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Game #4285

Aston Villa

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Tuesday, 26 October 1993

3rd Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 | ⚽ |
CF Guy Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994
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Substitutes

🔁 | M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | for CF Guy Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 74' |

Unused Substitutes

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)

None

Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)

None

Trophy Record

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

Matchday Squad

Unavailable

Not recorded

Team News

Paul McGrath, Bryan Small and Garry Parker return as Guy Whittingham, Dean Saunders and Gordon Cowans make way.

Team Stats

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.62 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 33.92 |

Youngest Player |
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 21.80 |

Debut Appearances

None

Final Appearances

None

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Won

4-1

🟩 26 Oct 1993, Villa 4-1 Sunderland, Roker
Scorer(s) | Dalian Atkinson | 27' | 90' | Kevin Richardson | 33' | Ray Houghton | 75' |

Assist(s) | Kevin Richardson | 27' | Dalian Atkinson | 33' |

Match Timeline

⚽ | 27’ Goal, 1-0, Dalian Atkinson, Assist by Kevin Richardson
⚽ | 33’ Goal, 2-0, Kevin Richardson, Assist by Dalian Atkinson
🕒 | HT Sunderland 0-2 Aston Villa
🥅 | 47’ Goal, 2-1, (Sunderland)
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Guy Whittingham, Sub on, Ray Houghton
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 3-1, Ray Houghton
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 4-1, Dalian Atkinson
🕒 | FT Sunderland 1-4 Aston Villa

Season | 1993-94 |
Matchday | #18 |
Manager Game | #120 |
Tuesday, 26 October 1993

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Match Record
Game Record

Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Alan Flood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stockport, 1987–1993
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Score: 🟩 4-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩

Officials

Referee: Alan Flood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stockport, 1987–1993

Referee: Alan Flood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stockport, 1987–1993
Games: 🕒 3 🟩 W2 (67%) 🟥 L0 (0%) Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩
Cards: 🟨 0 🟥 0 | 0.00 per game | Pens: ⚽ 2 | 🥅 0 |

Previous 5 vs. Sunderland: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

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Head to Head

Total 🕒 151 | 🟩 W69 (46% ) | 🟨 D34 | 🇺(68% ) | 🟥 L48 (32% ) | ⚽ 264 | 🥅 236 | GD 28

Match Stats

Not recorded

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

🕒 120 | 🟩 | 55 🟨 | 34 🟥 31 | 1.66

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

🟩 12 Apr 2025, Villa 3-0 Southampton, St Mary's TBL.png

League Cup

Sunderland

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Roker Park

Attendance: 23,692

GK Alec Chamberlain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Richard Ord | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Andy Melville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Gordon Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gary Owers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Martin Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Kevin Ball | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Brian Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Martin Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Phil Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Don Goodman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Terry Butcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
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Substitutes

🔁 | D Richard Ord | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Gary Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Martin Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Jamie Lawrence | 🇯🇲 |)

Unused Substitutes

GK Tony Norman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)

None

Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)

None

Opposition Trophy Record

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1972-73

Opposition Matchday Squad

Opposition Unavailable

Not Recorded

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On This Day
  • Villa progress to the 4th Round of the League Cup after what seems a resounding victory on Wearside but it took an outstanding goalkeeping performance from Mark Bosnich to get Villa to victory over second tier Sunderland in the League Cup.

  • Dalian Atkinson scores his 20th goal in a Villa shirt on his 66th appearance (63 Starts) to make it W31 D22 L13, 21 Goals and 13 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.94 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Ray Houghton scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 60th appearance to make it W28 D20 L12, 5 Goals and 11 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.75 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Starting XI
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
🕒

26

25*

🔥

0

0

🟩

13*

🟨

7

🟥

6

13

🥅

17*

LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

32

27*

🔥

0

1

🟩

15*

🟨

8

🟥

9

CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
🕒

206

206*

🔥

8

9

🟩

89*

🟨

56

🟥

61

CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

116

116*

🔥

3

0

🟩

53*

🟨

33

🟥

30

RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

77

77*

🔥

1

1

🟩

37*

🟨

24

🟥

16

M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |
🕒

15

15*

🔥

2

1

🟩

8*

🟨

6

🟥

1

M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

80

79*

🔥

11

3

🟩

37*

🟨

21

🟥

22

M Kevin Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

120

120*

🔥

12*

11*

🟩

55*

🟨

34

🟥

31

W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

264

222*

🔥

37

27

🟩

97*

🟨

68

🟥

99

CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

66

63*

🔥

21*

13*

🟩

31*

🟨

22

🟥

13

CF Guy Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

11

9*

🔥

2

0

🟩

7*

🟨

2

🟥

2

Substitutes
🕒

🔁

🔥

GK Sub

🟩

🟨

🟥

🥅

M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 |
🕒

60

🔁

5*

🔥

5*

11

Sub 1

🟩

28*

🟨

20

🟥

12

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 2

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 3

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 4

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 5

🟩

🟨

🟥

Match Media
What they Said

"At 2-0 up I thought we were on for a 3-3 draw.

"We won 4-1 but we owe that result to our goalkeeper.

“We took a battering."

Ron Atkinson.



“I’m not the best in the world and it embarrasses me when he says that.

“I wish he would say potentially because I have still got so much to learn.”

Mark Bosnich.

Mark Bosnich is not easily embarrassed but there is one thing that makes even the brash Aussie bashful.

He cringes every time his Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson hails him as "the best goalkeeper in the world".

But Bosnich lived up to the billing with a brilliant display in Villa's 4-1 Coca-Cola Cup triumph against Sunderland, which earned a standing ovation from the Roker Park crowd.

He was named man-of-the-match after an incredible string of saves to break the hearts of first division Sunderland, who, despite the scoreline, played Villa off the park.

Bosnich goes red when reminded of the manager's words and says: “I’m not the best in the world and it embarrasses me when he says that. I wish he would say potentially because I have still got so much to learn.

While Bosnich was keeping Terry Butcher's side at bay, his team mates were staging an audacious smash-and-grab raid.

Dalian Atkinson put Villa in front from their first attack after 27 minutes and seven minutes later skipper Kevin Richardson made it 2-0.

But such was the Sunderland pressure that Ron Atkinson quipped: "At 2-0 up I thought we were on for a 3-3 draw."

His fears looked like materialising when Phil Gray finally beat Bosnich within minutes of the restart, but he refused to be beaten again and made one incredible save from Martin Smith, as well as denying the ever-dangerous Don Goodman.

Villa substitute Ray Houghton then added insult to injury when he scored with his first touch after 75 minutes, before Dalian Atkinson grabbed his second in the 89th minute.

Ron Atkinson summed it up saying: "We won 4-1 but we owe that result to our goalkeeper. We took a battering."

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