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Game #5146

Aston Villa

Sunday, 18 December 2011

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Lost

10th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Liverpool

Villa Park

Attendance: 37,460

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-2

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Liverpool

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 18 December 2011

🥅 | 11’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Craig Bellamy
🟨 | 13’ Booking, Charles N’Zogbia
🥅 | 15’ Goal, 0-2, (Liverpool), Martin Škrtel
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Liverpool
🔁 | 56’ Sub off, Emile Heskey, Sub on, Barry Bannan
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Fabian Delph, Sub on, Andreas Weimann
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Liverpool

Match Statistics

Possession F | 46%
Possession A | 54%
Shots F | 15
Shots A | 19
Shots on Target F | 8
Shots on Target A | 12
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 10
Fouls F | 5
Fouls A | 12

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

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 18 December 2011
  • Villa lose for the 5th time in 16 Premier League games to leave them with four wins in sixteen Premier League games under Alex McLeish.

  • Brad Guzan makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (23 Starts) to make it W13 D3 L9, 29 Goals Conceded, 7 Clean Sheets, 1.20 Goals per Game and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, 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 / Europa League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2005-06

FIXTURE HISTORY
Liverpool
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Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

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

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2011-12 |
Matchday | #18 |
League Game | #16 |
Manager Game | #18 |
Sunday, 18 December 2011

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🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 2011-2012
Referee: Peter Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northamptonshire, 2004-2011
Kick off: 2.05pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

🕒 18 | 🟩 | 5 🟨 | 7 🟥 6 | 1.22

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

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

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Peter Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northamptonshire, 2004-2011
Assistants: Charles Breakspear, Ron Ganfield

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Charles N'Zogbia

CARDS
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🟨 Charlie Adam
🟨 Craig Bellamy

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

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Nathan Delfouneso, Fabian Delph and Emile Heskey replace Darren Bent (injured), Gabriel Agbonlahor (suspended) and Chris Herd (injured)

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.46 |

Oldest Player |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33.96 |

Youngest Player |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.89 |

Referee

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

MANAGER

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Kenny Dalglish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Liverpool

GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
LB José Enrique | 🇪🇸 |
CB Daniel Agger | 🇩🇰 |
CB Martin Škrtel | 🇷🇸 | ⚽ |
RB Glen Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jordan Henderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Charlie Adam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Jonjo Shelvey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Craig Bellamy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Luis Suárez | 🇺🇾 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 56’ |
🔁 F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | for M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 80’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Jonjo Shelvey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Craig Bellamy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | CF Luis Suárez | 🇺🇾 | (CF Andy Carroll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Daniel Johnson | 🇯🇲 |
F Graham Burke | 🇮🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Doni | 🇧🇷 |
CB Sebastián Coates | 🇺🇾 |
RB Martin Kelly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Maxi Rodriguez | 🇦🇷 |

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

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI: £54.90m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 2/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 7/18

SQUAD STATS
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Team Cost: £174.38m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/14

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE
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Injury | 5 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
M Jermaine Jenas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Suspension | 1 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Out on Loan | 5 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | Olympiacos Piraeus
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 | Doncaster
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Millwall
CB Shane Lowry | 🇦🇺 | Millwall
M Gary Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Coventry

UNAVAILABLE
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Not Reported

Unavailable
LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"Downing, making his first visit to Villa Park since his £20m move in the summer to Anfield, squandered an early chance to a chorus of sarcastic cheers from the home faithful."
Quotes

🟥 18 Dec 2011, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Craig Bellamy inspired Liverpool to their fifth away league win of the season by scoring one goal and creating another in the space of four minutes. The former Manchester City man fired home from close range after Jonjo Shelvey’s clever flick created the opening from Stewart Downing’s corner. Bellamy then swung in a 15th-minute corner for Martin Skrtel to head home. Charles N’Zogbia’s effort in the first half was the closest Aston Villa came as they slumped to their fifth defeat. Villa’s final-day win over Liverpool at the end of last season was their first in 13 attempts but with the Reds having only one defeat in their 10 previous games before this visit, it was always going to be tough for the hosts. And Alex McLeish’s side’s task was made even harder as a sluggish start saw them two down after only 15 minutes. Downing, making his first visit to Villa Park since his £20m move in the summer to Anfield, squandered an early chance to a chorus of sarcastic cheers from the home faithful. However, the Villa fans were soon silenced when Downing whipped in a corner that Shelvey diverted goalwards. Luis Suarez attempted a trick of his own that Guzan blocked but Villa’s second-choice keeper could do nothing to deny Bellamy smashing home. Four minutes later, Skrtel grabbed his second goal of the season to double the visitors’ advantage with Bellamy turning provider with a pacey corner that the Slovakian defender rose above Alan Hutton to head in. With Gabriel Agbonlahor suspended and Darren Bent a late withdrawal because of injury, McLeish was missing his two top scorers and it was obvious as they created little in a first half that Liverpool dominated. N’Zogbia was the one bright spark for the home side as he fired over just before the half-hour mark before hitting another effort into the side-netting soon after. Bellamy continued to prosper after the restart as he crossed for Daniel Agger but the defender headed wide despite being unmarked at the back post. Suarez, who was cleared to play after the outcome of disciplinary hearing on Friday was delayed, had a relatively quiet first half but he almost made it three with a move of real class. The former Ajax forward was played through on goal and he beat both Richard Dunne and James Collins before rattling his effort off the underside of the crossbar. That was the 16th time Liverpool have hit the woodwork this season and Suarez added the 17th just before the hour. The Uruguayan found himself on the edge of the area with limited options his deft chip beat Guzan but not the post. Charlie Adam then had a chance when he waltzed into the area but, with Shelvey in the clear to his left, the Scottish midfielder opted for a shot and it was deflected wide. It would not prove costly, however, as McLeish’s side failed to create another real chance and Dalglish got his first win away at Villa as Liverpool manager on his seventh attempt.
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