Game #3962
Monday, 20 April 1987
Attendance: 5,595
Lost
Division One
21st (-)
Charlton Athletic
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥
The Valley
A totally uncommitted performance at Selhurst Park is punished with a hammering at the hands of third from bottom Charlton to leave Villa 21st in the table but now nine points off safety with four to play and relegation seemingly soon to be confirmed as a mathematical certainty.
Charlton Athletic
3-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
PREVIOUS MATCH
NEXT MATCH
MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 5’ Goal, 0-1, (Charlton Athletic), Peter Shirtliff
🥅 | 25’ Goal, 0-2, (Charlton Athletic), Mark Stuart
🕒 | HT Charlton Athletic 2-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 46’ Goal, 0-3, (Charlton Athletic), Jim Melrose
🕒 | FT Charlton Athletic 3-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Billy McNeill's Villa lose for the second successive game and now have just thirteen wins in their last sixty five League games losing thirty one. Villa remain second from bottom, ahead of only Manchester City, and are now remain none points off safety and seven points off the relegation play off place with four games left to play and a total of twelve points available.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Charlton Athletic
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1946-47
FIXTURE HISTORY
Charlton Athletic
Previous 5 vs. Charlton: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1986-87 |
Matchday | #47 |
League Match | #38 |
Manager Game | #40 |
Monday, 20 April 1987
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Billy McNeill | 🏴 | Bellshill, 1986-1987
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Unknown
Cards: None
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Tony Daley replaces Mark Burke.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.49 |
Oldest Player |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴 | 31.41 |
Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 | 19.52 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Billy McNeill | 🏴 |
Lennie Lawrence | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴 |
CB Neale Cooper | 🏴 |
CB Paul Elliott | 🏴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴 |
Charlton Athletic
GK Bob Bolder | 🏴 |
LB Mark Reid | 🏴 |
D John Humphrey | 🏴 |
CB Paul Miller | 🏴 |
CB Peter Shirtliff | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Mark Stuart | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Andy Peake | 🏴 |
M Colin Walsh | 🏴 |
W Ralph Milne | 🏴 |
CF Jim Melrose | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Garth Crooks | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Made
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Jim Melrose | 🏴 | (M Rob Lee | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
Not recorded
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/12
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
"Results don't lie.”
“There can be no excuses.
“The players must take all the blame for our present situation.
"Although individuals have played well at times, we just have not functioned as a team unit.
"We have not had it right all season.
“We were lucky to escape last season and we all thought it would never happen again. But it has.
"We started badly and we were responsible for Graham Turner getting the sack.
“Sadly our performances have not been much better since then.
"Obviously, the players are down and very low at the moment.
"It's the biggest disappointment of my career. I have never lost a relegation battle and it's hard to swallow.
"We need a miracle.
”We just have to win our last four games and take a maximum 12 points.
"Anything less will be fatal, the end for us and Second Division next season.
"When the end of the season comes I shall be one of the first through the manager's office door to tell him that I am ready to give my all for next season if I'm wanted even if it is in the Second Division."
Steve Hunt.
"I only want to keep those players who are ready to give their all for us.
"If their attitudes are not right they can go as far as I am concerned.
"The team have been in steady decline for five years. If we must go down then the fact has to be used in the proper manner.
"We have to be on a steady basis, producing young players and be a viable proposition."
"The players are desperately disappointed.
"The Charlton match was a cup final to us and our defence was shocking. The Second Division is very much on the cards.
"Scandalous defending cost us the game.
“We got what we deserved nothing."
Billy McNeill.
"Over the last matches of the season we must play with pride as professionals and in the club.
"I shall just have to keep my chin up and place my arm around Billy's shoulders and the team as we go into the last four games.
"I just don't know what to say about the Charlton performance. I am disappointed more about the manner than the result.
"I know we have injuries but we have spent £2.9 million on players since I came back and then this."
Herbert Douglas Ellis.
"I must confess how easy it was. I was surprised at their [Villa’s] lack of fight."
Chariton manager Lennie Lawrence
*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Tuesday, 21 April 1987.