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Game #4245

Aston Villa

Saturday, 9 January 1993

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Won

1st= (+2)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Premier League

Liverpool

Anfield

Attendance: 40,826

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

Liverpool

1-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Kevin Richardson | 54’ | Dwight Yorke | 64’ |

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 9 January 1993

🥅 | 42’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), John Barnes
🕒 | HT Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Dalian Atkinson, Sub on, Steve Froggatt
🟨 | 52’ Booking, Shaun Teale, Foul
⚽ | 54’ Goal, 1-1,Garry Parker, Assist by Kevin Richardson
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 2-1, Dean Saunders, Assist by Dwight Yorke
🔁 | 88’ Sub off, Steve Froggatt, Sub on, Neil Cox
🕒 | FT Liverpool 1-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 9 January 1993
  • Having secured a League double over Liverpool, Villa go joint top of the Premier League after 23 games.

  • Having gone 7 games without a Premier League goal, Dean Saunders scores in successive top flight games to make it 11 goals in 22 appearances in a Villa shirt and W12 D7 L3.

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1991-92

FIXTURE HISTORY
Liverpool
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Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1992-93 |
Matchday | #29 |
League Match | #23 |
Manager Game | #80 |
Saturday, 9 January 1993

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🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Keith Hackett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1976-1994
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

🕒 80 | 🟩 | 35 🟨 | 22 🟥 23 | 1.59

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Keith Hackett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1976-1994

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Shaun Teale, Foul

CARDS
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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Dalian Atkinson replaces Steve Froggatt in the only change from the team that drew with Bristol Rovers in the Cup.

Starting XI Average Age | 28.11 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.45 |

Youngest Player |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 21.20 |

Referee

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
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 Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🔥 |
CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁

MANAGER

Graeme Souness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Liverpool

GK Mike Hooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Rob Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Torben Piechnik | 🇩🇰 |
LB Stig Inge Bjørnebye | 🇳🇴 |
M Mike Marsh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Stewart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jamie Redknapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Michael Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve McManaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W John Barnes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Ronnie Rosenthal | 🇮🇱 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 W Steve Froggatt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 | for CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 RB Neil Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Steve Froggatt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Jamie Redknapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Don Hutchison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Ronnie Rosenthal | 🇮🇱 | (W Mark Walters (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

Squad Bios

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

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

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/14

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH QUOTES
“It was something I hadn't even dared think about because I don't think I have ever been in a visiting team which has scored at Liverpool before never mind win.” Dean Saunders. "I was delighted for Dean because he had a particularly good second-half and scoring the winner was a lovely moment for him. "When we were 1-0 sown at half-time I said that if we don't roll up our sleeves we will get buried. "All the players got stuck in and battled, and the turning point was Garry Parker's shot. “It lifted us and stunned Liverpool." Ron Atkinson.
Quotes

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday Life*
Sunday, 10 January 1993
DEAN Saunders returned with a nightmare show for the Kop, claiming the winner as Villa came from behind to emphasise their title credentials. The Welshman, a former £2.9 million transfer record holder, was off-loaded by Liverpool for a knockdown £2.2m earlier this season and if he has a point to prove he did it in superb style. Saunders cashed in after 65 minutes when Liverpool's Danish defender Torben Piechnik dithered before finally slipping and allowing Saunders to steal the ball from him and score comfortably from 15 yards. There was no doubting Saunders jubilation and he said: “It was something I hadn't even dared think about because I don't think I have ever been in a visiting team which has scored at Liverpool before never mind win " Equally delighted was Villa boss Ron Atkinson whose team are only denied top spot in the title race because of goal difference. He said: "I was delighted for Dean because he had a particularly good second-half and scoring the winner was a lovely moment for him. "When we were 1-0 down at half-time I said that if we don't roll up our sleeves we will get well buried. "All the players got stuck in and battled, and the turning point was Garry Parker's shot. It lifted us and stunned Liverpool." Indeed it looked as if Liverpool would run out comfortable winners after they survived a couple of early scares to take the lead through stand-in skipper John Barnes, four minutes before the interval. The England star did well to control a low cross from the right by Mike Marsh and turn to drive a low shot just inside a post. In the early minutes of the game Villa striker Dalian Atkinson had threatened the Liverpool goal on a couple of occasions. But Villa's plans were upset, and their hopes apparently diminished when he didn't reappear for the second-half because of a groin injury. Villa, however, knuckled down to the task and got a surprise equaliser after 55 minutes. An attempted clearance by Steve McManaman struck Kevin Richardson and rebounded invitingly for Parker to rush a 20-yard volley in off the underside of the bar. It set the stage for Saunders’ magic moment, and even though Liverpool stormed forward in search of a point Villa clung on. It has effectively killed off any remaining hopes Liverpool had of mounting a late title charge. However, they were always going to struggle.
Reports

🟩 9 Jan 1993, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Anfield

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