Game #4263
Aston Villa

Monday, 12 April 1993
2nd (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩
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 | 🏴 |
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | 1991-1994

Substitutes:
🔁 LB Bryan Small | 🏴 | for W Tony Daley | 🏴 | 75’ |
Unused Substitutes:
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
🟨 Kevin Richardson
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Tony Daley and Neil Cox come in for Dwight Yorke and Garry Parker.
Starting XI Average Age | 26.96 |
Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 33.38 |
Youngest Player |
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 21.26 |
Villa have now lost just once in 10, winning 6, including this strong win away at Arsenal but couldn’t reclaim top spot with 4 to play.
Villa secure three precious points at Highbury as they survive a penalty scare but remain second in the table.
Title rivals Manchester United also win as Coventry roll over suspiciously easily just two days after their 11-man defensive performance at Villa Park.
Tony Daley makes his 250th appearance in a Villa shirt (211 Starts) to make it W90 D65 L95, 36 Goals and 25 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.10 games he has played so far in his Villa career.
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."
Scorer(s) | Tony Daley | 68’ |
Assist(s) | Ray Houghton | 68' |
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
Season | 1992-93 |
Matchday | #47 |
League Match | #38 |
Manager Game | #98 |
Monday, 12 April 1993

Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Gerald Ashby | 🏴 | Worcester, 1990–1998
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩
Referee: Gerald Ashby | 🏴 | Worcester, 1990–1998
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
None
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | 1991-1994
🕒 98 | 🟩 | 45 🟨 | 27 🟥 26 | 1.65
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)