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Game #4883

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 14 March 2006

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Lost

5th Round Replay

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥

FA Cup

Manchester City

City of Manchester Stadium

Attendance: 33,006

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

Manchester City

2-1

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Aston Villa

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🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 14 March 2006

🥅 | 17’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), Georgios Samaras
🔁 | 40’ Sub off, Milan Baroš, Sub on, Craig Gardner
🟨 | 43’ Booking, Craig Gardner
🕒 | HT Manchester City 1-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 49’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester City), Darius Vassell
🟨 | 80’ Booking, Olof Mellberg
🟨 | 84’ Booking, Gavin McCann
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 1-2, Steven Davis
🕒 | FT Manchester City 2-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

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🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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ON THIS DAY

Tuesday, 14 March 2006

  • Villa fall to successive defeats for the first time since November and are beaten in the FA Cup 5th round replay prompting David O'Leary to dribble out more drivel that strongly suggested he was not too well.

  • Meanwhile, David O'Leary's limited grasp on reality continues as the first XI he fielded aged 29, 26, 28, 25, 21, 28, 32, 21, 20, 24 and 27 are described as "young lads ... the future of club ... they will learn from that”. If he didn't know the ages of his own team, what on earth did he also not understand?

  • Milan Baroš makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (24 Starts) to make it W8 D9 L8, 10 Goals, 6 Assists and 5 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.56 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Steven Davis suffers his 25th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 64th appearance (53 Starts) to make it W21 D18 L25, 9 Goals, 3 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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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 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

Aston Villa

Manchester City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Manchester City

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

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #36 |
Manager Game | #122 |
Tuesday, 14 March 2006

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🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
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

🕒 122 | 🟩 | 45 🟨 | 33 🟥 44 | 1.38

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Matches Officiated: 6
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 4
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 14 Jan 06, Villa 1-2 West Ham (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Craig Gardner
🟨 Olof Mellberg
🟨 Gavin McCann

🟨 Albert Riera
🟨 Kiki Musampa
🟨 Georgios Samaras

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

David O'Leary names an unchanged line up for only the third time in 36 games this season.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.26 |

Oldest Player |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.74 |

Youngest Player |
F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.09 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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 Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 🔁 |
F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Stuart Pearce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Manchester City

GK David James (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jihai Sun | 🇨🇳 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Stephen Jordan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Joey Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Albert Riera | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
W Trevor Sinclair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Kiki Musampa | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
CF Darius Vassell (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Georgios Samaras | 🇬🇷 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 40’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Darius Vassell (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Bradley Wright-Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Georgios Samaras | 🇬🇷 | (M Antoine Sibierski | 🇫🇷 |)

Substitutes

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Nicky Weaver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Sommeil | 🇬🇵 |
M Claudio Reyna | 🇺🇸 |

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

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 7/16

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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MATCH QUOTES

“I was very proud of the young lads, and the future of club is going to be good. “They will learn from that, but we gave ourselves a lot to do.” David O’Leary.
Quotes

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Tuesday, 14 March 2006

Goals from Georgios Samaras and Darius Vassell swept Manchester City into the FA Cup quarter-finals and a tie against either Bolton Wanderers or West Ham. Samaras single-handedly unravelled the Villa defence on 17 minutes, scoring at the second attempt to put City ahead. Ex-Villa forward Vassell picked up the striking baton for City on 48 minutes, turning the ball home after a scramble. With five minutes left, Steve Davis’ well-worked goal set up a tense finale, but it proved too little, too late. City had forced a replay with a stoppage-time goal from Micah Richards, but their defence proved more adept at closing out a game than Villa’s had back in February. And Samaras showed that if he is capable of taking goals - he has now scored four since joining City for £6m in the January transfer window - he is equally capable of making them as well. When he picked up the ball wide on the wing, there appeared little danger to the Villa defence. But he cleverly flicked the ball past Olof Mellberg and raced into the Villa penalty area before getting in a shot that Sorensen was unable to hold. The ball rebounded to the Greek, who rattled the ball into the net before wheeling away to celebrate. Soon after breaking the deadlock, Samaras was the victim of an ugly challenge from Liam Ridgewell, who raked his studs down the striker’s back. Having survived that challenge, Samaras was withdrawn at the interval after coming off the worst following a tackle from Gareth Barry. While City’s attack prospered, Villa’s frontmen struggled to get out of first gear. The visitors had suffered a blow just before the kick-off when Patrik Berger, who had been planning to return for this game after a five-month absence, had to pull out after damaging his Achilles in the warm-up. Villa’s other Czech, Milan Baros, might have given David O’Leary’s an early lead, but the former Liverpool striker was too slow to shoot after David James’ had been left stranded following a rash dash out of his area. Baros eventually went off injured five minutes before the break after he fell heavily following Richards’ crunching tackle. City extended their lead three minutes into the second-half after Villa failed to clear a corner. When Albert Riera fired a shot into packed penalty area, Vassell, who scored twice against his former club in October, was on hand at the far post to turn the ball home. Villa struggled to test James throughout most of the second half, but Davis fired a shot past the goalkeeper with five minutes left. *Aston Villa manager David O’Leary:* “I was very proud of the young lads, and the future of club is going to be good. “They will learn from that, but we gave ourselves a lot to do.”
Reports

🟥 14 March 2006, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, City Stadium.

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