Game #4177
Saturday, 28 September 1991
Attendance: 17,851
Lost
Division One
17th (-1)
Coventry City
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥
Highfield Road
Villa concede a first half strike to Peter Ndlovu before maintaining an almost permanent assault on the Highfield Road goal but to no avail as they lose for the second time in three first division games.
Coventry City
1-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Steve Staunton, tormented.
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 40’ Goal, 0-1, (Coventry City), Peter Ndlovu
🕒 | HT Coventry City 1-0 Aston Villa
🕒 | FT Coventry City 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | Sub off, Paul Mortimer, Sub on, Gordon Cowans
ON THIS DAY
Ron Atkinson's Villa had now won just once in their last nine matches as Gary Penrice made his final appearance for Villa aged 27 before moving on to Queens Park Rangers for a fee of £625,000 in October. Penrice had moved to Villa from Watford 6 months earlier for a fee of £1,000,000. In all Penrice made 20 appearances (6 as substitute) and scored once.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Coventry City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1986-87
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1991-92 |
Matchday | #12 |
League Match | #11 |
Manager Game | #12 |
Saturday, 28 September 1991
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Paul Alcock | 🏴 | Kent, 1988–2002
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Paul Alcock | 🏴 | Kent, 1988–2002
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Incidents: 🟨 🟨
CARDS
Villa
None
Coventry City
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Gary Penrice and Kent Nielsen replace Gordon Cowans and Mark Blake.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.88 |
Oldest Player |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴 | 33.65 |
Youngest Player |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 19.92 |
MANAGER
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Terry Butcher | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
RB Dariusz Kubicki | 🇵🇱 |
M Paul Mortimer | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴 |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
CF Gary Penrice | 🏴 |
Coventry City
GK Steve Ogrizović | 🏴 |
LB Paul Edwards | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Peter Billing | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Andy Pearce | 🏴 |
RB Brian Borrows | 🏴 | 🟨 |
RB Peter Atherton | 🏴 |
M Micky Gynn | 🏴 |
M Lloyd McGrath | 🏴 |
W Kevin Gallacher | 🏴 |
CF Paul Furlong | 🏴 |
CF Peter Ndlovu | 🇿🇼 | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | for M Paul Mortimer | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Paul Edwards | 🏴 | (M Dean Emerson | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
RB Martyn Booty | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/13
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
CF Gary Penrice | 🏴 |
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“Our second half showing was as good as we have played all season, but it’s no good starting at half time.
“The first hall was abysmal, we were spineless and not competitive.
“If we had played with the same drive and commitment that we showed after the break, we would have come away with something.”
Ron Atkinson.
*Sunday Tribune*
Sunday 29 September 1991
COVENTRY ASTON VILLA ZIMBABWEAN international Peter Ndlovu struck a great goal to settle an intense local derby and keep patched-up Coventry among the first division's high-flyers.
The 18-year-old Bulawayoborn striker, whose native language is Matabele, must have seemed like a sorcerer to Villa's £1.5 million Irish left-hack Steve Staunton.
Staunton was tormented by his young adversary, who in the 40th minute picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, dummied past the former Liverpool player, side-stepped Kent Nielsen and then beat Nigel Spink with a rifling left-foot shot.
It was all Villa after that but Steve Ogrizovic made four fine saves from Gary Penrice,, Dwight Yorke, Paul McGrath and Nielsen. Little Micky Gym headed off the line from Penrice.
