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Game #4885

Aston Villa

Saturday, 25 March 2006

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Drew

16th (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

Premier League

Fulham

Villa Park

Attendance: 32,605

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-0

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Fulham

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 25 March 2006

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Fulham
🔁 | 58’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Luke Moore, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Fulham

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

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 25 March 2006
  • Villa stop a run of three consecutive defeats to draw with struggling Fulham and make it just eight wins in thirty one Premier League games this season under David O'Leary.

  • Villa end a run of 3 defeats but now have just 8 Premier League wins in the last 36 games under O’Leary’s leadership as the barely hidden contempt within which the manager is held by a large swathe of the support breaks out into the open.

  • Thomas Sørensen keeps his 40th clean sheet in a Villa shirt on his 120th appearance to make it W44 D34 L42, 150 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.25 goals per game and 40 Clean Sheets (33%) so far in his Villa career.

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, 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: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Fulham

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY
Fulham
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Previous 5 vs. Fulham: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨

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

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Game | #31 |
Manager Game | #124 |
Saturday, 25 March 2006

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🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Lee Mason | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 2006-2021
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

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

🕒 124 | 🟩 | 45 🟨 | 34 🟥 45 | 1.36

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Lee Mason | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 2006-2021

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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CARDS
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None

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

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Kevin Phillips, Lee Hendrie (first start in 7) and Ulises de la Cruz (first start in 29) replace Olof Mellberg, Craig Gardner and Gabriel Agbonlahor.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.69 |

Oldest Player |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.77 |

Youngest Player |
F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.12 |

Referee

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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 Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Chris Coleman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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Fulham

GK Mark Crossley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Ian Pearce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Zat Knight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Moritz Volz | 🇩🇪 |
RB Liam Rosenior | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steed Malbranque | 🇫🇷 |
M Mark Pembridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Michael Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Luís Boa Morte | 🇵🇹 |
CF Collins John | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
CF Brian McBride | 🇺🇸 |

Line Ups

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 58’ |
🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 73’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CF Collins John | 🇳🇱 | (CF Tomasz Radzinski | 🇨🇦 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Tony Warner | 🇹🇹 |
CB Alain Goma | 🇫🇷 |
CB Philippe Christanval | 🇫🇷 |
LB Niclas Jensen | 🇩🇰 |

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

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 5/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/16
Homegrown: 8/16

SQUAD STATS
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Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/12

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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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🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"We're not fickle, we just don't like you." Holte end banner. “I’ve been told about the banners. That comes with football now. It can happen to any of us at any time. “There were 32,000 people in the ground and the vast majority of them, like myself, want to take Villa forward. “We can’t complain about the fans today. If there are one or two banners out of 32,000 people, then I am big enough to take that on the chin.” David O’Leary. "I'd rather not answer that. "He doesn't seem any different from day one." Lee Hendrie on David O'Leary.
Quotes

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 25 March 2006
Aston Villa and Fulham remain bogged down in the lower reaches of the Premiership table after playing out a drab and uneventful draw. Lee Hendrie had Villa’s best chance in the first half, sending a right-foot volley narrowly over the top. For Fulham, Steed Malbranque volleyed just wide when well-placed in the opening seconds of the second half. Malbranque saw another shot gathered at the second attempt by Thomas Sorensen, but neither side looked like scoring. The point will probably please Fulham more than Villa, although they are still seeking their first away league win this season. The tone of the game was set early on with both sides struggling to create an opening. It was not until the 22nd minute that either side seriously threatened, Hendrie’s controlled volley flying inches over Mark Crossley’s bar with the keeper seemingly beaten. Villa had the better of the first half and should have taken the lead just before the half-hour mark during a frenzied goalmouth scramble. Gavin McCann managed to fire in a low effort despite almost standing on the ball - only to see Zat Knight block on the line. Gareth Barry then tried his luck as the loose ball came to him, only for Volz to block. The visitors offered little in the opening period, although Steed Malbranque will be disappointed not to have made more of a half-chance during a rare breakaway, the striker’s shot being comfortably saved by Sorensen. Within seconds of the restart, Malbranque had another chance, but his agonised expression as he volleyed wide despite having plenty of time to steady himself inside the area told its own story. At the other end Steven Davis diverted Wilfred Bouma’s cross goalwards at the near post, but Crossley was alert to the danger. Malbranque’s low volley was gathered by Thomas Sorensen at the second attempt as Fulham began to impose themselves on the game. Fulham looked stronger towards the end, but in truth their play lacked the passion and guile they displayed when beating Chelsea last weekend. *Aston Villa boss David O’Leary on fan banners at the ground calling for him to quit:* “I’ve been told about the banners. That comes with football now. It can happen to any of us at any time. “There were 32,000 people in the ground and the vast majority of them, like myself, want to take Villa forward. “We can’t complain about the fans today. If there are one or two banners out of 32,000 people, then I am big enough to take that on the chin.”
Reports

🟨 25 Mar 2006, Villa 0-0 Fulham, Villa Park

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