Game #4129
Saturday, 20 October 1990
Attendance: 6,646
Drew
Division One
9th (-)
Wimbledon
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨
Plough Lane
Villa are held to a goalless draw by the anti football and soon to be homeless Wimbledon but extend their run to one defeat in ten games and seven wins under Jozef Vengloš.
Wimbledon
0-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Jozef Vengloš, Villa extend their run to one defeat in ten games and seven wins under Jozef Vengloš, Saturday, 20 October 1990.
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MATCH TIMELINE
🕒 | HT Wimbledon 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Ian Ormondroyd, Sub on, Paul Birch
🕒 | FT Wimbledon 0-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Jozef Vengloš' Villa fail to score for the first time but have now lost just once in ten games.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Wimbledon
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1987-88
FIXTURE HISTORY
Wimbledon
Previous 5 vs. Wimbledon: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1990-91 |
Matchday | #13 |
League Match | #9 |
Manager Game | #13 |
Saturday, 20 October 1990
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | Ružomberok, 1990-1991
Referee: Bob Nixon | 🏴 | West Kirby, 1981-1993
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Bob Nixon | 🏴 | West Kirby, 1981-1993
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 1 April 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Villa Park.
Cards: None
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Tony Cascarino and Ian Ormondroyd replace Paul Birch and Ian Olney.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.83 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 32.22 |
Youngest Player |
CB Andy Comyn | 🏴 | 22.23 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 |
Ray Harford | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 |
CB Andy Comyn | 🏴 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | 🔁 |
Wimbledon
GK Hans Segers | 🇳🇱 |
RB Warren Barton | 🏴 |
CB John Scales | 🏴 |
CB Dean Blackwell | 🏴 |
CB Keith Curle | 🏴 |
LB Terry Phelan | 🇮🇪 |
D Roger Joseph | 🏴 |
M Detzi Kruszyński | 🇩🇪 |
M Paul McGee | 🇮🇪 |
CF John Fashanu | 🏴 |
CF Alan Cork | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Paul Birch | 🏴 | for CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | 75’ |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Made
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
W Carlton Fairweather | 🏴 |
CF Aidan Newhouse | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/13
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
"We want football" the large contingent of Villa fans chanted.
*Sunday Mirror*
Sunday, 21 October 1990
THE Dons put Villa through the Plough Lane torture chamber - but failed to put their victims out of their misery.
The only excuse Wimbledon boss Ray Harford could come up with was:
“It gets increasingly hard if you don't break your duck."
But there was no disguising the primitive nature of the Dons' latest attempt to secure their first home win of the season.
Wimbledon dominated the game but just couldn't score, John Fashanu going closest. "I have no complaints about our attitude," said Harford. "We were always looking to go forward. "But although we had a lot of pressure, their goalkeeper didn't make many saves and that's the worrying part.
Villa however have far more important appointments than the drudgery of Plough Lane as David Platt leads them Villa into UEFA Cup action against Inter Milan on Wednesday.
Platt promising:
"We don't just expect to beat them we expect to win the trophy."
That's fighting talk from the 24-year-old England midfield star.
But Villa's inspirational skipper is known as a man who says only what he means, and means every word he says and Platt is convinced that, with the opening leg at home, Villa can beat the millionaires from Milan.
Villa's Czech boss, Dr Jozef Venglos, describes the Second Round clash with the Italian giants as:
”England versus the Rest of the World."
He watched Inter again today against Pisa, but is already convinced that, over two legs, Platt will again prove he is world class and a future England captain
"David has the engine of a Rolls Royce," says Venglos. "It will be good for his education, and for the rest of my players, to pit themselves against a side of Inter's quality."
Platt relishes the challenge. So do his Villa teammates, runners-up in the First Division to Liverpool last season and beginning to get it together again under new manager Venglos.
He says: "Inter are certainly formidable opposition but we are treating it as just another game. Playing against a team as famous as Milan is motivation enough for us. I've never played in the San Siro stadium, so that's something else to savour.
"And when you look at their playing squad you know what a tall order it will be to beat them over two legs.
"We know it will hard, but every Villa player expects us come through, and we also expect to win to UEFA Cup this season.
“If you don't think you can win a tournament, you shouldn't playing in it."
Platt's all-active style, and his eye for goal, have made him target for every top club in Europe. But he insists:
"The attention hasn’t changed my way of life or the way I play.
"That's what got me to the Villa side and to the England squad.
“Why should I change anything now?"