Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

Manager #25

2010-11 🕒 34 | 🟩 12 | 🟨 9 | 🟥 13 | 1.32 | #25

Preceded By	Villa Career	Succeeded By
Kevin MacDonald \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \|	2010-11 🕒 34 \| 🟩 12 \| 🟨 9 \| 🟥 13 \| 1.32 \| #25	Gary McAllister \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \|

Career

Career Summary

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 |
Aston Villa 2010-11 |
Premier League |
🕒 34 | 🟩 12 | 🟨 9 | 🟥 13 | 1.32 | #25
📋 9 |
🏆 0 | 🥈 0 |

Seasons	Games	🟩	🟥	Points Per Game	🟩 %	🟥 %	Unbeaten
1	35	12	13	1.32	35%	38%	62%

Games	⚽	🥅	Goals per Game	Conceded per Game	Goal Difference	Clean Sheets
35	48	54	1.41	1.59	-6	12%

Career Performance

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

	🕒	🟩	🟩 %	🟨	🟨 %	🟥	🟥 %
Games	34	12	35.29%	9	26.47%	13	38.24%

Competition

Competition Performance

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Competition:	🕒	🟩	🟩 %	🟨	🟨 %	🟥	🟥 %
League	28	8	28.57%	9	32.14%	11	39.29%
FA Cup	3	2	66.67%	0	0.00%	1	33.33%
League Cup	3	2	66.67%	0	0.00%	1	33.33%

FA Cup finishes

2010-11
5th Round
Lost to Manchester City

2010-11
5th Round
Lost to Birmingham City

League Cup finishes

European finishes

n/a

League Tier Performance

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Competition:	🕒	🟩	🟩 %	🟨	🟨 %	🟥	🟥 %
League	28	8	28.57%	9	32.14%	11	39.29%
Top Flight	28	8	28.57%	9	32.14%	11	39.29%

2010-11
Premier League
9th of 20

League

Home & Away Performance

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Venue:	🕒	🟩	🟩 %	🟨	🟨 %	🟥	🟥 %
Home	16	8	50.00%	4	25.00%	4	25.00%
Away	18	4	22.22%	5	27.78%	9	50.00%
Neutral	0	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%

Home Away

Seasons Quick-View

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game
2010-11	62	PL	9th	34	12	9	13	35%	62%	38%	48	1.41	54	1.59	11.76%	1.32

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 L%	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game

Season	Age	Division	Final Position	🕒	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %	⚽	⚽ per Game	🥅	🥅 per Game	⛔	Points per Game

Seasons

Milestones

Career Milestones

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

10 Wins	20 Wins	50 Wins	70 Wins	100 Wins	125 Wins	150 Wins	200 Wins	Games to Achieve
28

10 Games	20 Games	50 Games	70 Games	100 Games	125 Games	150 Games	200 Games	Points per Game
1.60	1.32				-	-	-

10 Losses	20 Losses	50 Losses	70 Losses	100 Losses	125 Losses	150 Losses	200 Losses	Games to Achieve
25

⭐ Best performance of any Villa boss
‼️ Worst performance of any Villa boss

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Personal Profile

Birth Date	Birthplace	Birth Country		Full Name	Citizenship
3 September 1947	Thérouanne	France	🇫🇷	Gérard Paul Francis Houllier		🇫🇷

Personal

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Playing Career

Midfielder

Gérard Houllier did not play professional football

Player

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Previous Coaching & Managerial Roles

Trophies Won

1973-76 Le Touquet AC
Player Manager
1 Jul 1973 to 30 Jul 1976

1976-82 Nœux-les-Mines
Manager
1 Jul 1976 to 30 Jun 1982

1982-85 RC Lens
Manager
Ligue 1
1 Jul 1982 to 30 Jun 1985
🕒 133 | PPG 1.47
Career Form: Top 8

1985-88 Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
Manager
Ligue 1
1 Jul 1985 to 25 Oct 1987
🕒 106 | PPG 1.62
Career Form: Top 6

1988-92 France
Assistant Manager
1 Jul 1988 to 30 Jun 1992

1992-93 France
Manager
1 Jul 1992 to 25 Nov 1993

1994-96 France
u18s Manager
1 Jul 1994 to 30 Jun 1996

1996-97 France
u20s Manager
1 Jul 1996 to 30 Jun 1997

1998 Liverpool
Joint Manager
Premier League
1 Jul 1998 to 12 Nov 1998
🕒 18 | PPG 1.50
Career Form: Top 8

1998-04 Liverpool
Manager
Premier League
12 Nov 1998 to 30 Jun 2004
🕒 307 | PPG 1.79
Career Form: Top 6

2005-07 Olympique Lyonnais
Manager
Ligue 1
1 Jul 2005 to 25 May 2007
🕒 108 | PPG 2.15
Career Form: Champions

2007-10 France
Technical Director
14 Sep 2007 to 8 Sep 2010

1985-86 Division 1
Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

2000-01 FA Cup
Liverpool

2000-01 UEFA Cup
Liverpool

2000-01 League Cup
Liverpool

2002-03 League Cup
Liverpool

2005-06 Ligue 1
Olympique Lyonnais

2006-07 Ligue 1
Olympique Lyonnais

Joined Villa

Joined	Age	Arrived from
9 September 2010	63	France Technical Director

Appointed Manager

Appointed	Appointed	Appointed From	Succeeding
9 September 2010	63	French Football Federation Technical Director	Kevin MacDonald \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \|

Villa Managerial Debut

Debut Game
🟩 22 September 2010, League Cup, Villa 3-1 Blackburn, Villa Park

Notable Players

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
CF Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Supported by

Gary McAllister

Served under

2010-11
Chairman, Randolph Lerner
Chief Executive, Paul Faulkner

Villa Honours

Managed the Villa

Final Villa Managerial Game

Final Game
🟩 16 April 2011, Villa 2-1 West Ham, Upton Park

Left Managerial Position

Left	Age	Succeeded By
17 June 2011	64	Gary McAllister \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \|

Following Martin O'Neill's childish strop Villa had time and money to make the right appointment to build on the Northern Irishman's foundations. They didn't. Bizarrely choosing Houllier as their man they even allowed his arrogance to be rewarded by not insisting he started the job immediately. In what was undoubtedly the least welcome appointment since Graham Turner in 1984 Houllier did as everyone expected. Demoralised players, demoralised fans, a collapse in form and non-stop dismissive arrogance. Quite how it had come to this after the previous four seasons of progression was unfathomable. That it presaged a series of awful managerial appointments that ultimately led to relegation five years later simply underlines the stupidity of hiring Houllier. With health issues removing him from his role before the season's end at least there was respite from his nonsense but the club had been broken in his 30+ games and would take nearly a decade to recover.

Villa Career

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Subsequent Coaching & Managerial Roles

None

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

Manager #25 for Aston Villa, Gérard Houllier. Randy Lerner’s first managerial appointment was a fine one, justifiably lauded at the time, delivering three successive top six finishes before imploding in spectacularly selfish fashion. Martin O’Neill and Randy Lerner had looked a match made in heaven only to become a toxic and poisonous millstone around Villa’s neck.

O’Neill’s ultimately selfish actions left Villa in the lurch but what few had realised and appreciated was the paucity of the Villa boardroom and the lack of talent therein which let the disappointment of O’Neill’s selfish denouement become an unmitigated disaster.

A talented Villa executive hierarchy, could and should have had a plan of action for replacing a known combustible head coach. They didn’t and Villa descended into a chaos they had no right to.

Perennial caretaker manager Kevin MacDonald - yet to be revealed as an alleged bully of the youth team ranks - oversaw an opening day 3-0 win but soon saw him deliver a crushing defeat away to Newcastle that illustrated just how rudderless Villa had become.

Despite his obvious incompatibility MacDonald offered himself up as a permanent replacement for O’Neill whilst the board scraped the very lowest of the managerial barrel by interviewing the likes of Sven-Goran Eriksson and Alan Curbishley.

Incredulously, ex Villa midfielder Curbishley thought he was to be the new manger recalling “I was really disappointed that I didn’t get it, because when I met Randy Lerner I thought it was very close.“ That Curbishley had never managed a big club and had a woeful reputation and been out of the game for a significant period of time didn’t appear to worry the Villa board and it set in motion the direction in which Villa would head.

That direction would be the equally unlikely - and long time out of the managerial ‘game’ - Gérard Houllier.

At this point it was blatantly obvious that the Villa hierarchy had no idea what they were doing. MacDonald, Eriksson, Curbishley and Houllier was stepping back, at best a decade, at worst to disaster.

Lerner and his CEO Faulkner, equally inexperienced and unsuccessful in the football world appointed Houllier and accepted his dismissive and insulting assertion that he was too busy to take up his new role until later in September 2010. By that point Villa’s direction had been set and cast.

Houllier was hopeless, insulting but overall extremely lucky. That ‘his’ side finished 9th bears no relation to on field performance. That he installed the culture of a ‘bomb squad’ to ostracise first team players. That he continually operated a them and us approach, with the us often being his former club Liverpool. That he either failed to recognise or refused to acknowledge the club’s heritage. That he failed to complete a season he had willingly delayed starting. That he suffered from the ill-health he had claimed would not preclude him from his candidacy. All in Houllier was not the man for Villa and Villa was not for the likes of Houllier.

With any passing of an individual, retrospectives will always be kind, yet Houllier was out of his depth with Villa and should not have been appointed. That he was ostensibly the best of an appalling bunch does not excuse the myopic, badly planned and badly executed actions of the Villa hierarchy.

Houllier was another O’Leary yet with a greater level of vindictiveness. Brad Friedel suffered from their previous relationship. As did Stephen Warnock. Even Stiliyan Petrov, the most mild mannered and committed of men, fell foul of Houllier’s autocracy. Gabby Agbonlahor lost his way under Houllier after he was told to change his physique - akin to a layman telling a golf pro to change his swing to something he happens to prefer. Perhaps the most jarring however was the treatment of Stephen Ireland.

Ireland was signed as a makeweight in the deal that took James Milner to Manchester City, and although he was a talented player he was far too flawed to be a success at the top level. The onus however was on the Villa hierarchy to bring the best out of him. Imagine the picture then Ireland signing the papers to his contract and staying at The Belfry Hotel down the road from Bodymoor Heath ahead of his first day training only to see that O’Neill had quit.

In Ireland’s own retelling: “Some of the things that happen to me are absolutely nuts. Houllier came in and it was like, ‘You’re a very good player but I didn’t sign you so I don’t want you here’.”

“It baffles me how that guy has ever got a football job, and it scares me. It makes me think that I could easily be a manager if he’s doing it. My gardener could easily be a manager if he’s got a job, I thought he was that bad.”

Despite his admitted bias that is the most damning of indictment of Villa’s chosen manager and few disagreed, apart from that is the Villa board.

The lamentable CEO Paul Faulkner claimed “[Houllier’s] plans were very exciting. Together we would have executed it. It could have been a Sliding Doors moment for the club.”

Notwithstanding the nonsensical Sliding Doors reference which carries no logical relevance, amongst Houllier’s exciting plans was a comfy job as director of football and the appointment of the roundly unpopular Gary McAllister as Villa boss. 10 years later McAllister has still yet to hold any managerial position at any club at any level since leaving Villa. “Exciting”

Unsurprisingly, the last remnants of talent from the O’Neill era either left or were forced out of the club following their experience and treatment at the hands of Houllier. Villa lost Ashley Young and Stewart Downing and left record signing Darren Bent without a creative support structure that his footballing limitations so desperately required. Villa were truly without any cohesive strategy or leadership and having inherited an avoidable disaster from the self interest of Martin O’Neill, doubled down on mediocrity and mismanagement that rendered Villa unrecognisable from 12 months previously.

