Game #4022
Aston Villa
Saturday, 24 September 1988
9th (+1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Andy A Gray | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴 | 🔁 |
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
Substitutes:
🔁 LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴 | for M Andy Gray | 🏴 | 52’ |
🔁 CF Garry Thompson | 🏴 | for CF Alan McInally | 🏴 | 64’ |
Unused Substitutes:
None
None
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Kevin Gage replaces Allan Evans.
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.74 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 30.15 |
Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 | 20.95 |
Villa extend their unbeaten run to five but are held to a draw for the fourth time to sit 9th in the first division table on their return to the top flight.
Graham Taylor's 🏴 Villa have now taken the lead in five successive games only to be pegged back on four occasions.
As a result, from winning positions Villa now have accumulated seven points from a possible fifteen.
Midfielder Stuart Gray 🏴 makes his 🕒 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (24 Starts) and makes it 🟩 W10 🟨 D9 🟥 L6, ⚽ 6 Goals and 🔥 0 Assists so far in his Villa career.
Scorer(s) | Kevin Gage | 22' |
Assist(s) | Gordon Cowans | 22' |
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 22’ Goal, 1-0, Kevin Gage, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Nottingham Forest
🔁 | 52’ Sub off, Andy Gray, Sub on, Bernie Gallacher
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Alan McInally, Sub on, Garry Thompson
🥅 | 80’ Goal, 1-1, (Nottingham Forest), Franz Carr
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Nottingham Forest
Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #5 |
League Match | #5 |
Manager Game | #56 |
Saturday, 24 September 1988
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Joe Worrall | 🏴 | Warrington, 1977-1995
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨
Referee: Joe Worrall | 🏴 | Warrington, 1977-1995
Previous 5 vs. Forest: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨
League 🕒 91 | 🟩 43 | 🟨 20 | 🟥 28 | ⚽ 164 | 🥅 131 |
FA Cup 🕒 9 | 🟩 4 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 4 | ⚽ 16 | 🥅 12 |
League Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 3 | 🥅 4 |
Home 🕒 49 | 🟩 31 | 🟨 9 | 🟥 9 | ⚽ 107 | 🥅 49 |
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
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Final Appearances:
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Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
🕒 56 | 🟩 | 27 🟨 | 16 🟥 13 | 1.73
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Nottingham Forest
Villa Park
Attendance: 23,029
GK Steve Sutton | 🏴 |
LB Stuart Pearce | 🏴 |
CB Colin Foster | 🏴 |
CB Des Walker | 🏴 |
CB Steve Chettle | 🏴 |
M Gary Crosby | 🏴 |
M Nigel Clough | 🏴 |
M Steve Hodge (ex) | 🏴 |
M Neil Webb | 🏴 |
W Brian Rice | 🏴 |
F Tommy Gaynor | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
Brian Clough | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | F Tommy Gaynor | 🇮🇪 | (W Franz Carr | 🏴 | ⚽ |)
Unused Substitutes:
RB Gary Fleming | 🇬🇧 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1979-80
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
"Villa had to settle for their fourth draw after taking the lead in the 22nd minute with a Kevin Gage shot which skidded underneath Steve Sutton."
Franz Carr snatched an 80th minute equaliser for Nottingham Forest in a rousing finish against unbeaten Aston Villa.
Forest, still without a win after five games, more than deserved their point after pounding away at newly-promoted Villa in the second-half.
Villa had to settle for their fourth draw after taking the lead in the 22nd minute with a Kevin Gage shot which skidded underneath Steve Sutton.
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