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Game #5109

Aston Villa

Saturday, 8 January 2011

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Won

3rd Round

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

FA Cup

Sheffield United

Bramall Lane

Attendance: 16,888

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

Sheffield United

1-3

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 33' | Marc Albrighton | 90'+2 |

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 8 January 2011

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Kyle Walker
⚽ | 9’ Goal, 1-0, Kyle Walker
⚽ | 33’ Goal, 2-0, Marc Albrighton, Assist by Ashley Young
🕒 | HT Sheffield United 0-2 Aston Villa
🥅 | 48’ Goal, 2-1, (Sheffield United, pen)
🟨 | 62’ Booking, Ashley Young
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Robert Pirès, Sub on, Stewart Downing
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Barry Bannan, Sub on, Stiliyan Petrov
🟨 | 77’ Booking, Ashley Young
🟥 | 77’ Sending off, Ashley Young
🟨 | 87’ Booking, Stiliyan Petrov
🔁 | 90’+1 Sub off, Nigel Reo-Coker, Sub on, James Collins
⚽ | 90’+2 Goal, 3-1, Stiliyan Petrov, Assist by Marc Albrighton
🕒 | FT Sheffield United 1-3 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Possession F | 39%
Possession A | 61%
Shots F | 11
Shots A | 13
Shots on Target F | 5
Shots on Target A | 7
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 9
Fouls F | 13
Fouls A | 20

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 8 January 2011

  • Villa beat Championship side Sheffield United in the third round of the FA Cup as they receive some respite in a torrid season under Gérard Houllier.

  • Kyle Walker makes a goalscoring debut for Villa against his hometown club after joining on loan for the rest of the season from Tottenham Hotspur. Walker becomes the 831st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Marc Albrighton scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 29th appearance (19 Starts) to make it W9 D6 L12, 5 Goals, 7 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card  so far in his Villa career.

  • Ashley Young receives the second red card of his career on his 173rd appearance in a Villa shirt (170 Starts) having previously been sent off in the 2008-09 season at Sunderland to make it W75 D52 L46, 34 Goals, 56 Assists, 30 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

  • Stiliyan Petrov contributes his 15th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 174th appearance (165 Starts) to make it W72 D55 L47, 8 Goals, 7 Assists and 28 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Stewart Downing secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 60th appearance (56 Starts) to make it W25 D17 L18, 9 Goals, 9 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one every 3.33 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Meanwhile, off the pitch, Robert Pirès and Stiliyan Petrov reveal life under Houllier.

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #831 | Loanee from Tottenham

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

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

Sheffield United

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1924–25

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Sheffield United

Previous 5 vs. Sheffield United: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #27 |
Manager Game | #20 |
Saturday, 8 January 2011

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🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mike Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester, 1997-2018
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 20 | 🟩 | 6 🟨 | 5 🟥 9 | 1.15

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mike Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester, 1997-2018
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 5
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 27 Sep 10, Villa 2-1 Burnley (h)
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Ron Ganfield, Simon Long

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟥 Ashley Young
🟨 Ashley Young
🟨 Ashley Young
🟨 Stiliyan Petrov

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🟨 Rob Kozluk

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Robert Pirès, Marc Albrighton, Barry Bannan and Kyle Walker (debut) replace James Collins, Stiliyan Petrov, Emile Heskey and Stewart Downing.

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.12 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 39.67 |

Youngest Player |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.63 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

MANAGER

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | ⚽ |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Micky Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Sheffield United

GK Steve Simonsen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kyle Bartley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Elian Parrino | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
RB Rob Kozluk | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Nick Montgomery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Johannes Ertl | 🇦🇹 |
M Leon Britton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Williamson | 🇯🇲 | 🔁 |
W Daniel Bogdanović | 🇲🇹 |
W Jamie Ward | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
CF Ched Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 65’ |
🔁 M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 | ⚽ | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 65’ |
🔁 CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+1 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Elian Parrino | 🇦🇷 | (CF Jordan Slew | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Lee Williamson | 🇯🇲 | (M David McAllister | 🇮🇪 |)

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK George Long | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jean Calve | 🇫🇷 |
M Matt Harriott | 🇮🇪 |
M Kingsley James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 7/18

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/17

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 2 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Bomb Squad | 4 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Out on Loan | 2 |
CB Shane Lowry | 🇦🇺 | Sheffield United
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | Hull

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Reported

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

"With some players, the atmosphere is tense and electric. Not with the whole group, but with some. "Houllier, has brought a new culture, another way of working. When you're in a routine and it all changes in a flash, you can find it hard to accept. "On top of that, we are not winning. So it's complicated for everyone and I have arrived in the middle of all that. "It's not easy, I'm on the bench and I can't help the team because I'm not playing. "I don't have the trust of Gérard Houllier and I don't understand it. I think I will go and talk to him. "However, I am still putting in a lot of effort. I don't have any regrets and I will keep waiting. I will carry on working. "Even though I am a little disappointed, it's because I want to play and help my team-mates. It's frustrating." Robert Pirès. "I think the manager and [John Carew] need to sort that out between themselves. ”They are grown men and I think everything is about the club. If you want to have someone in the team you need to go and see what he can do. John has been a big figure here and we have missed him. "Where we are at the moment I will take staying in the Premier League. ”I won't even care about the Cup. I am sorry to say that." Stiliyan Petrov. “I thought we had signed a specialist right back. “I didn’t realise he can score goals of that quality as well, but what I like about him is that he can play. It was a fantastic debut. He showed great composure and it was really a goal of individual brilliance, just as our second was a wonderful team effort. “We could probably have put the game to bed a little bit earlier, but when we went down to 10 men we just had to hang on to what we had. “At times we could play football, at other times we just had to dig in and defend. The important thing is that we stuck together, kept a certain level, and put in a performance to please our fans, who I must say backed us magnificently.” Gérard Houllier
Quotes

🟩 8 Jan 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 8 January 2011

*Aston Villa safely negotiated a testing FA Cup tie against Sheffield United.* New signing Kyle Walker ran from just inside the United half before side-stepping Rob Kozluk and slotting past Blades goalkeeper Steve Simonsen. Just past the half hour Ashley Young’s dinked cross was expertly volleyed in by Marc Albrighton to make it 2-0. In the second half Carlos Cuellar gave away a penalty - converted by Jamie Ward - but Stiliyan Petrov’s injury-time goal made the game safe for Villa. Walker was making his debut after joining Villa on loan from Spurs and he took only nine minutes to make an impact as he galloped away from a series of tackles before wrong-footing Simonsen with his shot. Villa slipped into the bottom three after a home defeat by Sunderland in midweek, but the visitors showed no sign of their Premier League malaise when Albrighton extended their lead. Young burst down the left before crossing to the far post and Albrighton crashed in his volley. The early stages of the second half brought some hope for the Blades when Lee Williamson was fouled by Cuellar inside the box and Ward thumped his penalty down the middle of the goal. Walker’s trick on the edge of his own area almost proved costly when he was hurried into a pass which ended up at Daniel Bogdanovic’s feet but Villa goalkeeper Brad Friedel came to the rescue. With 25 minutes left Villa manager Houllier made a double substitution, introducing Petrov and Stewart Downing for Barry Bannan and Robert Pires. Petrov should have extended Villa’s lead with two chances in two minutes. He was first put through by Downing only to be denied by Simonsen, before the Bulgarian’s header from a corner bounced just the wrong side of the post. But Petrov made amends for his earlier miss with a fine finish following a one-two with the impressive Albrighton in injury time.
Reports

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