Gérard passed away in Paris aged 73 on 14 December 2020.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

After 25 Games

Name	🟩 %	🟥 %	PPG
John Gregory \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1998-02 \|	78% ⭐	12% ⭐	2.40 ⭐
George Ramsay \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1886-26 \|	64%	12% ⭐	2.30
Management Committee 1879-86	64%	20%	2.08
Unai Emery \| 🇪🇸 \| 2022-	56%	32%	1.80
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1987-90 \|	48%	24%	1.72
Tony Barton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1982-84 \|	48%	24%	1.72
Tommy Docherty \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1968-70 \|	48%	24%	1.72
Ron Saunders \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1974-82 \|	44%	20%	1.68
Alex Massie \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1945-50 \|	48%	32%	1.64
Jimmy Hogan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1936-39 \|	44%	28%	1.60
Jozef Vengloš \| 🇨🇿 \| 1990-91 \|	44%	28%	1.60
David O'Leary \| 🇮🇪 \| 2003-06 \|	44%	32%	1.56
Ron Atkinson \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1991-94 \|	44%	36%	1.52
Dean Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2018-21 \|	36%	28%	1.44
Vic Crowe \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 \| 1970-74 \|	40%	36%	1.44
Steve Bruce \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2016-18 \|	40%	40%	1.40
Tommy Cummings \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1967-68 \|	44%	48%	1.40
George Martin \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1950-53 \|	36%	36%	1.36
Alex McLeish \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2011-12 \|	32%	32%	1.32
Billy McNeill \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1986-87 \|	32%	32%	1.32
Gérard Houllier \| 🇫🇷 \| 2010-11 \|	36%	40%	1.32
Steven Gerrard \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2021-22 \|	40%	48%	1.32
Brian Little \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1994-98 \|	32%	32%	1.32
Martin O'Neill \| 🇬🇧 \| 2006-10 \|	28%	28%	1.28
Joe Mercer \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1958-64 \|	36%	44%	1.28
Billy Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1926-34 \|	36%	48%	1.25
Tim Sherwood \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2015 \|	40%	52%	1.24
Jimmy McMullan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1934-36 \|	32%	40%	1.24
Graham Turner \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1984-86 \|	32%	40%	1.24
Paul Lambert \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2012-15 \|	32%	40%	1.24
Dick Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1964-67 \|	36%	56% ‼️	1.16
Eric Houghton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1953-58 \|	32%	52%	1.12 ‼️
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2002-03 \|	28% ‼️	52%	1.04

⭐ Best performance of any Villa boss
‼️ Worst performance of any Villa boss

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

After 50 Games

Name	🟩 %	🟥 %	PPG
Unai Emery \| 🇪🇸 \| 2022-	62% ⭐	26%	1.98 ⭐
George Ramsay \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1886-26 \|	58%	20% ⭐	1.96
Ron Saunders \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1974-82 \|	56%	20% ⭐	1.92
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1987-90 \|	52%	26%	1.78
Joe Mercer \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1958-64 \|	50%	28%	1.72
John Gregory \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1998-02 \|	52%	32%	1.72
Dean Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2018-21 \|	48%	28%	1.68
Tony Barton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1982-84 \|	50%	32%	1.68
Vic Crowe \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 \| 1970-74 \|	44%	28%	1.60
David O'Leary \| 🇮🇪 \| 2003-06 \|	44%	30%	1.58
Alex Massie \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1945-50 \|	46%	34%	1.58
Jimmy Hogan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1936-39 \|	44%	34%	1.54
Steve Bruce \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2016-18 \|	44%	34%	1.54
Brian Little \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1994-98 \|	40%	28%	1.52
George Martin \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1950-53 \|	40%	34%	1.46
Ron Atkinson \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1991-94 \|	40%	36%	1.44
Martin O'Neill \| 🇬🇧 \| 2006-10 \|	34%	30%	1.38
Billy Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1926-34 \|	40%	42%	1.38
Dick Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1964-67 \|	40%	46% ‼️	1.34
Jimmy McMullan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1934-36 \|	34%	38%	1.30
Paul Lambert \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2012-15 \|	36%	42%	1.30
Graham Turner \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1984-86 \|	34%	40%	1.28
Tommy Docherty \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1968-70 \|	32% ‼️	36%	1.28
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2002-03 \|	34%	46% ‼️	1.22
Eric Houghton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1953-58 \|	32% ‼️	42%	1.22
Tommy Cummings \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1967-68 \|	34%	38%	1.20 ‼️

⭐ Best performance of any Villa boss
‼️ Worst performance of any Villa boss

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

After 75 Games

Name	🟩 %	🟥 %	PPG
Unai Emery \| 🇪🇸 \| 2022-	57% ⭐	25% ⭐	1.89 ⭐
Ron Saunders \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1974-82 \|	52%	25% ⭐	1.79
Joe Mercer \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1958-64 \|	52%	29%	1.75
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1987-90 \|	48%	25% ⭐	1.71
George Ramsay \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1886-26 \|	49%	31%	1.68
Jimmy Hogan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1936-39 \|	48%	31%	1.65
Steve Bruce \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2016-18 \|	48%	31%	1.65
John Gregory \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1998-02 \|	49%	33%	1.65
Brian Little \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1994-98 \|	45%	25% ⭐	1.65
Tony Barton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1982-84 \|	49%	35%	1.64
Ron Atkinson \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1991-94 \|	44%	29%	1.59
Vic Crowe \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 \| 1970-74 \|	40%	29%	1.51
Alex Massie \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1945-50 \|	43%	35%	1.51
Dean Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2018-21 \|	41%	37%	1.45
David O'Leary \| 🇮🇪 \| 2003-06 \|	40%	35%	1.45
Martin O'Neill \| 🇬🇧 \| 2006-10 \|	36%	28%	1.44
Billy Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1926-34 \|	43%	41%	1.44
Dick Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1964-67 \|	43%	43%	1.43
George Martin \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1950-53 \|	40%	39%	1.41
Graham Turner \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1984-86 \|	35%	39%	1.31
Eric Houghton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1953-58 \|	35%	39%	1.31
Paul Lambert \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2012-15 \|	32%	44% ‼️	1.20
Jimmy McMullan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1934-36 \|	31% ‼️	44% ‼️	1.17 ‼️

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After 100 Games

Name	🟩 %	🟥 %	PPG
Joe Mercer \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1958-64 \|	53%	28%	1.78 ⭐
Unai Emery \| 🇪🇸 \| 2022-	53% ⭐	29%	1.77 ⭐
John Gregory \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1998-02 \|	50%	29%	1.71
Jimmy Hogan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1936-39 \|	49%	32%	1.66
Ron Atkinson \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1991-94 \|	46%	27% ⭐	1.65
George Ramsay \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1886-26 \|	49%	34%	1.64
Steve Bruce \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2016-18 \|	46%	31%	1.61
Tony Barton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1982-84 \|	48%	35%	1.61
Brian Little \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1994-98 \|	44%	28%	1.60
Vic Crowe \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 \| 1970-74 \|	44%	29%	1.59
Ron Saunders \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1974-82 \|	43%	28%	1.58
Martin O'Neill \| 🇬🇧 \| 2006-10 \|	39%	27% ⭐	1.51
Billy Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1926-34 \|	42%	40%	1.51
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1987-90 \|	41%	32%	1.49
Dean Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2018-21 \|	42%	37%	1.49
Alex Massie \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1945-50 \|	43%	37%	1.49
George Martin \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1950-53 \|	39%	34%	1.44
David O'Leary \| 🇮🇪 \| 2003-06 \|	37%	38%	1.36
Eric Houghton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1953-58 \|	36%	37%	1.35
Dick Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1964-67 \|	39%	46%	1.32
Graham Turner \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1984-86 \|	33%	37%	1.29
Paul Lambert \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2012-15 \|	30% ‼️	48% ‼️	1.12 ‼️

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Home

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

Home Performance Comparison

Manager	🕒	🟩	🟩 %	🟨	🟨 %	🟥	🟥 %
Unai Emery \| 🇪🇸 \| 2022-	46	30	65.22% ⭐	5	10.87%	11	23.91%
Steven Gerrard \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2021-2022	19	6	31.58%	5	26.32%	8	42.11%
Dean Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2018-2021	68	29	42.65%	13	19.12%	26	38.24%
Steve Bruce \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2016-2018	51	28	54.90%	15	29.41%	8	15.69%
Roberto Di Matteo \| 🇮🇹 \| 2016	5	1	20.00% ‼️	4	80.00%	0	0.00%
Rémi Garde \| 🇫🇷 \| 2015-2016	12	3	25.00%	3	25.00%	6	50.00% ‼️
Tim Sherwood \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2015	15	6	40.00%	2	13.33%	7	46.67%
Paul Lambert \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2012-2015	59	19	32.20%	13	22.03%	27	45.76%
Alex McLeish \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2011-2012	21	5	23.81%	7	33.33%	9	42.86%
Gérard Houllier \| 🇫🇷 \| 2010-2011	16	8	50.00%	4	25.00%	4	25.00%
Martin O'Neill \| 🇬🇧 \| 2006-2010	92	41	44.57%	31	33.70%	20	21.74%
David O'Leary \| 🇮🇪 \| 2003-2006	66	30	45.45%	19	28.79%	17	25.76%
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2002-2003	31	16	51.61%	4	12.90%	11	35.48%
John Gregory \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1998-2002	97	50	51.55%	24	24.74%	23	23.71%
Brian Little \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1994-1998	79	43	54.43%	21	26.58%	15	18.99%
Ron Atkinson \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1991-1994	86	44	51.16%	21	24.42%	21	24.42%
Jozef Vengloš \| 🇨🇿 \| 1990-1991	25	12	48.00%	10	40.00%	3	12.00% ⭐
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1987-1990	77	40	51.95%	17	22.08%	20	25.97%
Billy McNeill \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1986-1987	21	9	42.86%	8	38.10%	4	19.05%
Graham Turner \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1984-1986	52	21	40.38%	17	32.69%	14	26.92%
Tony Barton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1982-1984	68	48	70.59%	9	13.24%	11	16.18%
Ron Saunders \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1974-1982	191	115	60.21%	44	23.04%	32	16.75%
Vic Crowe \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 \| 1970-1974	107	66	61.68%	27	25.23%	14	13.08%
Tommy Docherty \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1968-1970	28	13	46.43%	8	28.57%	7	25.00%
Tommy Cummings \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1967-1968	33	13	39.39%	8	24.24%	12	36.36%
Dick Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1964-1967	70	35	50.00%	10	14.29%	25	35.71%
Joe Mercer \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1958-1964	141	85	60.28%	27	19.15%	29	20.57%
Eric Houghton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1953-1958	120	59	49.17%	31	25.83%	30	25.00%
George Martin \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1950-1953	59	31	52.54%	15	25.42%	13	22.03%
Alex Massie \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1946-1950	93	46	49.46%	26	27.96%	21	22.58%
Jimmy Hogan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1936-1939	62	37	59.68%	11	17.74%	14	22.58%
Jimmy McMullan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1934-1936	50	21	42.00%	14	28.00%	15	30.00%
Billy Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1926-1934	182	121	66.48%	22	12.09%	39	21.43%
George Ramsay \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1886-1926	653	433	66.31%	120	18.38%	100	15.31%

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Away

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

Away Performance Comparison

Manager	🕒	🟩	🟩 %	🟨	🟨 %	🟥	🟥 %
Unai Emery \| 🇪🇸 \| 2022-	46	21	45.65%	11	23.91%	14	30.43%
Steven Gerrard \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2021-2022	21	7	33.33%	3	14.29%	11	52.38%
Dean Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2018-2021	71	25	35.21%	15	21.13%	31	43.66%
Steve Bruce \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2016-2018	50	18	36.00%	10	20.00%	22	44.00%
Roberto Di Matteo \| 🇮🇹 \| 2016	7	0	0.00% ‼️	3	42.86%	4	57.14%
Rémi Garde \| 🇫🇷 \| 2015-2016	11	0	0.00% ‼️	4	36.36%	7	63.64%
Tim Sherwood \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2015	11	3	27.27%	0	0.00%	8	72.73% ‼️
Paul Lambert \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2012-2015	56	15	26.79%	13	23.21%	28	50.00%
Alex McLeish \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 2011-2012	21	4	19.05%	10	47.62%	7	33.33%
Gérard Houllier \| 🇫🇷 \| 2010-2011	18	4	22.22%	5	27.78%	9	50.00%
Martin O'Neill \| 🇬🇧 \| 2006-2010	96	39	40.63%	29	30.21%	28	29.17% ⭐
David O'Leary \| 🇮🇪 \| 2003-2006	65	17	26.15%	16	24.62%	32	49.23%
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 2002-2003	29	3	10.34%	10	34.48%	16	55.17%
John Gregory \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1998-2002	88	31	35.23%	26	29.55%	31	35.23%
Brian Little \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1994-1998	83	24	28.92%	24	28.92%	35	42.17%
Ron Atkinson \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1991-1994	93	33	35.48%	24	25.81%	36	38.71%
Jozef Vengloš \| 🇨🇿 \| 1990-1991	24	4	16.67%	5	20.83%	15	62.50%
Graham Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1987-1990	73	29	39.73%	18	24.66%	26	35.62%
Billy McNeill \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1986-1987	22	1	4.55%	7	31.82%	14	63.64%
Graham Turner \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1984-1986	55	13	23.64%	13	23.64%	29	52.73%
Tony Barton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1982-1984	67	14	20.90%	16	23.88%	37	55.22%
Ron Saunders \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1974-1982	197	61	30.96%	59	29.95%	77	39.09%
Vic Crowe \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 \| 1970-1974	112	32	28.57%	35	31.25%	45	40.18%
Tommy Docherty \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1968-1970	25	3	12.00%	9	36.00%	13	52.00%
Tommy Cummings \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1967-1968	31	5	16.13%	6	19.35%	20	64.52%
Dick Taylor \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1964-1967	75	17	22.67%	12	16.00%	46	61.33%
Joe Mercer \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1958-1964	135	33	24.44%	35	25.93%	67	49.63%
Eric Houghton \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1953-1958	121	26	21.49%	31	25.62%	64	52.89%
George Martin \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1950-1953	60	16	26.67%	15	25.00%	29	48.33%
Alex Massie \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1946-1950	91	28	30.77%	19	20.88%	44	48.35%
Jimmy Hogan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1936-1939	60	19	31.67%	15	25.00%	26	43.33%
Jimmy McMullan \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1934-1936	49	11	22.45%	13	26.53%	25	51.02%
Billy Smith \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \| 1926-1934	180	54	30.00%	45	25.00%	81	45.00%
George Ramsay \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 \| 1886-1926	644	207	32.14%	132	20.50%	305	47.36%

