Game #4016
Aston Villa
Monday, 2 May 1988
3rd (-1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 | 🔥 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴 |
M Andy A Gray | 🏴 |
M David Platt | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴 |
CF Garry Thompson | 🏴 | 🟨 |
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
Substitutes:
No Substitutions Made
Unused Substitutes:
M Gareth Williams | 🏴 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
🟨 Allan Evans, High tackle
🟨 Garry Thompson, Late tackle
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Steve Sims, Alan McInally and David Platt replace Martin Keown, Tony Daley and Mark Lillis.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.01 |
Oldest Player |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 | 31.58 |
Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 | 20.65 |
Villa win successive games, beating third placed Bradford but as games in hand settle, Villa drop to third, one point and one place of the automatic promotion places and four points behind surprise champions Millwall.
Graham Taylor's 🏴 Villa win successive games and have now lost seven in thirty seven League games winning twenty one with automatic promotion just one result away with one game to play.
Midfielder David Platt 🏴 scores his ⚽ 5th goal on his 🕒 10th appearance in a Villa shirt.
Full back Kevin Gage 🏴 makes his 🕒 50th appearance in a Villa shirt.
Full back Bernie Gallacher 🏴 makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt.
Scorer(s) | David Platt | 23' |
Assist(s) | Kevin Gage | 23' |
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 33’ Goal, 1-0, David Platt, Assist by Kevin Gage
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Bradford City
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Bradford City
🟨 | Booking, Allan Evans, High tackle
🟨 | Booking, Garry Thompson, Late tackle
Season | 1987-88 |
Matchday | #50 |
League Match | #43 |
Manager Game | #50 |
Monday, 2 May 1988
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴 | Rutland, 1987–1990
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴 | Rutland, 1987–1990
Previous 5 vs. Bradford: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
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Final Appearances:
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Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
🕒 50 | 🟩 | 26 🟨 | 11 🟥 13 | 1.78
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
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Division Two
Bradford City
Villa Park
Attendance: 36,423
GK Paul Tomlinson | 🏴 |
RB Brian Mitchell | 🏴 |
CB Gavin Oliver | 🏴 |
CB David Evans (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Lee Sinnott | 🏴 |
LB Karl Goddard | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Stuart McCall | 🏴 |
M Mick Kennedy | 🇮🇪 |
CF John Hendrie | 🏴 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 |
CF Ron Futcher | 🏴 |
Terry Dolan | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | LB Karl Goddard | 🏴 | (F Mark Leonard | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes:
M Greg Abbott | 🏴 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1910-11
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
“A professional performance.
“Instead of dying we are in the play-offs even if we have dragged the results out.”
Graham Taylor.
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