Game #4242

Aston Villa

Saturday, 26 December 1992

Lost

4th (-2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Coventry City

Highfield Road

Attendance: 24,245

Coventry City

3-0

Aston Villa

Scorer(s) | None

Assist(s) | None

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 26 December 1992

Not recorded

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 26 December 1992

Coventry, having put five past Liverpool in their previous game, inflicted Villa's biggest ever defeat to the Highfield Road side since their first meeting in 1937 in front of their biggest crowd of the season.

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟨 19 December 1992, Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Maine Road.

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 28 December 1992, Villa 1-0 Arsenal, Villa Park.

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

Aston Villa

Coventry City

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Coventry City

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Coventry City

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 2 May 1992, Villa 2-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

Coventry City

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 10 April 1993, Villa 0-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1992-93 |
Matchday | #26 |
League Match | #21 |
Manager Game | #77 |
Saturday, 26 December 1992

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, Lancashire, 1983-1998
Kick off: 12.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 77 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 21 🟥 23 | 1.56

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, Lancashire, 1983-1998
Matches Officiated: 10
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 4
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 26 December 1991, Villa 3-1 West Ham, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

Roger Dilkes

CARDS

None

🟨 🟨

TEAM NEWS

In two changes from the team that drew with Manchester City, Cyrille Regis replaces Dalian Atkinson, whilst Bryan Small comes in for Dwight Yorke.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age | 28.99 |

Oldest Player |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.90 |

Youngest Player |
LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.14 |

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Bobby Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Coventry City

GK Jonathan Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Brian Borrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Peter Atherton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Paul Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Phil Babb | 🇮🇪 |
LB Kenny Sansom | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lloyd McGrath | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Robert Rosario | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Micky Quinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 M Stefan Beinlich | 🇩🇪 | for CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 75’ |
🔁 RB Neil Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (CF Peter Ndlovu | 🇿🇼 |)
🔁 | CF Micky Quinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🟨 | (CB Andy Pearce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Steve Ogrizovic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half 

M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

	Game	Start	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red
GK Nigel Spink \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|

RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |

69*

20*

CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |

SUBSTITUTES

	Game	Sub	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red

UNUSED

	Unused

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/14

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/14

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

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AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

A terrible Boxing Day performance, as shockingly bad as it was unexpected, sees Villa suffer their biggest ever defeat to Coventry and only their seventh loss to the Highfield Road side in fifty six years.

MATCH QUOTES

“At least we were consistent. Useless at the back, useless in midfield and crap up front. “We were second in too many departments. “It’s inexplicable. “If we play like that against Arsenal we will get relegated never mind any titles.” Ron Atkinson.

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

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Sunday Mirror
Sunday, 27 December 1992

Mick Quinn produced another goal-studded display to leave Villa boss Ron Atkinson fuming. Big Ron locked his players in the dressing room for half an hour and emerged to rap: "We were consistent - hopeless at the back, hopeless in midfield and crap up front." In the 52nd minute Lee Hurst headed forward, Robert Rosario flicked it on and Quinn volleyed home. Three minutes later Kevin Gallacher played Rosario through and his centre to the far post was thumped home by the rotund Scouser. Then Quinn flicked on for Rosario to beat Nigel Spink with a low shot.

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Game #4242

Aston Villa

Saturday, 26 December 1992

Lost

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Coventry City

Highfield Road

Coventry City

3-0

Aston Villa

Scorer(s) | None

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 26 December 1992

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 26 December 1992

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

Aston Villa

Coventry City

Aston Villa

Coventry City

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Coventry City

Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Coventry City

PREVIOUS MATCH

Coventry City

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

MATCH SUMMARY

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

🕒 77 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 21 🟥 23 | 1.56

Villa Career Form:

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

MATCH OFFICIALS

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

MANAGER

Aston Villa

MANAGER

Coventry City

SUBSTITUTES

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED

SQUAD STATS

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

MATCH QUOTES

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

*Sunday Mirror*Sunday, 27 December 1992

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Sunday Mirror
Sunday, 27 December 1992