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Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

Match List

Match	#	PPG	🟩	🟨	🟥	🟩 %	🟨 %	🟥 %
🟩 22 September 2010, Villa 3-1 Blackburn, Villa Park.	1	3.00	1	0	0	100.00%	100.00%	0.00%
🟩 26 September 2010, Villa 2-1 Wolves, Molineux.	2	3.00	2	0	0	100.00%	100.00%	0.00%
🟥 2 October 2010, Villa 1-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane.	3	2.00	2	0	1	66.67%	66.67%	33.33%
🟨 16 October 2010, Villa 0-0 Chelsea, Villa Park.	4	1.75	2	1	1	50.00%	75.00%	25.00%
🟥 23 October 2010, Villa 0-1 Sunderland, Stadium of Light.	5	1.40	2	1	2	40.00%	60.00%	40.00%
🟩 27 October 2010, Villa 2-1 Burnley, Villa Park.	6	1.67	3	1	2	50.00%	66.67%	33.33%
🟨 31 October 2010, Villa 0-0 Birmingham, Villa Park.	7	1.57	3	2	2	42.86%	71.43%	28.57%
🟨 6 November 2010, Villa 1-1 Fulham, Craven Cottage.	8	1.50	3	3	2	37.50%	75.00%	25.00%
🟩 10 November 2010, Villa 3-2 Blackpool, Villa Park.	9	1.67	4	3	2	44.44%	77.78%	22.22%
🟨 13 November 2010, Villa 2-2 United, Villa Park.	10	1.60	4	4	2	40.00%	80.00%	20.00%
🟥 21 November 2010, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Ewood Park.	11	1.45	4	4	3	36.36%	72.73%	27.27%
🟥 27 November 2010, Villa 2-4 Arsenal, Villa Park.	12	1.33	4	4	4	33.33%	66.67%	33.33%
🟥 1 December 2010, Villa 1-2 Birmingham, St Andrew's.	13	1.23	4	4	5	30.77%	61.54%	38.46%
🟥 6 December 2010, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.	14	1.14	4	4	6	28.57%	57.14%	42.86%
🟩 11 December 2010, Villa 2-1, Albion, Villa Park.	15	1.27	5	4	6	33.33%	60.00%	40.00%
🟥 26 Dec 2010, Villa 1-2, Spurs, Villa Park.	16	1.19	5	4	7	31.25%	56.25%	43.75%
🟥 28 December 2010, Villa 0-4, Abu Dhabi, City Stadium.	17	1.12	5	4	8	29.41%	52.94%	47.06%
🟨 2 January 2011, Villa 3-3 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge.	18	1.11	5	5	8	27.78%	55.56%	44.44%
🟥 5 January 2011, Villa 0-1 Sunderland, Villa Park.	19	1.05	5	5	9	26.32%	52.63%	47.37%
🟩 8 January 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane.	20	1.15	6	5	9	30.00%	55.00%	45.00%
🟨 16 January 2011, Villa 1-1 Birmingham, St Andrew's.	21	1.14	6	6	9	28.57%	57.14%	42.86%
🟩 22 January 2011, Villa 1-0 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.	22	1.23	7	6	9	31.82%	59.09%	40.91%
🟩 25 January 2011, Villa 2-1 Wigan, DW Stadium.	23	1.30	8	6	9	34.78%	60.87%	39.13%
🟩 29 January 2011, Villa 3-1 Blackburn, Villa Park.	24	1.38	9	6	9	37.50%	62.50%	37.50%
🟥 1 February 2011, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford.	25	1.32	9	6	10	36.00%	60.00%	40.00%

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Match List

Matches

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Matches

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🟩 22 September 2010, Villa 3-1 Blackburn, Villa Park.

Game #5090

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Chris Foy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | St. Helens, 1996-2015
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #8 |
Manager Game | #1 |
Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Emile Heskey | 59’ | Ashley Young | 75’ | 77’ |

Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 59' | Nathan Delfouneso | 75' | Emile Heskey | 77' |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | for CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31’ |
🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 | for CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 58’ |
🔁 CB Curtis Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 | for CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 76’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |

Starting XI

GK Mark Bunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Martin Olsson | 🇸🇪 |
CB Gaël Givet | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |
CB Ryan Nelsen | 🇳🇿 | 🔁 |
CB Phil Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Pascal Chimbonda | 🇬🇵 |
M Morten Gamst Pedersen | 🇳🇴 |
M Steven N’Zonzi | 🇫🇷 |
W Junior Hoilett | 🇨🇦 | 🔁 |
W Brett Emerton | 🇦🇺 |
CF Benjani | 🇿🇼 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Ryan Nelsen | 🇳🇿 | (CB Christopher Samba | 🇨🇬 |)
🔁 | W Junior Hoilett | 🇨🇦 | (CF Nikola Kalinić | 🇭🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Benjani | 🇿🇼 | (CF Mame Diouf | 🇸🇳 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Frank Fielding | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Josh Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Amine Linganzi | 🇨🇬
CF El Hadji Diouf | 🇸🇳 |

Match Timeline

🔁 | 31’ Sub off, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Sub on, Nathan Delfouneso
🥅 | 34’ Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Gaël Givet
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
🔁 | 58’ Sub off, John Carew, Sub on, Emile Heskey
⚽ | 59’ Goal, 1-1, Emile Heskey, Assist by Ashley Young
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 2-1, Ashley Young, Assist by Nathan Delfouneso
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Ciaran Clark, Sub on, Curtis Davies 🔴
⚽ | 77’ Goal, 3-1, Ashley Young, Assist by Emile Heskey
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-1 Blackburn Rovers

On This Day

Villa's new manager finally bothers to turn up as Villa win in the League Cup third round.
Gérard Houllier’s first game in charge came against familiar Cup foes Blackburn and despite going a goal down, Villa launched a spirited comeback with Houllier making an immediate impact with his first tactical substitution for the club as Emile Heskey scores just a minute after coming on to hand Villa the lead.
Despite the win, concerns were already being aired, as Houllier had actually been appointed on 8 September but elected to not take up his new role immediately. The perception that Houllier wasn’t fully committed would prove hard to shake.
Houllier didn't help himself by damning his match winner with feint praise as almost in an act of sinility he contradicted himself to the point of cringeworthy embarrassment whilst undermining Ashley Young's previous 4 years in a Villa shirt .
Centre back Curtis Davies, 25, makes his 67th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (60 Starts) before moving on to Birmingham City in January 2011 for a fee of £3,600,000. Davies joined Villa in August 2007 from West Bromwich Albion, however, over the previous twelve months Davies had barely featured due to injury would leave with a record of W32 D19 L16, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 4 Bookings from his 4 seasons with the club.
John Carew secures his 50th win in a Villa shirt on his 100th start and 125th appearance to make it W50 D41 L34, 48 Goals, 12 Assists and 10 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.67 starts he has made so far in his Villa career.
Nathan Delfouneso contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 29th appearance (22 Starts) to make it W11 D8 L10, 6 Goals, 1 Assist and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Emile Heskey secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 61st appearance (39 Starts) to make it W25 D19 L17, 9 Goals, 4 Assists and 3 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 26 September 2010, Villa 2-1 Wolves, Molineux.

Game #5091

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 2.05pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #9 |
League Game | #6 |
Manager Game | #2 |
Sunday, 26 September 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Stewart Downing | 25’ | Emile Heskey | 88’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔥 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 67’ |
🔁 M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 86’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Curtis Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Marcus Hahnemann | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Ward | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Jody Craddock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Christophe Berra | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Kevin Foley | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M David Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Karl Henry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Matt Jarvis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Steven Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Kevin Doyle | 🇮🇪 |

Substitutes

🔁 | LB Stephen Ward | 🇮🇪 | (CB George Elokobi | 🇨🇲 |)
🔁 | RB Kevin Foley | 🇮🇪 | (CB Richard Stearman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M David Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (M Adlène Guédioura | 🇩🇿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Wayne Hennessey | 🇮🇪 |
M Nenad Milijaš | 🇷🇸 |
CF Marcus Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Sylvan Ebanks-Blake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

🟨 | 18’ Booking, Stephen Warnock
⚽ | 25’ Goal, 1-0, Stewart Downing, Assist by Marc Albrighton
🕒 | HT Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 61’ Goal, 1-1, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Matt Jarvis
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Stiliyan Petrov, Sub on, Steve Sidwell
⚽ | 88’ Goal, 2-1, Emile Heskey, Assist by Stephen Warnock
🟨 | 90’+2 Booking, Steve Sidwell
🕒 | FT Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Aston Villa

On This Day

Villa record their first Premier League win of the season under Gérard Houllier as Wolves are beaten at Molineux.
Gérard Houllier seems to help his cause to overturn the doubters by securing a first away League win of the season at the first attempt as Emile Heskey scores for the second game in succession as his revival under Houllier continues. Villa rise to 5th in the early Premier League table with 10 points from 6 games.
Yet the suitability of Houllier to the role is totally undermined when it is revealed that he is yet to sign a contract to manage Villa. Having agreed to take over in 8 September - and wilfully delayed his start - he had subsequently not signed a contract attempting to justify his actions by saying “This is not important. I think at Liverpool, I didn’t sign until November or December.” Of course anyone even on nodding terms with reality knew that this wasn’t strictly true and so Houllier simply reinforced the suspicions of many that this wasn’t a manager committed to the Villa cause.
Stephen Warnock contributes his 5th assist and secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 49th appearance to make it W25 D13 L11, 1 Goal, 5 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 2 October 2010, Villa 1-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

Game #5092

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #10 |
League Game | #7 |
Manager Game | #3 |
Saturday, 2 October 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Marc Albrighton | 16’ |

Assist(s) | Emile Heskey | 16’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | for CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 35’ |
🔁 M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |
🔁 M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 81’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Heurelho Gomes | 🇧🇷 |
LB Benoît Assou-Ekotto | 🇨🇲 |
CB Sébastien Bassong | 🇨🇲 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Tom Huddlestone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jermaine Jenas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Rafael van der Vaart | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Luka Modrić | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |
W Gareth Bale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Roman Pavlyuchenko | 🇷🇺 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Rafael van der Vaart | 🇳🇱 | (M Sandro | 🇧🇷 |)
🔁 | M Luka Modrić | 🇭🇷 | (M Wilson Palacios | 🇭🇳 |)
🔁 | CF Roman Pavlyuchenko | 🇷🇺 | (W Aaron Lennon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Carlo Cudicini | 🇮🇹 |
CB Vedran Corluka | 🇭🇷 |
M Niko Kranjcar | 🇭🇷 |
CF Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa lose for the first time under Gérard Houllier to make it three defeats in seven Premier League games so far this season.
Gérard Houllier suffers his first defeat as Villa boss despite taking an early lead through Marc Albrighton from an assist by an apparently revitalised Emile Heskey. Heskey would however go off injured before half time.
Emile Heskey contributes his 15th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 63rd appearance (41 Starts) to make it W26 D19 L18, 10 Goals, 5 Assists and 3 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Marc Albrighton scores his 1st goal and contributes his 5th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 16th appearance (10 Starts) to make it W6 D3 L7, 1 Goal, 4 Assists and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Ashley Young collects his 25th booking on his 159th appearance (156 Starts) to make it W71 D47 L41, 32 Goal, 51 Assists and 25 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Richard Dunne makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W22 D16 L12, 3 Goals and 9 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Stephen Warnock makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W25 D13 L12, 1 Goal, 5 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 16 October 2010, Villa 0-0 Chelsea, Villa Park.

Game #5093

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Lee Mason | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 2006-2021
Kick off: 5.30pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #11 |
League Game | #8 |
Manager Game | #4 |
Saturday, 16 October 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 | for CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 13’ |
🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 74’ |
🔁 M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 84’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Petr Čech | 🇨🇿 |
LB Ashley Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Terry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
RB Branislav Ivanović | 🇷🇸 |
RB Paulo Ferreira | 🇵🇹 | 🔁 |
M Michael Essien | 🇬🇭 | 🟨 |
M Ramires | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
M John Mikel Obi | 🇳🇬 |
M Gaël Kakuta | 🇨🇩 | 🔁 |
W Florent Malouda | 🇫🇷 |
CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 |

Substitutes

🔁 | RB Paulo Ferreira | 🇵🇹 | (RB Boswinga | 🇵🇹 |)
🔁 | M Ramires | 🇧🇷 | (M Josh McEachran | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | M Gaël Kakuta | 🇨🇩 | (LB Yuri Zhirkov | 🇷🇺 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Ross Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jeffrey Bruma | 🇳🇱 |
M Jacob Mellis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Fabio Borini | 🇮🇹 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa record a creditable draw against leaders Chelsea as Gérard Houllier makes it a win, a draw and a defeat in his first three Premier League games in charge.
Villa beaten 10-1 on aggregate by Chelsea in their last two meetings hold the early League leaders at Villa Park in another good performance under Gérard Houllier following defeat last time out.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 23 October 2010, Villa 0-1 Sunderland, Stadium of Light.

