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Game #5254

Aston Villa

Saturday, 26 April 2014

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Lost

16th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Swansea City

Liberty Stadium

Attendance: 20,701

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

Swansea City

4-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Marc Albrighton | 22’ |

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 26 April 2014

🥅 | 10’ Goal, 0-1, (Swansea City), Wilfried Bony
⚽ | 22’ Goal, 1-1, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Assist by Marc Albrighton
🥅 | 26’ Goal, 1-2, (Swansea City), Jonjo Shelvey
🕒 | HT Swansea City 2-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Leandro Bacuna, Sub on, Matt Lowton
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Andreas Weimann, Sub on, Callum Robinson
🥅 | 73’ Goal, 1-3, (Swansea City), Pablo Hernández
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Karim El Ahmadi, Sub on, Grant Holt 🔴
🟨 | 89’ Booking, Marc Albrighton
🟨 | 90’+2 Booking, Nathan Baker
🟨 | 90’+3 Booking, Ashley Westwood
🥅 | 90’+4 Goal, 1-4, (Swansea City, pen), Wilfried Bony
🕒 | FT Swansea City 4-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Possession F | 50%
Possession A | 50%
Shots F | 7
Shots A | 6
Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 9
Fouls F | 10
Fouls A | 10

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

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 26 April 2014

  • Villa plumb yet new depths under Paul Lambert as he masterminds another loss against a relegation threatened side and leaves Villa hanging by a thread above the trap door for a second successive season. 

  • That Lambert should not be in post is unquestionable, that he is underlines the shameful, abject and incompetent regime that has been running the club into the ground since the summer of 2010.

  • Villa lose for the 18th time in the Premier League in 35 games under Paul Lambert.

  • Without an assist in 24 games under Paul Lambert, Marc Albrighton had now contributed 3 in his last 7 games to make it 101 appearances (58 Starts), W28 D29 L44, 9 Goals, 14 Assists, 13 Bookings and 1 Red Card. Indeed one of the few bright spots of Lamberts torturous reign was that Albrighton, who had shown such promise under Gérard Houllier and Alex McLeish was now finding form again.

  • Ashley Westwood collects his 10th booking in a Villa shirt on his 65th appearance (63 Starts) to make it W18 D16 L31, 2 Goals, 8 Assists and 10 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Nathan Baker collects his 10th booking in a Villa shirt on his 71st appearance (67 Starts) to make it W22 D14 L35, 10 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Centre forward Grant Holt makes his 10th and final appearance for Villa of his unexpected and widely derided loan spell from Championship side Wigan Athletic. Indeed Holt left as he came, overweight, unfit with no fanfare and little enthusiasm, Holt could never shake off perceptions that he was Lambert's man in a distressed, distracted and disunited dressing room and left with a record of W2 D2 L6, 1 Goal and 1 Booking. One thing for sure was his arrival was for anything but footballing reasons as the needlessly opaque and downright unpleasant atmosphere fostered by Lambert was continually being fed.

  • Brad Guzan concedes his 150th goal in a Villa shirt on his 100th Start (102 Appearances) to make it W35 D23 L44, 1 Assist, 153 Goals Conceded, 23 Clean Sheets, 1.61 Goals per League Game and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 CF Grant Holt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2014 🕒 10 | 3 (7) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 7 | #865 |

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

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

Swansea City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2012-13

FIXTURE HISTORY

Swansea City

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Previous 5 vs. Swansea: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨

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

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2013-14 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Game | #35 |
Manager Game | #84 |
Saturday, 26 April 2014

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🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Score: 🟥 1-4
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

🕒 84 | 🟩 | 26 🟨 | 19 🟥 39 | 1.15

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

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

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Matches Officiated: 34
🟩 : 11
🟨 : 10
🟥 : 13
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 23 Mar 14, Villa 1-4 Stoke (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Stuart Burt, Simon Beck

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Marc Albrighton
🟨 Nathan Baker
🟨 Ashley Westwood

CARDS

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🟨 Jordi Amat

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

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Paul Lambert names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.62 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 29.65 |

