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Game #4088

Aston Villa

Friday, 22 December 1989

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Won

3rd Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩

Zenith Data Systems 3rd Round

Nottingham Forest

Villa Park

Attendance: 6,530

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-1

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Nottingham Forest

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🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Friday, 22 December 1989

🥅 | 23’ Goal, 0-1, (Nottingham Forest), Stuart Pearce
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Nottingham Forest
⚽ | 59’ Goal, 1-1, David Platt (pen)
⚽ | 74’ Goal, 2-1, Derek Mountfield, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Friday, 22 December 1989
  • Villa play on a Friday to get the wasteful ZDS fixture out of the way but win through after a dynamic second half performance before a crowd of just 6,500.

  • Graham Taylor’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa win in the 3rd Round of the latest incarnation of the Full Members Cup.

  • Full back Kevin Gage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 100th appearance in a Villa shirt (99 Starts) and makes it 🟩 W45 🟨 D24 🟥 L31, ⚽ 9 Goals and 🔥 13 Assists so far in his Villa career.

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

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

Nottingham Forest

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1988-89

FIXTURE HISTORY
Nottingham Forest
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Previous 5 vs. Forest: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟩

League 🕒 94 | 🟩 44 | 🟨 21 | 🟥 29 | ⚽ 167 | 🥅 137 |
FA Cup 🕒 9 | 🟩 4 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 4 | ⚽ 16 | 🥅 12 |
League Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 3 | 🥅 4 |
Other 🕒 1 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 2 | 🥅 1 |
Home 🕒 51 | 🟩 33 | 🟨 9 | 🟥 9 | ⚽ 111 | 🥅 51 |

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

Nottingham Forest

PREVIOUS MATCH
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Nottingham Forest

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #24 |
Manager Game | #122 |
Friday, 22 December 1989

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🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: David Scott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Burnley, 1982-1989
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 122 | 🟩 | 53 🟨 | 30 🟥 39 | 1.55

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: David Scott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Burnley, 1982-1989

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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CARDS
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🟨 🟨

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Kevin Gage (first start in 8) comes in for Stuart Gray.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.76 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.39 |

Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.02 |

Referee

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Brian Clough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Nottingham Forest

GK Steve Sutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Brian Laws | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CB Des Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Chettle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Stuart Pearce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Brian Rice | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Steve Hodge (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gary Crosby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Clough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Lee Chapman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 M Gareth Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 62' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | RB Brian Laws | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Brian Rice | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (M Thorvaldur Örlygsson | 🇮🇸 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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CB Andy Comyn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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None

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/13

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/13

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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Stuart Gray

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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
“As far as I’m concerned it’s a way of getting to Wembley.” Tony Daley.
Quotes

🟩 22 Dec 1989, Villa 2-1 Forest, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Nottingham Evening Post*
Saturday, 23 December 1989
NOTTINGHAM Forest last night suffered only their second defeat in 20 cup this year - and went out of the Zenith Cap Aston Villa came back from a goal down to win 2-1 through penalty by David Platt after an hour and a header from Derek Mountfield 15 minutes from time to make it an unhappy start to the festive season for the Reds. It had all looked promising for Forest, the Littlewoods and Simod Cup holders when captain Stuart Pearce fired them ahead after 23 minutes. He struck after having free kick charged down Steve Chettle seized on the loose ball and pushed it deep into the penalty area where a delightful flick by Brian Rice set up the captain's fifth goal of the season. Forest dominated the first half confusing Villa by playing Rice alongside Lee Chapman up front with Nigel Clough on the left wing. But Villa dominated the second half and Brian Laws, booked in the 54th minute for foul on Mountfield, was adjudged to have tripped Platt six minutes later as he raced into the penalty area. Goalkeeper Steve Sutton got a hand to the spot kick but it went in and Sutton had to make brilliant save from Paul McGrath before Mountfield nodded in the winner at the far post from Gordon Cowans' cross from the right. Sutton further distinguished himself by diving full length to his left to turn aside a piledriver from Tony Daley who was constant and lively problem for Forest.
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