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Game #4926

Aston Villa

Sunday, 18 March 2007

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Drew

13th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨

Premier League

Liverpool

Villa Park

Attendance: 42,551

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-0

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Liverpool

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 18 March 2007

🟨 | 41’ Booking, Stiliyan Petrov
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Liverpool
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Ashley Young, Sub on, Patrik Berger
🟨 | 90’+2 Booking, John Carew
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Liverpool

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

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 18 March 2007
  • Villa earn a hard fought draw against Liverpool but it could have been more but for more poor officiating in 2006-07.

  • Martin O'Neill's Villa build on their unlucky and narrow defeat to Arsenal with a 2nd draw in 3 games under Martin O’Neill.

  • Lee Mason - a referee who would pain Villa continually over the following two decades - makes his presence known as he denies Villa a nailed on spot kick to save Liverpool from defeat.

  • Thomas Sørensen makes his 150th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W54 D44 L52, 188 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.25 goals per game and 50 Clean Sheets (33%) so far in his Villa career.

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, 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: 🏆
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: 2005-06

FIXTURE HISTORY
Liverpool
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Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

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

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2006-07 |
Matchday | #34 |
League Game | #30 |
Manager Game | #34 |
Sunday, 18 March 2007

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🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Lee Mason | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 2006-2021
Kick off: 1.35pm
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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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

🕒 34 | 🟩 | 9 🟨 | 13 🟥 12 | 1.18

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Stiliyan Petrov
🟨 John Carew

CARDS
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🟨 Javier Mascherano
🟨 Craig Bellamy
🟨 Jermaine Pennant

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

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Martin O'Neill names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.88 |

Oldest Player |
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 30.70 |

Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.44 |

Referee

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
RB Phil Bardsley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 🟨 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Rafa Benítez | 🇪🇸 |

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Liverpool

GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 |
LB Fábio Aurélio | 🇧🇷 |
CB Daniel Agger | 🇩🇰 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Finnan | 🇮🇪 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Javier Mascherano | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
M Mohamed Sissoko | 🇲🇱 | 🔁 |
W Craig Bellamy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 |

Line Ups

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 W Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 | for W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 76’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Robbie Fowler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Mohamed Sissoko | 🇲🇱 | (M Xabi Alonso | 🇪🇸 |)
🔁 | W Craig Bellamy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (W Jermaine Pennant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
M Shaun Maloney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Jerzy Dudek | 🇵🇱 |
CB Sami Hyypia | 🇫🇮 |

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

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 3/16

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

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, 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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🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
“It was more of a chess game, I’ve seen the incident it, it looked a penalty, but the ref hasn’t given it so we move on. “We can play much better than that and the responsibility is on us at home to do just that. “There might have been a bit of anxiety left over from the Arsenal game in midweek where we played well and got nothing.” Martin O’Neill.
Quotes

🟨 18 Mar 2007, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 18 March 2007
*Aston Villa and Liverpool fought out a dull deadlock in a defence-dominated encounter at Villa Park.* Villa, though, were left feeling sore at referee Lee Mason’s refusal to give a penalty when Stiliyan Petrov had his heel clipped in the box. In a game of few chances, Liverpool substitute Robbie Fowler saw a header saved by Thomas Sorensen late on. Ahead of England’s Euro 2008 qualifiers, Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard limped out of the action. On a ground where they have not been beaten since February 1998, Dirk Kuyt missed a chance to get Liverpool off to a flier. John Arne Riise’s cross found him unmarked, only eight yards out in the centre of goal, but the Dutch striker got his timing completely wrong and looped his header woefully wide. As Villa’s back line squeezed up to compress the space and constrict the life out of Liverpool’s passing game, the visitors decided to go over the top and use Craig Bellamy’s pace. Daniel Agger’s lump forward was a legitimate tactic as Bellamy outpaced Phil Bardsley but Sorensen was alert to the danger and his starting position enabled him to sprint out and take the ball off the Welsh striker’s toes. Liverpool had plenty of possession but Villa’s two well-organised lines meant the visitors were forced to shuffle crab-like sideways and the game meandered along, crying for somebody to grab it by the scruff of the neck. Despite having the turning-circle of a Norwegian supertanker, John Carew was a good focal point for Villa and his touch-on of Ashley Young’s cross just eluded Gabriel Agbonlahor’s lunge at the far post. Villa had a very legitimate shout for a penalty on the stroke of half-time when Steve Finnan’s poor control allowed the ball to run to Petrov. In attempting to atone for his error, Finnan caught the Bulgarian across the right shin, while Jamie Carragher appeared to clip his left heel but referee Mason amazingly waved away the appeals. That Liverpool did not utilise Bellamy’s pace enough in the first half was evident at the start of the second when he left Olof Mellberg choking on his exhaust fumes to deliver a cross that Wilfred Bouma won as Gerrard closed in. Mellberg provided Villa’s first effort on target on the hour, although his weak header did not even warm Jose Reina’s hands, while at the other end Gerrard cut inside but fired powerfully into the side netting. Javier Mascherano had flitted decoratively in and out of the game but his surging run set up Gerrard, whose shot almost deflected into the path of Fabiano Aurelio. Villa’s Patrik Berger, on as a substitute, had a glimpse of goal against his former club when a corner was cleared to him but his half-volley sailed over the bar. Liverpool substitute Fowler almost snatched the winner at the end with a typical poacher’s near-post header but was denied by Sorensen’s sharp save. *Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill:* “It was more of a chess game, I’ve seen the incident it, it looked a penalty, but the ref hasn’t given it so we move on. “We can play much better than that and the responsibility is on us at home to do just that. “There might have been a bit of anxiety left over from the Arsenal game in midweek where we played well and got nothing.”
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