Game #5094

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #12 |
League Game | #9 |
Manager Game | #5 |
Saturday, 23 October 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 40’ |
🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 55’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 |

Starting XI

GK Simon Mingolet | 🇧🇪 |
RB Phil Bardsley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Michael Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nedum Onuoha | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Titus Bramble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | 🔁 |
M Lee Cattermole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steed Malbranque | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jordan Henderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Danny Wellbeck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | (W Boudewijn Zenden | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | M Steed Malbranque | 🇫🇷 | (CB John Mensah | 🇬🇭 |)
🔁 | CF Danny Wellbeck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Asamoah Gyan | 🇬🇭 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Craig Gordon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Paulo da Silva | 🇵🇾 |
CB Anton Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Cristian Riveros | 🇵🇾 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa lose their 2nd game in 3 under Gérard Houllier and have won just once in the the last 6 Premier League matches, losing 3. As a result Villa fall back to 10th in the table after nine games.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 27 October 2010, Villa 2-1 Burnley, Villa Park.

Game #5095

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mike Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester, 1997-2018
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
AET Score: 🟩 2-1
AET Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #13 |
Manager Game | #6 |
Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Full Match Report

Scorers | Emile Heskey | 86’ | Stewart Downing | 96’ |

Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 86' |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 | for M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 59’ |
🔁 W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 64’ |
🔁 CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 118’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Daniel Johnson | 🇯🇲 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Lee Grant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Danny Fox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Michael Duff | 🇬🇧 |
CB Clarke Carlisle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽) |
RB Graham Alexander | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Tyrone Mears | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jack Cork | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Dean Marney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Ross Wallace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Martin Paterson | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
CF Jay Rodriquez | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Jack Cork | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Steven Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Dean Marney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Wade Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Martin Paterson | 🇬🇧 | (CF Chris Iwelumo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Brian Jensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB André Bikey | 🇨🇲 |
CB David Edgar | 🇨🇦 |
LB Brian Easton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa need extra time to beat Championship side Burnley in the fourth round of the League Cup.
Marc Albrighton is sent off on his 18th appearance in a Villa (11 Starts) to make it W7 D3 L8, 1 Goals, 4 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card.
Nigel Reo-Coker makes his 100th appearance in a Villa shirt (87 Starts) to make it W46 D25 L29, 3 Goals, 4 Assists, 20 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
James Collins secures his 20th win in a Villa shirt on his 46th Appearance (44 Starts) to make it W20 D15 L11, 2 Goals and 8 Bookings.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 31 October 2010, Villa 0-0 Birmingham, Villa Park.

Game #5096

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Howard Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rotherham, 2000-2014
Kick off: 12.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #14 |
League Game | #10 |
Manager Game | #7 |
Sunday, 31 October 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 58’ |
🔁 CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Ben Foster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Stephen Carr | 🇮🇪 |
CB Liam Ridgewell (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Roger Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Scott Dann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Sebastian Larsson | 🇸🇪 |
M Craig Gardner (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🤡 |
M Barry Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Keith Fahey (yth) | 🇮🇪 |
M Aleksandr Hleb | 🇧🇾 | 🔁 |
CF Nikola Žigić | 🇷🇸 | 🟨 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Aleksandr Hleb | 🇧🇾 | (CF Cameron Jerome | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Maik Taylor | 🇬🇧 |
RB Stuart Parnaby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Jean Beausejour | 🇨🇱 |
M Michel | 🇪🇸 |
M Lee Bowyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Kevin Phillips (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa fail to score for the third successive League game under Gérard Houllier and and are winless in four.
After 10 Premier League games Villa have a record of P10 W3 D3 L4 as they fell back to 14th in the table - their lowest position of the season.
Villa fail to beat Birmingham for the first time in 7 matches but make it 12 wins and 3 draws in their last 19 meetings with their neighbours dating back to 1987.
Steve Sidwell, 27, makes his final appearance for Villa before moving on to Fulham for a fee of £540,000 in January 2011. Villa had paid Chelsea £5,670,000 for Sidwell’s services in July 2008 from where he had delivered W36 D17 L11, 4 Goals, 3 Assists, 11 Bookings across his 2.5 seasons with the club before leaving for less than 10% of his original purchase fee.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 6 November 2010, Villa 1-1 Fulham, Craven Cottage.

Game #5097

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Peter Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northamptonshire, 1998-2012
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #15 |
League Game | #11 |
Manager Game | #8 |
Saturday, 6 November 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Marc Albrighton | 41’ |

Assist(s) | Barry Bannan | 41’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33’ |
🔁 M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | for F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Starting XI

GK Mark Schwarzer | 🇦🇺 |
CB Carlos Salcido | 🇲🇽 | 🔁 |
CB Brede Hangeland | 🇳🇴 | ⚽ |
CB Aaron Hughes (ex) | 🇬🇧 |
RB Chris Baird | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Zoltán Gera | 🇭🇺 |
M Danny Murphy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jonathan Greening | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Simon Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Clint Dempsey | 🇺🇸 |
CF Mousa Dembélé | 🇧🇪 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Carlos Salcido | 🇲🇽 | (W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | RB Chris Baird | 🇬🇧 | (RB Stephen Kelly | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | M Jonathan Greening | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Andy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK David Stockdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Paintsil | 🇬🇭 |
M Dickson Etuhu | 🇳🇬 |
CF Eddie Johnson | 🇺🇸 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa score for the first time in four League games are now winless in five under Gérard Houllier as they concede a 94' equaliser to remain 14th in the table.
Brad Friedel makes his 100th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W45 D31 L24, 119 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.19 goals per game, 33 Clean Sheets (33%), 1 Booking and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Barry Bannan contributes his first assist in a Villa shirt on his 9th appearance (5 Starts) to make it W3 D3 L3, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 1 Booking.
Meanwhile, Gérard Houllier picks another fight, this time with John Carew.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 10 November 2010, Villa 3-2 Blackpool, Villa Park.

Game #5098

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Anthony Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wythenshaw, 2006-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟩 3-2
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #16 |
League Game | #12 |
Manager Game | #9 |
Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Stewart Downing | 28’ | Nathan Delfouneso | 60’ | James Collins | 89’ |

Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 28’ | 60’ | Stewart Downing | 89’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 64’ |
🔁 M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |
🔁 RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 90’+3 |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
RB Shane Lowry | 🇮🇪 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Daniel Johnson | 🇯🇲 |

Starting XI

GK Richard Kingson | 🇬🇭 |
CB Chris Basham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Rob Edwards (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Dekel Keinan | 🇮🇱 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Keith Southern | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ludovic Sylvestre | 🇫🇷 |
W Matt Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W David Carney | 🇦🇺 |
F Jason Euell | 🇯🇲 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Marlon Harewood (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Brett Ormerod | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Dekel Keinan | 🇮🇱 | (CB Ian Evatt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Marlon Harewood (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF DJ Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | F Jason Euell | 🇯🇲 | (M Charlie Adam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Matt Gilks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Neal Eardley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Elliot Grandin | 🇫🇷 |
CF Luke Varney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

⚽ | 28’ Goal, 1-0, Stewart Downing, Assist by Ashley Young
🟨 | 39’ Booking, Ciaran Clark
🥅 | 45’+1 Goal, 1-1, (Blackpool), Marlon Harewood
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Blackpool
⚽ | 60’ Goal, 2-1, Nathan Delfouneso, Assist by Ashley Young
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Nathan Delfouneso, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🟨 | 75’ Booking, Stephen Warnock
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Stephen Ireland
🥅 | 87’ Goal, 2-2, (Blackpool), DJ Campbell
⚽ | 89’ Goal, 3-2, James Collins, Assist by Stewart Downing
🔁 | 90’+3 Sub off, Barry Bannan, Sub on, Eric Lichaj
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-2 Blackpool

On This Day

Villa win for the first time in six Premier League games under Gérard Houllier to help Villa climb to tenth in the table.
Villa reverse the script and after seeing an injury time equaliser rob them of a win last time out, an 89' James Collins goal earns Gérard Houllier a first win in six.
Dig a little deeper though and visitors Blackpool made ten changes and almost forced a draw as concerns mounted that at team - minus only James Milner - sat 10th in the table with 16 points after 12 games having sat fifth with 21 points 12 months previously under Martin O'Neill.
Gabriel Agbonlahor secures his 80th win in a Villa shirt 192 appearances (176 Starts) to make it W80 D57 L55, 52 Goals, 23 Assists and 15 Bookings.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 13 November 2010, Villa 2-2 United, Villa Park.

Game #5099

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Kick off: 12.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #17 |
League Game | #13 |
Manager Game | #10 |
Saturday, 13 November 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Ashley Young | 72’ pen | Marc Albrighton | 76’ |

Assist(s) | Stewart Downing | 76’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 78’ |
🔁 RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |
🔁 M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | 🟢 | for M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+1 |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
RB Shane Lowry | 🇮🇪 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Daniel Johnson | 🇯🇲 |

Starting XI

GK Edwin van der Sar | 🇳🇱 |
LB Patrice Evra | 🇫🇷 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Wes Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Nemanja Vidić | 🇷🇸 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
M Ji-Sung Park | 🇰🇷 | 🔁 |
M Michael Carrick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Darren Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Nani | 🇵🇹 | 🟨 |
CF Dimitar Berbatov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
CF Javier Hernández | 🇲🇽 | 🟨 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Ji-Sung Park | 🇰🇷 | (CB Chris Smalling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Dimitar Berbatov | 🇧🇬 | (M Gabriel Obertan | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Javier Hernández | 🇲🇽 | CF Frederico Macheda | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Ben Amos | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John O'Shea | 🇮🇪 |
RB Fábio Da Silva | 🇧🇷 |
M Darron Gibson | 🇮🇪 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa extend their unbeaten Premier League run to four winning once under Gérard Houllier as they climb to 9th in the table.
But Villa throw away a two goal League to miss out on a second successive League win over Manchester United after last season's victory at Old Trafford under Martin O'Neill.
Villa now have 1 League win in 7 under Gérard Houllier.
Midfielder Chris Herd makes his debut in a Villa shirt having graduated from the youth team to become the 829th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
James Collins makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (48 Starts) to make it W21 D18 L11, 3 Goals and 8 Bookings.
Stewart Downing makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (47 Starts) to make it W23 D16 L11, 8 Goals, 8 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one every 3.12 games played so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 21 November 2010, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Ewood Park.

Game #5100

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Michael Oliver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northumberland, 2007-
Kick off: 1.30pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #18 |
League Game | #14 |
Manager Game | #11 |
Sunday, 21 November 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 🟢 | for M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 69’ |
🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 78’ |
🔁 M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | for M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
RB Shane Lowry | 🇮🇪 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Paul Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Christopher Samba | 🇨🇬 |
CB Gaël Givet | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Ryan Nelsen | 🇳🇿 |
CB Phil Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Míchel Salgado | 🇪🇸 |
M David Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Morten Gamst Pedersen | 🇳🇴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Junior Hoilett | 🇨🇦 | 🔁 |
CF El-Hadji Diouf | 🇸🇳 |
CF Jason Roberts | 🇬🇩 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Gaël Givet | 🇫🇷 | (CB Pascal Chimbonda | 🇬🇵 |)
🔁 | M Morten Gamst Pedersen | 🇳🇴 | (M Hérold Goulon | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | W Junior Hoilett | 🇨🇦 | (CF Mame Diouf | 🇸🇳 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Mark Bunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Grant Hanley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Josh Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Nikola Kalinić | 🇭🇷 |

Match Timeline

🥅 | 45’+2 Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Morten Gamst Pedersen
🕒 | HT Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 61’ Booking, Ciaran Clark
🥅 | 66’ Goal, 0-2, (Blackburn Rovers), Morten Gamst Pedersen
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Stephen Ireland, Sub on, Robert Pirès 🟢
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Sub on, Nathan Delfouneso
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Jonathan Hogg, Sub on, Chris Herd
🕒 | FT Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Aston Villa

On This Day

Villa lose for the first time in five but now have just one win in eight Premier League games under Gérard Houllier after failing to score for the fourth time.
Robert Pirès makes his Villa debut aged 37 after joining Villa as a free agent earlier this month. Pirès, a surprising signing, becomes the 830th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football despite having already retired from first class football.
Brad Friedel concedes his 125th goal in a Villa shirt on his 103rd appearance to make it W46 D32 L25, 125 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.21 goals per game, 33 Clean Sheets (32%), 1 Booking and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Luke Young makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (73 Starts) to make it W32 D21 L22, 2 Goals and 12 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Ciaran Clark collects his 3rd Booking in a Villa shirt on just his 11th appearance (8 Starts) as it begins to become apparent that there may be disciplinary issues with the otherwise impressive youngster. Clark's record of W6 D3 L2 is tempered by his receiving of a caution every 3.67 games in his nascent Villa career.
Stephen Ireland makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (7 Starts) and has contributed precisely nothing over the period save for 1 booking. Ireland's record stands at W2 D3 L5, 0 Goals and 0 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 27 November 2010, Villa 2-4 Arsenal, Villa Park.

