Game #4313
Wednesday, 16 March 1994
Attendance: 33,126
Lost
Premier League
7th
Leeds United
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
Elland Road
Villa suffer a second successive Premier League defeat to leave them 7th in the table and desperate to regain form ahead of the League Cup final.
Leeds United
2-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Steven Froggatt, acquitted himself well on the left.
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MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 27’ Goal, 0-1, (Leeds United), Rod Wallace
🕒 | HT Leeds United 1-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 52’ Goal, 0-2, (Leeds United), Brian Deane
🔁 | 56’ Sub off, Bryan Small, Sub one Dwight Yorke
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Dalian Atkinson, Sub on, Graham Fenton
🕒 | FT Leeds United 2-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa lost two consecutive league games for the first time since December 1993 whilst Leeds release one of the most bizarre programme covers of all time.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Leeds United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1991–92
FIXTURE HISTORY
Leeds United
Previous 5 vs. Leeds: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1993-94 |
Matchday | #46 |
League Game | #32 |
Manager Game | #148 |
Wednesday, 16 March 1994
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: David Allison | 🏴 | Lancaster, 1980-1997
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: David Allison | 🏴 | Lancaster, 1980-1997
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 23 October 1993, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park.
Cards: None
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Villa make three changes from the team that lost to Ipswich last time out with Paul McGrath, Steve Froggatt and Bryan Small returning as Ugo Ehiogu, Tony Daley and Andy Townsend drop out.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.81 |
Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 34.30 |
Youngest Player |
W Steve Froggatt | 🏴 | 21.03 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 |
Howard Wilkinson | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Neil Cox | 🏴 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴 |
LB Bryan Small | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴 |
W Steve Froggatt | 🏴 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴 |
CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴 | 🔁 |
Leeds United
GK John Lukic | 🏴 |
LB Tony Dorigo (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Chris Fairclough | 🏴 |
CB David Wetherall | 🏴 |
CB David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
RB Gary Kelly | 🇮🇪 |
M Gordon Strachan | 🏴 |
M Gary McAllister | 🏴 |
M Gary Speed | 🏴 |
CF Rod Wallace | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Brian Deane | 🏴 | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Graham Fenton | 🏴 | for CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴 | 71’ |
🔁 | CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | for LB Bryan Small | 🏴 | 56’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CB David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | (RB Jon Newsome | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Beeney | 🏴 |
CF Noel Whelan | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/14
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/14
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

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
"IF VILLA'S players are hungry for Wembley places, they are certainly making a good job of disguising the fact."
*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Thursday, 17 March 1994
IF VILLA'S players are hungry for Wembley places, they are certainly making a good job of disguising the fact.
For the second consecutive match, their appetite was strangely subdued last night as three more points went astray in another lethargic performance.
Just why Ron Atkinson's outfit should lose their cutting edge with a major cup final looming is something of a mystery, but it is one they desperately need to solve before the Coca-Cola League Cup showdown with Manchester United.
Perhaps the club's lengthening injury list with Dalian Atkinson the latest casualty has given the remainder of the squad the impression that Wembley shirts are there for the taking.
But the tame, ineffective manner in which Villa have strutted through their last two Premiership games is disturbing.
As the manager observed, last night's showing was, at least, an improvement on Saturday's debacle against Ipswich.
Even so, there was rarely any question of victory over a Leeds side who were slicker, and far more eager in all departments.
Villa's plus points were few, although a couple of players gave Atkinson food for thought during the countdown to the final.
Garry Parker, forgiven by hie boss for Saturday's retort to the bench, responded with a composed display which must make him a strong candidate for one of the midfield berths.
Stephen Froggatt also acquitted himself well on the left, while Dalian Atkinson was the one visiting player who looked capable of scoring before he limped off with a hamstring injury 18 minutes from time.
But Villa's defence, so often rock solid, looked decidedly shaky.
Shaun Teale will not be happy at the way Rod Wallace shrugged off his challenge to surge through and blast Leeds into a 27th minute lead from Gary Speed's through ball.
Paul McGrath was at fault, too, in allowing Brian Deane to get in front of him for the 51st minute stooping header which effectively killed off Villa's hopes.