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Game #4974

Aston Villa

Saturday, 3 May 2008

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Lost

6th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Wigan Athletic

Villa Park

Attendance: 42,640

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

0-2

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Wigan Athletic

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 3 May 2008

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Wigan Athletic
🥅 | 52’ Goal, 0-1, (Wigan Athletic), Antonio Valencia
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Zat Knight, Sub on, Patrik Berger 🔴
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 0-2, (Wigan Athletic), Antonio Valencia
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Wilfred Bouma, Sub on, Marlon Harewood
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic

Match Statistics

Possession F | 57%
Possession A | 43%
Shots F | 14
Shots A | 10
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 8
Corners A | 2
Fouls F | 6
Fouls A | 8

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 3 May 2008

  • Villa suffer a shock defeat to lowly Wigan in the penultimate game of the Premier League season and the final match at Villa Park yet remain in 6th place in the table under Martin O'Neill.

  • Not for the first time this season Villa unexpectedly lose a game they would have expected to win and as a result, although they remain 6th, they lose ground in the race for European qualification. 

  • Yet for all the disappointment it just served to underline how far the team had come under Martin O'Neill since Villa's 'difficult' 2002-2006 period. 

  • Patrik Berger, 34, makes his 33rd and final appearance for Villa (9 Starts) before moving on to Sparta Prague on a free transfer in July 2008. Although Berger joined the Villa at the end of his career in a free transfer from Portsmouth at the age of 31 he proved an excellent resource when called upon but he would go on to blot his copybook when he appeared to encourage Gareth Barry to leave for Liverpool leading to Martin O’Neill immediately ending his Villa career and any chance of a contract extension. Berger left with a record of W10 D9 L13, 2 Goals, 4 Assists and 2 Bookings.

  • Zat Knight makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (27 Appearances) to make it W10 D9 L8, 1 Goal, 1 Assist, 1 Booking and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 W Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 | 2005-08 🕒 32 | 9 (23) | ⚽ 2 | 🔥 4 | 🇺 12 | #783 |

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Wigan Athletic

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

Aston Villa

Wigan Athletic

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Wigan Athletic

Previous 5 vs. Wigan: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2007-08 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Game | #37 |
Manager Game | #82 |
Saturday, 3 May 2008

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🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Rob Styles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hampshire, 1996-2009
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 82 | 🟩 | 30 🟨 | 28 🟥 24 | 1.44

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Rob Styles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hampshire, 1996-2009
Matches Officiated: 20
🟩 : 8
🟨 : 4
🟥 : 8
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 20 Oct 07, Villa 1-4 United (h) 🆘
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

🟨 Michael Brown

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Martin O'Neill names an unchanged line up for the fourth successive game for the first time this season.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.87 |

Oldest Player |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | 31.20 |

Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.57 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Steve Bruce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Wigan Athletic

GK Chris Kirkland | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Emerson Boyce | 🇬🇵 |
CB Paul Scharner | 🇦🇹 |
CB Titus Bramble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Antonio Valencia | 🇪🇨 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Wilson Palacios | 🇭🇳 | 🔁 |
M Jason Koumas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Michael Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Kevin Kilbane | 🇮🇪 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Marcus Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 W Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 | 🔴 | for CB Zat Knight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 60’ |
🔁 CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 69’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Wilson Palacios | 🇭🇳 | (M Josip Skoko | 🇦🇺 |)
🔁 | CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Antoine Sibierski | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Marcus Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Marlon King | 🇯🇲 |)

Substitutes

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |
W Wayne Routledge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Mike Pollitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ryan Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 2/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 2/16