Game #5101

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 12.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 2-4
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #19 |
League Game | #15 |
Manager Game | #12 |
Saturday, 27 November 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Ciaran Clark | 52’ | 70’ |

Assist(s) | Richard Dunne | 70’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | 🟨 | ⚽ |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 46’ |
🔁 M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | for CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 66’ |
🔁 M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 86’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Łukasz Fabiański | 🇵🇱 |
LB Gaël Clichy | 🇫🇷 |
CB Laurent Koscielny | 🇫🇷 |
CB Sébastien Squillaci | 🇫🇷 |
RB Bacary Sagna | 🇫🇷 |
M Tomáš Rosický | 🇷🇸 | 🔁 |
M Samir Nasri | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Alex Song | 🇨🇲 |
M Jack Wilshere | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Andrey Arshavin | 🇷🇺 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Marouane Chamakh | 🇲🇦 | ⚽ | 🟨 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Tomáš Rosický | 🇷🇸 | (CB Johan Djourou |🇨🇭|)
🔁 | M Samir Nasri | 🇫🇷 | (M Denilson | 🇧🇷 |)
🔁 | F Andrey Arshavin | 🇷🇺 | (LB Kieran Gibbs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Wojciech Szczęsny | 🇵🇱 |
W Theo Walcott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Nicklas Bendtner | 🇩🇰 |
CF Robin van Persie | 🇳🇱 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa's awful run under Gérard Houllier continues as they lose for the second successive game and now have just one win in nine Premier League games
Gérard Houllier mystifyingly hands a start to Robert Pirès - a player who not only has not been playing regular football but who has also been without a club to keep match fit - unsurprisingly he lasts just 45' by which time Villa were two down and heading for a heavy defeat. Pirès' record is W0 D0 L2, 0 Goals and 0 Assists so far in his unexpected Villa career.
Ciaran Clark makes the scoreline more respectable with his first goals in a Villa shirt on his 12th appearance (9 Starts) however he picks up another caution to make it one booking for every 3 games played and W6 D3 L3 so far in his Villa career.
Richard Dunne contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 58th appearance to make it W23 D20 L15, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 9 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 1 December 2010, Villa 1-2 Birmingham, St Andrew's.

Game #5102

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Chris Foy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | St. Helens, 1996-2015
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #20 |
Manager Game | #13 |
Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 30’ |

Assist(s) | Ciaran Clark | 30’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 72’ |
🔁 M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | for M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’ |
🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+1 |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 |

Starting XI

GK Ben Foster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Roger Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Scott Dann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Liam Ridgewell (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Stephen Carr | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Lee Bowyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Sebastian Larsson | 🇸🇪 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Keith Fahey (yth) | 🇮🇪 |
M Barry Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Cameron Jerome | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Nikola Žigić | 🇷🇸 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Lee Bowyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Craig Gardner (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Sebastian Larsson | 🇸🇪 | (LB David Murphy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Nikola Žigić | 🇷🇸 | (CF Matt Derbyshire | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Maik Taylor | 🇬🇧 |
CB Martin Jiránek | 🇨🇿 |
LB Jean Beausejour | 🇨🇱 |
M Michel | 🇪🇸 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Gérard Houllier's messy reign continues as Villa lose to their neighbours in a Cup game for the first time since 1963.
Fresh from his first goals in a Villa shirt Ciaran Clark contributes his 1st assist on his 13th appearance (10 Starts) to make it W6 D3 L4, 2 Goal, 1 Assist and 4 Bookings.
James Collins makes his 50th start in a Villa shirt (52 Appearances) to make it W21 D18 L13, 3 Goals and 9 Bookings.
Stewart Downing makes his 50th start in a Villa shirt (53 Appearances) to make it W23 D16 L14, 8 Goals, 8 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one every 3.31 games played so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 6 December 2010, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

Game #5103

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #21 |
League Game | #16 |
Manager Game | #14 |
Monday, 6 December 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 46’ |
🔁 M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 65’ |
🔁 CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | for CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 66’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |

Starting XI

GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
LB Paul Konchesky | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Sotirios Kyrgiakos | 🇬🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Martin Škrtel | 🇷🇸 |
RB Glenn Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Raúl Meireles | 🇵🇹 |
M Lucas Leiva | 🇧🇷 |
W Maxi Rodríguez | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Ryan Babel | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ |
CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
CF David N’Gog | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Sotirios Kyrgiakos | 🇬🇷 | (RB Martin Kelly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Maxi Rodríguez | 🇦🇷 | (LB Fábio Aurélio | 🇧🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 | (M Joe Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Jones | 🇦🇺 |
M Christian Poulsen | 🇩🇰 |
M Jonjo Shelvey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Milan Jovanović | 🇷🇸 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

The sheer folly of appointing Gérard Houllier is laid bare at Anfield as Villa are defeated for a fourth successive game, fail to score for the fifth time in ten Premier League games having won just once. A team that had finished six for three consecutive seasons under Martin O'Neill was now languishing in 16th place, just two points above the relegation places as the divisive Houllier continued to strip any semblance of competence from the club.
Gérard Houllier's unreciprocated Liverpool love in on his return to Anfield was as unhelpful as it was embarrassing. Touching the "This is Anfield' sign was beyond the pale, the fact that the Liverpool fans only sang Houllier's name once they were three goals to the good was beyond excruciating. A lover unrequited passed over for something new, something he didn't really feel affection for but was with nonetheless. And his new flame couldn't stand him. Put us out of this misery.
Ciaran Clark collects his 5th booking in a Villa shirt on his 14th appearance (11 Starts) to make it a caution every 2.80 games and W6 D3 L5, 2 Goals and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.
Luke Young makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt (78 Appearances) to make it W32 D21 L25, 2 Goals and 12 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 11 December 2010, Villa 2-1, Albion, Villa Park.

Game #5104

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Game | #17 |
Manager Game | #15 |
Saturday, 11 December 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Stewart Downing | 25’ | Emile Heskey | 80’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 73’ |
🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |
🔁 M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+3 |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 |

Starting XI

GK Scott Carson (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Marek Čech | 🇷🇸 |
CB Gabriel Tamaş | 🇧🇪 |
CB Paul Scharner | 🇦🇹 | ⚽ |
CB Gonzalo Jara | 🇨🇱 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Somen Tchoyi | 🇨🇲 |
M James Morrison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Chris Brunt | 🇬🇧 |
M Graham Dorrans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Jerome Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Marc-Antoine Fortuné | 🇬🇫 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Gonzalo Jara | 🇨🇱 | (RB Steven Reid | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | M James Morrison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (CF Ishmael Miller | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Marc-Antoine Fortuné | 🇬🇫 | (CF Simon Cox | 🇮🇪 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Boaz Myhill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Pablo Ibanez | 🇪🇸 |
LB Nicky Shorey (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Youssef Mulumbu | 🇨🇩 |

Match Timeline

⚽ | 25’ Goal, 1-0, Stewart Downing, Assist by Ashley Young
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 West Bromwich Albion
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Barry Bannan, Sub on, Nigel Reo-Coker
⚽ | 80’ Goal, 2-0, Emile Heskey, Assist by Marc Albrighton
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Emile Heskey, Sub on, Nathan Delfouneso
🥅 | 89’ Goal, 2-1, (West Bromwich Albion), Paul Scharner
🔁 | 90’+3 Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Chris Herd
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-1 West Bromwich Albion

On This Day

Villa win for only the third time in eleven under Gérard Houllier as he remains deeply unpopular for his ill-judged comments following the Liverpool defeat.
Villa's win is their first in 6 matches under Gérard Houllier but all the focus was on his idiotic comments after the Liverpool defeat and the growing demands for his immediate dismissal.
Meanwhile, although a large swathe of senior players also felt the same way the spineless nature of the Villa boardroom saw no such action and instead they launched a public show of support despite widespread criticism.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 26 Dec 2010, Villa 1-2, Spurs, Villa Park.

Game #5105

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Kick off: 5.30pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Game | #18 |
Manager Game | #16 |
Sunday, 26 December 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Marc Albrighton | 82’ |

Assist(s) | Stephen Warnock | 82’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 39’ |
🔁 M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | for M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | for M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 74’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Heurelho Gomes | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 |
LB Benoît Assou-Ekotto | 🇨🇲 |
CB Younès Kaboul | 🇫🇷 |
CB Michael Dawson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Rafael van der Vaart | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Wilson Palacios | 🇭🇳 |
M Luka Modrić | 🇭🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Gareth Bale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
W Aaron Lennon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Jermaine Defoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Rafael van der Vaart | 🇳🇱 | (CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Luka Modrić | 🇭🇷 | (CB Vedran Ćorluka | 🇭🇷 |)
🔁 | W Aaron Lennon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Jermaine Jenas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Carlo Cudicini | 🇮🇹 |
CB Sébastien Bassong | 🇨🇲 |
M Niko Kranjcar | 🇭🇷 |
CF Roman Pavlyuchenko | 🇷🇺 |

Match Timeline

🥅 | 23’ Goal, 0-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Rafael van der Vaart
🟥 | 27’ Sending off, (Tottenham Hotspur), Jermaine Defoe
🟨 | 35’ Booking, Jonathan Hogg
🔁 | 39’ Sub off, Emile Heskey, Sub on, Nathan Delfouneso
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Jonathan Hogg, Sub on, Stiliyan Petrov
🟨 | 56’ Booking, Fabian Delph
🥅 | 67’ Goal, 0-2, (Tottenham Hotspur), Rafael van der Vaart
🔁 | 74’ Sub off Fabian Delph, Sub on, Robert Pirès
⚽ | 82’ Goal, 1-2, Marc Albrighton, Assist by Stephen Warnock
🟨 | 88’ Booking, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur

On This Day

Villa lose for the fourth time in five Premier League games to make it three wins in twelve under Gérard Houllier as they slump back to 15th in the table.
Whilst the defeat was chastening what was more concerning was that the gap of 15 days since the last game - Villa’s victory over Albion, which had been overshadowed by Houllier’s idiotic Liverpool comments - had been filled with further acrimony within the squad towards the manager.
17 December 2010 “I’ve read about dissent in the squad over training methods but it is not true. “I know it is different to what it was before but it is not true and the players will adapt gradually. “We do a lot of work with the ball, we play a lot of games, we do some tactics as well. “Do people have to adapt to a new manager and methods? In a way, yes. You adapt or you die. We are changing a lot of things and that upsets the comfort of some players. “I am not going to talk about the players who are dissenting and not happy. Any manager who runs a team knows the players who are playing are happy, and the players who are not playing are not happy. “They think the methods are not good and they think the manager is not the right person but we have to live with that. “We know that we are changing things, we know that sometimes people are whingeing and moaning but they have a fantastic job. “They are paid high wages to play and enjoy football. This is a fantastic job and sometimes you forget that.” Gérard Houllier
Fabian Delph makes his 1st appearance in a Villa shirt since April to make it 16 Appearances (11 Starts), W8 D4 L4, 1 Goal and 6 Bookings.
Jonathan Hogg, 22, makes his 7th and final appearance for Villa before moving on to Watford on a free transfer in August 2011. Hogg had made his debut earlier in the season and recorded W1 D2 L4 and 2 Bookings during his 4 months in first team contention.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 28 December 2010, Villa 0-4, Abu Dhabi, City Stadium.

Game #5106

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Michael Oliver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northumberland, 2007-
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-4
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #24 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #17 |
Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 | 🟨 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 55’ |
🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 56’ |
🔁 M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |

Starting XI

GK Joe Hart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Vincent Kompany | 🇧🇪 |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
RB Pablo Zabaleta | 🇦🇷 |
M David Silva | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
M Patrick Vieira | 🇫🇷 |
M Nigel de Jong | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 | 🔁 |
W Adam Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mario Balotelli | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 | M David Silva | 🇪🇸 | (M James Milner (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | M Nigel de Jong | 🇳🇱 | (LB Wayne Bridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 | (CF Jô | 🇧🇷 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
CB Jérôme Boateng | 🇩🇪 |
M Gareth Barry (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Carlos Tevez | 🇦🇷 |

Match Timeline

🥅 | 8’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City, pen), Mario Balotelli
🥅 | 13’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester City), Joleon Lescott
🟨 | 18’ Booking, Stephen Warnock
🥅 | 27’ Goal, 0-3, (Manchester City), Mario Balotelli
🕒 | HT Manchester City 0-3 Aston Villa
🥅 | 55’ Goal, 0-4, (Manchester City, pen), Mario Balotelli
🔁 | 55’ Sub off, Barry Bannan, Sub on, Fabian Delph
🔁 | 56’ Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Nathan Delfouneso
🟨 | 70’ Booking, Eric Lichaj
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Nigel Reo-Coker, Sub on, Robert Pirès
🕒 | FT Manchester City 0-4 Aston Villa

On This Day

Villa lose for the fifth time in six Premier League games to make it three wins in thirteen under Gérard Houllier as they remain 15th in the table with the unpopular boss admitting Villa are in a relegation fight as that was an entirely normal experience for a club that had finished sixth for three successive seasons.
Something needed to change and fast, Villa were in total free-fall under Gérard Houllier and there were absolutely no positives to take from his first 17 games in charge.
Even the much derided David O'Leary had bled youngsters of quality, whilst the mess of Graham Taylor's second reign had at least seen the average squad age slashed but for Houllier though there was no such context.
Although the season had only just reached its half way stage, on current form, relegation looked inevitable.
With only James Milner the difference, after 19 games in 2009-10, Martin O’Neill’s Villa sat joint third with 35 points. In contrast Houllier had taken Villa to 15th on 20 points.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 2 January 2011, Villa 3-3 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge.

