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Game #4263

Monday, 12 April 1993

Attendance: 27,123

Won

Premier League

2nd (-)

Arsenal

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Highbury

Villa secure three precious points at Highbury as they survive a penalty scare but remain second in the table as title rivals Manchester United also win as Coventry roll over two days after their eleven man defensive performance at Villa Park.

Arsenal

0-1

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | Not recorded

KEY MAN

Tony Daley, headed winner.

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MATCH TIMELINE

🟨 | 13’ Booking, Kevin Richardson, Encroachment
🕒 | HT Arsenal 0-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 68’ Goal, 1-0, Tony Daley, Assist by Ray Houghton
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Tony Daley, Sub on, Bryan Small
🕒 | FT Arsenal 0-1 Aston Villa

ON THIS DAY

Ron Atkinson’s Villa had now lost just one game in 10, winning 6, including this strong win away at Arsenal but couldn’t reclaim top spot with 4 to play.

Aston Villa

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

Arsenal

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1990–91

FIXTURE HISTORY

Arsenal

Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1992-93 |
Matchday | #47 |
League Match | #38 |
Manager Game | #98 |
Monday, 12 April 1993

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Gerald Ashby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worcester, 1985–1998
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Gerald Ashby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worcester, 1985–1998
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 19 November 1991, ZDS, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

CARDS

Villa

🟨

Arsenal

🟨

Gerald Ashby

TEAM NEWS

Tony Daley and Neil Cox come in for Dwight Yorke and Garry Parker.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age | 26.96 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 33.38 |

Youngest Player |
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 21.26 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

George Graham (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Neil Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Arsenal

GK David Seaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Morrow | 🇬🇧 |
RB Lee Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Nigel Winterburn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tony Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Selley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Alan Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Kevin Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Ian Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 75’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CF Kevin Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Ray Parlour | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Ian Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Andy Linighan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Alan Miller | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

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

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

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

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

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

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

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PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

"Tony Daley might have been a bit surprised to have been included in the side.

“We did think about starting with Steve Staunton in there.

"We decided we needed a little more of a cutting edge and so he was brought in.

“Good luck to him. And it was a superb cross by Ray Houghton for the goal."

Ron Atkinson.

*Irish Independent*
Tuesday, 13 April 1993

TONY DALEY ended Aston Villa's scoring problems at Highbury with his first goal for a year and a day to keep Ron Atkinson's side in pursuit of Manchester United.

Beginning the afternoon a point behind United, Villa's championship ambitions were in grave danger before Daley headed the winner.

The otherwise anonymous lan Wright wriggled past Shaun Teale before going down easily. "My heart was in my mouth," admitted Atkinson.

Referee Gerald Ashby, from Worcester, decided that it was obstruction though others might have given a penalty.

But once Villa had taken the lead Arsenal were prepared to surrender the initiative and had Cox and the hard-working Dean Saunders been more accurate in their finishing the scoreline might have been more emphatic.

Daley's 69th-minute goal that kept Villa within touching distance of United saw Ray Houghton, benefiting from a back-heel by Earl Barrett, cross deep into the heart of the Arsenal defence.

Daley would normally be the last person anyone would expect to provide the header, but cometh the hour, cometh the man. Daley's header flew into the net. seemingly as much to his surprise as that of Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman.

"Tony Daley might have been a bit surprised to have been included in the side. We did think about starting with Steve Staunton in there." said Atkinson.

"We decided we needed a little more of a cutting edge and so he was brought in. Good luck to him. And it was a superb cross by Ray Houghton for the goal."