Game #4053
Wednesday, 1 March 1989
Attendance: 19,090
Lost
Division One
13th (-)
Tottenham Hotspur
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥
White Hart Lane
Villa crash at White Hart Lane to leave them 13th in the table and without a league win in four under an increasingly exasperated Graham Taylor.
Tottenham Hotspur
2-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Graham Taylor, 10-day Caribbean break for the boss and team in an attempt to arrest the decline.
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MATCH TIMELINE
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🥅 | 67’ Goal, 0-2, (Tottenham Hotspur), Chris Waddle
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Graham Taylor's Villa lose for the fifth time in seven games, winning one
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Tottenham Hotspur
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1983-84
FIXTURE HISTORY
Tottenham Hotspur
Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #87 |
Wednesday, 1 March 1989
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: John Deakin | 🏴 | Bedford, 1980-1992
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: John Deakin | 🏴 | Bedford, 1980-1992
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 26 November 1988, Villa 1-2 Coventry, Highfield Road.
Cards: None
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Martin Keown and Paul Birch replace Allan Evans and Tony Daley.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.61 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 30.58 |
Youngest Player |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 | 22.62 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
Terry Venables | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
W Nigel Callaghan | 🏴 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 |
Tottenham Hotspur
GK Erik Thorstvedt | 🇳🇴 |
LB Chris Hughton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Gary Mabbutt | 🏴 |
CB Chris Fairclough | 🏴 |
CB Guy Butters | 🏴 |
CB Terry Fenwick | 🏴 |
M Mark Robson | 🏴 |
M Paul Allen | 🏴 |
M Nayim | 🇪🇸 |
W Chris Waddle | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Paul Walsh | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Made
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Made
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
M Paul Stewart | 🏴 |
M Vinny Samways | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 13/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“Just recently, after our latest results, I have been left wondering what we are doing in this Division.”
Graham Taylor.
*Aberdeen Evening Express*
Thursday, 2 March 1989
GRAHAM Taylor takes his Aston Villa side to the Caribbean for a 10-day break today hoping to reinstil the confidence that can save the club's season.
Villa, who have won only two of their last nine League games, lost 2-0 to Tottenham and remain dangerously close to the relegation zone.
England's mercurial winger Chris Waddle destroyed Villa with both goals at White Hart Lane. His first came in the 22nd minute when he finished off a superb run by driving an unstoppable shot past Nigel Spink and be added another after 67 minutes by volleying over Spink from yards. Only the bar denied him a hat-trick.