Game #5107

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Lee Mason | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 2006-2021
Kick off: 1.30pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟨 3-3
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #25 |
League Game | #20 |
Manager Game | #18 |
Sunday, 2 January 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Ashley Young | 41’ pen | Emile Heskey | 47’ | Ciaran Clark | 90’+1 |

Assist(s) | Nigel Reo-Coker | 41’ | Stewart Downing | 47’ | Marc Albrighton | 91’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 🟨 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

Substitutes

🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 85’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |

Starting XI

GK Petr Čech | 🇨🇿 |
LB Ashley Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Terry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
CB Jeffrey Bruma | 🇳🇱 |
RB Paulo Ferreira | 🇵🇹 | 🔁 |
M Michael Essien | 🇬🇭 |
M Ramires | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Frank Lampard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Florent Malouda | 🇫🇷 |
CF Didier Drogba | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ |
CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | RB Paulo Ferreira | 🇵🇹 | (RB Boswinga | 🇵🇹 |)
🔁 | M Ramires | 🇧🇷 | (W Salomon Kalou | 🇨🇮 |)
🔁 | CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 | (CF Daniel Sturridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Ross Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Patrick Van Aanholt | 🇳🇱 |
M Josh McEachran | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jacob Mellis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa snatch a late draw but now have just three wins in fourteen under Gérard Houllier as more ill-judged comments and question marks over honesty and integrity overshadow a well earned point.
A rare battling performance under Gérard Houllier - a tenacity seemingly lost since O'Neill left - earned Villa a draw at top four chasing Chelsea in the opening game of 2011.
In doing so Villa had broken a run of six defeats in seven to hold onto 15th place in the Premier League table, two points off the relegation places and just three off last place.
But yet again the performance is overshadowed by Houllier’s comments as he effectively admits to have misled fans in previous comments about dressing room unrest.
Gérard Houllier 11 December 2010 “There was not an incident with Richard Dunne [an angry reaction and argument to being dropped for today’s game and stripped of the club captaincy by Houllier]. Not at all. I took a football decision not to play him.”
Gérard Houllier 17 December 2010 “I’ve read about dissent in the squad over training methods but it is not true.”
Gérard Houllier Saturday, 1 January 2011 “Dunne is back because his performances have improved in training, “He [Dunne] had a word which lasted half a second with Macca [McAllister]. I took him out of the team because he was under performing and he was not the only one. “I have watched all the training he has done and I think I’ll give him the chance. “With Stephen [Ireland], we will see. I have been pleased with him. He has a different attitude to the beginning so he will soon be back.”
Marc Albrighton contributes his 10th goal involvement on his 26th appearance in a Villa shirt from the bench (18 Starts) to make it W9 D6 L11, 4 Goals, 6 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card.
Ciaran Clark scores his 3rd goal on his 15th appearance in a Villa shirt (12 Starts) but also picks up yet another yellow card to make it a caution every 2.50 games and a record of W6 D4 L5, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 6 Bookings.
Nigel Reo-Coker contributes his 5th assist in a Villa shirt, 66 games after creating his 4th, his latest comes on his 105th appearance (91 Starts) to make it W47 D28 L30, 3 Goals, 5 Assists, 22 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Meanwhile, Villa face their first ever £200m line up, just a game following their match against Manchester City's £197m side. By contrast, Villa's line up is just shy of £70m worth.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 5 January 2011, Villa 0-1 Sunderland, Villa Park.

Game #5108

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Peter Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northamptonshire, 1998-2012
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #26 |
League Game | #21 |
Manager Game | #19 |
Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |

Substitutes

🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 88’ |
🔁 M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Craig Gordon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Kieran Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Titus Bramble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Anton Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
RB Phil Bardsley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Steed Malbranque | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jordan Henderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Meyler | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Danny Wellbeck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Steed Malbranque | 🇫🇷 | (CF Asamoah Gyan | 🇬🇭 |)
🔁 | M David Meyler | 🇮🇪 | (W Boudewijn Zenden | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |)
🔁 | CF Danny Wellbeck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Cristian Riveros | 🇵🇾 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Simon Mignolet | 🇧🇪 |
LB Blair Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Marcos Angeleri | 🇦🇷 |
CB Paulo da Silva | 🇵🇾 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa's dreadful season under Gérard Houllier continues as they lose for the sixth time in eight Premier League games to make it three wins in fifteen and leave Villa stranded in 18th place in the table.
Villa drop to 18th in the table as the Houllier disaster continues. One win in ten games and eight losses surely means this most misguided of appointments needs to be terminated.
Whatever the current struggles it needs to be remembered that the squad Houllier was incapable of motivating had spent almost the entirety of the previous campaign in the top 6.
Gabriel Agbonlahor makes his 200th appearance in a Villa shirt (184 Starts) to make it W80 D59 L61, 53 Goals, 23 Assists and 18 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Emile Heskey is sent off on his 70th appearance (47 Starts) to make it W28 D21 L21, 13 Goals, 5 Assists, 6 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Richard Dunne collects his 10th booking in a Villa shirt on his 62nd appearance to make it W23 D21 L18, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 10 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 8 January 2011, Villa 3-1 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane.

Game #5109

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mike Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester, 1997-2018
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #27 |
Manager Game | #20 |
Saturday, 8 January 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Kyle Walker | 9’ | Marc Albrighton | 33’ | Stliiyan Petrov | 90’+2 |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | ⚽ |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 65’ |
🔁 M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 | ⚽ | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 65’ |
🔁 CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+1 |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Steve Simonsen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kyle Bartley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Elian Parrino | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
RB Rob Kozluk | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Nick Montgomery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Johannes Ertl | 🇦🇹 |
M Leon Britton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Williamson | 🇯🇲 | 🔁 |
W Daniel Bogdanović | 🇲🇹 |
W Jamie Ward | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
CF Ched Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Elian Parrino | 🇦🇷 | (CF Jordan Slew | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Lee Williamson | 🇯🇲 | (M David McAllister | 🇮🇪 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK George Long | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jean Calve | 🇫🇷 |
M Matt Harriott | 🇮🇪 |
M Kingsley James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa beat Championship side Sheffield United in the third round of the FA Cup as they receive some respite in a torrid season under Gérard Houllier.
Kyle Walker makes a goalscoring debut for Villa against his hometown club after joining on loan for the rest of the season from Tottenham Hotspur. Walker becomes the 831st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Marc Albrighton scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 29th appearance (19 Starts) to make it W9 D6 L12, 5 Goals, 7 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Ashley Young receives the second red card of his career on his 173rd appearance in a Villa shirt (170 Starts) having previously been sent off in the 2008-09 season at Sunderland to make it W75 D52 L46, 34 Goals, 56 Assists, 30 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.
Stiliyan Petrov contributes his 15th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 174th appearance (165 Starts) to make it W72 D55 L47, 8 Goals, 7 Assists and 28 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Stewart Downing secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 60th appearance (56 Starts) to make it W25 D17 L18, 9 Goals, 9 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one every 3.33 games played so far in his Villa career.
Meanwhile, off the pitch, Robert Pirès and Stiliyan Petrov reveal life under Houllier.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 16 January 2011, Villa 1-1 Birmingham, St Andrew's.

Game #5110

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 12.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #28 |
League Game | #22 |
Manager Game | #21 |
Sunday, 16 January 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | James Collins | 73’ |

Assist(s) | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 73' |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 71’ |
🔁 M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 71’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
M Jonathan Hogg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Ben Foster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB David Murphy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Liam Ridgewell (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Roger Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
RB Stephen Carr | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Craig Gardner (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Bentley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Keith Fahey (yth) | 🇮🇪 |
M Aleksandr Hleb | 🇧🇾 | 🔁 |
CF Matt Derbyshire | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Aleksandr Hleb | 🇧🇾 | (CF Nikola Žigić | 🇷🇸 |)
🔁 | CF Matt Derbyshire | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Lee Bowyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Maik Taylor | 🇬🇧 |
CB Martin Jiránek | 🇨🇿 |
LB Jean Beausejour | 🇨🇱 |
M Jordon Mutch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Kevin Phillips (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa's woeful League form under Gérard Houllier sees Villa draw with their near neighbours for the second time this season to show just how far they had fallen since Martin O'Neill's departure on the eve of the campaign.
Villa are held by club with four names to leave them with three wins in sixteen Premier League games under Gérard Houllier.
Villa are now out of the relegation places in 17th place solely on alphabetical ranking.
Villa extend their unbeaten League run against Birmingham to 8 games to make it 12 wins and 4 draws in their last 21 meetings with their neighbours dating back to 1987.
Villa’s legendary centre forward John Carew makes his final appearance for Villa aged 31 before moving on to West Ham United on a free transfer in August 2011. Carew was a bona fide club legend during his time with Villa but has only enhanced his connection with the club since his unwarranted departure. Treated shabbily by Houllier he was underused and shown the exit door prematurely but that would not stop him identifying with and supporting the club who had so readily taken him to their heart. For a guy who contributed a goal involvement every 1.60 starts in his first 120 games it speaks volumes that he did not score or create an assist in his final 11 games following Martin O'Neill's departure. Like Olof Mellberg, Martin Laursen and Stiliyan Petrov, Carew connected with the club on a level that few footballers do. That he was also an entertaining and maverick personality only added to the mutual appreciation. Carew made 131 appearances for Villa (103 Starts) to leave with a record of W50 D44 L37, 48 goals, 12 Assists and 10 Bookings from his 5 seasons with the club and boy did Houllier need someone like that right now.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 22 January 2011, Villa 1-0 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

Game #5111

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Howard Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rotherham, 2000-2014
Kick off: 5.30pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #29 |
League Game | #23 |
Manager Game | #22 |
Saturday, 22 January 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Darren Bent | 18’ |

Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 18’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 88’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Joe Hart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Aleksander Kolarov | 🇷🇸 | 🟨 |
CB Vincent Kompany | 🇧🇪 |
CB Jérôme Boateng | 🇩🇪 |
CB Kolo Touré | 🇨🇮 |
M Gareth Barry (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M David Silva | 🇪🇸 |
M Nigel de Jong | 🇳🇱 |
M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 |
CF Edin Džeko | 🇧🇦 |
CF Carlos Tévez | 🇦🇷 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Gareth Barry (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Adam Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
RB Pablo Zabaleta | 🇦🇷 |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M James Milner (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Patrick Vieira | 🇫🇷 |
CF Jo | 🇧🇷 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa win for the first time in six Premier League games thanks to record signing Darren Bent's debut goal to leave Gérard Houllier with four wins in seventeen.
Take a step back for a moment and consider this.
Summer 2010: Villa had finished sixth for the third consecutive season, reached the League Cup final and FA Cup semi final and the manager was told there was no more money to spend.
Less than 8 months later: A new manager, who had taken the club into the relegation zone was gifted £20m to make the club’s record signing almost by a factor of two.
Now imagine having been told in the Summer of 2010 that there was not only no money to spend on improving the squad but that the existing squad needed to be sold to raise funds.
He had his faults did Martin O’Neill but boy did he have a point about Lerner and the Villa hierarchy.
It wasn’t Darren Bent’s fault of course that he arrived in such circumstances and the £19,350,000 was money well spent within 18’ of debut but Villa never needed to be in this situation in the first place.
Darren Bent makes a goalscoring debut in a Villa shirt following his club record £19,350,000 move from Sunderland this month to become the 832nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Richard Dunne secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 65th appearance to make it W25 D22 L18, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 11 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Marc Albrighton secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 30th appearance (21 Starts) to make it W11 D7 L12, 5 Goals, 7 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Ciaran Clark collects his 8th caution on his 16th start in a Villa shirt (19 Appearances) at a rate of a yellow card every 2.38 games to make it W8 D5 L6, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 8 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Meanwhile, four games after facing their first £200m opposition, Villa square off against Manchester City's £206m outfit and come out on top despite a £132m difference in transfer fee outlay.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 25 January 2011, Villa 2-1 Wigan, DW Stadium.

