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Game #4439

Aston Villa

Saturday, 19 October 1996

Won

7th (+1)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Leeds United

Attendance: 39,051

Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-0

Leeds United

Assist(s) | Tommy Johnson | 58’ | Dwight Yorke | 65’ |

MATCH SUMMARY

Villa bounce back from consecutive Premier League defeats to beat Leeds and climb back to 7th in the table.

KEY MAN

Dwight Yorke, opened the scoring to set Villa on the way to victory over Leeds.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 19 October 1996

🔁 | 42’ Sub off, Steve Staunton, Sub on, Riccardo Scimeca
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Leeds United
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 1-0, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Tommy Johnson
⚽ | 65’ Goal, 2-0, Tommy Johnson, Assist by Dwight Yorke
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Tommy Johnson, Sub on, Julian Joachim
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Leeds United

🟨 | Booking, Ugo Ehiogu

ON THIS DAY

Former Villa centre forward Tony Hateley’s son, Mark, lined up for Leeds.

Aston Villa

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

Leeds United

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1991–92

FIXTURE HISTORY

Leeds United

Previous 5 vs. Leeds: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1996-97 |
Matchday | #12 |
League Game | #10 |
Manager Game | #93 |
Saturday, 19 October 1996

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 93 | 🟩 | 40 🟨 | 28 🟥 25 | 1.59

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 6 Apr 96, Villa 2-1 Chelsea (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

Villa

🟨

Leeds United

🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

TEAM NEWS

Tommy Johnson replaces Savo Milošević as Carl Tiler makes his first start of the season in place of Mark Draper.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.40 |

Oldest Player
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 33.27 |

Youngest Player
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 23.98 |

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 |
CB Carl Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |
M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

George Graham (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Leeds United

GK Nigel Martyn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Jobson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB David Wetherall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
RB Gary Kelly | 🇮🇪 |
CB Lucas Radebe | 🇿🇦 | 🟨 |
M Mark Ford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Carlton Palmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Lee Sharpe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Rod Wallace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mark Hateley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ian Rush | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |

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Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 42’ |
🔁 | CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB David Wetherall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Paul Beesley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Carlton Palmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Andy Couzens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Farrelly | 🇮🇪 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Mark Beeney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Ian Harte | 🇮🇪 |
CB Mark Jackson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11

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

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/16

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

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

MATCH QUOTES

MATCH REPORT

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*Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 20 October 1996

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