Game #3975
Aston Villa
Saturday, 19 September 1987
11th (+5)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 | 🔥 |
CB Neale Cooper | 🏴 | 🔁 | 🔴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 |
M Mark Lillis | 🏴 |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Mark Walters | 🏴 |
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
Substitutes:
🔁 | M David Hunt | 🏴 | for CB Neale Cooper | 🏴 |
Unused Substitutes:
W Mark Burke | 🏴 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Graham Taylor names an unchanged line up.
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.03 |
Oldest Player |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴 | 31.15 |
Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 | 20.03 |
Villa record successive 🟩 wins for the first time this season and the first time under Graham Taylor 🏴 to climb to 11th in the second division table thanks to a 19' strike from bad boy against Barnsley, Steve Hunt.
Graham Taylor's 🏴 Villa make it 🟩 three Division Two wins in nine.
Neale Cooper 🏴 23 makes his 🕒 22nd & final appearance (21 Starts) before moving on to Rangers in the summer of 1988 for a fee of £250,000. Villa had bought Cooper only 14 months earlier for £350,000 from Aberdeen and he would leave with a record of 🟩 W3 🟨 D10 🟥 L9, ⚽ 1 Goal and🔥 0 Assists.
Winger Steve Hunt 🏴 makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (71 Starts).
Won
1-0
🟩 19 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road
Scorer(s) | Steve Hunt | 19' |
Assist(s) | Kevin Gage | 19' |
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 19’ Goal, 1-0, Steve Hunt, Assist by Kevin Gage
🕒 | HT Huddersfield Town 0-1 Aston Villa
🕒 | FT Huddersfield Town 0-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | Sub off, Neale Cooper, Sub on, David Hunt
Season | 1987-88 |
Matchday | #9 |
League Match | #9 |
Manager Game | #9 |
Saturday, 19 September 1987
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴 | Rutland, 1987–1990
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴 | Rutland, 1987–1990
Previous 5 vs. Huddersfield: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
🔴 CB Neale Cooper | 🏴 | 1987 🕒 22 | ✅ 21 🔁 (1) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 | #639 |
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
🕒 9 | 🟩 | 3 🟨 | 3 🟥 3 | 1.33
Villa Career Form:
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Division Two
Huddersfield Town
Leeds Road
Attendance: 6,884
GK Brian Cox | 🏴 |
LB David Burke | 🏴 |
CB Ian Bray | 🏴 |
CB Gordon Tucker | 🏴 |
CB Simon Webster | 🏴 |
RB Simon Trevitt | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Ian Banks | 🏴 |
M Andy May | 🏴 |
W Mark Barham | 🏴 |
F David Cork | 🏴 |
CF Duncan Shearer | 🏴 |
Jimmy Robson | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | RB Simon Trevitt | 🏴 | (W Dave Cowling | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes:
M Peter Ward | 🏴 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1925-26
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
"A good result but there is still a lot which is not right."
Graham Taylor.
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