Game #4914
Aston Villa
Saturday, 23 December 2006


Lost
10th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Manchester United
Villa Park
Attendance: 42,551
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Aston Villa
0-3

Manchester United

Assist(s) | None
🟥 23 Dec 2006, Villa 0-3 United, Villa Park


MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 23 December 2006
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester United
🥅 | 58’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester United), Cristiano Ronaldo
🥅 | 64’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester United), Paul Scholes
🟨 | 70’ Booking, Gavin McCann
🟨 | 73’ Booking, Chris Sutton
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Gavin McCann, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🥅 | 85’ Goal, 0-3, (Manchester United), Cristiano Ronaldo
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-3 Manchester United
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
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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 23 December 2006
Villa lose consecutive games for the first time this season and the first time under Martin O'Neill.
Following the end of the reprehensible policy under the Doug Ellis of ostracising legendary players and managers from the League and European Cup winning side of the ’80’s, Randy Lerner rightfully restores the greats to centre stage with Villa boss Ron Saunders receiving a half time standing ovation on his first return to Villa Park in over 20 years.
Sadly the result on the pitch didn’t do justice to the great man as Villa lost a second successive game for the first time this season and are now without a win in 7, drawing 4 and losing 3.
Centre forward Chris Sutton, 33, makes his 9th and final appearance for Villa (6 Starts)) before retiring from football due to an eye injury. Similar to the effect of fellow veteran John Fashanu under Ron Atkinson, Sutton had a dynamic effect on Villa’s play and added a welcome hardened edge to the team. Sutton would have undoubtedly contributed more had injury not prevented it but he would leave prematurely with a record of W3 D3 L3, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 2 Bookings from his short Villa career.
Juan Pablo Ángel makes his 200th appearance in a Villa shirt (154 Starts) to make it W70 D56 L74, 62 Goals, 18 Assists and 13 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.50 games he has played so far in his Villa career.
Gavin McCann collects his 25th booking in a Villa shirt on his 114th appearance to make it W43 D36 L35, 5 Goals, 3 Assists, 25 Bookings and 2 Red Cards at a rate of a card every 4.18 games so far in his Villa career.
🟥 23 Dec 2006, Villa 0-3 United, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES
None
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 | 2006 🕒 9 | 6 (3) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 3 | 🇺 0 | #793 |
Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Manchester United


European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2005-06
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FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2006-07 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #22 |
Saturday, 23 December 2006
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🟥 23 Dec 2006, Villa 0-3 United, Villa Park
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴 | Kent, 1995-2010
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010
🕒 22 | 🟩 | 7 🟨 | 10 🟥 5 | 1.41
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
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MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴 | Kent, 1995-2010
Matches Officiated: 20
🟩 : 6
🟨 : 5
🟥 : 9
🆘 : 2
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 19 Nov 06, Villa 0-0 Wigan (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

🟨 Gavin McCann
🟨 Chris Sutton
CARDS

🟨 Nemanja Vidić
🟨 Paul Scholes
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Emergency 'keeper Gábor Király once again appears in goal as Aaron Hughes and Craig Gardner replace Milan Baroš and Liam Ridgewell.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.06 |
Oldest Player |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 | 33.81 |
Youngest Player |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴 | 20.09 |
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MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

Aston Villa
GK Gábor Király | 🇭🇺 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
MANAGER
Alex Ferguson | 🏴 |

Manchester United
GK Edwin van der Sar | 🇳🇱 |
LB Patrice Evra | 🇫🇷 |
CB Nemanja Vidić | 🇷🇸 | 🟨 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴 |
RB Gary Neville | 🏴 |
M Paul Scholes | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Ji-sung Park | 🇰🇷 | 🔁 |
M Darren Fletcher | 🏴 |
W Ryan Giggs | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Cristiano Ronaldo | 🇵🇹 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Louis Saha | 🇫🇷 |
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SUBSTITUTES

🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for M Gavin McCann | 🏴 | 76’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Paul Scholes | 🏴 | (CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | M Ji-sung Park | 🇰🇷 | (CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴 |)
🔁 | W Ryan Giggs | 🏴 | (LB Mikaël Silvestre | 🇫🇷 |)

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Bobby Olejnik | 🇦🇹 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Tomasz Kuszczak | 🇵🇱 |
CB Wes Brown | 🏴 |
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
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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | | 200 | 46* | 62 | 18 | 70 | 56 | 74* | - | - | 13 | 0 |
UNUSED
Player | 🇺 |
---|---|
GK Bobby Olejnik | 🇦🇹 | | 7* |
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
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SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 7/16
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/16
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MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME



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MATCH QUOTES
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MATCH REPORTS






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