Game #4148
Wednesday, 16 January 1991
Attendance: 28,176
Lost
League Cup Quarter Final
Quarter Final
Leeds United
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥
Elland Road
Villa lose in the League Cup quarter final at Elland Road to a side that would go on to win the League title the following season and who only recorded a resounding scoreline in the final 10 minutes as Villa chased the game. That however did not stop a massive over reaction from the Birmingham Evening Mail whose barely concealed vendetta against the dignified Jozef Vengloš seemed to escalate. This was Villa's eighth defeat in twenty nine games under the Czech boss..
Leeds United
4-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Gordon Cowans | 85' |
KEY MAN
A poor performance made worse by another unnecessarily destructive piece from the local rag.
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 17’ Goal, 0-1, (Leeds United), Lee Chapman
🕒 | HT Leeds United 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 54’ Goal, 0-2, (Leeds United), Gary McAllister
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Paul Birch, Sub on, Ian Ormondroyd
🥅 | 78’ Goal, 0-3, (Leeds United), Gary Speed
🥅 | 80’ Goal, 0-4, (Leeds United), Lee Chapman
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 1-4, Ian Ormondroyd, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | FT Leeds United 4-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Jozef Vengloš' Villa are swept aside at Elland Road in the League Cup quarter final, going 0-4 down before a late consolation.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Leeds United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1973–74
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Leeds: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1990-91 |
Matchday | #32 |
Manager Game | #32 |
Wednesday, 16 January 1991
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | Ružomberok, 1990-1991
Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴 | Surrey, 1975-1993
FT Result | Lost |
FT Score | 1-4 |
Last 5 Games | WDLDL |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴 | Surrey, 1975-1993
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 27 October 1990, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Villa Park.
Cards: None
CARDS
Villa
None
Leeds United
None
TEAM NEWS
Dwight Yorke and Paul Birch replace Tony Daley and Kevin Gage.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 28.67 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 32.46 |
Youngest Player |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 19.22 |
MANAGER
Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 |
MANAGER
Howard Wilkinson | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴 |
W Nigel Callaghan | 🏴 |
CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
Leeds United
GK John Lukic | 🏴 |
RB Mel Sterland | 🏴 |
CB Chris Fairclough | 🏴 |
CB Chris Whyte | 🏴 |
LB Glynn Snodin | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M David Batty | 🏴 |
M Gordon Strachan | 🏴 |
M Gary McAllister | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Gary Speed | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Carl Shutt | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Lee Chapman | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | ⚽ | for M Paul Birch | 🏴 | 81' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Glynn Snodin | 🏴 | (CB Peter Haddock | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Carl Shutt | 🏴 | (CF John Pearson | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 13/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player 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
"Birch stuck to his task gamely, even finding time and space for a stunning drive which thudded against the bar. "
*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Thursday, 17 January 1991
LEEDS United's fervent supporters last night exploded the myth that they only have eyes for their own idols.
In between celebrating their team's triumphant march to the Rumbelow's League Cup semi-finals, the Elland Road faithful took time out to deliver their verdict on Aston Villa. "You're so bad, it's unbelievable," was the cutting, but oh-so-accurate assessment of Villa's abysmal performance.
Only a week ago, it was all too easy to sympathise with Villa's heartbreaking late exit from the FA Cup.
But the loyal band of Midland fans who travelled to Yorkshire could this time feel only shame as their favourites were outclassed, outwitted and outfought by a Leeds side superior in every department.
For Howard Wilkinson's outfit, a marvellous first season back in the top flight remains full of promise, with a three-pronged attack on Wembley taking shape nicely.
For Villa, the campaign is as good as over, the modest target of mid-table respectability providing their sole ambition over the remaining three months.
Even that would appear to be somewhat over-optimistic on the evidence of last night's horror show, with a struggle against relegation looking a more realistic alternative.
Was this really the team who earned so much admiration in Saturday's absorbing goalless draw against leaders Liverpool?
Cosmetically, at least, the difference was slight, Stuart Gray and Paul Birch replacing Kevin Gage and Andy Comyn respectively.
But the tactic of abandoning a five-man defence and employing Birch to mark Leeds midfield maestro Gordon Strachan, was little short of catastrophic.
Birch stuck to his task gamely, even finding time and space for a stunning drive which thudded against the bar.
But he and fellow midfielders David Platt and Gordon Cowans were generally too pre-occupied in trying to contain their Leeds counterparts to contemplate creativity.