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Game #4411

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 21 February 1996

Aston Villa

0-0

Arsenal

League Cup

Arsenal

Villa Park

Attendance: 39,334

Drew

Semi Final

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨

Assist(s) | None

MATCH SUMMARY

Villa win through to the League Cup final for the second time in three years as Arsenal fans - never known for under-reaction - disgrace themselves at Villa Park.

KEY MAN

Andy Townsend, star

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 21 February 1996

🔁 | 33’ Sub off, Ian Taylor, Sub on, Paul McGrath
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Steve Staunton, Sub on, Riccardo Scimeca
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal
🕒 | AET Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal
Aggregate Aston Villa 2-2 Arsenal
Villa win on away goals

🟨 | Booking, Riccardo Scimeca

ON THIS DAY

Villa qualified for their second League Cup final in 3 seasons - and their seventh in total - courtesy of the brace of away goals Dwight Yorke scored at Highbury a week earlier.

Aston Villa

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

Arsenal

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1993–94

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa Vs.

Arsenal

Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1995-96 |
Matchday | #35 |
Manager Game | #65 |
Wednesday, 21 February 1996

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Keith Burge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Tonypandy, 1986–1999
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
AET Result: 🟨 Drew
AET Score: 🟨 0-0
Aggregate Result: 🟨 Drew
Aggregate Score: 🟨 2-2
🟩 Villa win on Away goals
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 65 | 🟩 | 29 🟨 | 20 🟥 16 | 1.65

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Keith Burge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Tonypandy, 1986–1999
Matches Officiated: 12
🟩 : 8
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 28 October 1995, Villa 1-0 Everton, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

🟨

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🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

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TEAM NEWS

Villa recall Ian Taylor in place of Tommy Johnson.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.71 |

Oldest Player |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 32.61 |

Youngest Player |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 22.48 |

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Bruce Rioch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Arsenal

GK David Seaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Morrow | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
RB Lee Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Andy Linighan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Nigel Winterburn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Ray Parlour | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M David Hillier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Dennis Bergkamp | 🇳🇱 |
CF Ian Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | for M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33' |
🔁 | CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 70' |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | LB Nigel Winterburn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M David Platt (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Vince Bartram | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stephen Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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

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

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

"Stewards and police soon brought order and subdued the dramatic ending to a nerve-wracked semi-final."

MATCH REPORT

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

*The Irish Independent”
Thursday, 22 February 1996

ANGRY Arsenal fans soured Aston Villa's Coca-Cola Cup celebrations after seeing their own season shunted into the sidings. They poured over the Villa Park hoardings and tried to clash with jubilant Midlanders on the pitch as Brian Little's men attempted a lap of honour. Stewards and police soon brought order and subdued the dramatic ending to a nerve-wracked semi-final. Bruce Rioch's hopes of beginning a new era for the Gunners with a trophy in his first season rested on this second leg. But he chose to stifle the life out of a tie that was so vibrant at Hlghbury a week ago when Dennis Bergkamp had his side two goals ahead inside the first half-hour. And in the end he paid the penalty for his caution, going out on the away goals rule after extra time. Dwight Yorke's two=goal rescue mission down in London proving priceless. Now Little seeks a double, hoping to lift the League Cup as a manager that he won as a player with the Villa 19 years ago. Though Villa were cramped and anxious, their efficiency deservedly earned them their second final in three seasons. And though entertainment was scarce they went closer to providing a goal than the Londoners. While Savo Milosevic continues to look like a man lost in a penalty area, Yorke played with the confidence of a man in the goals in his previous games while Andy Townsend was the star for Villa.

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