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Game #4366

Aston Villa

Saturday, 4 March 1995

Lost

14th (-3)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Attendance: 40,114

Blackburn Rovers

Villa Park

Villa lose successive games for the first time under Brian Little as they are pipped by Blackburn in a narrow defeat as referee Roger Gifford missed a blatant Colin Hendry handball to save a certain goal for Brian Little's side.

Aston Villa

0-1

Blackburn Rovers

Assist(s) | None

KEY MAN

Mark Bosnich, fine save

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 4 March 1995

🥅 | 12’ Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Colin Hendry
🔁 | 18’ Sub off, Andy Townsend, Sub on, Ray Houghton
🟨 | 41’ Booking, Tommy Johnson
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
🟨 | 68’ Booking, Steve Staunton
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Tommy Johnson, Sub on, Graham Fenton
🟨 | 77’ Booking, Dwight Yorke
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-1 Blackburn Rovers

ON THIS DAY

A second successive defeat sees Villa remain in 11th as the tight table closes up around Brian Little’s men.

Villa under Brian Little had now lost two consecutive games for the first time in his reign and had now lost four of their last 17 Premier League games winning 6 and drawing 7.

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1993-94

Blackburn Rovers

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1927–28

FIXTURE HISTORY

Blackburn Rovers

Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1994-95 |
Matchday | #42 |
League Match | #32 |
Manager Game | #20 |
Saturday, 4 March 1995

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Rodger Gifford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Llanbradach, 1984-1996
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Rodger Gifford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Llanbradach, 1984-1996
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 10 December 1994, Villa 0-0 Everton, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

CARDS

Villa

🟨 🟨 🟨

Blackburn Rovers

None

Rodger Gifford

TEAM NEWS

Brian Little names an unchanged line up for the fourth successive game.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.22 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 35.27 |

Youngest Player |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.35 |

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Kenny Dalglish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🟨 |
CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |

Blackburn Rovers

GK Tim Flowers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Henning Berg | 🇳🇴 |
RB Mark Atkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian Pearce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Colin Hendry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
LB Graeme Le Saux | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Stuart Ripley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Jason Wilcox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Alan Shearer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 | for M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 18’ |
🔁 | CF Graham Fenton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 75’ |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Bobby Mimms | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul Warhurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mike Newell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/14

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/14

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

MATCH STATS

Not recorded

TABLE

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PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

"The Brian Little revival at Villa Park has shown signs of running out of steam recently. Villa fell apart just once yesterday, but the loss of concentration after only 12 minutes proved crucial."

*The Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 5 March 1995

Blackburn hold onto their lead, but only just.

Colin Hendry preserved Blackburn’s three point advantage at the top of the Premiership but Kenny Dalglish’s side can consider themselves lucky.

While Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton, the £8.6m, 49 goal strike pairing, drew a blank for only the seventh time in 36 matches this season, Hendry scored the all important goal and then got in a crucial last minute block to a Paul McGrath shot the left Villa fuming.

They claimed that Hendry used his arms to turn aside the goal bound drive and replays suggested referee Rodger Gifford could have given a penalty.

The Brian Little revival at Villa Park has shown signs of running out of steam recently. Villa fell apart just once yesterday, but the loss of concentration after only 12 minutes proved crucial. Mark Bosnich had been busy, dashing well out to clear from Jason Wilcox and then twice sprawling to his right to save from Stuart Ripley and Chris Sutton.

But he stayed on his line when Wilcox bent in a big inswinging corner from the right wing and no-one picked up Hendry as he stirred to head his first goal since scoring against Manchester United October. Gary Charles lunged on the line, but could not keep it out.

Villa were hit again six minutes later, when Republic of Ireland captain Andy Townsend, holding his back painfully, went off to be replaced by Ray Houghton.

But they so nearly levelled almost immediately, Charles’ cross flicked on by Ian Taylor to Saunders, with Henning Berg just hooking the chance off his toe and into the chest of Tim Flowers.

Sutton got in behind McGrath in the 48th minute, but Bosnich made a fine save to beat down his shot and keep Villa alive. Teale caused real panic with a swinging cross in the 51st minute, but though Graeme Le Saux missed it, so did Houghton and Jonson.

Saunders did connect with Staunton’s swirling ball from the left, but his header lacked the power and direction to trouble Flowers. Sadly it was the best opening Villa’s sweat created until the final frantic moments.

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