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Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool - August 11, 2007 / Premier League 2007/2008

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Premier League 2007/2008 - Round 1

Villa Park - Birmingham - England

August 11, 2007

42 640

Aston Villa

1 - 2

Liverpool

(penalty) Gareth Barry

85'

31'

Martin Laursen (o.g)

87'

Steven Gerrard (free kick)

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31' - Own goal Martin Laursen

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46' - Substitution Martin Laursenis substituted by Gary Cahill46

71' - Substitution Wilfried Boumais substituted by Luke Moore71

74' - Substitution Jermaine Pennantis substituted by Ryan Babel

79' - Substitution Fernando Torresis substituted by Andriy Voronin

85' - Goal Gareth Barry85

87' - Goal Steven Gerrard

89' - Substitution Dirk Kuytis substituted by Mohamed Sissoko

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Aston Villa

1 - 2

Liverpool

Aston Villa Liverpool

Team line-ups

Aston Villa

13 Taylor

Stuart Taylor

England

B.date28/11/1980

Age26 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

5 Laursen3146

Martin Laursen

Denmark

B.date26/07/1977

Age30 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

3 Bouma71

Wilfried Bouma

Netherlands

B.date15/06/1978

Age29 years

H1m79

positionLeft central defender

4 Mellberg

Olof Mellberg

Sweden

B.date03/09/1977

Age29 years

H1m87

positionRight central defender

Gardner

Craig Gardner

England

B.date25/11/1986

Age20 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

19 Petrov

Stilian Petrov

Bulgaria

B.date05/07/1979

Age28 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

20 Reo-Coker

Nigel Reo-Coker

England

B.date14/05/1984

Age23 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

6 Barry85

Gareth Barry

England

B.date23/02/1981

Age26 years

H1m85

positionLeft central midfielder

7 Young

Ashley Young

England

B.date09/07/1985

Age22 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

11 Agbonlahor

Gabriel Agbonlahor

England

B.date13/10/1986

Age20 years

H1m80

positionVersatile Forward

10 Carew

John Carew

Norway

B.date05/09/1979

Age27 years

H1m93

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
13	G	Stuart Taylor		26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Martin Laursen	3146	30	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Wilfried Bouma	71	29	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Olof Mellberg		29	227	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	Craig Gardner		20	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Stilian Petrov		28	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Nigel Reo-Coker		23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Gareth Barry	85	26	354	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Ashley Young		22	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Gabriel Agbonlahor		20	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	John Carew		27	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Liverpool

Reina

Pepe Reina

Spain

B.date31/08/1982

Age24 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Agger

Daniel Agger

Denmark

B.date12/12/1984

Age22 years

H1m91

positionLeft central defender

Carragher

Jamie Carragher

England

B.date28/01/1978

Age29 years

H1m82

positionRight central defender

Finnan

Steve Finnan

Republic of Ireland

B.date24/04/1976

Age31 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Riise

John Arne Riise

Norway

B.date24/09/1980

Age26 years

H1m88

positionLeft full-back

Arbeloa

Álvaro Arbeloa

Spain

B.date17/01/1983

Age24 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Alonso

Xabi Alonso

Spain

B.date25/11/1981

Age25 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

Pennant74

Jermaine Pennant

England

B.date15/01/1983

Age24 years

H1m73

positionRight Midfielder

Gerrard87

Steven Gerrard

England

B.date30/05/1980

Age27 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

Kuyt89

Dirk Kuyt

Netherlands

B.date22/07/1980

Age27 years

H1m84

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Torres79

Fernando Torres

Spain

B.date20/03/1984

Age23 years

H1m86

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Pepe Reina		24	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Daniel Agger		22	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jamie Carragher		29	469	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Finnan		31	183	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Arne Riise		26	305	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Álvaro Arbeloa		24	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Xabi Alonso		25	137	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jermaine Pennant	74	24	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Gerrard	87	27	388	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dirk Kuyt	89	27	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Fernando Torres	79	23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

