Game #4893
Aston Villa
Saturday, 19 August 2006
Drew
10th
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨
Premier League
Arsenal
Emirates Stadium
Attendance: 60,023
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Steven Davis | 53’ |
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 19 August 2006
🕒 | HT Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 53’ Goal, 1-0, Olof Mellberg, Assist by Steven Davis
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Steven Davis, Sub on, Lee Hendrie 🔴
🥅 | 84’ Goal, 1-1, (Arsenal), Gilberto Silva
🟨 | 85’ Booking, Lee Hendrie
🟨 | 87’ Booking, Juan Pablo Ángel
🔁 | 89’ Sub off, Luke Moore, Sub on, Eric Djemba-Djemba 🔴
🔁 | 90’+3 Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Martin Laursen
🕒 | FT Arsenal 1-1 Aston Villa
Match Statistics
Not recorded
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 19 August 2006
Villa open the season with a performance as far removed from the past four seasons as could be imagined as Martin O'Neill takes charge for the first time.
What a difference a change of manager makes, not the result but the attitude “I’m still trying to get to know my players, but I thought they were terrific it’s a great result."
Martin O’Neill’s appointment had literally met with wild excitement of the sort few had previously witnessed.
This renowned motivator had changed the outlook of the club already and confidence for the future was sky high.
Coupled with new owner Randy Lerner it offered no embarrassment when the club launched their ‘Proud History, Bright Future’ tagline.
The squad of course was broadly as was and overnight miracles weren’t expected but a totally different mindset had enveloped the club. Martin O’Neill might still be “getting to know” his players but he was already chopping the squad.
Lee Hendrie, 29, makes his 308th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (243 Starts) before moving on to Sheffield United on a free transfer in June 2007. For all his undoubted talent, Hendrie would never be the sort of player Martin O’Neill would have any truck with and it is a source of real regret for many that a player who should have achieved much more at Villa allowed off field distractions to prevent him realising his potential. Perhaps the largesse he was provided by successive managers earlier in his career was his ultimate undoing or perhaps his heart was never in it in the first place. Regardless his productivity was no match for what his talent should have contributed across his appearances and he left, to tread the football wilderness, with a record of W120 D70 L109, 32 Goals, 34 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.67 games played, 59 Bookings and 4 Red Cards at a rate of a card every 4.88 games he played.
Eric Djemba-Djemba, 25, makes his 11th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (4 Starts) before moving on to Qatar SC on a free transfer in July 2007. Prodigiously untalented, David O’Leary had nonsensically paid Manchester United £2,290,000 for a player who looked poor from the moment he arrived in English football. Incredibly O’Leary not only played Djemba-Djemba on 10 occasions but he allowed far more competent players to leave ahead of him. Martin O’Neill by contrast took one look at him as a substitute and ended his Villa career immediately, with this his 11th appearance coming 10 months since his last. Djemba-Djemba, who never looked like even a moderately capable Sunday League player, left with a record of W2 D2 L7, 0 Goals, 0 Assists and 2 Bookings.
Martin Laursen plays for the first time since August 2005 after missing all but one of the fixtures in 2005-06 due to another long term injury. Laursen’s return means it is now 14 Appearances (13 Starts), W4 D5 L5, 1 Goal and 3 Bookings so far in his Villa career. In total Laursen has now missed 72 of the 86 matches played since his arrival in July 2004.
Steven Davis contributes his 5th assist in a Villa shirt on his 72nd appearance (61 Starts) to make it W23 D21 L28, 9 Goals, 5 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Luke Moore makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (67 Appearances) to make it W23 D19 L25, 8 Goals, 5 Assists and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Gabriel Agbonlahor makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (4 Starts) to make it W2 D3 L5, 1 Goals and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Arsenal
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2004-05
Aston Villa
Arsenal
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2006-07 |
Matchday | #1 |
League Game | #1 |
Manager Game | #1 |
Saturday, 19 August 2006
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 1 | 🟩 | 0 🟨 | 1 🟥 0 | 1.00
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Matches Officiated: 33
🟩 : 13
🟨 : 12
🟥 : 8
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 16 Apr 06, Villa 3-1 Birmingham (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Martin O'Neill's first team selection largely resembles that under David O'Leary as Gabriel Agbonlahor and Juan Pablo Ángel are selected as the strike force.
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.49 |
Oldest Player |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 30.84 |
Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 19.86 |
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | ⚽ |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
F Luke Moore | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Arsène Wenger | 🇫🇷 |
Arsenal
GK Lens Lehmann | 🇩🇪 |
CB Kolo Touré | 🇨🇮 | 🟨 |
CB Johan Djourou |🇨🇭|
RB Emmanuel Eboué | 🇨🇮 |
RB Justin Hoyte | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Cesc Fàbregas | 🇪🇸 |
M Freddie Ljungberg | 🇸🇪 | 🔁 |
M Aleksandr Hleb | 🇧🇾 |
M Gilberto Silva | 🇧🇷 | ⚽ |
CF Thierry Henry | 🇫🇷 |
CF Emmanuel Adebayor | 🇹🇬 | 🔁 |
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | for M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 83’ |
🔁 M Eric Djemba-Djemba | 🇨🇲 | for CF Luke Moore | 🏴 | 89’ |
🔁 CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 90+3 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Justin Hoyte | 🏴 | (M Matthieu Flamini | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | M Freddie Ljungberg | 🇸🇪 | (W Theo Walcott | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Emmanuel Adebayor | 🇹🇬 | (CF Robin van Persie | 🇳🇱 |)
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Manuel Almunia | 🇪🇸 |
CB Pascal Cygan | 🇫🇷 |
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
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
* This Game
SUBSTITUTES
Game | Sub | Goal | Assist | Win | Draw | Loss | Goal Conceded | Clean Sheet | Yellow | Red | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | | 308 | 65* | 32 | 34 | 120 | 79* | 109 | - | - | 59 | 4 |
UNUSED
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Homegrown: 6/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/16
Homegrown: 7/16
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 1/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 2/16
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MATCHDAY SQUAD
MATCHDAY SQUAD
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MATCH QUOTES
🟨 19 August 2006, Villa 1-1 Arsenal, Emirates Stadium.
MATCH REPORTS
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