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Game #5118

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

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Lost

5th Round

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

FA Cup

Manchester City

City of Manchester Stadium

Attendance: 25,570

🟥 2 March 2011, Villa 0-3 Abu Dhabi, City Stadium.

State of Abu Dhabi

3-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 2 March 2011, Villa 0-3 Abu Dhabi, City Stadium.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

🥅 | 5’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), Yaya Touré
🟨 | 17’ Booking, Stiliyan Petrov
🥅 | 25’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester City), Mario Balotelli
🕒 | HT Manchester City 2-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 60’ Booking, Ciaran Clark
🟨 | 61’ Booking, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🥅 | 70’ Goal, 0-3, (Manchester City), David Silva
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Nathan Delfouneso, Sub on, Stewart Downing
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Michael Bradley, Sub on, Ashley Young
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Richard Dunne, Sub on, Kyle Walker
🕒 | FT Manchester City 3-0 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Possession F | 40%
Possession A | 60%
Shots F | 7
Shots A | 12
Shots on Target F | 2
Shots on Target A | 8
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 7
Fouls F | 9
Fouls A | 11

🟥 2 March 2011, Villa 0-3 Abu Dhabi, City Stadium.

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

  • Villa lose in the FA Cup fifth round as Gérard Houllier fields a weakened team.

  • Ciaran Clark makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (22 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L8, 4 Goals, 1 Assist and 9 Bookings. Clark has now picked up a booking every 2.78 games he has played. 

  • Playing a weakened team in a Cup game was nothing new in recent years but not making a substitution, despite glaring deficiencies, until Villa were three down took concerns about Houllier to new levels. Perhaps it was preference to focus on the League competition - where Houllier had conspicuously failed to date - but for sure it was clear that despite claims to the contrary Houllier didn't "understand the ethos of our club and shares our core values."

🟥 2 March 2011, Villa 0-3 Abu Dhabi, City 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

Manchester City

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As Manchester City:

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

As Abu Dhabi:

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

Aston Villa

Manchester City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Manchester City

Previous 5 vs. Abu Dhabi: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩

🟥 2 March 2011, Villa 0-3 Abu Dhabi, City Stadium.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #36 |
Manager Game | #29 |
Wednesday, 2 March 2011

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MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
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

🕒 29 | 🟩 | 10 🟨 | 8 🟥 11 | 1.31

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Matches Officiated: 22
🟩 : 7
🟨 : 6
🟥 : 9
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 16 Jan 11, Villa 1-1 Birmingham (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Simon Long, Ceri Richards

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Stiliyan Petrov
🟨 Ciaran Clark
🟨 Gabriel Agbonlahor

🟨 Mario Balotelli

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Gabriel Agbonlahor, Michael Bradley (first start), Nathan Delfouneso (first start in 5), Fabian Delph (first start in 13), Emile Heskey (first start in 5), Stiliyan Petrov, Barry Bannan (first start in 5) and Chris Herd (first start) replace Darren Bent, Kyle Walker, Nathan Baker, Nigel Reo-Coker, Marc Albrighton, Robert Pirès, Ashley Young and Stewart Downing.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.38 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 39.82 |

Youngest Player |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.09 |

Referee
Manager

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MANAGER

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 | 🔁 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Roberto Mancini | 🇮🇹 |

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Manchester City

GK Joe Hart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Aleksander Kolarov | 🇷🇸 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Jérôme Boateng | 🇩🇪 |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Pablo Zabaleta | 🇦🇷 |
M Gareth Barry (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Silva | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
M Patrick Vieira | 🇫🇷 |
M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Mario Balotelli | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 71’ |
🔁 W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 | 71’ |
🔁 RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 83’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Micah Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Dedryck Boyata | 🇧🇪 |)
🔁 | M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 | (CF Jô | 🇧🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Mario Balotelli | 🇮🇹 | (CF Carlos Tévez | 🇦🇷 |)

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stuart Taylor (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Reece Wabara | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Edin Džeko | 🇧🇦 |

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

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SQUAD STATS

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1st XI: £29.25m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 5/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 6/18

SQUAD STATS

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Team Cost: £205.75m

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

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

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 2 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |

Suspension | 1 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 |

Bomb Squad | 3 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Out on Loan | 8 |
CB Shane Lowry | 🇦🇺 | Sheffield United
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | Hull
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | Watford
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | Stoke
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Portsmouth
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wednesday
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | Newcastle
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 | Leeds

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

"I'm sorry. ”Perhaps I should have warned the fans before but it is not as if I was playing the youth team. I took a risk but these are good players. "What's more important for me is your environment, and that's the chairman, the club and the players and I know what I'm doing. The chairman and Paul knew about the selection. I told them. We have got quality now. There's no excuse apart from the fact we conceded two early goals. "The league is such that we are more comfortable than at Christmas but we need more points to stay up," he said. "We might need 42 points to stay up, so the job is not done yet. We have an important game. [Bolton] have 37 points and we have 33. It's a final for us – [there are] 10 finals to play." Gérard Houllier. “If I had to, I’d do it again.” Gérard Houllier
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 2 March 2011

*Manchester City booked an FA Cup quarter-final at home to Reading with a comfortable win over Aston Villa.* Yaya Toure gave the home side an early lead when he smashed in from close range after Aleksandar Kolarov’s corner fell into his path. Mario Balotelli doubled the lead when he finished beautifully high into the Villa goal after racing on to Toure’s raking pass. And David Silva made sure of victory after the break with a fierce drive. Villa managed only two shots on target and the inquest will have already begun as to why manager Gerard Houllier left key attackers such as Ashley Young, Stewart Downing and Marc Albrighton on the bench. The French manager was made to pay for his decision after only five minutes. Kolarov’s left-wing corner was nodded towards goal by Patrick Vieira. The ball then struck Ciaran Clark’s arm en route to landing at the feet of Toure, who quick as a flash lashed in. It was unlucky for 21-year-old Clark, who was filling in at central defence and doing his best to keep one eye on the lively Balotelli. Unfortunately for him and fellow defender Richard Dunne, neither could keep pace with the speedy Italian forward, who ran on to Toure’s long ball and provided a sumptuous finish to make it 2-0. City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third. They did cause slight panic in the City defence when Emile Heskey cut inside into the area and tried to place his shot into the bottom left but England keeper Joe Hart managed to push away the effort. It was expected that Villa boss Houllier would make changes at the break but he waited until the 71st minute to bring on the cavalry and that was only in reaction to going 3-0 down. City’s third was again a thing of beauty. Pablo Zabaleta delivered a looping cross from the right which was headed out by Chris Herd but only to Silva who arrowed the ball past keeper Brad Friedel. The American stopper kept the deficit down to three with two good blocks to deny Carlos Tevez and a low save to prevent fellow City substitute Jo from scoring. Villa’s second-half attacks were restricted to free-kicks around the City area, but they were either easily cleared by the home defence or sailed over the bar. Villa fans were left disgruntled while City still have hope of ending their 35-year spell without a trophy.
Reports

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