159

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Gary Cahill	46	21	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Luke Moore	71	21	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Mohamed Sissoko	89	22	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ryan Babel	74	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andriy Voronin	79	28	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Stuart Taylor

Thomas Sorensen

OUT

Stilian Petrov

Patrik Berger

OUT

Nigel Reo-Coker

Aaron Hughes

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Álvaro Arbeloa

Boudewijn Zenden

OUT

Fernando Torres

Javier Mascherano

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Martin O'Neill

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

55 %

O'Neill vs Liverpool

5 victories

5 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on August 11, 2007

O'Neill vs Benítez

1 victory

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on August 11, 2007

Manager

Age

Match num

Rafa Benítez

181

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Benítez vs Aston Villa

5 victories

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on August 11, 2007

Benítez vs O'Neill

3 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 11, 2007

Referee

Mike Riley

7 victories	10 draws	13 losses	Aston Villa30 matches	General total	Liverpool38 matches	19 victories	7 draws	12 losses
0 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Aston Villa2 matches	Season total	Liverpool4 matches	2 victories	2 draws	0 loss
Latest figure on May 16, 2009					Latest figure on April 11, 2009

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Key figures

Only back at the time of Kenny Dalglish head of Liverpool (01/06/1985-22/02/1991), you can see a manager go over Rafa Benítez with 55% of wins in Premier League (61%).

End of streak for Liverpool after 3 consecutive losses away from home (since 25/04/2007). It was the best streak for the club since 29/08/2004-03/10/2004 (4 matches).

Steven Gerrard scored 7 goals vs Aston Villa in his professional career

Read the next 16 key stats

General ranking

7	Derby County	1 pt	1 rd
8	Portsmouth	1 pt	1 rd
9	Aston Villa	0 pt	1 rd
10	Middlesbrough	0 pt	1 rd
11	Wigan	0 pt	1 rd

General ranking

2	Manchester City	3 pts	1 rd
3	Everton	3 pts	1 rd
4	Liverpool	3 pts	1 rd
5	Blackburn	3 pts	1 rd
6	Sunderland	3 pts	1 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LAston Villa 0-1 Arsenal14/03/2007

DAston Villa 0-0 Liverpool18/03/2007

DAston Villa 1-1 Everton02/04/2007

DAston Villa 1-1 Wigan09/04/2007

DAston Villa 0-0 Portsmouth22/04/2007

VAston Villa 3-0 Sheffield United05/05/2007

Overall

DAston Villa 1-1 Wigan09/04/2007

VMiddlesbrough 1-3 Aston Villa14/04/2007

DAston Villa 0-0 Portsmouth22/04/2007

VManchester City 0-2 Aston Villa28/04/2007

VAston Villa 3-0 Sheffield United05/05/2007

DBolton Wanderers 2-2 Aston Villa13/05/2007

Current form

Away

VPSV Eindhoven 0-3 Liverpool03/04/2007

VReading 1-2 Liverpool07/04/2007

DManchester City 0-0 Liverpool14/04/2007

LChelsea 1-0 Liverpool25/04/2007

LPortsmouth 2-1 Liverpool28/04/2007

LFulham 1-0 Liverpool05/05/2007

Overall

LChelsea 1-0 Liverpool25/04/2007

LPortsmouth 2-1 Liverpool28/04/2007

VLiverpool 1-0 Chelsea01/05/2007

LFulham 1-0 Liverpool05/05/2007

DLiverpool 2-2 Charlton13/05/2007

LAC Milan 2-1 Liverpool23/05/2007

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	5	9
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	1	3
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	3	1
Winless streak	4	3
Drawless streak	3	1
Scoring streak	0	2
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	3	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

83	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	7
11	FBDB index ranking (National)	3

