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Game #4026

Aston Villa

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Wednesday, 12 October 1988

2nd Round

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | ⚽ |

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990
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Substitutes

🔁 LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46' |

Unused Substitutes

CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)

None

Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)

None

Trophy Record

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Matchday Squad

Unavailable

Alan McInally

Team News

Allan Evans, Steve Sims (first start in 7) and Ian Olney (debut) replace Martin Keown, Andy Gray and Garry Thompson.

Team Stats

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.66 |

Oldest Player |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 32.02 |

Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.83 |

Debut Appearances

🟢 CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #657 | Youth Team promotion

Final Appearances

None

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Won

5-0

🟩 12 Oct 1988, Villa 5-0 Birmingham, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Derek Mountfield | 1' | Kevin Gage | 10' | 16' | Ian Olney | 17' | Tony Daley | 70' |

Assist(s) | Gordon Cowans | 1' |

Match Timeline

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Ian Olney
⚽ | 1’ Goal, 1-0, Derek Mountfield, Assist by Gordon Cowans, 45 Seconds
⚽ | 10’ Goal, 2-0, Kevin Gage
⚽ | 16’ Goal, 3-0, Kevin Gage
⚽ | 17’ Goal, 4-0, Ian Olney
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 4-0 Birmingham City
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Stuart Gray, Sub on, Bernie Gallacher
⚽ | 70’ Goal, 5-0, Tony Daley
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 5-0 Birmingham City

Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #9 |
Manager Game | #60 |
Wednesday, 12 October 1988

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Match Record
Game Record

Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Keith Hackett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1976-1994
HT Score: 🟩 4-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 5-0 (7-0)
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

Officials

Referee: Keith Hackett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1976-1994

Previous 5 vs. Birmingham: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

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Head to Head

Total 🕒 103 | 🟩 43 | 🟨 27 | 🟥 33 | ⚽ 163 | 🥅 137 |
League 🕒 96 | 🟩 39 | 🟨 25 | 🟥 32 | ⚽ 150 | 🥅 134 |
FA Cup 🕒 3 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 5 | 🥅 0 |
League Cup 🕒 4 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 8 | 🥅 3 |
Home 🕒 51 | 🟩 25 | 🟨 14 | 🟥 12 | ⚽ 88 | 🥅 57 |
Away 🕒 52 | 🟩 18 | 🟨 13 | 🟥 21 | ⚽ 75 | 🥅 80 |

Match Stats

Not recorded

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 60 | 🟩 | 29 🟨 | 16 🟥 15 | 1.72

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

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League Cup

Birmingham City

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Villa Park

Attendance: 19,753

GK Tony Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB John Frain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian Atkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Vince Overson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ian Clarkson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ray Ranson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Des Bremner (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Dean Peer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ronnie Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Steve Wigley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Colin Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Garry Pendrey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
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Substitutes

🔁 | RB Ray Ranson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Simon Sturridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Ronnie Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Gary Childs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

None

Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)

🟨

Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)

None

Opposition Trophy Record

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1962-63

Opposition Matchday Squad

Opposition Unavailable

Not Recorded

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On This Day
  • Villa score four in the first seventeen minutes, five across ninety and seven across the two legs without reply as Kevin Gage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 revels in his midfield role and neighbours Birmingham are annihilated at Villa Park with ease. 

  • Centre forward Ian Olney 18 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes a goalscoring debut for Villa after joining from Ebley FC in 1986 and graduating through the youth ranks to become the 657th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Full back Kevin Gage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores two to contribute his 15th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 59th appearance (58 Starts).

  • Gordon Cowans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 350th start in a Villa shirt (366 Appearances) to make it 🟩 W166 🟨 D87 🟥 L113, ⚽ 52 Goals and 🔥 57 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.36 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Derek Mountfield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ first goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 6th appearance.

Starting XI
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

234

233*

🔥

0

1

🟩

87

🟨

66

🟥

81

65

🥅

313

RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

9

9*

🔥

0

0

🟩

3*

🟨

4

🟥

2

CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

36

36

🔥

0

0

🟩

18

🟨

11

🟥

7

CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

6

6*

🔥

1*

0

🟩

2*

🟨

2

🟥

2

CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
🕒

448

439

🔥

61

14

🟩

181

🟨

116

🟥

151

RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

59

58

🔥

6

9

🟩

28

🟨

16

🟥

15

M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

27

26

🔥

6

0

🟩

11

🟨

9

🟥

7

M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

367

351

🔥

52

57

🟩

166

🟨

88

🟥

113

M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

20

20

🔥

5

1

🟩

7

🟨

6

🟥

7

W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

95

72*

🔥

11*

12

🟩

24*

🟨

27

🟥

44

CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

1

1*

🔥

1*

0

🟩

1*

🟨

0

🟥

0

Substitutes
🕒

🔁

🔥

GK Sub

🟩

🟨

🟥

🥅

LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
🕒

55

🔁

2

🔥

0

2

Sub 1

🟩

28

🟨

13

🟥

14

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 2

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 3

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 4

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 5

🟩

🟨

🟥

Match Media
What they Said

"The job has been done well and that is all you can ask.

”Whether It is 7-0 on aggregate or 1-0. the objective was to be in the third round and we have achieved that.”

Graham Taylor.

Villa showed no mercy for struggling neighbours Birmingham City with a ruthless demolition job here last night.

After their disastrous start to the season the lack of an established recognised goalkeeper and Ian Handysides’ recent brain operation Blues were due for a lucky break.

But Graham Taylor’s side allowed them no let-up as they repeatedly ripped through a wafer-thin defence to wrap up a crushing 7-0 aggregate win.

Blues’ rookie goalkeeper Tony Elliott had a nightmare debut picking the ball out of his net four times in the opening 17 minutes.

Derek Mountfield beat him with a header in the first minute after Gordon Cowans destroyed the defence with a curling cross.

Ian Atkins’s foul on Chris Price earned him a booking and allowed Kevin Gage to extend the lead direct from his 11th minute free kick.

With the Birmingham defence in tatters Elliott was reduced to a spectating role as Gage lashed in a low 20-yard drive from the edge of the area five minutes later.

The rout continued when Blues failed to clear a dangerous attack allowing teenager Ian Olney to score from close range on his debut.

To make matters worse for Blues Ray Ranson limped off on the half hour to be replaced by youngster Simon Sturridge.

Villa came to life after a subdued start to the second half when Price streaked clear on the right but his cross was hacked away by Vince Overson.

A minute later Elliott was under pressure again when he fumbled a corner but his defence fortunately came to the rescue.

Tony Daley repeatedly caused panic with his lightning speed and after having one shot beaten out by the Blues’ back four he grabbed Villa’s fifth goal after 70 minutes with a superb chip from the edge of the box that gave the outstretched Elliott no chance.

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