Youngest Player |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 22.70 |

Referee

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

MANAGER

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Ryan Bertrand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 🔁 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Garry Monk | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Swansea City

GK Michel Vorm | 🇳🇱 |
LB Ben Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Jordi Amat | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
CB Ashley Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Àngel Rangel | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
M Leon Britton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jonjo Shelvey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Pablo Hernández | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
M Jonathan de Guzmán | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
W Wayne Routledge (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Wilfried Bony | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 RB Matt Lowton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 46’ |
🔁 CF Callum Robinson | 🇮🇪 | for CF Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 67’ |
🔁 CF Grant Holt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 | for M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | 75’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | RB Àngel Rangel | 🇪🇸 | (LB Neil Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Jonathan de Guzmán | 🇳🇱 | (M Jay Fulton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Wayne Routledge (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Marvin Emnes | 🇳🇱 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 |
W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Gerhard Tremmel | 🇩🇪 |
CB Kyle Bartley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Nathan Dyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Alvaro Vazquez | 🇪🇸 |

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

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI: £22.28m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 6/18

SQUAD STATS

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Team Cost: £35.10m

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/18

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 9 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
F Nicklas Helenius | 🇩🇰 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Bomb Squad | 1 |
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |

Out on Loan | 5 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Fulham
M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Notts County
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 | Doncaster
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Coventry
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Bolton

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

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MATCH QUOTES

“I’m not going to stand here and criticise a guy [Brad Guzan] who has been fantastic for me for two years. He’ll be disappointed with himself, but he’ll get no criticism for me. “It’s still in our own hands. In a nutshell, the Hull game next week is a cup final.” Paul Lambert, Saturday, 26 April 2014.
Quotes

🟥 26 Apr 2014, Villa 1-4 Swansea, Liberty

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 26 April 2014

*Jonjo Shelvey scored a wonder goal as Swansea all but guaranteed their Premier League status and left Aston Villa in danger of relegation.* Wilfried Bony put Swansea ahead, slotting the ball past Brad Guzan. Gabriel Agbonlahor converted Marc Albrighton’s cross to equalise before Shelvey volleyed home from the centre circle. Pablo Hernandez curled in a third before Bony scored his second with an injury-time penalty. The result leaves Villa just four points above the relegation zone with three games to go. Swansea’s first back-to-back wins in the Premier League since December 2012 means they are 12th in the table, eight points clear of the bottom three. Whilst Garry Monk’s men can potentially be caught by teams in the relegation zone, their goal difference - the best in the bottom half - is effectively worth an extra point. Their impressive victory at a wet and windy Liberty Stadium means Paul Lambert’s visitors are far from safe. The nature of their loss and poor run of form will be a cause for concern for the club. They have now lost five of their last six matches. Two of their three remaining fixtures are away at Manchester City and Tottenham. Villa were behind early on when Shelvey’s superb long pass put Bony clear and the Ivory Coast striker slotted the ball past the advancing Guzan. The visitors pressed in a bid to get back into the game, crossing the ball into the box at every opportunity. Karim El Ahmadi put Albrighton into space out wide and the winger’s cross was smashed into the net from inside the six yard area by Agbonlahor. It was the England international’s first goal since the New Year’s Day win at Sunderland. Villa’s revival was short lived and less than four minutes later Ron Vlaar’s poor clearance fell straight to Shelvey on the edge of the centre circle, just inside the Villa half. The Swansea midfielder controlled the ball before volleying a dipping shot over Guzan into the top corner of the goal. The strike seemed to take the momentum away from Villa as Swansea finished the half strongly. Villa pressed after the break but created little of note to threaten Michel Vorm’s goal. Shelvey’s low shot from just outside the area was tipped around the post by Guzan as Swansea pushed forward. The killer blow was finally delivered by Hernandez. Shelvey’s cross found the Spaniard in space inside the area and the former Valencia winger curled the ball high into the corner of the net. Late on Villa defender Nathan Baker was judged to have fouled Marvin Emnes inside the area whilst challenging for a ball in the air. Bony fired home from the spot to send Swansea fans home happy while Villa were booed off the pitch by their travelling supporters.
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