Game #4164
Wednesday, 8 May 1991
Attendance: 16,697
Won
Division One
17th (-)
Norwich City
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
Villa Park
Second half substitute Dwight Yorke heads the winner that confirms Villa's safety and make it sixteen wins and sixteen losses time in forty five games under a Jozef Vengloš now openly exasperated with this treatment by the local press.
Aston Villa
2-1
Norwich City
Assist(s) | Tony Cascarino | 66' |
KEY MAN
Dwight Yorke, scored the goal that kept Villa in the division.
RELATED MATCHES
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
ON THIS DAY
Jozef Vengloš' Villa win for the first time in nine.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Norwich City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1984–85
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Norwich: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1990-91 |
Matchday | #48 |
League Match | #37 |
Manager Game | #48 |
Wednesday, 8 May 1991
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | Ružomberok, 1990-1991
Referee: Alan Flood | 🏴 | Stockport, 1986–1995
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Alan Flood | 🏴 | Stockport, 1986–1995
Previous 5: 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 25 March 1987, Villa 1-1 Watford, Villa Park.
Cards: None
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Mark Blake replaces Tony Daley.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 28.56 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 32.77 |
Youngest Player |
M Mark Blake | 🏴 | 20.41 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 |
Dave Stringer | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
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 | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
Norwich City
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 | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | for M Mark Blake | 🏴 | 46' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Ian Crook | 🏴 | (CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
RB Neil Cox | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
D Jason Minett | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
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
"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.
*Irish Independent*
Thursday, 9 May 1991
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.
