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Game #4935

Aston Villa

Saturday, 11 August 2007

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Lost

14th

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Liverpool

Villa Park

Attendance: 42,640

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-2

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🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 11 August 2007

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Nigel Reo-Coker
🟨 | 26’ Booking, Olof Mellberg
🥅 | 31’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Martin Laursen o.g.
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Liverpool
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Martin Laursen, Sub on, Gary Cahill
🟨 | 58’ Booking, Wilfred Bouma
🟨 | 67’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Wilfred Bouma, Sub on, Luke Moore
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 1-1, Gareth Barry (pen)
🥅 | 87’ Goal, 1-2, (Liverpool), Steven Gerrard
🟨 | 89’ Booking, Stiliyan Petrov
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool

Match Statistics

Possession F | 51%
Possession A | 49%
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 5
Shots F | 12
Shots A | 18
Touches F | 574
Touches A | 578
Passes F | 367
Passes A | 356
Tackles F | 29
Tackles A | 24
Clearances F | 29
Clearances A | 64
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 2
Offsides A | 3
Offsides F | 1
Fouls F | 20
Fouls A | 14

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

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 11 August 2007

  • Villa lose on the opening day as big spenders Liverpool win in the 87' at Villa Park.

  • Lucky, lucky Liverpool, just as Villa have an annual defeat to Manchester United in the FA Cup so they have a day dedicated to late Liverpool goals. And so it proved again. 

  • Midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker makes his Villa debut aged 23 after joining from West Ham United for a fee of £11,250,000 in July 2007 to become the 800th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Wilfred Bouma makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (47 Starts) to make it W15 D16 L19, 1 Assist and 3 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Stiliyan Petrov collects his 5th booking in a Villa shirt on his 35th appearance to make it W9 D14 L12, 2 Goals, 1 Assist and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Stuart Taylor makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (8 Starts) to make it W2 D5 L3, 17 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.70 goals per game and 1 Clean Sheet so far in his Villa career.

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #800 | £11,250,000 signing from West Ham

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 🥅

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2007-08 |
Matchday | #1 |
League Game | #1 |
Manager Game | #43 |
Saturday, 11 August 2007

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🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1994-2009
Kick off: 5.15pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

🕒 43 | 🟩 | 13 🟨 | 17 🟥 13 | 1.30

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1994-2009
Matches Officiated: 28
🟩 : 7
🟨 : 10
🟥 : 11
🆘 : 2
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 2 Dec 06, Villa 2-2 Portsmouth (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Olof Mellberg
🟨 Wilfred Bouma
🟨 Gareth Barry
🟨 Stiliyan Petrov

CARDS

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🟨 Pepe Reina
🟨 Jermaine Pennant

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

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Martin O'Neill selects Stuart Taylor in goal as Scott Carson is ineligible due to his loan terms. O'Neill also hands a debut to Nigel Reo Coker.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.98 |

Oldest Player |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | 30.47 |

Youngest Player |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.72 |

Referee

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | 🔁 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 |

MANAGER

Rafa Benítez | 🇪🇸 |

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Liverpool

GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
RB Steve Finnan | 🇮🇪 |
RB Álvaro Arbeloa | 🇪🇸 |
CB Daniel Agger | 🇩🇰 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Xabi Alonso | 🇪🇸 |
W Jermaine Pennant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Fernando Torres | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CB Gary Cahill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | 46’ |
🔁 CF Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 71’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Jermaine Pennant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Ryan Babel | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | CF Fernando Torres | 🇪🇸 | (F Andriy Voronin | 🇺🇦 |)
🔁 | CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 | (M Mohamed Sissoko | 🇲🇱 |)

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Shaun Maloney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Charles Itandje | 🇨🇲 |
CB Sami Hyypiä | 🇫🇮 |

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

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/14

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

“We got ourselves back in the game after they took the lead. “We tried to play strongly against a very fine side, but didn’t quite have real self belief. I think I have more belief in the team than they have. “We’re a young side. We’re in the throes of building a team, but we don’t want to take too long about it.” Martin O'Neill.
Quotes

🟥 11 Aug 2007, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 11 August 2007

*Steven Gerrard’s dipping free-kick ensured Liverpool secured a narrow win.* Liverpool took a first-half lead with a helping hand from Villa through Martin Laursen’s own goal after Stuart Taylor pushed away Fernando Torres’ shot. The visitors missed a catalogue of chances and with five minutes left Gareth Barry’s penalty pulled Villa level after Jamie Carragher’s handball. But Gerrard had the last word - as he has so often - arcing the ball over the Villa wall into the roof of the net. Carragher’s indiscretion had looked like it was going to cost Liverpool two points as the visitors failed to build on their first-half lead. Before scoring, Gerrard had gone close with a couple of shots, while substitute Ryan Babel went also close with two efforts. If manager Rafael Benitez will be hoping his side become more adept at killing games off, he will have been encouraged by Torres’ debut. Of the host of players Benitez splashed out £45m on during the summer only Torres was deemed worthy of a place in Liverpool’s starting line-up. The former Atletico Madrid striker showed some intelligent forward play and struck up a good understanding with Dirk Kuyt. It was the Dutchman’s dummy that allowed Gerrard’s pass to run through to Torres in the build-up to the first goal. Taylor managed to get a hand to Torres’ shot, but Kuyt was quick to reach the ball before it went out for a corner and his cross was stubbed into the net by the luckless Laursen, who was substituted at the interval. While Benitez has spent lavishly, Martin O’Neill has adopted an altogether more frugal approach - so far - to the transfer market and on the evidence of this 90 minutes Villa could do with some fresh blood. Craig Gardner forced a save from Jose Reina with a rising shot early on, while Carragher also needed to be alert to block an effort from John Carew. Villa rallied at the conclusion of the first-half, Stilian Petrov shooting straight at Reina, while Young should have done better when the Liverpool goalkeeper failed to hold a cross from the left. After Gardner threw himself at the ball to block a Gerrard shot, the Liverpool captain, who was playing in the centre of midfield, drew a fine save from Taylor following another Liverpool counterattack. With 15 minutes left Ryan Babel made his Liverpool debut, immediately going close when he lashed a shot wide. Babel’s cameo appearance was also impressive, the Dutchman firing in another shot that required Taylor to push the ball away. With five minutes remaining Villa found themselves level when Barry calmly stroked the penalty home after Carragher’s handball. It was unfortunate for Carragher, who had marshalled the Liverpool defence very effectively for the previous 84 minutes. But Villa were to be level only momentarily as Gerrard’s brilliance secured Liverpool all three points. *Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill:* “We got ourselves back in the game after they took the lead. “We tried to play strongly against a very fine side, but didn’t quite have real self belief. I think I have more belief in the team than they have. “We’re a young side. We’re in the throes of building a team, but we don’t want to take too long about it.”
Reports

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