Game #4024
Aston Villa
Saturday, 1 October 1988
11th (-2)
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 | 🟨 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M Andy A Gray | 🏴 | 🟥 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
CF Garry Thompson | 🏴 |
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
Substitutes:
No Substitutions Made
Unused Substitutes:
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 |
🟥 Andy A Gray, Striking Gary Megson
🟨 Martin Keown, Foul
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad:
Alan McInally
Stuart Gray replaces Bernie Gallacher.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.07 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 30.17 |
Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 | 20.97 |
Graham Taylor's 🏴 Villa 🟥 lose and fail to score for the first time this season and fall back to 11th place in the table with seven points from six games.
Villa 🟥 lose for the first time in 1988-89 as they concede early, miss a second half penalty and have Andy Gray 🏴 sent off for striking anger magnet Gary Megson to let an uncultured Wednesday 🏴 side claim all three points.
The penalty comes after Kevin Pressman 🏴 brings Chris Price 🏴 down with a professional foul with the goal gaping but such were the laws that the 'keeper stayed on to come up with an excellent save to Stuart Gray's 🏴 penalty.
Midfielder Andy Gray 🏴 is 🟥 sent off for the first time in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 28th appearance.
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🥅 | 9’ Goal, 0-1, (Sheffield Wednesday), David Hirst
🕒 | HT Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Aston Villa
💥 | 75’ Missed penalty, Stuart Gray
🟥 | 80’ Sending off, Andy Gray, Striking Gary Megson
🕒 | FT Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | Booking, Martin Keown, Foul
Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #7 |
League Match | #6 |
Manager Game | #58 |
Saturday, 1 October 1988
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Joe Timmons | 🏴 | Newcastle, 1988
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥
Referee: Joe Timmons | 🏴 | Newcastle, 1988
Previous 5 vs. Wednesday: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
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Final Appearances:
None
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 1987-1990
🕒 58 | 🟩 | 28 🟨 | 16 🟥 14 | 1.72
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Sheffield Wednesday
Hillsborough
Attendance: 18,301
GK Kevin Pressman | 🏴 |
LB Nigel Worthington | 🇬🇧 |
CB Nigel Pearson | 🏴 |
D Ian Cranson | 🏴 |
D Lawrie Madden | 🏴 |
RB Mel Sterland | 🏴 |
M Sigurdur Jónsson | 🇮🇸 | 🔁 |
M Gary Megson | 🏴 |
W David Reeves | 🏴 |
CF David Hirst | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Imre Váradi | 🏴 |
Howard Wilkinson | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | M Sigurdur Jónsson | 🇮🇸 | (M Tony Galvin | 🇮🇪 |)
Unused Substitutes:
CF Colin West | 🏴 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1934–35
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
"I'm not saying we deserved to get something out of the game, but we should have done."
Graham Taylor.
AN eighth minute goal by David Hirst was sufficient to give Sheffield Wednesday victory over Villa who failed to equalise in a second-half fight back during which their midfield man Andy Gray was sent off.
Villa had chances particularly in the 75th minute when a penalty kick by Stuart Gray was brilliantly palmed away at the foot of a post by goalkeeper Kevin Pressman.
Pressman redeemed his error for it was he who brought down Chris Price in the area as he fastened onto a poor back-pass from Nigel Worthington.
But Villa's effort faltered five minutes later when Gray was given his marching orders for striking Gary Megson in the face.
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