Game #5112

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Jonathan Moss | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Riding, 2005-2022
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #30 |
League Game | #24 |
Manager Game | #23 |
Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 49’ | Ashley Young | 62’ pen |

Assist(s) | Carlos Cuéllar | 49’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 | 🔥 | 🟨 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | 🟢 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | for M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | 57’ |
🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 77’ |
🔁 M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | for W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Ali Al Habsi | 🇴🇲 |
CB Steve Gohouri | 🇨🇮 | 🟨 |
CB Steven Caldwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Maynor Figueroa | 🇭🇳 | 🟨 |
RB Emmerson Boyce | 🇧🇧 | 🔁 |
M James McCarthy | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Hendry Thomas | 🇭🇳 | 🔁 |
M James McArthur | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
CF Franco Di Santo | 🇦🇷 |
CF Hugo Rodallega | 🇨🇴 |

Substitutes

🔁 | RB Emmerson Boyce | 🇧🇧 | (RB Ronnie Stam | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | M James McCarthy | 🇮🇪 | (W Callum McManaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Hendry Thomas | 🇭🇳 | (M Ben Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Mike Pollitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jordi Gómez | 🇪🇸 |
M Mo Diamé | 🇸🇳 |
W Victor Moses | 🇳🇬 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa win consecutive Premier League matches under Gérard Houllier as back to back wins give Villa critical breathing room to climb to 13th and six points clear of the drop zone.
Gérard Houllier fields a second new signing in consecutive games as Jean Makoun, a £5.58m from Olympique Lyonnais, taking Villa's investment in Houllier to just shy of £25m.
Jean Makoun makes his debut after his £5.58m move from Olympique Lyonnais to become the 833rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Nathan Baker makes his Villa debut after coming through the youth ranks to become the 834th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Ashley Young makes his 175th appearance for the club (172 Starts) to make it W77 D52 L46, 35 Goals, 57 Assists, 30 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.
Nigel Reo-Coker secures his 50th win in a Villa shirt on his 110th appearance (95 Starts) to make it W50 D29 L31, 3 Goals, 5 Assists, 22 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
James Collins secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 62nd appearance (59 Starts) to make it W25 D20 L17, 4 Goals and 12 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 29 January 2011, Villa 3-1 Blackburn, Villa Park.

Game #5113

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Lee Probert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wiltshire, 2003-2019
Kick off: 1.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #31 |
Manager Game | #24 |
Saturday, 29 January 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Ciaran Clark | 11’ | Robert Pirès | 35’ | Nathan Delfouneso | 42’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟥 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 68’ |
🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 72’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Paul Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Martin Olsson | 🇸🇪 |
CB Christopher Samba | 🇨🇬 |
CB Grant Hanley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Míchel Salgado | 🇪🇸 |
M Morten Gamst Pedersen | 🇳🇴 |
M Steven N’Zonzi | 🇫🇷 |
M Keith Andrews | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
W Junior Hoilett | 🇨🇦 |
CF Roque Santa Cruz | 🇵🇾 | 🔁 |
CF Jason Roberts | 🇬🇩 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Keith Andrews | 🇮🇪 | (M Vince Grella | 🇦🇺 |)
🔁 | CF Roque Santa Cruz | 🇵🇾 | (CF Nikola Kalinić | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | CF Jason Roberts | 🇬🇩 | (CF Benjani | 🇿🇼 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Mark Bunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jermaine Jones | 🇺🇸 |
M Jason Lowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF El Hadji Diouf | 🇸🇳 |

Match Timeline

⚽ | 11’ Goal, 1-0, Ciaran Clark
🥅 | 18’ Goal, 1-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Nikola Kalinić
⚽ | 35’ Goal, 2-1, Robert Pirès, Assist by Nathan Delfouneso
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 3-1, Nathan Delfouneso, Assist by Nathan Baker
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 3-1 Blackburn Rovers
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Sub on, Stewart Downing
🟥 | 62’ Sending off, Nathan Baker
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Robert Pirès, Sub on, James Collins
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Nathan Delfouneso, Sub on, Marc Albrighton
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-1 Blackburn Rovers

On This Day

Gérard Houllier delivers three consecutive wins for the first time as they beat Blackburn in the FA Cup fourth round.
Nikola Kalinić scores his fifth goal in five games against Villa.
Roberts Pirès scores his first goal in a Villa shirt on his 8th appearance (3 Starts) to make it W2 D0 L6 and 1 Goal so far in his Villa career.
Nathan Baker is sent off on only his second appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W2 D0 L0 and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Nathan Delfouneso contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 42nd appearance (10 Starts) to make it W14 D12 L16, 8 Goals, 2 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Carlos Cuéllar secures his 50th win in a Villa shirt on his 99th appearance (94 Starts) to make it W50 D25 L24, 3 Goals, 4 Assists, 14 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 1 February 2011, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford.

Game #5114

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Chris Foy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | St. Helens, 1996-2015
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #32 |
League Game | #25 |
Manager Game | #25 |
Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Darren Bent | 58’ |

Assist(s) | Stewart Downing | 58’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 69’ |
🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 74’ |
🔁 M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 80’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Edwin van der Sar | 🇳🇱 |
LB Patrice Evra | 🇫🇷 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nemanja Vidić | 🇷🇸 | ⚽ |
CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 |
M Michael Carrick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Darren Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Nani | 🇵🇹 |
W Ryan Giggs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Dimitar Berbatov | 🇧🇬 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Darren Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (M Anderson | 🇧🇷 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Anders Lindegaard | 🇩🇰 |
CB Chris Smalling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Fábio Da Silva | 🇧🇷 |
M Paul Scholes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Javier Hernández | 🇲🇽 |
CF Michael Owen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

🥅 | 1’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester United), 54 seconds, Wayne Rooney
🥅 | 45’+1 Goal, 0-2, (Manchester United), Wayne Rooney
🕒 | HT Manchester United 2-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 1-2, Darren Bent, Assist by Stewart Downing
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 1-3, (Manchester United), Nemanja Vidić
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Emile Heskey
🔁 | 74 Sub off, Stiliyan Petrov, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Stewart Downing, Sub on, Nigel Reo-Coker
🕒 | FT Manchester United 3-1 Aston Villa

On This Day

Villa lose for the first time in four Premier League games but now have just five wins in nineteen under Gérard Houllier as the gap to the drop zone closes to five points.
Brad Friedel concedes his 150th goal in a Villa shirt on his 117th appearance to make it W51 D34 L32, 152 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.30 goals per game, 34 Clean Sheets (29%), 2 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career. A year previously, under Martin O’Neill, Friedel had made 70 Appearances, conceded 74 goals at a rate of 1.06 goals per game and kept 25 clean sheets (36%). The downturn post O’Neill was stark with 24 Appearances so far under Houllier, 29 conceded at 1.21 goals per game and just 3 clean sheets (12.5%).

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 5 February 2011, Villa 2-2 Fulham, Villa Park.

Game #5115

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Lee Mason | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 2006-2021
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #33 |
League Game | #26 |
Manager Game | #26 |
Saturday, 5 February 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Own Goal | 13’ | Kyle Walker | 72’ |

Assist(s) | Stiliyan Petrov | 72’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔥 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | 🟨 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 83’ |
🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 86’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Mark Schwarzer | 🇦🇺 |
CB Brede Hangeland | 🇳🇴 |
CB Aaron Hughes (ex) | 🇬🇧 |
RB Chris Baird | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
RB John Paintsil | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
M Steve Sidwell (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Danny Murphy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Mousa Dembélé | 🇧🇪 |
CF Andy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Clint Dempsey | 🇺🇸 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 | RB John Paintsil | 🇬🇭 | (CB Carlos Salcido | 🇲🇽 |)
🔁 | W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | (M Simon Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Andy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Eiður Guðjohnsen | 🇮🇸 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK David Stockdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Zoltán Gera | 🇭🇺 |
M Jonathan Greening | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gaël Kakuta | 🇨🇩 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa are held at home by Fulham to leave them with just five wins in twenty Premier League games under Gérard Houllier.
Stephen Ireland makes his 14th appearance in a Villa shirt (9 Starts) having contributed precisely nothing over the period save for 1 booking. Patience is already worn out. Ireland's record stands at W2 D4 L8, 0 Goals, 0 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career and he is shipped out to Newcastle on loan just 6 months after his regretted arrival at the club.
Jean Makoun collects his 2nd booking on his 3rd appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W1 D1 L1 and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 12 February 2011, Villa 1-1 Blackpool, Bloomfield Road.

Game #5116

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Howard Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rotherham, 2000-2014
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #34 |
League Game | #27 |
Manager Game | #27 |
Saturday, 12 February 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 10’ |

Assist(s) | Darren Bent | 10’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | 🟥 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 | 27’ |
🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 57’ |
🔁 M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 | 🟢 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 73’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Richard Kingson | 🇬🇭 |
CB Ian Evatt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Alex Baptiste | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Craig Cathcart | 🇬🇧 |
M David Vaughan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Charlie Adam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W David Carney | 🇦🇺 |
M Elliot Grandin | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Luke Varney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF DJ Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Marlon Harewood (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Elliot Grandin | 🇫🇷 | (M Jason Puncheon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Luke Varney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Andy Reid | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | CF Marlon Harewood (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Matt Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Chris Kettings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Neal Eardley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Keith Southern | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF James Beattie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa are held for the second successive game and drop back to fifteenth in the table, three points clear of the relegation zone with five wins in twenty one Premier League games under Gérard Houllier.
Villa make it 1 defeat in 8 League and Cup games under Gérard Houllier.
Michael Bradley makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining on loan to the end of the season from Mönchengladbach to become the 835th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Carlos Cuéllar makes his 100th appearance in a Villa shirt (95 Starts) to make it W50 D26 L24, 3 Goals, 4 Assists, 14 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Darren Bent contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 4th appearance to make it W2 D1 L1, 2 Goals and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.
Jean Makoun is sent off on his 4th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W1 D2 L1, 2 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 26 February 2011, Villa 4-1 Blackburn, Villa Park.

Game #5117

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 4-1
FT Result:🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #35 |
League Game | #28 |
Manager Game | #28 |
Saturday, 26 February 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Ashley Young | 49’ | 82’ | Own Goal | 62’ | Stewart Downing | 64’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 | ⚽ |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 36’ |
🔁 M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | for M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | 76’ |
🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Paul Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Martin Olsson | 🇸🇪 |
CB Ryan Nelsen | 🇳🇿 | 🟥 |
CB Grant Hanley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Míchel Salgado | 🇪🇸 |
M Morten Gamst Pedersen | 🇳🇴 |
M Jermaine Jones | 🇺🇸 |
M Vince Grella | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
M Keith Andrews | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
W Brett Emerton | 🇦🇺 |
CF Roque Santa Cruz | 🇵🇾 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Vince Grella | 🇦🇺 | (CF Nikola Kalinić | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | M Keith Andrews | 🇮🇪 | (M Steven N’Zonzi | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Roque Santa Cruz | 🇵🇾 | (CF Jason Roberts | 🇬🇩 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Mark Bunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gael Givet | 🇫🇷 |
CF Benjani | 🇿🇼 |
CF Mame Biram Diouf | 🇸🇳 |

Match Timeline

🔁 | 36’ Sub off, Nathan Baker, Sub on, Fabian Delph
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Blackburn Rovers
⚽ | 49’ Goal, 1-0, Ashley Young (pen)
⚽ | 62’ Goal, 2-0, Own Goal, Grant Hanley
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 3-0, Stewart Downing, Assist by Ashley Young
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Robert Pirès, Sub on, Stiliyan Petrov
🥅 | 81’ Goal, 3-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Nikola Kalinić
⚽ | 82’ Goal, 4-1, Ashley Young, Assist by Stewart Downing
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Darren Bent, Sub on, Emile Heskey
🟥 | 90’+3 Sending off, (Blackburn Rovers), Ryan Nelsen
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-1 Blackburn Rovers

On This Day

Villa score more than two goals in a game for only the third time in twenty eight games under Gérard Houllier and record just their sixth win in twenty two Premier League games.
Gérard Houllier's Villa win for the first time in four and climb to 12th - their highest position since November
A curious incident happened on 76' when club captain Stiliyan Petrov refused the armband following his arrival as substitute. It was probably nothing but in the atmosphere Houllier had created any detail was being looked for to try and fathom the off-field dynamic.
Emile Heskey secures his 30th win in a Villa shirt on his 75th appearance (48 Starts) to make it W30 D23 L22, 13 Goals, 5 Assists, 6 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Ciaran Clark secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 24th appearance (21 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L7, 4 Goals, 1 Assist and 8 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Stiliyan Petrov secures his 75th win in a Villa shirt on his 180th appearance (169 Starts) to make it W75 D57 L48, 8 Goals, 8 Assists and 29 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 2 March 2011, Villa 0-3 Abu Dhabi, City Stadium.

