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (W Cristiano Ronaldo | 🇵🇹 |)

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Tim Howard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Phil Bardsley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ritchie Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Giuseppe Rossi | 🇮🇹 |

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

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SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16
Homegrown: 5/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

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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're disappointed that we didn't at least try and stop them. "I don't think there was that many tackles and I don't think we got in their faces. We have to hold our hands up and say they were the better side by far." Mark Delaney. “We were outclassed by a team with world-class players. “We are going to have to play better than that in the weeks ahead, but we won’t be playing sides of Manchester United’s quality every week. “We came into the game on the back of some really good league form and we have got to pick that back up again. “We want to climb up the league table as best we can. I believe we can, but it’s going to be hard and we have to prove we can go out and do it.” David O’Leary.
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 17 December 2005

Manchester United moved to within six points of Premiership pace-setters Chelsea with an emphatic victory against Aston Villa. Ruud van Nistelrooy’s close-range finish put United ahead after nine minutes from Darren Fletcher’s pass. Wayne Rooney doubled United’s lead five minutes after the interval following good work by Park Ji-Sung. Villa’s only serious threat to United’s supremacy was a shot from Milan Baros that struck the bar. United lost Alan Smith through illness prior to kick-off, with Park being drafted in. And the South Korean almost made an instant impact when he raced on to Rooney’s pass after seven minutes, but his shot hit the inside of an upright and bounced to safety. But United were in front two minutes later when Fletcher’s pass cut through the Villa defence and Van Nistelrooy lifted a cool finish over goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen as he raced out. Villa were being outclassed, and Van Nistelrooy almost added a spectacular second after 33 minutes when Sorensen had to scramble to turn a bicycle kick over the top. Villa boss David O’Leary made a change at half-time in an attempt to provide problems for United, who had barely broken sweat in defence, sending on Juan Pablo Angel for James Milner. But it was United who tightened their grip on the game five minutes after the interval, the busy Park sending Rooney through for a typical emphatic strike past Sorensen. And Ryan Giggs should have extended their lead when he was sent clear by Rooney, but he fired high over the bar from an angle. Villa finally gave Edwin van der Sar an anxious moment after 58 minutes, when Gareth Barry’s shot on the turn was only inches off target. Baros came even closer when he rattled the bar with Van der Sar beaten as Villa attempted an unlikely comeback. United almost rounded off their victory in the final seconds when substitute Cristiano Ronaldo, on for Giggs, forced Sorensen into a fine save before Van Nistelrooy was denied by some desperate defending. Ronaldo then produced some brilliant footwork and a spectacular cross, only for Van Nistelrooy to head wide. *Aston Villa manager David O’Leary:* “We were outclassed by a team with world-class players. “We are going to have to play better than that in the weeks ahead, but we won’t be playing sides of Manchester United’s quality every week. “We came into the game on the back of some really good league form and we have got to pick that back up again. “We want to climb up the league table as best we can. I believe we can, but it’s going to be hard and we have to prove we can go out and do it.”
Reports

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