Game #4164
Aston Villa
Wednesday, 8 May 1991
17th (-)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
M Mark Blake | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
CF Gary Penrice | 🏴 |
CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991
Substitutes:
🔁 CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | for M Mark Blake | 🏴 | 46' |
Unused Substitutes:
RB Neil Cox | 🏴 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Mark Blake replaces Tony Daley.
Starting XI Average Age
| 28.56 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 32.77 |
Youngest Player |
M Mark Blake | 🏴 | 20.41 |
Villa win for the first time in 9 and make it 16 wins and 16 defeats time in 45 games under a Jozef Vengloš now openly exasperated with his treatment by the local press.
Second half substitute Dwight Yorke heads the winner that confirms Villa's top flight safety.
Dwight Yorke contributes his 5th goal involvement and his 4th in his last 7 games in a Villa shirt on his 21st appearance (9 Starts) to make it W5 D6 L10, 2 Goals and 3 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.20 he has played so far in his Villa career.
Scorer(s) | Own Goal | 9’ | Dwight Yorke | 66’ |
Assist(s) | Tony Cascarino | 66' |
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 9’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Mark Bowen
🥅 | 42’ Goal, 1-1, (Norwich City), Dale Gordon
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Norwich City
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Mark Blake, Sub on, Dwight Yorke
⚽ | 66’ Goal, 2-1, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Tony Cascarino
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-1 Norwich City
Season | 1990-91 |
Matchday | #48 |
League Match | #37 |
Manager Game | #48 |
Wednesday, 8 May 1991
Manager: Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | Ružomberok, 1990-1991
Referee: Alan Flood | 🏴 | Stockport, 1987–1993
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
Referee: Alan Flood | 🏴 | Stockport, 1987–1993
Previous 5 vs. Norwich: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
None
Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991
🕒 48 | 🟩 | 16 🟨 | 14 🟥 18 | 1.29
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Norwich City
Villa Park
Attendance: 16,697
GK Mark Walton | 🏴 |
RB Ian Culverhouse | 🏴 |
CB Ian Butterworth | 🏴 |
CB John Polston | 🏴 |
LB Mark Bowen | 🏴 |
M Jeremy Goss | 🏴 |
M Ian Crook | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M David Phillips | 🏴 |
M Tim Sherwood | 🏴 |
M Dale Gordon | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Robert Fleck | 🏴 |
Dave Stringer | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | M Ian Crook | 🏴 | (CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes:
D Jason Minett | 🏴 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1984–85
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
"What will be, will be.
“We play Chelsea and then go to Malaysia for a few games. Then I will decide about the future.
“When I came here, I signed a contract for one year, and I have been happy to add that to my 25 years experience."
Jozef Vengloš
“Since the turn of the year, though, he [Jozef Vengloš] has come under increasing pressure as the team have slid alarmingly down the table
With no sense of shame the Birmingham Evening Mail fail to admit from where the pressure had been coming.
SUB Dwight Yorke secured Aston Villa's first division future with a 66th minute winner against Norwich at Villa Park last night.
Villa needed only a point to end the threat of relegation but Trinidad & Tobago international Yorke enabled them to end a run of eight matches without a win.
Villa put a jittery opening 45 minutes behind them is the second period as they celebrated England midfielder David Platt’s decision to reject a move to Italian club Bari.
Fittingly it was Platt who had a hand in Villa’s ninth minute opener when Norwich defender Mark Bowen could only turn his teasing left-wing cross into his own net.
A weak clearing header from Kevin Gage only found lan Crook and his fiercely driven low cross was turned into the roof of the net by Dale Gordon and Norwich were level.
But Tony Cascarino’s 66th minute centre was headed home by Yorke and so it proved the crucial winner.
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