Results

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Goals

No statistics here yet

Betting aid

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Bookings

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Key players

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Historical head to head

Home

84 matches

37 v

20 d

27 l

157 gf

112 ga

Away

85 matches

14 v

16 d

55 l

87 gf

188 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

3 ga

Total

170 matches

51 v

36 d

83 l

244 gf

303 ga

Historical head to head

Home

85 matches

55 v

16 d

14 l

188 gf

87 ga

Away

84 matches

27 v

20 d

37 l

112 gf

157 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

0 ga

Total

170 matches

83 v

36 d

51 l

303 gf

244 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	January 16, 1932
Home	6 - 1	January 16, 1932

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	October 10, 1953
Away	3 - 0	January 13, 2001

Latest head to head

March 18, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Aston Villa

0 - 0

Liverpool

October 28, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Liverpool

3 - 1

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

April 29, 2006 - Premier League 2005/2006

Liverpool

3 - 1

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

November 05, 2005 - Premier League 2005/2006

Aston Villa

0 - 2

Liverpool

May 15, 2005 - Premier League 2004/2005

Liverpool

2 - 1

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Tony Hateley	5 goals	1963 - 1966
Dion Dublin	4 goals	1998 - 2003
Andy Gray	4 goals	1976 - 1977
Dwight Yorke	4 goals	1994 - 1995
Allan Evans	3 goals	1979 - 1986
Gary Shaw	3 goals	1982 - 1985

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Aston Villa

Robbie Fowler	14 goals	1993 - 1998
Ian Rush	10 goals	1982 - 1985
Roger Hunt	9 goals	1963 - 1966
Kenny Dalglish	7 goals	1978 - 1983
Ian St-John	6 goals	1963 - 1967
Steven Gerrard	6 goals	2001 - 2006

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Nigel Spink	19 matches	1983 - 1993
Gordon Cowans	19 matches	1977 - 1991
Gareth Barry	17 matches	1998 - 2007
Steve Staunton	16 matches	1991 - 2002
Allan Evans	16 matches	1979 - 1989
Ugo Ehiogu	15 matches	1992 - 2000

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Aston Villa

Ian Rush	23 matches	1982 - 1996
Bruce Grobbelaar	23 matches	1981 - 1993
Phil Neal	22 matches	1975 - 1985
Alan Hansen	21 matches	1977 - 1989
Jamie Carragher	21 matches	1997 - 2007
Steve Nicol	19 matches	1984 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Steve Staunton

335 matches

148 matches

1988 - 2003

Mark Walters

160 matches

124 matches

1982 - 1995

Dean Saunders

132 matches

61 matches

1991 - 1995

Tony Hateley

129 matches

56 matches

1963 - 1968

Ray Houghton

110 matches

202 matches

1987 - 1995

David James

85 matches

277 matches

1992 - 2001

Total : 15 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

David James

85 matches

277 matches

1992 - 2001

Steve McMahon

75 matches

276 matches

1983 - 1991

Ray Houghton

110 matches

202 matches

1987 - 1995

Patrik Berger

23 matches

196 matches

1996 - 2007

Steve Staunton

335 matches

148 matches

1988 - 2003

Mark Walters

160 matches

124 matches

1982 - 1995

Total : 15 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

August 11, 2007

Bolton Wanderers

1 3

Newcastle United

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August 12, 2007

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Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Newcastle United	3	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2
2	Manchester City	3	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2
3	Everton	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
4	Liverpool	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
5	Blackburn	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
6	Sunderland	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
7	Derby County	1	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
8	Portsmouth	1	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
9	Aston Villa	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1
10	Middlesbrough	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1
11	Wigan	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1
12	Tottenham	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	-1
13	Bolton Wanderers	0	1	0	0	1	1	3	-2
14	West Ham	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	-2

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Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool - August 11, 2007 / Premier League 2007/2008

Aston Villa

1 - 2

Liverpool

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

O'Neill vs Liverpool

O'Neill vs Benítez

Manager

Benítez vs Aston Villa

Benítez vs O'Neill

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Best historical scorers against Aston Villa

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Players with most games played vs Aston Villa

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking