Game #4177
Aston Villa
3-3-5, 12 PTS
Saturday, 28 September 1991
17th (-1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥
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 | 🏴 | 🔴 |
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | 1991-1994
Substitutes
🔁 M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | for M Paul Mortimer | 🏴 |
Unused Substitutes
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 |
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Trophy Record
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Not recorded
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 |
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
🔴 CF Gary Penrice | 🏴 | 1991 | 🕒 20 | 14 (6) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 2 | 🇺 2 | #669 |
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
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
Season | 1991-92 |
Matchday | #12 |
League Match | #11 |
Manager Game | #12 |
Saturday, 28 September 1991
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Paul Alcock | 🏴 | Kent, 1991–2000
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥
Officials
Referee: Paul Alcock | 🏴 | Kent, 1991–2000
Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
Head to Head
Total 🕒 38 | 🟩 19 | 🟨 13 | 🟥 6 | ⚽ 60 | 🥅 35 |
League 🕒 35 | 🟩 17 | 🟨 13 | 🟥 5 | ⚽ 54 | 🥅 33 |
FA Cup 🕒 3 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 6 | 🥅 2 |
Home 🕒 19 | 🟩 12 | 🟨 7 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 33 | 🥅 10 |
Away 🕒 19 | 🟩 7 | 🟨 6 | 🟥 6 | ⚽ 27 | 🥅 25 |
Match Stats
Not recorded
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | 1991-1994
🕒 12 | 🟩 | 3 🟨 | 4 🟥 5 | 1.08
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
Division One
Coventry City
5-2-4, 17 PTS
Highfield Road
Attendance: 17,851
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 | 🇿🇼 | ⚽ |
Terry Butcher | 🏴 |
Substitutes
🔁 | LB Paul Edwards | 🏴 | (M Dean Emerson | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes
RB Martyn Booty | 🏴 |
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
🟨 Peter Billing
🟨 Brian Borrows
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1986-87
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
Starting XI
Match Media
On This Day
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.
Villa had now won just once in their last nine matches under Ron Atkinson.
Centre forward Gary Penrice, 27, makes his 20th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (14 Starts) 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 and left with a record of 1 Goal, 2 Assists, W6 D3 L11 across his brief Villa career.
What they Said
“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.
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.