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“It would be hard to explain why we were so flat for so long. “We had been coming into the game with loads of confidence and playing brilliantly of late. “I can understand the first 15 or 20 minutes being a bit tentative. After that I thought we would settle down and get into a bit of fluency but it never materialised. “The goals put us on the back foot and the second really deflated us. “We had this opportunity to put pressure on Everton (for the Uefa Cup spot). The crowds have been fantastic and have been used to better fare than that.” Martin O’Neill. “Liverpool haven't made a straight cash offer. They have made an offer involving a mishmash of nameless player exchanges. I'm particularly disappointed to hear that business is being conducted in public and I just want to be clear on this in that we're trying to build a side here and we're not a feeder club. "We want to be trying to challenge. At some stage we want to get to the position that this football club once held. That will demand an awful lot of effort. It will take a supreme effort and it will take very, very good players. I don't want to be in a position of letting really good players go. Gareth Barry is a really good player who still has two years left on his contract. "A couple of weeks ago Gareth said he would prefer to wait until the end of the season before we start discussing things and I think that would be the right thing to do. "It's particularly disappointing to find out that Liverpool have carried the story in their local paper. It's certainly not the way that the Liverpool of old conducted business. I prefer to do things with a bit or privacy and a bit of confidentiality. That's particularly disappointing, especially at this time." Martin O’Neill calls out the continuing disgraceful behaviour of Rafael Benítez.
Quotes

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 3 May 2008

*Ecuador star Antonio Valencia scored two second-half goals to seal Wigan’s Premier League place for next season with a surprise win at Aston Villa.* Valencia, with just one goal in 29 previous matches for the Latics, was fortunate to see his shot deflect off Wilfried Bouma for the first goal. But the second was a fine right-footed shot, as he surged into the box to beat Scott Carson at the near post. Villa had plenty of chances, but Chris Kirkland pulled off some fine saves. And Wigan’s second away win of the season puts a massive dent in Villa’s hopes of claiming the fifth Premier League spot that would guarantee Uefa Cup qualification. As much as Valencia will take his share of the headlines, it was Kirkland who arguably put in the outstanding performance of the match. In the first half, he dived to his left to pounce on a Zat Knight header and pushed a Gabriel Agbonlahor header on to the bar. Agbonlahor suffered a frustrating afternoon and was again denied deep into the second half when Kirkland dived high and to his left to punch a header away from the corner of his goal. By then, Villa boss Martin O’Neill had used his first substitute Patrik Berger and the Kirkland save prompted him to throw Marlon Harewood on as well as he opted for a 3-4-3 formation. But although dominating for long periods of the game, it simply was not to be Villa’s afternoon. Wigan started the match brightly, but Swedish international Olof Mellberg, playing his final match at Villa Park before his move to Juventus in the summer, made some important tackles and the hosts soon settled. The first chance for Villa came just after that awkward first 20 minutes when Knight’s header from an Ashley Young free-kick forced Kirkland into the first of his collection of fine saves. That chance finally roused Villa out of their slumber and the home team’s midfielders, marshalled by Gareth Barry and Nigel Reo-Coker, helped provide further chances. Kirkland, now wearing a baseball cap with the sun directly in his line of sight, produced another good save to deny Barry, before Agbonlahor wasted a chance by dragging his shot left. Villa started stronger in the second half, but the goal came against the run of play when Valencia’s speculative shot from outside the area was cruelly deflected by Bouma. Carson was hopelessly wrong-footed and suddenly Villa were chasing the game. But they were simply not making the most of their chances. Barry shot wide soon after the hour mark before disaster struck for the home team. Kirkland’s clearance upfield was headed on by Emile Heskey. Valencia surged between defenders and stabbed a powerful shot with his right foot. Though well-positioned, Carson had little chance to stop his shot. As Kirkland continued his fine performance in the Wigan goal, John Carew missed one of Villa’s best chances of the match when heading wide from an unmarked position on the edge of the six-yard box. Many Villa’s fans took that miss as their cue to head for the exits. *Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill:* “It would be hard to explain why we were so flat for so long. “We had been coming into the game with loads of confidence and playing brilliantly of late. “I can understand the first 15 or 20 minutes being a bit tentative. After that I thought we would settle down and get into a bit of fluency but it never materialised. “The goals put us on the back foot and the second really deflated us. “We had this opportunity to put pressure on Everton (for the Uefa Cup spot). The crowds have been fantastic and have been used to better fare than that.”
Reports

🟥 3 May 2008, Villa 0-2 Wigan, Villa Park.

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