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Aston Villa 0-2 Man United - May 15, 2004 / Premier League 2003/2004

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Premier League 2003/2004 - Round 38

Villa Park - Birmingham - England

May 15, 2004

42 573

Aston Villa

0 - 2

Man United

Cristiano Ronaldo (right foot)

10'

Ruud van NistelrooyAssist by Paul Scholes

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4' - Goal Cristiano Ronaldo

10' - Goal Ruud van Nistelrooy

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51' - Yellow card Juan Pablo Angel51

57' - Substitution Peter Crouchis substituted by Marcus Allbäck57

60' - Yellow card Jlloyd Samuel60

61' - Substitution Ruud van Nistelrooyis substituted by Louis Saha

65' - Yellow card Lee Hendrie65

67' - Yellow card Paul Scholes

73' - Substitution John O'Sheais substituted by Eric Djemba-Djemba

75' - Substitution Lee Hendrieis substituted by Peter Whittingham75

75' - Red card Darren Fletcher

82' - Substitution Gareth Barryis substituted by Dion Dublin82

83' - Yellow card Thomas Hitzlsperger83

85' - Yellow card Cristiano Ronaldo photo Cristiano Ronaldo

85' - Red card Cristiano Ronaldo

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Aston Villa

0 - 2

Man United

Aston Villa Man United

Team line-ups

Aston Villa

1 Sorensen

Thomas Sorensen

Denmark

B.date12/06/1976

Age27 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

4 Mellberg

Olof Mellberg

Sweden

B.date03/09/1977

Age26 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

24 Ridgewell

Liam Ridgewell

England

B.date21/07/1984

Age19 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

15 de la Cruz

Ulises de la Cruz

Ecuador

B.date08/02/1974

Age30 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

3 Samuel60

Jlloyd Samuel

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date29/03/1981

Age23 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

6 Barry82

Gareth Barry

England

B.date23/02/1981

Age23 years

H1m85

positionLeft central midfielder

7 Hendrie7565

Lee Hendrie

England

B.date18/05/1977

Age26 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

12 Hitzlsperger83

Thomas Hitzlsperger

Germany

B.date05/04/1982

Age22 years

H1m83

positionMidfield

8 McCann

Gavin McCann

England

B.date10/01/1978

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

16 Crouch57

Peter Crouch

England

B.date30/01/1981

Age23 years

H2m101

positionStriker

18 Angel51

Juan Pablo Angel

Colombia

B.date24/10/1975

Age28 years

H1m83

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Thomas Sorensen		27	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Olof Mellberg		26	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Liam Ridgewell		19	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Ulises de la Cruz		30	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Jlloyd Samuel	60	23	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Gareth Barry	82	23	236	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Lee Hendrie	7565	26	255	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Thomas Hitzlsperger	83	22	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Gavin McCann		26	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Peter Crouch	57	23	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	F	Juan Pablo Angel	51	28	103	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

102

Man United

14 Howard

Tim Howard

United States

B.date06/03/1979

Age25 years

H1m95

positionGoalkeeper

6 Brown

Wes Brown

England

B.date13/10/1979

Age24 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

27 Silvestre

Mikaël Silvestre

France

B.date09/08/1977

Age26 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

22 O'Shea73

John O'Shea

Republic of Ireland

B.date30/04/1981

Age23 years

H1m90

positionRight full-back

2 G. Neville

Gary Neville

England

B.date18/02/1975

Age29 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

3 P. Neville

Phil Neville

England

B.date21/01/1977

Age27 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

24 Fletcher75

Darren Fletcher

Scotland

B.date01/02/1984

Age20 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

11 Giggs

Ryan Giggs

Wales

B.date29/11/1973

Age30 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

18 Scholes67

Paul Scholes

England

B.date16/11/1974

Age29 years

H1m71

positionCentre Midfield

10 van Nistelrooy1061

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Netherlands

B.date01/07/1976

Age27 years

H1m88

positionStriker

7 Ronaldo48585

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portugal

B.date05/02/1985

Age19 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
14	G	Tim Howard		25	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Wes Brown		24	147	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	D	Mikaël Silvestre		26	235	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	John O'Shea	73	23	115	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Gary Neville		29	433	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Phil Neville		27	352	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	M	Darren Fletcher	75	20	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Ryan Giggs		30	590	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Paul Scholes	67	29	414	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Ruud van Nistelrooy	1061	27	144	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Cristiano Ronaldo	48585	19	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

232

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
17	M	Peter Whittingham	75	19	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Marcus Allbäck	57	30	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Dion Dublin	82	35	190	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
19	M		Eric Djemba-Djemba	73	23	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	F		Louis Saha	61	25	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Olof Mellberg

Ronny Johnsen

OUT

Peter Crouch

Darius Vassell

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

David O'Leary

Success rate in this team:

44 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

O'Leary vs Man United

0 victory

3 draws

8 losses

Latest figure on May 15, 2004

O'Leary vs Ferguson

0 victory

3 draws

8 losses

Latest figure on May 15, 2004

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

978

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

Ferguson vs Aston Villa

21 victories

12 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on May 15, 2004

Ferguson vs O'Leary

8 victories

3 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on May 15, 2004

Referee

Rob Styles

8 victories	6 draws	8 losses	Aston Villa22 matches	General total	Man United31 matches	20 victories	10 draws	1 loss
0 victory	1 draw	1 loss	Aston Villa2 matches	Season total	Man United2 matches	2 victories	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on April 18, 2009					Latest figure on May 13, 2009

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Key figures

Ruud van Nistelrooy scored 6 goals vs Aston Villa in his professional career

It's the first time Cristiano Ronaldo scores 1 goal vs Aston Villa in his professional career

End of streak for Aston Villa after 4 matches with only one goal conceded at most (since 18/04/2004).

