Game #5607
Aston Villa
Sunday, 26 December 2021


Lost
11th (-2)
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
Premier League
Chelsea
Villa Park
Attendance: 41,907
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-3

Chelsea

Assist(s) | None
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park


MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 26 December 2021
⚽ | 28’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Reece James
🟨 | 33’ Booking, Emiliano Martínez
🥅 | 34’ Goal, 1-1, (Chelsea, pen), Jorginho
⏱️ | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Chelsea
🥅 | 56’ Goal, 1-2, (Chelsea), Romelu Lukaku
🟨 | 65’ Booking, Tyrone Mings, Bad foul
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Danny Ings, Sub on, Bertrand Traoré
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Emiliano Buendía, Sub on, Carney Chukwuemeka
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Morgan Sanson, Sub on, Anwar El Ghazi
🟨 | 90’+2 Booking, Ezri Konsa
🥅 | 90’+3 Goal, 1-3, (Chelsea, pen), Jorginho
⏱️ | FT Aston Villa 1-3 Chelsea
Match Statistics
Possession F | 42%
Possession A | 58%
Shots F | 8
Shots A | 10
Shots on Target F | 1
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 2
Corners A | 5
Fouls F | 8
Fouls A | 11
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 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 26 December 2021
Villa take the lead but lose to a title challenging Chelsea side as Covid stricken Steven Gerrard is absent.
Douglas Luiz, 23, makes his 90th appearance in a Villa shirt (79 Starts) since joining in July 2019 to make it W33 D15 L42, 3 Goals, 8 Assists, 22 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park

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: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Chelsea


European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2020-21
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2021-22 |
Matchday | #20 |
League Match | #18 |
Manager Game | #7 |
Sunday, 26 December 2021
Attendance | 41,907 |
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🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: Steven Gerrard | 🏴 | Merseyside, 2021-2022 *Absent due to Covid-19*
Manager: Gary McAllister (Caretaker) | 🏴 | Motherwell, 2021
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2006-2021
Kick off: 5.30pm
Half Time Score: 🟨 1-1
Full Time Result: 🟥 Lost
Full Time Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD

Steven Gerrard | 🏴 | 2021-2022
🕒 7 | 🟩 | 4 🟨 | 0 🟥 3 | 1.71
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2006-2021
Assistants: Lee Betts, Constantine Hatzidakis.
Fourth official: Michael Salisbury.
VAR: Stuart Attwell | 🏴 | Nuneaton, 2007-
Assistant VAR: Dan Cook.
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
VAR: Stuart Attwell | 🏴 | Nuneaton, 2007-
🕒 3 | 🟩 0 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 3 | 🆘 : 0
🕒 3 | 🟩 0% | 🟨 0% | 🟥 100% | 🆘 : 0%
Cards 🟥 1 |
Disallowed ❌ 0 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 | ❌ 0 |
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥
CARDS

🟨 Emiliano Martínez
🟨 Tyrone Mings, Bad foul
🟨 Ezri Konsa
CARDS

🟨 Marcos Alonso
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Morgan Sanson and Danny Ings return after illness and injury respectively as Ashley Young and John McGinn are rules out with COVID-19. Bertrand Traoré returns to the bench after long term injury alongside recent returnee Trézéguet as the substitutes bench has a significantly more experienced look than in recent games with just two under 23 players represented in Carney Chukwuemeka and Tim Iroegbunam.
Starting XI Average Age: 25.98
Oldest Player: F Danny Ings | 🏴 | 29.80 |
Youngest Player: M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | 20.59 |
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park
MANAGER
Steven Gerrard | 🏴 | 2021-2022

Aston Villa
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 | 🟨 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴 🇵🇱 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 |
F Danny Ings | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Thomas Tuchel | 🇩🇪 |

