Game #3952

Aston Villa

Saturday, 21 February 1987

Drew

21st (-)

🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

Division One

Liverpool

Villa Park

Attendance: 32,093

Aston Villa

2-2

Liverpool

Scorer(s) | Own Goal | 30' | Paul Elliott | 43' |

Assist(s) | Paul Birch | 43' |

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 21 February 1987

Not recorded

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 21 February 1987

Billy McNeill's Villa stop a run of four consecutive defeats as they secure a creditable draw with Championship chasing, and second placed, Liverpool. Villa however now had just twelve wins in their last fifty five League games losing twenty seven. As a result Villa fell to 22nd and bottom of the table, four points off safety and four points off the relegation play off place with fourteen games left to play. Meanwhile, Warren Aspinall made his Villa debut aged 19 after moving from Everton earlier this month for a fee of £350,000.

DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 14 February 1987, Villa 1-2, Luton, Kenilworth.

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 28 February 1987, Villa 1-1, Norwich, Carrow Road.

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Liverpool

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1985-86

Aston Villa

Liverpool

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Liverpool

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨

Liverpool

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟨 27 September 1986, Villa 3-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

Liverpool

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟥 31 January 1988, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1986-87 |
Matchday | #37 |
League Match | #28 |
Manager Game | #30 |
Saturday, 21 February 1987

MATCH SUMMARY

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Billy McNeill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1986-1987

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 30 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 10 🟥 12 | 1.13

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Billy McNeill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1986-1987

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1975-1993
Matches Officiated: 10
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 18 January 1986, Villa 0-2 Luton, Kenilworth Road.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

Ray Lewis

CARDS

🟨 🟨

None

TEAM NEWS

Neale Copper and Warren Aspinall (debut) replace Allan Evans and Tony Daley.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.29 |

Oldest Player |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.57 |

Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.45 |

MANAGER

Billy McNeill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1986-1987

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Neale Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Garry Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Kenny Dalglish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Liverpool

GK Bruce Grobbelaar | 🇿🇼 |
RB Barry Venison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Mark Lawrenson | 🇮🇪 |
CB Gary Gillespie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Alan Hansen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Craig Johnston | 🇦🇺 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Paul Walsh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Steve McMahon (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ronnie Whelan | 🇮🇪 |
M Jan Mølby | 🇳🇴 |
CF Ian Rush | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Craig Johnston | 🇦🇺 | (CF John Aldridge | 🇮🇪 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

None

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half 

M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

	Game	Start	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red
GK Nigel Spink \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|

LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Paul Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Neale Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

	Game	Sub	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red

UNUSED

	Unused

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/12

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

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AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

Villa concede after 40 seconds but fight back to lead at half time before a slick Liverpool hit a second half equaliser. Villa, stopping a run of four defeats remain 21st but close the gap to safety to three points.

MATCH QUOTES

"Frank [Upton] is well-known and respected throughout the region and bas all the necessary experience to do such a job [Chief Scout]. "A good chief scout Is the lifeblood of any club and I am sure Frank will continue where Don [Dorman] left off." Billy McNeill

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

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Birmingham Evening Mail
Monday, 23 February 1987.

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Game #3952

Aston Villa

Saturday, 21 February 1987

Drew

🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

Division One

Liverpool

Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-2

Liverpool

Scorer(s) | Own Goal | 30' | Paul Elliott | 43' |

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 21 February 1987

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 21 February 1987

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

Aston Villa

Liverpool

Aston Villa

Liverpool

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Liverpool

Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨

Liverpool

PREVIOUS MATCH

Liverpool

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

MATCH SUMMARY

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Billy McNeill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1986-1987

🕒 30 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 10 🟥 12 | 1.13

Villa Career Form:

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

MATCH OFFICIALS

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

MANAGER

Aston Villa

MANAGER

Liverpool

SUBSTITUTES

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED

SQUAD STATS

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

UNAVAILABLE

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

MATCH QUOTES

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

*Birmingham Evening Mail*Monday, 23 February 1987.

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Birmingham Evening Mail
Monday, 23 February 1987.