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Game #4430

Aston Villa

Saturday, 24 August 1996

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Won

3rd= (+7)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Derby County

Villa Park

Attendance: 34,646

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-0

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Derby County

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🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 24 August 1996

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Saša Ćurčić
🔁 | 14’ Sub off, Dwight Yorke, Sub on, Julian Joachim
⚽ | 19’ Goal, 1-0 Julian Joachim, Assist by Tommy Johnson
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Derby County
⚽ | 47’ Goal, 2-0 Tommy Johnson (pen)
🔁 | 79’ Sub off, Saša Ćurčić, Sub on, Fernando Nélson 🟢
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Derby County

🟨 | Booking, Andy Townsend

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 24 August 1996
  • Villa make it successive wins under Brian Little as they climb to 3rd in the Premier League table with victory over Derby.

  • Midfielder Saša Ćurčić, 24, makes his Villa debut after joining from Bolton Wanderers earlier this month for a fee of £5,400,000 to become the 717th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Right Back Fernando Nélson, 24, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Sporting Lisbon for a fee of £1,750,000 in July to become the 718th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Having not scored in his previous 10 Premier League games, Tommy Johnson scores for the second time in 3 League matches to make it 49 appearances in a Villa shirt (38 Starts), W22 D10 L17, 14 Goals, 3 Assists and 7 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.88 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | #717 | £5.400,000 signing from Bolton
🟢 RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 | #718 | £1,750,000 signing from Sporting

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Derby County

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1974-75

FIXTURE HISTORY
Derby County
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Previous 5 vs. Derby: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1996-97 |
Matchday | #3 |
League Game | #3 |
Manager Game | #84 |
Saturday, 24 August 1996

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🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Paul Alcock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1991–2000
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

🕒 84 | 🟩 | 38 🟨 | 23 🟥 23 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Paul Alcock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1991–2000

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Paul Alcock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1991–2000
🕒 4 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 1 | 🆘 : 0
🕒 4 | 🟩 50% | 🟨 25% | 🟥 25% | 🆘 : 0%
Cards 🟨 1 | 🟥 0 | 0.25 |
Penalty ⚽ 1 | 🥅 - |
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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CARDS
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🟨 Igor Štimac
🟨 Paul Parker
🟨 Daryl Powell

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Saša Ćurčić makes his debut in place of Julian Joachim.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.12 |

Oldest Player
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 33.11 |

Youngest Player
GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.83 |

Referee

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | 🟢 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Jim Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Derby County

GK Russell Hoult | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Chris Powell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Christian Dailly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Gary Rowett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Igor Štimac | 🇭🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Jacob Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
RB Paul Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Sean Flynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Daryl Powell | 🇯🇲 | 🟨 |
M Aljoša Asanović | 🇭🇷 |
F Ron Willems | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | for CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 14’ |
🔁 | RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 | 🟢 | for M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | 79’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Gary Rowett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Robin van der Laan | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | M Robin van der Laan | 🇳🇱 | (CF Marco Gabbiadini | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Ron Willems | 🇳🇱 | (M Paul Simpson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Adam Rachel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Martin Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Carsley | 🇮🇪 |

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

Squad Bios

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/15

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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MATCH QUOTES
"TOMMY Johnson demonstrated there is still a place for good, old-fashioned virtues of honest sweat and toil as he plunged his old club Derby to their first Premiership defeat of the season "
Quotes

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday World*
Sunday, 25 August 1996
RAMS SUNK BY SUB TOMMY Johnson demonstrated there is still a place for good, old-fashioned virtues of honest sweat and toil as he plunged his old club Derby to their first Premiership defeat of the season With a bit more luck, the industrious Johnson could have easily had a hat-trick. An early enforced change did the trick for Brian Little, who lost Dwight Yorke when he stumbled over an early opening created by Johnson. He made way for Joachim in the 14th minute and within an instant the quick, little player had scored, racing through as Johnson flicked on a long clearance, hooking the ball over Russell Hoult as he dashed to the edge of his area. Johnson was within inches of a memorable goal when he traded passes with Wright and hoisted a 20 yarder against the crossbar in the 44th minute. And he picked up where he left off after the break. racing forward to meet Joachim's tempting cross only to be sent sprawling by Jacob Laursen. Johnson dusted himself off and drilled the penalty past a deceived Hoult. Villa finished easy winners. Hoult sweeping one chance off Joachim's toe and then repeated when he shot wide in the 81st minute.
Reports

🟩 24 Aug 1996, Villa 2-0 Derby, Villa Park

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