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Game #4155

Aston Villa

Saturday, 23 March 1991

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Won

14th (+1)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division One

Sunderland

Roker Park

Attendance: 21,099

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

Sunderland

1-3

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Gary Penrice | 36' | Gordon Cowans | 76' |

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 23 March 1991

⚽ | 36’ Goal, 1-0, Tony Cascarino, Assist by Gary Penrice
🕒 | HT Sunderland 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 52’ Goal, 2-0, Tony Cascarino
🥅 | 55’ Goal, 2-1, (Sunderland), Peter Davenport
⚽ | 76’ Goal, 3-1, David Platt, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | FT Sunderland 1-3 Aston Villa

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

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 23 March 1991
  • Villa win a second consecutive game as David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ twentieth of the season.

  • Having scored six in two games and recorded consecutive top flight wins to climb to 14th in the table, the Birmingham Evening Mail decides to lead with the headline "CAS DOUBLE LIFTS VILLA GLOOM" as Villa record their fifteenth win in thirty six games under Jozef Vengloš (eleven defeats).

  • Gary Penrice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 contributes his 🔥 first assist in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 3rd appearance.

  • Derek Mountfield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 secures his 🟩 50th win in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 109th appearance (107 Starts) to make it 🟩 W50 🟨 D22 🟥 L37, ⚽ 16 Goals and 🔥 2 Assists so far in his Villa career.

  • Tony Cascarino 🇮🇪 scores his ⚽ 10th goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 44th appearance (41 Starts) to make it 🟩 W16 🟨 D15 🟥 L13, ⚽ 10 Goals and 🔥 6 Assists so far in his Villa career.

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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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

Sunderland

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1972-73

FIXTURE HISTORY
Sunderland
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Previous 5 vs. Sunderland: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

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

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1990-91 |
Matchday | #39 |
League Match | #28 |
Manager Game | #39 |
Saturday, 23 March 1991

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🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | Ružomberok, 1990-1991
Referee: Colin Trussell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Blundell Sands, 1986–1991
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991

🕒 39 | 🟩 | 15 🟨 | 11 🟥 13 | 1.44

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991

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

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Colin Trussell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Blundell Sands, 1986–1991

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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None

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

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Mark Blake replaces Dwight Yorke.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.43 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.64 |

Youngest Player |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 20.28 |

Referee

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

MANAGER

Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
M Mark Blake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Gary Penrice | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |

MANAGER

Denis Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Sunderland

GK Tony Norman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
D Richard Ord | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gary Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Paul Hardyman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Kieron Brady | 🇮🇪 |
M Colin Pascoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M John Cornforth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Paul Bracewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gary Owers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF David Rush | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Gordon Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Peter Davenport | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | M John Cornforth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (D John Kay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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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

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/13

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

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

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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MATCH QUOTES
"David Platt dashed all hopes of Sunderland salvaging a point after 76 minutes."
Quotes

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 24 March 1991
TONY Cascarino hammered another nail in Sunderland's coffin at Roker Park yesterday just as he did four years ago when condemning the Roker side to the third division for the first time in their history. The Republic of Ireland striker scored five goals against Sunderland in the play-offs and he was at it again with a double strike to improve Villa's first division survival campaign. Cascarino struck in the 36th minute when converting a centre from Gary Penrice and seven minutes after the interval he increased Villa's lead. Both goals came against the run of play, his second effort taking a wicked deflection off Paul Bracewell. Substitute Peter Davenport threw Sunderland a lifeline after 55 minutes when ending a run of 10 matches without a goal but England international David Platt dashed all hopes of Sunderland salvaging a point after 76 minutes.
Reports

🟩 23 Mar 1991, Villa 3-1 Sunderland, Roker

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