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DAston Villa 2-2 Birmingham City22/02/2004

LAston Villa 0-2 Blackburn20/03/2004

DAston Villa 1-1 Manchester City04/04/2004

VAston Villa 3-2 Chelsea12/04/2004

DAston Villa 0-0 Newcastle United18/04/2004

VAston Villa 1-0 Tottenham02/05/2004

Overall

DBolton Wanderers 2-2 Aston Villa10/04/2004

VAston Villa 3-2 Chelsea12/04/2004

DAston Villa 0-0 Newcastle United18/04/2004

VMiddlesbrough 1-2 Aston Villa24/04/2004

VAston Villa 1-0 Tottenham02/05/2004

DSouthampton 1-1 Aston Villa08/05/2004

Current form

Away

DFulham 1-1 Manchester United28/02/2004

LManchester City 4-1 Manchester United14/03/2004

DArsenal 1-1 Manchester United28/03/2004

VBirmingham City 1-2 Manchester United10/04/2004

LPortsmouth 1-0 Manchester United17/04/2004

LBlackburn 1-0 Manchester United01/05/2004

Overall

VManchester United 1-0 Leicester13/04/2004

LPortsmouth 1-0 Manchester United17/04/2004

VManchester United 2-0 Charlton20/04/2004

LManchester United 0-1 Liverpool24/04/2004

LBlackburn 1-0 Manchester United01/05/2004

DManchester United 1-1 Chelsea08/05/2004

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	4	8
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	1	3
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	2	3
Drawless streak	3	0
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	2	0
Conceding streak	8	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

37	Number of games (Competition total)	37
18	Number of games (Home / Away)	18
15	Victories (Competition total)	22
9	Victories (Home / Away)	10
11	Draws (Competition total)	6
6	Draws (Home / Away)	2
11	Losses (Competition total)	9
3	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

48	Goals scored (Competition total)	62
24	Goals scored (Home / Away)	25
42	Goals conceded (Competition total)	35
17	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	20
1.3	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.68
1.33	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.39
1.14	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.95
0.94	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.11

Betting aid

17	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	19
7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
12	Clean sheets (Competition total)	13
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
13	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	8
6	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	5
17	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	18
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	10
0-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-1 (5 times)

Bookings

47	Yellow cards (Competition total)	38
19	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	18
3	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Juan Pablo Angel	16 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	19 goals	Ruud van Nistelrooy
Juan Pablo Angel	10 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	10 goals	Ruud van Nistelrooy
Juan Pablo Angel	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Ruud van Nistelrooy
Juan Pablo Angel	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Gareth Barry	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	4 assists	Ryan Giggs
Peter Crouch	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	2 assists	Ryan Giggs
Juan Pablo Angel	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Ruud van Nistelrooy

Historical head to head

Home

78 matches

35 v

18 d

25 l

150 gf

116 ga

Away

76 matches

10 v

17 d

49 l

66 gf

159 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

2 v

0 d

0 l

5 gf

2 ga

Total

156 matches

47 v

35 d

74 l

221 gf

277 ga

Historical head to head

Home

76 matches

49 v

17 d

10 l

159 gf

66 ga

Away

78 matches

25 v

18 d

35 l

116 gf

150 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

0 v

0 d

2 l

2 gf

5 ga

Total

156 matches

74 v

35 d

47 l

277 gf

221 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	December 27, 1930
Home	7 - 0	December 27, 1930

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	October 24, 1964
Away	4 - 0	October 15, 1949

Latest head to head

January 04, 2004 - FA Cup 2003/2004

Aston Villa

1 - 2

Man United

December 06, 2003 - Premier League 2003/2004

Man United

4 - 0

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

March 15, 2003 - Premier League 2002/2003

Aston Villa

0 - 1

Man United

October 26, 2002 - Premier League 2002/2003

Man United

1 - 1

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

February 23, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

Man United

1 - 0

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

Best historical scorers against Man United

Peter Withe	7 goals	1980 - 1984
Andy Gray	5 goals	1975 - 1977
Gordon Cowans	4 goals	1980 - 1988
Dalian Atkinson	4 goals	1992 - 1994
Ian Taylor	3 goals	1995 - 2002
Bobby Thomson	3 goals	1960 - 1963

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/12/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Aston Villa

Mark Hughes	9 goals	1985 - 1994
Tommy Taylor	8 goals	1956 - 1957
Steve Coppell	6 goals	1975 - 1983
Bobby Charlton	6 goals	1957 - 1966
Sammy McIlroy	6 goals	1975 - 1981
Denis Law	6 goals	1964 - 1967

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/12/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Gordon Cowans	18 matches	1978 - 1991
Allan Evans	16 matches	1979 - 1988
Nigel Spink	16 matches	1983 - 1994
Steve Staunton	15 matches	1991 - 2002
Paul McGrath	15 matches	1989 - 1996
Alan Wright	15 matches	1995 - 2003

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/12/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Aston Villa

Denis Irwin	23 matches	1990 - 2002
Ryan Giggs	22 matches	1992 - 2004
Bill Foulkes	21 matches	1956 - 1967
Bobby Charlton	19 matches	1957 - 1970
Steve Coppell	18 matches	1975 - 1983
Mark Hughes	18 matches	1984 - 1994