Game #5118

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #36 |
Manager Game | #29 |
Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 | 🔁 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 71’ |
🔁 W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 | 71’ |
🔁 RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 83’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Joe Hart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Aleksander Kolarov | 🇷🇸 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Jérôme Boateng | 🇩🇪 |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Pablo Zabaleta | 🇦🇷 |
M Gareth Barry (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Silva | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
M Patrick Vieira | 🇫🇷 |
M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Mario Balotelli | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Micah Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Dedryck Boyata | 🇧🇪 |)
🔁 | M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 | (CF Jô | 🇧🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Mario Balotelli | 🇮🇹 | (CF Carlos Tévez | 🇦🇷 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Stuart Taylor (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Reece Wabara | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Edin Džeko | 🇧🇦 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa lose in the FA Cup fifth round as Gérard Houllier fields a weakened team.
Ciaran Clark makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (22 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L8, 4 Goals, 1 Assist and 9 Bookings. Clark has now picked up a booking every 2.78 games he has played.
Playing a weakened team in a Cup game was nothing new in recent years but not making a substitution, despite glaring deficiencies, until Villa were three down took concerns about Houllier to new levels. Perhaps it was preference to focus on the League competition - where Houllier had conspicuously failed to date - but for sure it was clear that despite claims to the contrary Houllier didn't "understand the ethos of our club and shares our core values."

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 5 March 2011, Villa 2-3 Bolton, Reebok Stadium.

Game #5119

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Kevin Friend | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leicester, 2003-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟥 2-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #37 |
League Game | #29 |
Manager Game | #30 |
Saturday, 5 March 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Darren Bent | 15’ | Marc Albrighton | 64’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | for M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 77’ |
🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Jussi Jääskeläinen | 🇫🇮 | 🟨 |
RB Grétar Steinsson | 🇮🇸 | 🟨 |
LB Paul Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gary Cahill (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CB David Wheater | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Fabrice Muamba | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Stuart Holden | 🇺🇸 | 🟨 |
W Martin Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
CF Johan Elmander | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Kevin Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Daniel Sturridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Fabrice Muamba | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Mark Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Martin Petrov | 🇧🇬 | (W Chung-yong Lee | 🇰🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Johan Elmander | 🇸🇪 | (CF Ivan Klasnić | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Ádám Bogdán | 🇭🇺 |
LB Marcos Alonso | 🇪🇸 |
M Matthew Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Rodrigo | 🇪🇸 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa compound the misery of FA Cup surrender to lose to Bolton and leave them just three points off relegation having won just six in twenty three Premier League games under Gérard Houllier.
Stewart Downing contributes his 22nd goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 70th appearance (64 Starts) to make it W29 D20 L21, 10 Goals, 12 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one every 3.18 games played so far in his Villa career.
Kyle Walker contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 9th appearance (8 Starts) to make it W3 D3 L3, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.
Ciaran Clark collects his 10th booking in a Villa shirt on his 26th appearance (23 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L9, 4 Goals, 1 Assist and 10 Bookings. Clark has now picked up a booking every 2.60 games he has played.
Fabian Delph makes his 20th appearance in a Villa shirt (13 Starts) to make it W9 D4 L7, 1 Goal and 6 Bookings.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟥 19 March 2011, Villa 0-1 Wolves, Villa Park.

Game #5120

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Game | #30 |
Manager Game | #31 |
Saturday, 19 March 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33’ |
🔁 M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | for M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 60’ |
🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 61’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Bradley | 🇺🇸 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Wayne Hennessey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB George Elokobi | 🇨🇲 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Stearman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Christophe Berra | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Kevin Foley | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Karl Henry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nenad Milijaš | 🇷🇸 |
M Jamie O’Hara | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Matt Jarvis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Adam Hammill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Kevin Doyle | 🇮🇪 |

Substitutes

🔁 | W Matt Jarvis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | (LB Stephen Ward | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | W Adam Hammill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Sylvain Ebanks Blake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Marcus Hahnemann (yth) | 🇺🇸 |
CB Jody Craddock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Michael Kightly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Steven Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Match Timeline

🔁 | 33’ Sub off, Nathan Baker, Sub on, Fabian Delph
🥅 | 38’ Goal, 0-1, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Matt Jarvis
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Nigel Reo-Coker, Sub on, Robert Pirès
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Marc Albrighton, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🟨 | 90’+1 Booking Ashley Young
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

On This Day

Villa slump to defeat against Wolves and now are just one point clear of the drop zone to leave them with just six wins in twenty four Premier League games under Gérard Houllier.
Gérard Houllier's woeful reign continued as he presides over Villa's first loss to second from bottom Wolves at Villa Park in 31 years to leave Villa just one point above the relegation places.
Even in the darkest days of David O'Leary and the insipid return of Graham Taylor, Villa had never reached the levels of abject failure that Houllier had delivered.
Of course a more competent Villa hierarchy would have dismissed Houllier before the turn of the year - or preferably never been so foolish as to appoint him - but with their misguided pride clearly of greater importance to them than competency, Houllier was allowed to continue his destruction of Villa that precipitated a half decade of failure.
Nigel Reo-Coker makes his 100th start in a Villa shirt (116 Appearances) to make it W52 D30 L34, 3 Goals, 5 Assists, 22 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Marc Albrighton makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (37 Appearances) to make it W14 D8 L15, 6 Goals, 7 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card.
Villa are without the suspended duo James Collins and Richard Dunne who were also fined for a drunken fracas during a player bonding break with staff members left behind by Houllier and McAllister. The staff members avoided censure.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟨 2 April 2011, Villa 2-2 Everton, Goodison Park.

Game #5121

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mike Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester, 1997-2018
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #39 |
League Game | #31 |
Manager Game | #32 |
Saturday, 2 April 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Darren Bent | 47’ | 68’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | 🟨 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+3 |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Tim Howard | 🇺🇸 |
LB Leighton Baines | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Johnny Heitinga | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
CB Phil Jagielka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Sylvain Distin | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
RB Tony Hibbert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Phil Neville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Séamus Coleman | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Diniyar Bilyaletdinov | 🇷🇺 |
M Leon Osman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
CF Jermaine Beckford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Sylvain Distin | 🇫🇷 | (CF Apostolos Vellios | 🇬🇷 |)
🔁 | RB Séamus Coleman | 🇮🇪 (CF Magaye Gueye | 🇸🇳 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Ján Mucha | 🇸🇰 |
CB Shkodran Mustafi | 🇩🇪 |
CB Toto Nsiala | 🇨🇩 |
M Adam Forshaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Conor McAleny | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa draw at Goodison to open the gap to the relegation places to two points but now have just five wins in twenty five Premier League games under Gérard Houllier.
A team that had finished 6th for the last 3 seasons sits 16th in the table, two points above relegation with seven games to play as the appointment of Gérard Houllier continues to play out in the worst way possible.
Darren Bent's point earning goals were welcome but the thought of what Martin O'Neill could have done with £25m - to both protect and improve his 2009-10 squad - rankles deeply as the unrest against the Villa hierarchy builds
Darren Bent scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 8th appearance to make it W3 D2 L3, 5 Goals and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.
Jean Makoun collects his 4th card on his 6th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W1 D3 L2, 3 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 10 April 2011, Villa 1-0 Newcastle, Villa Park.

Game #5122

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Stuart Attwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Nuneaton, 2007-
Kick off: 4.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Game | #32 |
Manager Game | #33 |
Sunday, 10 April 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | James Collins | 24’ |

Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 24’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | 🔁 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🟨 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | 67’ |
🔁 CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 | for RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 78’ |
🔁 M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 86’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Steve Harper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB José Enrique | 🇪🇸 |
CB Fabricio Coloccini | 🇦🇷 |
CB Mike Williamson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Steven Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
RB Danny Simpson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Joey Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Danny Guthrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jonás Gutiérrez | 🇦🇷 |
CF Peter Løvenkrands | 🇩🇰 |
CF Nile Ranger | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Steven Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (RB Ryan Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Nile Ranger | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Shefki Kuqi | 🇫🇮 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Tim Krul | 🇳🇱 |
RB James Tavernier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Shane Ferguson | 🇬🇧 |
M Ryan Donaldson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa open up a five point gap to the relegation places as they win for only the seventh time in twenty six Premier League games under Gérard Houllier.
James Collins scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 68th appearance (63 Starts) to make it W27 D23 L18, 5 Goals and 12 Bookings. It is Collins' Collins's first appearance at Villa Park since his part in a drunken row at a health spa last month that caused him to be fined two weeks' wages along with defensive partner Richard Dunne.
Ashley Young contributes his 60th assist for the club on his 184th appearance (180 Starts) to make it W79 D55 L50, 37 Goals, 60 Assists, 33 Bookings and 2 Red Cards.
Brad Friedel makes his 125th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W53 D37 L35, 125 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.30 goals per game, 35 Clean Sheets (28%), 2 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career. A year previously, under Martin O’Neill, Friedel had made 84 Appearances, conceded 100 goals at a rate of 1.19 goals per game and kept 27 clean sheets (32%). The downturn post O’Neill was stark with 32 Appearances so far under Houllier, 50 conceded at 1.56 goals per game and just 4 clean sheets (12.5%).

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 16 April 2011, Villa 2-1 West Ham, Upton Park.

Game #5123

Manager: Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | Thérouanne, 2010-2011
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

Season | 2010-11 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Game | #33 |
Manager Game | #34 |
Saturday, 16 April 2011

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Darren Bent | 36’ | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 90’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | for CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 78’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Andy Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Robert Pirès | 🇫🇷 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Starting XI

GK Robert Green | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Wayne Bridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Matthew Upson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Manuel Da Costa | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
RB Lars Jacobsen | 🇩🇰 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger (ex) | 🇩🇪 |
M Mark Noble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gary O’Neil | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Victor Obinna | 🇳🇬 | 🔁 |
F Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
CF Carlton Cole (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CB Manuel Da Costa | 🇲🇦 | (CB Danny Gabbidon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Gary O’Neil | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Demba Ba | 🇸🇳 |)
🔁 | F Victor Obinna | 🇳🇬 | (W Zavon Hines | 🇯🇲 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Ruud Boffin | 🇧🇪 |
CB Jonathan Spector | 🇺🇸 |
M Luis Boa Morte | 🇵🇹 |
CF Frederic Piquionne | 🇫🇷 |

Match Timeline

On This Day

Villa record consecutive victories for the first time since January and only the second time this season to make it eight wins in twenty seven Premier League games under Gérard Houllier as they beat second from bottom West Ham to jump to ninth place, eight points above the relegation places.
The game proves to be Houllier's last as Illness forces him to relinquish the duties to which he would never return. He was not missed.
Being given funds that his predecessor could only dream of and spending over £25m, Houllier’s team underperformed to an incredible extent as reports of player unrest at the attitude and approach of the manager became legion.
His legacy of failure would live on in subsequent years as poor man management and player ostracism continued much to the detriment of the club he left behind.
Houllier passed away in 2020 leading to a re-evaluation of his contribution in some quarters however objectively his had been a poor appointment that undid all that had been built over the previous four seasons.
Villa win a second consecutive Premier League game for the first time since January and only the second time under Gérard Houllier to lift the team seven points clear of the relegation zone as results fall nicely for Villa.
Villa rise to a scarcely credible 9th in the table as Gérard Houllier’s disastrous and demoralising 34 games in charge effectively came to an end. That those two wins had pushed the club to 9th when they had been languishing in 16th place just a week earlier should not distract from the fact that Houllier had turned the previous three season’s sixth placed team, and last season’s League Cup runners up and FA Cup semi finalists into a shadow of the side they had previously been.
Emile Heskey makes his 50th start in a Villa shirt (78 Appearances) to make it W31 D24 L23, 13 Goals, 5 Assists, 6 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Gabriel Agbonlahor collects his 20th booking in a Villa shirt on his 214th appearance (194 Starts) to make it W86 D63 L65, 56 Goals, 24 Assists and 20 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

AVFC History Celebrating 150 Years

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

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Career Summary

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Career Performance

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Competition Performance

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FA Cup finishes

League Cup finishes

European finishes

League Tier Performance

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Home & Away Performance

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Seasons Quick-View

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Career Milestones

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Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

Personal Profile

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Playing Career

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Previous Coaching & Managerial Roles

Trophies Won

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

Joined Villa

Appointed Manager

Villa Managerial Debut

Notable Players

Supported by

Gary McAllister

Served under

Villa Honours

Final Villa Managerial Game

Left Managerial Position

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Subsequent Coaching & Managerial Roles

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After 25 Games

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After 50 Games

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After 75 Games

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After 100 Games

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

Home Performance Comparison

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Away Performance Comparison

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Match List

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Matches

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 22 September 2010, Villa 3-1 Blackburn, Villa Park.

Game #5090

Scorer(s) | Emile Heskey | 59’ | Ashley Young | 75’ | 77’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

Substitutes

Unused Substitutes

Starting XI

Substitutes

Unused Substitutes

Match Timeline

On This Day

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-11 |

🟩 26 September 2010, Villa 2-1 Wolves, Molineux.

Game #5091

Scorer(s) | Stewart Downing | 25’ | Emile Heskey | 88’ |

Match Timeline

Starting XI

Substitutes

Unused Substitutes

Starting XI