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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

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PROGRAMME

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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.