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Game #4954

Aston Villa

Saturday, 22 December 2007

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Drew

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨

Premier League

Manchester City

Villa Park

Attendance: 41,455

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Manchester City

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Assist(s) | Wilfred Bouma | 14’ |

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 22 December 2007

🥅 | 11’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), Rolando Bianchi
⚽ | 14’ Goal, 1-0, John Carew, Assist by Wilfred Bouma
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City
🟨 | 55’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🟨 | 80’ Booking, Nigel Reo-Coker
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Shaun Maloney, Sub on, Stiliyan Petrov
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City

Match Statistics

Possession F | 52%
Possession A | 48%
Shots on Target F | 7
Shots on Target A | 1
Shots F | 12
Shots A | 7
Touches F | 602
Touches A | 592
Passes F | 370
Passes A | 335
Tackles F | 21
Tackles A | 33
Clearances F | 45
Clearances A | 86
Corners F | 7
Corners A | 4
Offsides A | 3
Offsides F | 3
Fouls F | 16
Fouls A | 15

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

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 22 December 2007
  • Villa are held at home by Manchester City to extend their winless run to four Premier League games, drawing two but it should have been victory after Gabriel Agbonlahor's strike is deemed not to have crossed the line despite the foot of the clearing player being well inside the net.

  • Villa draw a second successive game to make it four games without a win as they remain 8th in the table under Martin O'Neill.

  • Stiliyan Petrov makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (44 Starts) to make it W17 D18 L15, 2 Goals, 1 Assist and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • John Carew contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 24th appearance to make it W9 D8 L7, 7 Goals and 3 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one every 2.40 games he has played so far in his Villa career. 

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, 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 Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Manchester City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1975-76

FIXTURE HISTORY
Manchester City
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Previous 5 vs. Manchester City: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

League 🕒 138 | 🟩 49 | 🟨 37 | 🟥 52 | ⚽ 208 | 🥅 209 |
FA Cup 🕒 9 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 2 | 🟥 5 | ⚽ 11 | 🥅 16 |
League Cup 🕒 3 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 6 | 🥅 1 |
Other 🕒 1 | 🟩 0 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 |

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

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2007-08 |
Matchday | #20 |
League Game | #18 |
Manager Game | #62 |
Saturday, 22 December 2007

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🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Lee Mason | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 2006-2021
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

🕒 62 | 🟩 | 22 🟨 | 22 🟥 18 | 1.42

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Gareth Barry
🟨 Nigel Reo-Coker

CARDS
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🟨 Michael Ball
🟨 Dietmar Hamann
🟨 Gelson Fernandes
🟨 Darius Vassell

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

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Shaun Maloney replaces Craig Gardner.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.19 |

Oldest Player |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | 30.84 |

Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.21 |

Referee

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

GK Scott Carson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 🔥 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Zat Knight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Shaun Maloney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Sven-Göran Eriksson | 🇸🇪 |

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Manchester City

GK Joe Hart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Michael Ball | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nedum Onuoha | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Elano | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
M Dietmar Hamann | 🇩🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Gelson Fernandes |🇨🇭| 🟨 |
CF Rolando Bianchi | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Darius Vassell (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

Line Ups

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | for M Shaun Maloney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 75’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Elano | 🇧🇷 | (LB Javier Garrido | 🇪🇸 |)
🔁 | M Dietmar Hamann | 🇩🇪 | (CB Vedran Ćorluka | 🇭🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Rolando Bianchi | 🇮🇹 | (M Kelvin Etuhu | 🇳🇬 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Curtis Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Andreas Isaksson | 🇸🇪 |
M Geovanni | 🇧🇷 |

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

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 2/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 3/16

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 4/16

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
“It was frustrating because we started on the back foot and conceded an early goal again. I feel we should have won in the end. “John Carew was fantastic, unplayable at times. He was immense with players hanging over him all game. It was a phenomenal performance and he doesn’t get too many fouls either. “He is supposed to just look after himself because he is so tall, but overall I couldn’t be more pleased with the team.” Martin O’Neill.
Quotes

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sky Sports*
Saturday, 22 December 2007
*Battling City deny Villa* Villa and Manchester City served up a festive feast but had to be content with a share of the spoils following a 1-1 draw. A point apiece was a fair reflection of an exciting encounter with both sides contributing to the entertainment. City grabbed an 11th minute lead after Martin Petrov’s wicked cross was bundled in by Italian striker Rolando Bianchi. But the advantage lasted just three minutes before John Carew levelled for the hosts. The Norwegian striker fended off the challenge of Richard Dunne and his deflected shot flew beyond Joe Hart in the City goal. The second half produced little in the way of clear-cut opportunities leaving Sven Goran Eriksson the happier of the two managers. *Laursen dominant* Villa have now gone four games without a win and collected just two points since picking up a maximum nine during a three game away run. But there were enough encouraging signs for them not to be too downcast via the power of Carew and the pace and trickery of Ashley Young while at the back Martin Laursen dominated in the air. City were indebted to sterling back four performances from Micah Richards and Dunne while Gelson Fernandes was the pick of their midfield players but there was little spark up front. City started brightly and Elano saw his dipping effort turned around the post by Scott Carson. It came as no surprise when Bianchi put Eriksson’s side ahead with his fifth goal of the campaign. Elano found Petrov in space on the left flank and he had time to steady himself before picking out the run of Bianchi who made no mistake from close range. Villa quickly retaliated and after 14 minutes Carew used his power and pace to bring them back on level terms with his fourth goal of the season. A through ball from Reo-Coker almost played in Carew again but this time Richards came across to retrieve the situation for City. *Ball clearance* Villa stepped up a gear and an inswinging Gareth Barry free-kick was met by Laursen whose goalbound header was cleared by Michael Ball. The Danish international then had a header deflected just over the bar from close range by Dunne from a Young corner. Gabriel Agbonlahor should have given Villa the lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of goal after a deep Young corner had evaded everyone. But the England Under-21 player failed to make a full contact and Elano was able to hook off the line. Villa protested in vain that the ball had crossed the goal-line before the clearance was completed. Carew was looking dangerous and he forced Hart to finger-tip a powerful drive onto the far post after being released by Agbonlahor as Villa took control of the game. City midfielder Dietmar Hamann became the first player to be yellow-carded after 38 minutes for bringing down Agbonlahor in full flight. City were the first to threaten in the second half with Vassell just to high with a far post header from Petrov’s cross. *Agbonlahor effort* But Villa were soon back on top and Agbonlahor showed good skill to flick the ball over Dunne and would have been disappointed to drag his shot wide. Villa manager Martin O’Neill was incensed when referee Lee Mason did not award a free-kick after a challenge by Fernandes on Carew and threw his water bottle to the ground in disgust after Barry was booked for dissent. Fernandes was yellow carded for hauling down Agbonlahor as Villa began to build up the momentum again. Young was becoming an increasing threat and Ball was booked for bringing him down just outside the City box. Maloney took the resulting free-kick which Hart saved to his right at a comfortable height. The cautions were coming thick and fast with Vassell picking one up for a foul on Laursen. Villa looked more likely to take all three points and Hart reacted quickly to race out of his area and block Agbonlahor’s shot.
Reports

🟨 22 Dec 2007, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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