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Game #5235

Aston Villa

Saturday, 21 December 2013

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Lost

13th (-2)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Stoke

Britannia Stadium

Attendance: 26,003

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

Stoke City

2-1

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🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 21 December 2013

🟨 | 21’ Booking, Marc Albrighton
🕒 | HT Stoke City 0-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 50’ Booking, Ciaran Clark
🥅 | 50’ Goal, 0-1, (Stoke City), Charlie Adam
🟨 | 60’ Booking, Fabian Delph
🟨 | 61’ Booking, Chris Herd
⚽ | 66’ Goal, 1-1, Libor Kozák
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Aleksandar Tonev, Sub on, Jordan Bowery
🥅 | 70’ Goal, 1-2, (Stoke City), Peter Crouch
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Leandro Bacuna
🟨 | 85’ Booking, Ashley Westwood
🕒 | FT Stoke City 2-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Possession F | 51%
Possession A | 49%
Shots F | 14
Shots A | 12
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 2
Corners F | 7
Corners A | 6
Fouls F | 17
Fouls A | 13

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 21 December 2013

  • Villa slump to a third consecutive defeat as Paul Lambert once again delivers a very unhappy Christmas to leave Villa with just five wins in seventeen Premier League games.

  • Villa lose for the 3rd game in succession and the 8th time in 17 Premier League games under Paul Lambert as they fall back to 13th in the table. 

  • Midfielder Chris Herd makes his 42nd and final appearance for Villa (36 Starts) aged 24 before being released by the club in July 2015. Herd had gradudated from the Villa youth team but his career would be regularly interrupted by long term absences that were never fully explained. Despite showing fine qualities in midfield and expected to be a fixture in the team for the long haul Herd would go on ply his trade in sporadic appearances in the lower leagues before moving into far east football.

  • Matt Lowton suffers his 25th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 52nd appearance (52 Starts) to make it W18 D12 L25, 2 Goals, 3 Assists and 13 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | 2008-13 🕒 42 | 36 (6) | ⚽ 2 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 29 | #829 |

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Aston Villa

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

Stoke

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1971-72

Aston Villa

Stoke

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Stoke

Previous 5 vs. Stoke: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2013-14 |
Matchday | #19 |
League Game | #17 |
Manager Game | #65 |
Saturday, 21 December 2013

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🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2008-
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 65 | 🟩 | 22 🟨 | 15 🟥 28 | 1.25

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2008- 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Mike Mullarkey, Sian Massey-Ellis

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Marc Albrighton
🟨 Ciaran Clark
🟨 Fabian Delph
🟨 Chris Herd
🟨 Ashley Westwood

🟨 Marc Wilson

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Libor Kozák, Aleksander Tonev, Andreas Weimann, Fabian Delph and Chris Herd replace Karim El Ahmadi, Antonio Luna, Yacouba Sylla, Gabriel Agbonlahor and Christian Benteke.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.64 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 29.30 |

Youngest Player |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 22.39 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

MANAGER

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | 🟨 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 | ⚽ |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 |

MANAGER

Mark Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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Stoke

GK Asmir Begović | 🇧🇦 |
LB Erik Pieters | 🇳🇱 |
CB Marc Wilson | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Ryan Shawcross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Geoff Cameron | 🇺🇸 |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 |
M Steven N’Zonzi | 🇫🇷 |
W Jon Walters | 🇮🇪 |
W Oussama Assaidi | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
CF Marko Arnautović | 🇦🇹 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 F Jordan Bowery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 | 67’ |
🔁 M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Oussama Assaidi | 🇲🇦 | (W Jermaine Pennant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Marko Arnautović | 🇦🇹 | (M Charlie Adam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |)

Substitutes

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Antonio Luna | 🇪🇸 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 |
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 |
CF Nicklas Helenius | 🇩🇰 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Thomas Sørensen (ex) | 🇩🇰 |
CB Marc Muniesa | 🇪🇸 |
RB Andy Wilkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Wilson Palacios | 🇭🇳 |
CF Kenwyne Jones | 🇹🇹 |

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

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI: £25.64m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/18
Homegrown: 4/18

SQUAD STATS

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Team Cost: £40.75m

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/18

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 5 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 |

