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Game #4891

Aston Villa

Saturday, 29 April 2006

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Lost

16th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Liverpool

Anfield

Attendance: 44,479

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

Liverpool

3-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Aaron Hughes | 58’ |

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 29 April 2006

🥅 | 4’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Fernando Morientes
🕒 | HT Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Milan Baroš, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 1-1, Gareth Barry, Assist by Aaron Hughes
🥅 | 61’ Goal, 1-2, (Liverpool), Steven Gerrard
🥅 | 66’ Goal, 1-3, (Liverpool), Steven Gerrard
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Gareth Barry, Sub on, Kevin Phillips
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Steven Davis, Sub on, Craig Gardner
🕒 | FT Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 29 April 2006

  • Villa make it three consecutive defeats to leave them with just nine wins in thirty seven games under David O'Leary this season.

  • Villa now have 19 defeats in their last 42 games under David O’Leary at a loss rate of 45%.

  • Villa now have 9 wins in their last 42 games under David O’Leary at a win rate of 21%.

  • O’Leary however uses his post-match interview to talk up his credentials for a fourth season in charge. Chutzpah, delusion and a total lack of self awareness make easy bedfellows in the O’Leary household it seems.

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2004-05

Aston Villa

Liverpool

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Liverpool

Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #44 |
League Game | #37 |
Manager Game | #130 |
Saturday, 29 April 2006

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🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
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

🕒 130 | 🟩 | 46 🟨 | 35 🟥 49 | 1.33

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Matches Officiated: 21
🟩 : 6
🟨 : 7
🟥 : 8
🆘 : 4
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 9 Apr 06, Villa 0-0 Albion (h)
Cards: None

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Steven Davis, Wilfred Bouma and Gabriel Agbonlahor replace Liam Ridgewell, Jlloyd Samuel and Juan Pablo Ángel.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.77 |

Oldest Player |
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 29.82 |

Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.56 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 | 🔥 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Rafa Benítez | 🇪🇸 |

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Liverpool

GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
CB Sami Hyypiä | 🇫🇮 |
CB Djimi Traoré | 🇲🇱 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jan Kromkamp | 🇳🇱 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Xabi Alonso | 🇪🇸 |
CF Djibril Cissé | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Fernando Morientes | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for CF Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 46’ |
🔁 F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82’ |
🔁 M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 86’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 | (LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Djibril Cissé | 🇫🇷 | (M Mohamed Sissoko | 🇲🇱 |)
🔁 | CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (F Robbie Fowler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jerzy Dudek | 🇨🇿 |
CB Daniel Agger | 🇩🇰 |

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

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 6/16

SQUAD STATS

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Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/14

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH QUOTES

“You can bet that I will be manager next season. “We budgeted for 10th or 12th place, and we have not done that so this has not been a good season - we’ve had to use the youngsters and dig in. “If someone else comes into the club and has money and wants to change things, so be it. But I am not expecting it.” David O’Leary. “I can only say I met the gentlemen known as the Comer brothers as far back as September and they put in a firm bid which I was prepared to accept, on condition they would put a certain amount of money in for the purpose of buying new players. “I won't say how much at this stage. They agreed to do that but in the interim period they haven't come up with the money. But we are in the hands of the Stock Exchange and we can't just make statements. They control us as we are a plc and we are not allowed to discuss anything until such time as the contracts are signed.” Herbert Douglas Ellis continues to obfuscate. We’re all fools in Ellis world.
Quotes

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 29 April 2006

Steven Gerrard scored twice as Liverpool moved level on points with second-placed Manchester United. The visitors were behind after just four minutes when Fernando Morientes placed a shot past Thomas Sorensen. But Villa gave Liverpool a huge shock on 58 minutes when Aaron Hughes’ cross reached Gareth Barry, who touched in. Barry’s equaliser was the spark for Gerrard’s masterclass, the Liverpool captain scoring at the near post and then crashing a shot past Sorensen. Villa were insipid in the first-half, but the introduction of Juan Pablo Angel after the interval gave Liverpool problems, who did not help themselves with some sloppy defending. And even after falling 3-1 behind, Villa continued to trouble Liverpool, notably when Jose Reina quickly changed direction to save Barry’s shot after it had taken a deflection off Mohamed Sissoko. Morientes’ fourth minute goal suggested Liverpool were as much concerned with improving their inferior goal difference to Manchester United as they were with winning the game. Morientes took his goal in some style after Villa’s defence had been opened up by Xabi Alonso’s pinpoint pass. Using his right foot Morientes turned inside Gary Cahill, before planting a left-footed shot past Sorensen. But Liverpool failed to capitalise on that early goal and 10 minutes before the interval Villa wasted a great chance to equalise when in a James Milner-inspired attack the visitors outnumbered the home side by four to two. Unfortunately for Villa, Gabriel Agbonlahor strayed offside when Milner crossed for Gareth Barry, whose header went over the bar. At the start of the second half Villa replaced former Liverpool striker Milan Baros with Angel, who made an immediate impact. The Colombian harried Sami Hyypia into a mistake to get in a shot and then almost embarrassed Reina who delayed too long in trying to kick clear the ball. Angel also played an integral part in Villa’s equaliser, his clever pass releasing Aaron Hughes, who cross was sidefooted home by Barry. More nervy Liverpool defending - this time a second Hyypia mistake - presented Agbonlahor with a great chance for Villa to take the lead, but the young striker’s shot was just wide. Agbonlahor’s miss proved costly and just three minutes after Barry’s 58th minute goal, Gerrard restored Liverpool’s lead following an Alonso corner. Darting from left to right, Gerrard’s intelligent run proved too sharp for the Villa defence, and the Liverpool captain got the the deftest of touches to send the ball past Sorensen. Having got the better of Sorensen from close range, Gerrard then beat the Villa goalkeeper from well outside the box with a diagonal shot after substitute Robbie Fowler laid the ball into his captain’s path. *Aston Villa manager David O’Leary:* “You can bet that I will be manager next season. “We budgeted for 10th or 12th place, and we have not done that so this has not been a good season - we’ve had to use the youngsters and dig in. “If someone else comes into the club and has money and wants to change things, so be it. But I am not expecting it.”
Reports

🟥 29 April 2006, Villa 1-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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