Game #4208
Saturday, 21 March 1992
Attendance: 15,368
Drew
Division One
12th (+1)
Crystal Palace
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨
Selhurst Park
Villa hold the upper hand throughout against Palace but yet again don't to make their dominance count as they fail to score for the tenth time in twelve first division games in 1992 including their last five but earn a point to climb back 12th in the table.
Crystal Palace
0-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Dalian Atkinson, should have ended Villa's goal famine.
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
🕒 | HT Crystal Palace 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Dwight Yorke, Sub on, Tony Daley
🕒 | FT Crystal Palace 0-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Ron Atkinson's Villa fail to score for the sixth successive game and now have just one win in twelve Division One matches in 1992, losing six. Meanwhile, Paul Mortimer lined up for Palace, missing both of their best chances, having started the season as one of Atkinson's new Villa signings before being shown the door within weeks of his arrival.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Crystal Palace
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Palace: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1991-92 |
Matchday | #43 |
League Match | #34 |
Manager Game | #43 |
Saturday, 21 March 1992
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Joe Worrall | 🏴 | Warrington, 1976-1995
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Joe Worrall | 🏴 | Warrington, 1976-1995
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 2 March 1991, Villa 1-2 Sheffield United, Bramall Lane.
Incidents: None
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Dalian Atkinson and Dwight Yorke replace Cyrille Regis and Steve Froggatt.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.96 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 33.64 |
Youngest Player |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 20.39 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 |
Steve Coppell | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴 |
M Matthias Breitkreutz | 🇩🇪 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴 |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 |
CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🔁 |
Crystal Palace
GK Nigel Martyn | 🏴 |
D John Humphrey | 🏴 |
CB Andy Thorn | 🏴 |
CB Lee Sinnot | 🏴 |
CB Eric Young | 🏴 |
CB Chris Coleman | 🏴 |
M Gareth Southgate | 🏴 |
M Paul Mortimer (ex) | 🏴 |
M Simon Rodger | 🏴 |
CF Mark Bright | 🏴 |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Tony Daley | 🏴 | for CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 74’ |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Made
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
RB Neil Cox | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
LB Dean Gordon | 🏴 |
CF Jamie Moralee | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
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
“I still feel that the way we are playing and creating chances that the famine will soon be over.”
Dalian Atkinson.
*Sunday Mirror*
Sunday, 22 March 1992
PALACE stretched Villa's goal drought to 592 minutes but, in all honesty, that was nothing to brag about.
Boss Steve Coppell clearly agreed, declining to comment on a dismal display by his own goal-shy youngsters.
Villa have scored just twice all year, with one goal in 11 matches. Yet they looked a far better side than Coppell's fading outfit.
Nigel Martyn played a key role in prolonging Villa's agony with the saves that mattered - from Dalian Atkinson, Dwight Yorke and German Matthias Breitkreutz.
Atkinson should have ended Villa's famine in the 65th minute when Kevin Richardson opened Palace up with a telling final ball.
But the £1.7 million striker blasted wide.
Palace struggled to cope with a fierce wind and a well-rehearsed Villa offside trap. Reduced to long-range efforts, their best first-half attempt was a well-struck Gareth Southgate drive turned wide by Nigel Spink.
Paul Mortimer found the net but was ruled out for handball. And it was Mortimer who missed Palace's two, best chances late on.
Both times he did well to get free in oceans of space but couldn't find the shot to beat Spink.
