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Game #4385

Aston Villa

Saturday, 30 September 1995

Coventry City

0-3

Aston Villa

Premier League

Coventry City

Highfield Road

Attendance: 21,004

Won

2nd (+3)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

Assist(s) | Ian Taylor | 1’ | Dwight Yorke | 87’ |

MATCH SUMMARY

Villa hammer Coventry at Highfield Road after their controversial draw with Forest last time out to climb to 2nd in the Premier League table.

KEY MAN

Dwight Yorke, scored after 13 seconds

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 30 September 1995

⚽ | 1’ Goal, 1-0, Dwight Yorke (13s), Assist by Ian Taylor
🟨 | 24’ Booking, Ugo Ehiogu
🕒 | HT Coventry City 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 84’ Goal, 2-0, Savo Milošević
⚽ | 87’ Goal, 3-0, Savo Milošević, Assist by Dwight Yorke
🕒 | FT Coventry City 0-3 Aston Villa

ON THIS DAY

Dwight Yorke hit Villa’s opening goal after just 13 seconds - the fastest ever goal in the Premier League.

Villa had now lost just once in 12 games under Brian Little winning 7 as Villa climbed to 2nd in the Premier League.

Aston Villa

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

Coventry City

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1986-87

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa Vs.

Coventry City

Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1995-96 |
Matchday | #9 |
League Game | #8 |
Manager Game | #39 |
Saturday, 30 September 1995

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester-le-Street | 1988-2000
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 3-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 39 | 🟩 | 15 🟨 | 13 🟥 11 | 1.49

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester-le-Street | 1988-2000
Matches Officiated: 5
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 14 January 1995, Villa 2-1 QPR, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

🟨

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🟨 🟨 🟨

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TEAM NEWS

Villa name an unchanged line up from the team that controversially drew with Forest last time out.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.14 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 35.85 |

Youngest Player |
F Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 22.09 |

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | ⚽ | 🔥 |

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Coventry City

GK John Filan | 🇦🇺 |
RB Brian Borrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
D Ally Pickering | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Paul Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB David Busst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Marcus Hall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kevin Richardson (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Telfer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
W John Salako | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Isaías Marques Soares | 🇧🇷 |
CF Peter Ndlovu | 🇿🇼 |

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | D Ally Pickering | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (Gordon Strachan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Graham Fenton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Franz Carr | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jonathan Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Iyseden Christie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/14

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/14

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

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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

MATCH QUOTES

"He has an unbelievable amount of ability. his touch is immaculate and he has a great appreciation of a pass. "But it's going to be hard for Savo and Dwight Yorke to score a lot of goals because we ask so much of them and our demands often mean they end up in wide positions. “But they are developing their understanding and we're very pleased with the partnership at the moment. "Savo's learning all the time and the second goal showed how keen he is to get in to score." Brian Little.

MATCH REPORT

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*The Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 1 October 1995

DWIGHT Yorke slammed in the fastest goal of the Premiership season and Savo Milosevic grabbed a late double sucker punch to put Villa into second spot. But few scorelines will be as misleading as this, with only a brilliant, one-man resistance by Villa goalkeeper Mark Bosnich denying home boss Ron Atkinson a comeback against one of his old clubs. Coventry have now won just once against no-hopers Manchester City all season, but surely have too much quality to go down. Mind you, they never make life easy for themselves and just 13 seconds were on the stopwatch when their first touch was for John Filan to pick the ball out of his net. Milosevic, Yorke and then Mark Draper worked the ball out to lan Taylor on the right and his curling cross was met by Yorke, who plunged through a dopey defence to head home his fifth goal of the season. Yorke has been a revelation since being convened to a striker by Brian Little and, as he orchestrated wave after wave of scintillating attacks, a third straight win on their short trips to Highfield Road looked assured. Coventry were lucky when an offside flag wiped out Milosevic's effort from another simple move in the 12th minute. And if the Young Serb and Villa’s England contender Draper had been more composed for their excellent chances later, the game would have been well over before the break. The home side were strong on individual flair, but lacked Villa's organisation and missed much of their punch without the injured Dion Dublin. However. they were still able to exploit the absence of influential Villa defender Paul McGrath and inspire the sort of barnstorming performance Bosnich occasionally produces. He parried away a cracking shot on the run by Ndlovu, saved point-blank from Paul Telfer and then dashed off his line to charge down another Salako breakthrough. Ugo Ehiogu had his share of luck, conceding only a yellow card and a free kick for his tackle behind on Ndlovu in the 24th minute, when the home fans demanded red and a penalty. He then deflected a Telfer header just past his own post. Hall's angled drive in the first minute of the second half produced another good save from the flying Bosnich, who was then hurt in an awkward fall after coming a long way to fist clear the corner. Atkinson sent on the 38-year old Gordon Strachan to try to retrieve the game, but Milosevic sank them in the last six minutes. He scooped home his second goal for Villa since leaving Partizan Belgrade in a goalmouth scramble after Gareth Southgate had a shot blocked. And Milosevic was left totally in the clear two minutes later to convert Yorke's low cross from the left. Coventry could pay an unexpectedly high price for defeat after a linesman drew referee Alan Wilkie's attention to an object allegedly thrown at Bosnich when he went behind his goal to retrieve the ball in the 56th minute. After the game. Villa boss Brian Little said he never lose faith in Milosevic. "He has an unbelievable amount of ability. his touch is immaculate and he has a great appreciation of a pass." he said. "But it's going to be hard for Savo and Dwight Yorke to score a lot of goals because we ask so much of them and our demands often mean they end up in wide positions. “But they are developing their understanding and we're very pleased with the partnership at the moment. "Savo's learning all the time and the second goal showed how keen he is to get in to score." Coventry's former Villa manager Ron Atkinson raged: "We spent all week working on defence and then we concede a goal like that after 13 seconds through sheer stupidity. "There are no excuses for that, first kick of the match with everyone behind the ball. - We gave ourselves a chance to get back in it but Bosnich made two or three good saves but then I would expect nothing less from him.”

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