Game #4889
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
Lost
15th (-)
Last 5: ๐จ ๐ฅ ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ฅ
Premier League
Wigan Athletic
JJB Stadium
Attendance: 17,330
Wigan Athletic
3-2
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 53โ | Gareth Barry | 67' |
MANAGER
David O'Leary | ๐ฎ๐ช | 2003-2006
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sรถrensen | ๐ฉ๐ฐ |
LB Aaron Hughes | ๐ฌ๐ง | ๐ |
CB Gary Cahill | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
CB Liam Ridgewell | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โฝ |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Gavin McCann | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Craig Gardner | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐ |
M Gareth Barry | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐จ | ๐ฅ |
W James Milner | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐จ |
F Milan Baroลก | ๐จ๐ฟ |
CF Juan Pablo รngel | ๐จ๐ด | โฝ |
MANAGER
Paul Jewell | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
Wigan Athletic
GK John Filan | ๐ฆ๐บ |
LB Leighton Baines | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
CB Pascal Chimbonda | ๐ฌ๐ต | ๐จ |
CB Stรฉphane Henchoz |๐จ๐ญ| ๐จ |
CB Reto Ziegler |๐จ๐ญ| ๐ |
M Paul Scharner | ๐ฆ๐น |
M Damien Francis | ๐ฏ๐ฒ | ๐ |
M Jimmy Bullard | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โฝ |
W Gary Teale | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |
CF Henri Camara | ๐ธ๐ณ | โฝ | โฝ |
CF Jason Roberts | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
SUBSTITUTES
๐ F Gabriel Agbonlahor | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐ฅ | for M Craig Gardner | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 46โ |
๐ RB Ulises de la Cruz | ๐ช๐จ | ๐ด | for LB Aaron Hughes | ๐ฌ๐ง | 66โ |
SUBSTITUTES
๐ | CB Reto Ziegler |๐จ๐ญ| (CB Lee McCulloch | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |)
๐ | M Damien Francis | ๐ฏ๐ฒ | (M Graham Kavanagh | ๐ฎ๐ช |)
๐ฅ 18 April 2006, Villa 2-3 Wigan, JJB Stadium.
ON THIS DAY
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
Villa return to losing ways and David O'Leary had now overseen 17 losses in the last 40 games, winning just 9. With a record like that, unsurprisingly, O'Leary swerved the post match interview once again only for his assistant Roy Aitken to take on the mantle of preposterous comment by claiming: โWe needed more quality this season. The quality has been short in vital areas - at both ends of the pitch.โ Now if only we knew who had been in charge of the club for the last three years.
Villa lose at high-flying Wigan to leave them with five defeats in their last eight games and just nine wins in thirty five games under David O'Leary.
Right back Ulises de la Cruz, 31, makes his 99th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (74 Starts) as a substitute before moving on to Reading on a free transfer in July 2006. To the shock of nobody de la Cruz was not actually the โEcuadorian David Beckhamโ as then manager Graham Taylor had described him on his ยฃ2,430,000 signing from Hibs in 2002 and over his 4 seasons with the club, a remarkable length of time, he recorded W36 D25 L38, 2 Goals, 9 Assists and 6 Bookings.
Juan Pablo รngel makes his 175th appearance in a Villa shirt (134 Starts) to make it W62 D46 L67, 55 Goals, 16 Assists and 11 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.46 games he has played so far in his Villa career.
Liam Ridgewell contributes his 5th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 66th appearance (51 Starts) to make it W22 D16 L28, 4 Goals, 1 Assist, 7 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Gabriel Agbonlahor contributes his first assist in a Villa shirt on his 6th appearance (2 Starts) to make it W1 D2 L3, 1 Goal and 1 Assist.
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