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Game #5294

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

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Drew

16th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Premier League

Queens Park Rangers

Villa Park

Attendance: 33,708

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

3-3

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Queens Park Rangers

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Assist(s) | Fabian Delph | 10’ | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 33’ |

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

🥅 | 7’ Goal, 0-1, (Queens Park Rangers), Matt Phillips
⚽ | 10’ Goal, 1-1, Christian Benteke, Assist by Fabian Delph
⚽ | 33’ Goal, 2-1, Christian Benteke, Assist by Gabriel Agbonlahor
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-1 Queens Park Rangers
🥅 | 55’ Goal, 2-2, (Queens Park Rangers), Clint Hill
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Jack Grealish, Sub on, Joe Cole
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Leandro Bacuna, Sub on, Matt Lowton
🥅 | 78’ Goal, 2-3, (Queens Park Rangers), Charlie Austin
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Tom Cleverley, Sub on, Charles N’Zogbia
⚽ | 83’ Goal, 3-3, Christian Benteke
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-3 Queens Park Rangers

Match Statistics

Possession F | 64%
Possession A | 36%
Shots F | 21
Shots A | 11
Shots on Target F | 7
Shots on Target A | 5
Corners F | 7
Corners A | 3
Fouls F | 8
Fouls A | 12

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

  • Villa are held at home by 18th placed QPR to leave them just three points above the relegation zone having played a game more than their rivals.

  • Villa fail to win for the 5th time in 7 Premier League games under Tim Sherwood but remain 16th in the table.

  • Villa now have just 3 wins in 16 home matches for Villa this season as the drop zone remains perilously near.

  • Christian Benteke scores his second hat-trick in a Villa shirt on his 93rd appearance (86 Starts) to make it W30 D18 L45, 44 Goals, 14 Assists, 12 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

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

Queens Park Rangers

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1966-67

Aston Villa

Queens Park Rangers

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Queens Park Rangers

Previous 5 vs. QPR: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

Queens Park Rangers

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Queens Park Rangers

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2014-15 |
Matchday | #37 |
League Game | #32 |
Manager Game | #8 |
Tuesday, 7 April 2015

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🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Borehamwood, 2015
Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2008-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Score: 🟨 3-3
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 8 | 🟩 | 3 🟨 | 1 🟥 4 | 1.25

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2008-
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 7 Dec 14, Villa 2-1 Leicester (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Dave Bryan, Mike Mullarkey

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

🟨 Clint Hill
🟨 Niko Kranjčar
🟨 Sandro
🟨 Charlie Austin

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ron Vlaar (first start in 7), Tom Cleverley, Leandro Bacuna, Kieran Richardson and Jack Grealish replace Charles N’Zogbia, Marr Lowton, Jores Okore, Andreas Weimann and Alan Hutton.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.65 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 30.59 |

Youngest Player |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.59 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Kieran Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 |
M Tom Cleverley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Chris Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Queens Park Rangers

GK Rob Green | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steven Caulker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Clint Hill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
RB Mauricio Isla | 🇨🇱 | 🔁 |
CB Nedum Onuoha | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Matt Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Joey Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Niko Kranjčar | 🇭🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Sandro | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Charlie Austin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
CF Bobby Zamora | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Joe Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 70’ |
🔁 RB Matt Lowton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 75’ |
🔁 W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | for M Tom Cleverley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | RB Mauricio Isla | 🇨🇱 | (LB Armand Traoré | 🇸🇳 |)
🔁 | M Niko Kranjčar | 🇭🇷 | 🟨 | (M Karl Henry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Sandro | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 | (M Michael Doughty | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Alex McCarthy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Aaron Mitchell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Junior Hoilett | 🇨🇦 |
F Reece Grego-Cox | 🇮🇪 |

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

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI: £41.22m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 5/18

SQUAD STATS

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Team Cost: £37.59m

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/18

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 7 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
CB Philippe Senderos | 🇨🇭 |
RB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 |
W Scott Sinclair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 |

Out on Loan | 11 |
CF Nicklas Helenius | 🇩🇰 | Aalborg BK
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 | Kayseri Erciyesspor
W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 | Celtic
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Brighton
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 | Doncaster
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Derby
M Gary Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Forest
LB Antonio Luna | 🇪🇸 | Spezia Calcio
RB Janoi Donacien | 🇱🇨 | Tranmere
F Graham Burke | 🇮🇪 | Notts County
LB Lewis Kinsella | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Luton

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“We deserved to win the game, anyone who saw it knew we created all the chances, we should have been out of sight. “We have an injury crisis at this club and we are just trying to patch people up and get them out there and I thought they did extremely well in the circumstances. To not win after a one-sided football match is disappointing. “On the balance I thought we played well but QPR just seemed to take their chances. I am not sure they had more than five shots and they score three goals.” Tim Sherwood, Tuesday, 7 April 2015.
Quotes

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Tuesday, 7 April 2015

*Christian Benteke’s hat-trick rescued a vital point for Aston Villa in a pulsating game against Premier League relegation rivals QPR.* QPR led when Matt Phillips headed in Bobby Zamora’s deft left-wing cross. Villa levelled through Benteke’s deflected drive, then the Belgian’s calm finish put them ahead. Clint Hill’s firm header and Charlie Austin’s clinical finish restored QPR’s lead, but Benteke’s free-kick kept Villa out of the bottom three. Villa would have dropped into the relegation zone, with QPR climbing out at their expense, had they been beaten by the visitors at Villa Park. But Benteke’s sublime set-piece, which he curled over the away defence into the bottom left corner of the QPR goal, ensured Villa moved up to 16th. Tim Sherwood’s men are three points clear of the third-bottom visitors, who climbed above Burnley with the draw. However, both sides will be bitterly disappointed not to have taken maximum points. Villa looked sharper and more inventive for larger periods, but their long-standing defensive frailties allowed Rangers to go within sight of a second successive away win. Sherwood warned his players ahead of kick-off that they would have to dig deep in a fixture which he described as “the club’s biggest match for years” - and these fighting qualities came to the fore as they snatched a draw. Rival managers Sherwood and Chris Ramsey are close friends, having worked together at Tottenham and living close to each other, and the two shared warm embraces on the touchline before kick-off and following the final whistle. Ramsey had only won one game since replacing Harry Redknapp in early February, but saw his side double their tally with a convincing 4-1 win at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. It meant Rangers returned to the West Midlands full of confidence - and they needed just nine minutes to take the lead. Former England striker Zamora was allowed to run across the Villa penalty area, before clipping a perfectly-weighted cross to the far post where Phillips was waiting. The Villa fans reacted by providing increased vocal support - and their team responded just 151 seconds later with the equaliser. Belgium striker Benteke, who had scored five goals in his previous six matches for club and country, charged into the QPR box from the left touchline and saw his angled shot deflect off Rangers defender Mauricio Isla past his own keeper Robert Green. Sherwood reacted to the equaliser with a manic celebration - ripping off his jacket and hurling it to the ground - to illustrate what the occasion meant to the Villa manager. Villa oozed confidence in a high-tempo first half, dominating possession and territory, as the home side used their pace and energy to pull apart QPR’s ageing side. The Birmingham club, who have not been relegated since 1986-87, deservedly edged ahead when Benteke kept his composure to finish a swift counter attack. Veteran QPR defender Hill escaped his marker at a corner to restore parity with his first Premier League goal, then England hopeful Austin pounced on a loose ball to sweep in his 17th top-flight goal of the season. But, after Hill hauled down Villa substitute Charles N’Zogbia on the edge of the QPR penalty area, Benteke converted to walk off with the match ball.
Reports

🟨 7 April 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park.

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