Game #4079
Sunday, 5 November 1989
Attendance: 17,637
Won
Division One
4th (+3)
Everton
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩
Villa Park
Villa hammer Everton at Villa Park as they cruise to a 6-0 lead before conceding a couple of sloppy goals but nothing can detract from Villa's most thrilling performance for many a season as they rise to 4th place in the first division.
Aston Villa
6-2
Everton
Assist(s) | David Platt | 20’ | 52’ | Gordon Cowans | 35’ | 67’ | Ian Ormondroyd | 50’ |
KEY MAN
David Platt, second successive brace and six goals sends Villa 4th. How did the Evening Mail celebrate...? By announcing "It was a bad day for Merseyside after Coventry beat Liverpool." Support.
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MATCH TIMELINE
⚽ | 8’ Goal, 1-0, Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 20’ Goal, 2-0, Ian Olney, Assist by David Platt
⚽ | 35’ Goal, 3-0, David Platt, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 3-0 Everton
⚽ | 50’ Goal, 4-0, David Platt, Assist by Ian Ormondroyd
⚽ | 52’ Goal, 5-0, Ian Olney, Assist by David Platt
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Kevin Gage, Sub on, Mark Blake
⚽ | 67’ Goal, 6-0, Kent Nielsen, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Ian Olney, Sub on, Adrian Heath
🥅 | 83’ Goal, 6-1, (Everton), Tony Cottee
🥅 | 86’ Goal, 6-2, (Everton), Paul McGrath o.g.
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 6-2 Everton
ON THIS DAY
Graham Taylor’s Villa make it four successive League wins and secure their biggest win of the season as they destroy Everton at Villa Park to climb to 4th in the table.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Everton
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1986-87
FIXTURE HISTORY
Everton
Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #15 |
League Match | #12 |
Manager Game | #113 |
Sunday, 5 November 1989
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Tony Ward | 🏴 | London, 1980-1993
HT Score: 🟩 3-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 6-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Tony Ward | 🏴 | London, 1980-1993
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 22 April 1989, Villa 2-2 Norwich, Carrow Road.
Cards: 🟨 🟨
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Paul McGrath (first start in 5) and Ian Ormondroyd (first start of the season) replace Mark Blake and Stuart Gray.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.63 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 31.27 |
Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 | 19.90 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
Colin Harvey | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 | ⚽ |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
M David Platt | 🏴 | 🔥 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔥 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | 🔥 |
Everton
GK Neville Southall | 🏴 |
RB Neil McDonald | 🏴 |
CB Martin Keown (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Dave Watson | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M John Ebbrell | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Kevin Sheedy | 🇮🇪 |
M Stuart McCall | 🏴 |
M Norman Whiteside | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Pat Nevin | 🏴 |
CF Mike Newell | 🏴 |
CF Tony Cottee | 🏴 | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Mark Blake | 🏴 | for RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 | 63' |
🔁 F Adrian Heath | 🏴 | for CF Ian Olney | 🏴 | 73' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CB Dave Watson | 🏴 | (W Peter Beagrie | 🏴 |)
🔁 | M Norman Whiteside | 🇬🇧 | (CF Graeme Sharp | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/13
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
"What you don't do is crow about it.
"We have got to go to Everton and. as I have told the players, you have to be careful what you say after a victory like this."
Graham Taylor.
"We are still short of quality in some areas.
“I don't think we are quite good enough yet to win the title.
“But if we can strengthen the side we might still make it.”
Gordon Cowans.
*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Monday, 6 November 1989
GRAHAM Taylor last night saluted his goal-crazy Aston Villa team after they thrashed title pretenders Everton 6-2 in a TV spectacular.
Said Taylor: "We were exceptional. This result should give the whole club confidence."
Everton boss Colin Harvey confessed: "This was my worst day as a manager - one of my worst-ever in football."
Two-goal attack partners David Platt and lan Olney led the Villa all-star parade. Gordon Cowans and Kent Nielsen completed the rout, Tony Cottee and Paul McGrath's own goal offering Everton small consolation.
Paul McGrath, Ireland's 'Black Pearl’, totally snuffed out the challenge of Everton's Norman Whiteside who was reduced to committing niggling fouls and getting booked. He was eventually substituted.
In the second half VIU manager Graham Taylor made some tactical switches and moved McGrath to left back. Again McGrath did everything that was asked of him with skill and absolute composure.
If beleaguered Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was watching this game be must surely have regretted letting McGrath leave for £130,000 last summer. It may well turn out to be the bargain buy of the season.
The only blemish on McGrath's brilliant comeback from injury was that he scored a goal . .. against his own team. McGrath displayed his class and, just as importantly. his versatility in what was unquestionably Villa's finest performance this season.
The home side opened the scoring in the sixth minute when midfielder Gordon Cowans ran on to a ball from Chris Price and beat Neville Southall from 10 yards.
Villa went two up in the 19th minute when an lan Ormondroyd cross was hooked on by David Platt and blocked by Southall before lan Olney prodded the ball into the net.
They went three up on the 25th minute when a Cowans free kick was superbly headed over Southall by Platt.
Villa continued their inspired form after the break.
Platt got his second in the 50th minute when he beat Southall after being put through by Kevin Gage, leaving former teammate Martin Known for dead to score Villa's fourth.
Two minutes later Olney got his second when he scored after Southall had parried a Platt header.
Villa got their sixth in the 67th minute when defender Kent Nielsen beat Southall at the far post to head home a Cowans free kick.
Everton, who last conceded six when they lost 6-2 to Manchester United in 1977, got some consolation with seven minutes left.
First Tony Cottee scored his second in two games when he beat Nigel Spink. Then McGrath prodded into his own goal after new signing Peter Beagrie, who had come on as a second half substitute to make his debut, shot from the left.
Villa's performance gave the TV audience spectacular viewing and lifted them to fourth place in the League. They are now unbeaten in eight games. It was Everton's first defeat in seven games.