Chelsea
GK Edouard Mendy | 🇸🇳 |
LB Marcos Alonso | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
CB Trevoh Chalobah | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Thiago Silva | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Antonio Rüdiger | 🇩🇪 |
RB Reece James | 🏴 |
M N’Golo Kanté | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jorginho | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Mason Mount | 🏴 |
W Callum Hudson-Odoi | 🏴 |
W Christian Pulisic | 🇺🇸 |
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SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | for F Danny Ings | 🏴 | 73’ |
🔁 | M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴 | for W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 74’ |
🔁 | W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | for M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | 76’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Romelu Lukaku | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | for CB Trevoh Chalobah | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 | CB Andreas Christensen | 🇩🇰 | for CB Thiago Silva | 🇧🇷 | 52’ |
🔁 | M Mateo Kovacic | 🇭🇷 | for M N’Golo Kanté | 🇫🇷 | 63’ |

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴 |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴 |
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Kepa Arrizabalaga | 🇪🇸 |
RB César Azpilicueta | 🇪🇸 |
CB Malang Sarr | 🇫🇷 |
M Saúl Ñíguez | 🇪🇸 |
M Ross Barkley (ex) | 🏴 |
M Hakim Ziyech | 🇲🇦
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
🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | | 44 | 12* | 8 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 20* | - | - | 1 | 0 |
UNUSED
Player | 🇺 |
---|---|
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | | 116* |
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
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SQUAD STATS

1st XI Cost: £196.81m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £24.66m
Team Cost: £221.47m
Squad Cost: £225.01m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/20
Homegrown: 4/20
SQUAD STATS

1st XI Cost: £194.22m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Subs Cost: £144.00m
Team Cost: £338.22m
Squad Cost: £469.26m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/20
Homegrown: 5/20
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MATCHDAY SQUAD

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £19.58m |
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | £0.49m |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴 🇵🇱 | £14.18m |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴 | £14.04m |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 | £20.60m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 | £11.97m |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴 | £2.70m |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 | Loan |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | £14.22m |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | Youth |
M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴 | Youth |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴 | Free |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | £34.56m |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | £16.56m |
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | £9.00m |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | £8.10m |
F Danny Ings | 🏴 | £31.59m |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 | £27.72m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
MATCHDAY SQUAD

GK Kepa Arrizabalaga | 🇪🇸 | £72.00m |
GK Edouard Mendy | 🇸🇳 | £21.06m |
RB César Azpilicueta | 🇪🇸 | £7.92m |
RB Reece James | 🏴 | Youth |
LB Marcos Alonso | 🇪🇸 | Free |
CB Antonio Rüdiger | 🇩🇪 | £31.50m |
CB Trevoh Chalobah | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Andreas Christensen | 🇩🇰 | Youth |
CB Thiago Silva | 🇧🇷 | Free |
CB Malang Sarr | 🇫🇷 | Free |
M Jorginho | 🇮🇹 | £51.30m |
M Mateo Kovacic | 🇭🇷 | £40.50m |
M Hakim Ziyech | 🇲🇦 | £36.00m |
M N’Golo Kanté | 🇫🇷 | £32.22m |
M Ross Barkley (ex) | 🏴 | £15.12m |
M Mason Mount | 🏴 | Youth |
M Saúl Ñíguez | 🇪🇸 | Loan |
W Christian Pulisic | 🇺🇸 | £57.60m |
W Callum Hudson-Odoi | 🏴 | Youth |
CF Romelu Lukaku | 🇧🇪 | £103.50m |
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UNAVAILABLE

Injury | 4 |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | Thigh, 5 Dec 2021 [4]
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | Knee, 14 Dec 2021 [2]
RB Ashley Young | 🏴 | Broken Toe, 26 Dec 2021 [1]
M John McGinn | 🏴 | Covid-19 Guidelines, 26 Dec 2021 [1]
Out On Loan | 3 |
CF Wesley | 🇧🇷 | Club Brugge
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | Sheffield United
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | Strasbourg
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME



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