Bomb Squad | 1 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Out on Loan | 7 |
M Samir Carruthers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | MK Dons
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Fulham
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Blackpool
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | Stoke
M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Notts County
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 | Middlesbrough
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 | Doncaster

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

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MATCH QUOTES

“I thought we were excellent in the first half. The wind was very strong but even in the second half we had chances. It was a very close game. “We thought when we got it 1-1 that we might have gone on. We will go again. I don’t think we deserved to lose.” Paul Lambert, Saturday, 21 December 2013.
Quotes

🟥 21 Dec 2013, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Britannia Stadium.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Independent*
Saturday, 21 December 2013

*Strictly business as Peter Crouch leads out-of-step Villa a merry dance* Peter Crouch rushed off to claim his seat beside the dancefloor after delivering a performance that manager Mark Hughes admitted would have merited a 10 if he had one of the Strictly Come Dancing score paddles at hand in the Stoke dug-out. The beanpole striker set the standard for his wife Abbey Clancy’s ballroom title bid by setting up one goal, scoring another and almost grabbing another with a cheeky backheel that struck the inside of a post as Stoke’s progress under Hughes continued to gather upward momentum. Stoke have suffered only one defeat in eight matches and can celebrate Christmas in the relative comfort of a mid-table position, a point ahead of Villa, whose stuttering form has not been helped by key striker Christian Benteke suffering a loss of confidence at just the wrong moment. Benteke, left out in part due to a knee injury and in part because he has not scored in 10 matches, could benefit from some of the nous that enables Crouch to keep troubling Premier League defenders at the age of 32, despite sometimes finding himself on the end of some heavyweight tackles. Villa’s Fabian Delph was arguably lucky to escape with a yellow card after two fouls in a minute on the former England striker. “I played that role for many years myself with my back to the goal and sometimes it can be a thankless task where you have to take some hits for the team,” Hughes said. “He has been a very accomplished player for some years now and you don’t achieve that at this level without being a very good player.” Hughes refuted suggestions that Crouch might be sold in January, with a return to Queens Park Rangers, where he began his career, reportedly in the offing. “He is a player we want to keep, he won’t be going anywhere,” Hughes said. One goal per game is the best either of these sides had been able to muster over the course of the 16 Premier League games and a drab first half promised little improvement. Villa, missing the suspended Gabriel Agbonlahor as well as Benteke, picked a front six with only half a dozen goals between them all season, which did not augur well for any improvement. Given that Stoke did not offer anything significantly more scintillating than Villa in the first 45 minutes, it was as well Hughes saw fit to add some creativity in the second period, introducing Charlie Adam from the bench. The former Liverpool midfielder’s first contribution of note was to put Stoke in front. Geoff Cameron, who had given Brad Guzan a scare in the first half when the strong wind turned one of his crosses into a shot that the American had to push over the bar, delivered another testing ball from the right, Crouch knocked a header downwards and Adam bustled past Nathan Baker before sliding the ball across the Villa keeper for his fourth goal of the season. Villa began to look a little ragged, with Delph and Chris Herd booked in the space of a minute, after which Villa’s 66th-minute equaliser came as a surprise, although apart from Libor Kozak having the presence of mind to seize a gift opportunity, the visitors could not claim much credit for the goal. A long Guzan clearance was only headed sideways by Marc Wilson, whose error was compounded when Erik Pieters attempted to head the ball back to Asmir Begovic, only for Kozak to intercept and pick up an easy goal. Villa manager Paul Lambert believed that his side did enough to merit a point, but Stoke were always the more positive side and Cameron’s crosses from the right flank continued to pose problems for a Villa defence lacking the injured Ron Vlaar and still suspect at times under pressure. Crouch’s second goal came when a Cameron cross evaded both Guzan and Herd in their attempts to cut it out. Crouch controlled the ball on his chest and swept it home. Plainly enjoying himself, Crouch demonstrated his special brand of fancy footwork after Glenn Whelan had headed an Adam corner back across goal, flicking out a heel and turning to see the ball clip the inside of the left-hand post before running to safety. A swift reprise of his party-piece “robot” dance might have been the order of the day in the dressing room later, had there not been a fast car waiting to whisk him away.
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