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Game #5076

Aston Villa

Saturday, 10 April 2010

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Lost

Semi Final

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

FA Cup

Chelsea

Wembley Stadium

Attendance: 85,472

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

Aston Villa

0-3

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Chelsea

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 10 April 2010

💥 | Referee Webb denies Villa a clear penalty
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Chelsea
🥅 | 68’ Goal, 0-1, (Chelsea), Didier Drogba
💥 | 74’ Referee Webb declines to send John Terry off for a red card tackle
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, John Carew, Sub on, Emile Heskey
🥅 | 89’ Goal, 0-2, (Chelsea), Florent Malouda
🥅 | 90’ Goal, 0-3, (Chelsea), Frank Lampard
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-3 Chelsea

Match Statistics

Possession F | 52%
Possession A | 48%
Shots F | 7
Shots A | 17
Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 11
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 7
Fouls F | 11
Fouls A | 20

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 10 April 2010

  • Villa suffer Wembley controversy once again as where there was Phil Dowd in the League Cup there was Howard Webb in the FA Cup. It was almost as if they weren't even pretending to be impartial any more.

  • To be struck by poor refereeing in a Wembley showdown once was bad enough, for it to happen twice in a season and for a second time in six weeks was unbelievable. Yet here it was again and with no consequence for anyone but the victims. 

  • Carlos Cuéllar makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt (79 Appearances) to make it W39 D22 L18, 3 Goal, 3 Assists, 12 Bookings and 1 Red Card. 

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

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

Chelsea

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2008-09

Aston Villa

Chelsea

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Chelsea

Previous 5 vs. Chelsea: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2009-10 |
Matchday | #46 |
Manager Game | #184 |
Saturday, 10 April 2010

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🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Howard Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rotherham, 2000-2014
Kick off: 5.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
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

🕒 184 | 🟩 | 77 🟨 | 59 🟥 48 | 1.58

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Howard Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rotherham, 2000-2014 🆘
Matches Officiated: 18
🟩 : 6
🟨 : 7
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 2
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 2 Jan 10, Villa 3-1 Blackburn (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Mike Mullarkey, Darren Cann

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

🟨 John Terry
🟨 Deco
🟨 Mikel John Obi

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

James Milner replaces Fabian Delph.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.44 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 38.92 |

Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 23.51 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Carlo Ancelotti | 🇮🇹 |

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Chelsea

GK Petr Čech | 🇨🇿 |
RB Paulo Ferreira | 🇵🇹 |
CB John Terry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Alex | 🇧🇷 |
LB Yuriy Zhirkov | 🇷🇺 |
M Deco | 🇵🇹 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Frank Lampard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Joe Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Mikel John Obi | 🇳🇬 | 🟨 |
W Florent Malouda | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |
CF Didier Drogba | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 82’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Deco | 🇵🇹 | (M Michael Ballack | 🇩🇪 |)
🔁 | M Joe Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Salomon Kalou | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | CF Didier Drogba | 🇨🇮 | (CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 |)`

Substitutes

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Henrique Hilario | 🇵🇹 |
RB Juliano Belletti | 🇧🇷 |
RB Branislav Ivanović | 🇷🇸 |
CF Daniel Sturridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 2/18

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 4/18

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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MATCH QUOTES

"It's because the [Chelsea] game was only played a couple of weeks ago that it continues to be a debating point. ”[But] if you look at our record overall this season, defensively we've been pretty sound. It was obviously a major blip [at Stamford Bridge] and we're just going to have to try and rectify it against a fine side who are capable of scoring some goals. I genuinely believe we can win the game. It's not bravado. "It was a heavy defeat at Chelsea but we're still very confident we can win the game. ”We beat them earlier in the season. I know that's a fairly lengthy time ago but we're capable of doing it. "A trophy establishes something first of al. “From our viewpoint it would have been great to have won against Manchester United [in the Carling Cup final]. You have something tangible to show. "It's not just getting to the final, it's the winning of it. The effect it has on a football club, I've seen it in the past, as manager and player. The lift it gives players who can consider themselves winners of a competition. The lift it gives the club for future big matches is so important." Martin O’Neill. "The consequence of it all is in referees' minds," he said. "Apply the law, that's all I'm looking for. A bit of fair play. There are decisions in matches we can all contest at different stages, it happens, I accept this, but these are incontestable decisions. It was a desperately poor challenge [by Terry] and it should have resulted in a red card, at 15 minutes to go with the score 1-0. Five weeks ago a referee bottled it completely against Manchester United. We've had the same today." Martin O'Neill. “James [Milner] is exceptionally lucky his career is intact. It [John Terry’s tackle] should have been a straight red card. “It was a horrendous challenge on an England team-mate. I have spoken to the doctor who says he’s a very lucky boy. “He’s 15 yards outside the box and going away from goal. It was a pointless challenge. “But he made it and therefore the consequences of it should have been a red card. “It was an obvious decision. You didn’t need four replays to see it. “I am sitting here five weeks on talking about another major incident. “It is incontestable. Even the Chelsea players knew, you could tell by their reaction it was a penalty. “The referee has chosen to ignore it because of the possible consequences. “The referee bottled it against Manchester United and we have had the same today.” Martin O’Neill.
Quotes

