Game #4314
Aston Villa
13-10-10, 49 PTS
Saturday, 19 March 1994
7th
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴 |
M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴 |
W Steve Froggatt | 🏴 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Graham Fenton | 🏴 |
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | 1991-1994
Substitutes
🔁 | CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | for CF Dean Saunders | 🏴 | 76’ |
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
Villa make three changes to the team that lost to Leeds last time out with Steve Staunton (7 game absence), Ray Houghton (4 game absence) and Graham Fenton returning. Making way are Bryan Small, Dalian Atkinson and Neil Cox.
Team Stats
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.40 |
Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 34.31 |
Youngest Player |
F Graham Fenton | 🏴 | 19.84 |
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
None
Scorer(s) | Own Goal | 58' |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Oldham Athletic
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 1-0, Own goal, Steve Redmond
🥅 | 67’ Goal, 1-1, (Oldham Athletic), Darren Beckford
🥅 | 74’ Goal, 1-2, (Oldham Athletic), Rick Holden
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Dean Saunders, Sub on, Dwight Yorke
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Oldham Athletic
Season | 1993-94 |
Matchday | #47 |
League Game | #33 |
Manager Game | #149 |
Saturday, 19 March 1994
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Joe Worrall | 🏴 | Warrington, 1977-1995
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Officials
Referee: Joe Worrall | 🏴 | Warrington, 1977-1995
Previous 5 vs. Oldham: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨
Head to Head
Total 🕒 35 | 🟩 W20 (57% ) | 🟨 D9 | 🇺(83% ) | 🟥 L6 (17% ) | ⚽ 71 | 🥅 29 | GD 42
Match Stats
Not recorded
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | 1991-1994
🕒 149 | 🟩 | 68 🟨 | 39 🟥 42 | 1.63
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Premier League
Oldham Athletic
Villa Park
Attendance: 21,214
GK John Hallworth | 🏴 |
LB Neil Pointon | 🏴 |
LB Chris Makin | 🏴 |
CB Steve Redmond | 🏴 |
CB Richard Graham | 🏴 |
M Mike Milligan | 🇮🇪 |
M Nick Henry | 🏴 |
M Rick Holden | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Darren Beckford | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Andy Ritchie | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Sean McCarthy | 🏴 |
Joe Royle | 🏴 |
Substitutes
🔁 | CF Andy Ritchie | 🏴 | (CF Roger Palmer | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes
GK Paul Gerrard | 🏴 |
RB Neil McDonald | 🏴 |
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: ❌
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
Starting XI
Match Media
On This Day
Villa's troubling form ahead of the League Cup final continues as they lose a third successive Premier League game but they score for the first time in three to remain 7th in the table.
Villa lose three successive league games for the first time since May 1993.
Ray Houghton makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt (82 Appearances) to make it W39 D23 L20, 8 Goals and 12 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.10 games he has played so far in his Villa career.
What they Said
“This was a terrible performance.
“It was an insult to the fans, the club and professional football.
“There was no urgency and we were very disappointing.
“I was looking to the established international players to keep things going but it was the youngsters in the side who kept scrapping.”
Ron Atkinson.
All that could be said for their slip shod out of tune performance on Saturday was that it was marginally more bearable than the complacent rubbish against Ipswich.
There is no doubt Villa were considerably more motivated than against Ipswich but it is so long since they attacked in a prolonged, incisive way they appear to have forgotten how to do so.
Manager Ron Atkinson was able to field his best defence for only the sixth time since September and their unfamiliarity showed at times.
Atkinson can surely never have been set a test like that which confronts him in six days’ time [the Coca-Cola Cup Final versus Manchester United at Wembley]. He must direct an ageing, off form team to produce a command performance on the world’s most famous football stage.