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Game #4399

Aston Villa

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Saturday, 23 December 1995

6th (-2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

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

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998
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Substitutes:

🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 | for M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34’ |
🔁 | GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 46’ |
🔁 | CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 78’ |

Unused Substitutes:

None

🟥 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Mark Bosnich
🟨 Alan Wright

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

Matchday Squad:

Not recorded

Andy Townsend returns in place of Dwight Yorke.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.84 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 36.08 |

Youngest Player |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 22.32 |

  • QPR gain revenge for their League Cup exit as they inflict a first Premier League defeat in five on Villa as Lee Hendrie is sent off on debut.

  • Midfielder Lee Hendrie, 18, is sent off on his debut in a Villa shirt after joining as a trainee and signing professional forms in July 1993 to become the 712th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Goalkeeper Nigel Spink, 37, replaces Mark Bosnich at half time for the second successive game in what would prove to be his final game for Villa after the veteran decided he did not have the desire to compete with the young Aussie for the #1 shirt. Spink played for Villa between 1979-80 and 1995-96 making 453 appearances (excluding FMC). Spink’s 460 appearances was the highest of any Villa goalkeeper eclipsing Billy George’s previous record of 399 appearances between 1897-98 and 1910-11. 

  • Former Villa centre forward Tony Hateley’s son, Mark, and future Villa assistant manager Ray Wilkins lined up for QPR.

Teenager Lee Hendrie was sent off on his first appearance to complete a miserable afternoon for Aston Villa.

The 18 year old substitute was dismissed in the eighth minute of injury time.

It needed a defiant display by Rangers’ giant American goalkeeper Jurgen Sommer to prevent Villa grabbing at least a point in a march they had dominated in long spells.

The 6ft 5ins keeper brilliantly kept out a hat-trick of scoring attempts by Villa’s Serbian striker Savo Milosevic - once memorably, mid way through the second half from a point blank header.

Sommer repeated his heroics in a frantic finish, somehow seeing out a close range header from Tommy Johnson and then tipping over a blockbuster by full back Alan Wright.

Villa badly missed the cutting edge usually provided by top scorer Dwight Yorke who missed the match with a broken nose, but still outplayed their London hosts for long spells only to end up in disarray, sending on reserve goalkeeper Nigel Spink as their third outfield substitute after Ian Taylor had been carried off on a stretcher in the prolonged injury time.

It did not end there as Hendrie, who had replaced the injured Mark Draper before half time was booked early in the second period was shown the red card right at the death when he blatantly blocked Rangers full back Rufus Brevett.

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Lost

0-1

🟥 23 Dec 1995, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road
Scorer(s) | None

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline:

🔁 | 34’ Sub off, Mark Draper, Sub on, Lee Hendrie 🟢
🕒 | HT QPR 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Mark Bosnich, Sub on, Nigel Spink
🥅 | 54’ Goal 0-1, (QPR)
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Paul McGrath, Sub on, Riccardo Scimeca
🟨 | 90’+1 Booking, Lee Hendrie
🟥 | 90’+1 Sending off, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT QPR 1-0 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Mark Bosnich
🟨 | Booking, Alan Wright
🟨 | Booking, Lee Hendrie

Season | 1995-96 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #53 |
Saturday, 23 December 1995

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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester-le-Street | 1993-2000
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester-le-Street | 1993-2000

Previous 5 vs. QPR: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

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Not recorded

Debut Appearances:

🟢 M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #712 | Youth Team promotion

Final Appearances:

🔴 GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1979-96 🕒 460 | 455 (5) | 🔥 2 | 🥅 584 | ⛔ 127 | 🇺 114 | #611 |

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

🕒 53 | 🟩 | 21 🟨 | 17 🟥 15 | 1.51

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Referee:

VAR (from 2021)

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
117
🟩
50
🟨
7*
116*
🟨
29
🟥
1
0
🟥
38*
0
🥅
40
118*
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
38
🟩
18
🟨
1
36*
🟨
11
🟥
0
0
🟥
9*
2
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
302
🟩
127
🟨
16
298*
🟨
79
🟥
0
8
🟥
96*
9
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
105
🟩
43
🟨
14
91*
🟨
27
🟥
1
6
🟥
35*
1
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
23
🟩
12
🟨
2
23*
🟨
6
🟥
0
1
🟥
5*
0
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
45
🟩
20
🟨
3
45*
🟨
12
🟥
0
3
🟥
13*
5
F Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
30
🟩
11
🟨
7
21*
🟨
7
🟥
0
9
🟥
12*
1
F Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
177
🟩
73
🟨
2
137*
🟨
46
🟥
0
47
🟥
58*
26
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Sub 2
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
460
🟩
180
🟨
3
5*
🟨
126
🟥
1
0
🟥
154
2
Sub 4
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
Player Profile
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
31
🟩
14
🟨
1*
31*
🟨
9
🟥
0
0
🟥
8*
1
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
23
🟩
12
🟨
0
23*
🟨
6
🟥
0
3
🟥
5*
5
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
22
🟩
11
🟨
2
21*
🟨
6
🟥
0
8
🟥
5*
4
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Sub 1
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
1
🟩
0
🟨
2*
1*
🟨
0
🟥
1*
0
🟥
1*
0
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Sub 3
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
8
🟩
5
🟨
0
6*
🟨
1
🟥
0
0
🟥
2*
0
Sub 5
Games
Results
Cards
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🔁
🔥
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
Player Profile

Premier League

Queens Park Rangers

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Loftus Road

Attendance: 14,778

GK Jurgen Sommer | 🇺🇸 |
RB David Bardsley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Alan McDonald | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
D Steve Yates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Rufus Brevett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Impey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Simon Barker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Ray Wilkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Trevor Sinclair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Kevin Gallen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Mark Hateley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Ray Wilkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
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Substitutes:

🔁 | M Ray Wilkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Bradley Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | CF Kevin Gallen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Matt Brazier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Mark Hateley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Karl Ready | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes:

None

🟨 Alan McDonald
🟨 Steve Yates
🟨 Simon Barker

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1966-67

Matchday Squad:

Not Recorded

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"Teenager Lee Hendrie was sent off on his first appearance to complete a miserable afternoon for Aston Villa."

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