Game #4104
Aston Villa
Sunday, 4 March 1990
Lost
2nd (-1)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Division One
Attendance: 17,891
Coventry City
Highfield Road
Coventry City
2-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa suffer a crazy 60 seconds as Derek Mountfield is injured, gamely plays on but misses his tackle from a corner to allow Kevin Drinkell - who had come onto the field seconds before - to score Coventry's first. Controversial referee George Courtney then forced Mountfield to leave the field of play and within 40 seconds of their first Coventry added a second against 10 man Villa. Two goals and a man down in a single minute, Villa couldn't recover and lose a second successive first division game for the first time this season. As a result Villa fall to second in the table, a point behind Liverpool.
KEY MAN
Graham Taylor, defiant.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 4 March 1990
🕒 | HT Coventry City 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 53’ Goal, 0-1, (Coventry City), Kevin Drinkell
🥅 | 53’ Goal, 0-2, (Coventry City), David Smith
🔁 | 54’ Sub off, Derek Mountfield, Sub on, Stuart Gray
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Ian Ormondroyd, Sub on, Paul Birch
🕒 | FT Coventry City 2-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Graham Taylor’s Villa lose for the second time in a week having previously lost twice in thirteen games. Villa remain second but fall four points behind leaders Liverpool.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Coventry City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1986-87
FIXTURE HISTORY
Coventry City
Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #138 |
Sunday, 4 March 1990
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: George Courtney | 🏴 | Spennymoor, 1974-1992
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 138 | 🟩 | 64 🟨 | 31 🟥 43 | 1.62
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: George Courtney | 🏴 | Spennymoor, 1974-1992 🆘
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 27 January 1990, FA Cup, Villa 6-0 Vale, Villa Park.
Cards: None
George Courtney
CARDS
Villa
None
Coventry City
None
TEAM NEWS
Graham Taylor names an unchanged line up.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.96 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 31.59 |
Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 | 20.22 |
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
John Sillett | 🏴 |
Coventry City
GK Steve Ogrizović | 🏴 |
CB Brian Kilcline | 🏴 |
CB Trevor Peake | 🏴 |
RB Brian Borrows | 🏴 |
M Tony Dobson | 🏴 |
M Micky Gynn | 🏴 |
M David Smith | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Kevin Gallacher | 🏴 |
CF David Speedie | 🏴 |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴 |
CF Steve Livingstone | 🏴 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Stuart Gray | 🏴 | for CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 | 54’ |
🔁 M Paul Birch | 🏴 | for CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | 72’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Steve Livingstone | 🏴 | (CF Kevin Drinkell | 🏴 | ⚽ |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
LB Greg Downs | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 13/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
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
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"It is always difficult. If we had gone clear again everybody would have been telling us that all we had to do was to turn up for the next ten games.
“But my reaction is to tell the players to look where they are.
“With two thirds of the season played we are in the sixth round of the Cup and second In the League.
“Our season is going all right we are not having too bad a season.
"I would like to have had a little more time to see what was wrong with Mountfield before he was taken off. But it would be very rash to offer this as an excuse."
Graham Taylor.
"There seemed to be indecent haste from the referee to get Mountfield off.
“I didn't even have time to take my tracksuit off before they scored their second."
Stuart Gray.
*Aberdeen Press and Journal*
Monday, 5 March 1990
TWO Coventry goals in less than a minute, sparked by substitute Kevin DRINKELL scoring with his first touch, sent Aston Villa reeling to their second successive English First Division defeat.
A spectacular David SMITH solo effort within moments of Drinkell’s 50th minute impact at Highfield Road, wrecked Villa’s hopes of leap-frogging Liverpool to the top of the table.
Instead, Coventry's third win in 53 years over their Midlands rivals leaves Graham Taylor’s men still a point adrift
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