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 10 April 2010

*Holders Chelsea moved a step closer to the club’s first Double by seeing off a stubborn Aston Villa side to reach the FA Cup final for the second successive year.* In a game largely ruined by the latest incarnation of the much-maligned Wembley pitch, Didier Drogba broke the deadlock midway through the second half before late goals by Florent Malouda and Frank Lampard made the scoreline look more emphatic than was deserved. Villa responded to losing 7-1 to the Premier League leaders a fortnight earlier with a performance of industry and desire and their manager Martin O’Neill will also believe his side should have had a first-half penalty when Jon Mikel Obi clumsily felled Gabriel Agbonlahor inside the area. O’Neill was hoping to reach for his first FA Cup final in 40 years as a player and manager but instead it will be Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti, in his first season in the English game, who will lead his side out against Tottenham or Portsmouth on 15 May. Hopefully, that game will take place on a different surface after the Wembley pitch, which was re-laid for the 10th time in three years following England’s win over Egypt in last month’s friendly, again proved hopelessly inadequate for a showpiece match. Players from both sides struggled to stay on their feet in the opening stages and it seemed to particularly affect Chelsea, whose usual fluid style was nowhere to be seen in the first half hour, save for an individual effort by Joe Cole that saw him cut in from the left and fire narrowly wide. As well as the turf, Villa were also doing their best to stop the Blues from hitting their stride by working hard to limit any space for Lampard in midfield and chasing back when Cole or Malouda tried to attack down the wings. O’Neill’s men were also growing in confidence coming forward and, after 15 minutes, they threatened for the first time when the industrious James Milner was unlucky to see his low shot skid inches wide. That was the cue for a spell of concerted Villa pressure but it was Chelsea’s turn to show resilience at the back, admittedly assisted by referee Howard Webb. To most observers at Wembley, it looked a stonewall spot-kick when Agbonlahor turned Obi in the box before being bundled over but Webb, despite being perfectly placed, waved play on. It was the second major decision to go against Villa at Wembley this season, following the incident in their Carling Cup final defeat at the hands of Manchester United that saw Nemanja Vidic avoid a red card when he conceded a penalty - and understandably O’Neill reacted furiously on the touchline after being denied again. But, on the pitch, his players kept their focus and Chelsea were lucky to escape again when Petr Cech missed Stewart Downing’s cross and only a flick from Terry diverted the ball out of John Carew’s path at the far post. The Blues did improve before the break and it took a brave block by Stephen Warnock to deny Drogba when he met Florent Malouda’s pull-back from the left. However, aside from a Cole snap-shot on the turn on the stroke of half-time, Ancelotti’s men looked blunt going forward and were a shadow of the side that had plundered 14 goals in their three previous matches. The chances had dried up for Villa too, however, and although Carew headed wide from Downing’s corner in the first minute of the second-half, the game degenerated into a midfield scrap that was badly in need of a goal. The breakthrough duly came after 67 minutes, with Drogba - as he has been so many times this season - in the right place at the right time to find the net. Richard Dunne did brilliantly to deny the big Ivory Coast striker when he skipped inside James Collins and made for goal, but did rather less well from the resulting corner. Dunne’s headed clearance only reached John Terry on the edge of the area, and his first-time shot was turned in by Drogba, who was lurking inside the six-yard box. That was not quite the end for Villa, who continued to come forward, but the balls they were hoisting into the box were laced more with hope than any real menace. They might have had more hope had Webb chosen to send Terry off for his dreadful challenge on his England team-mate Milner, but the official decided a yellow card would suffice. Instead, with O’Neill committing more and more men forward, Chelsea were left to exploit the gaps left at the back - which they did in ruthless fashion in the closing minutes. Malouda rounded off a fine passing move with a sweet back-post finish to make it 2-0 and Lampard practically walked the ball into the net when he met substitute Nicolas Anelka’s pass from another swift breakaway.
Reports

🟥 10 April 2010, Villa 0-3, Chelsea, Wembley Stadium.

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