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Game #4447

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 4 December 1996

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Won

4th= (-2)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Premier League

West Ham United

Upton Park

Attendance: 19,105

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

West Ham United

0-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Mark Draper | 38’ | Andy Townsend | 74’ |

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 4 December 1996

⚽ | 38’ Goal, 1-0, Ugo Ehiogu, Assist by Dwight Yorke
🕒 | HT West Ham United 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 74’ Goal, 2-0, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Andy Townsend
🕒 | FT West Ham United 0-2 Aston Villa

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

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 4 December 1996
  • Villa record a third consecutive Premier League with victory over West Ham to climb to 4th in the table under Brian Little.

  • Goalkeeper Stuart Brock, 20, makes his first squad appearance as an unused substitute for Villa after coming through the youth ranks.

  •  Ugo Ehiogu contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 152nd appearance (138 Starts) to make it W67 D37 L48, 8 Goals, 2 Assists, 18 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Michael Oakes keeps his 10th clean sheet in a Villa shirt on his 18th appearance (17 Starts) to make it W8 D5 L5, 15 Goals Conceded at a rate of 0.83 goals per game and 10 Clean Sheets (56%) so far in his Villa career.

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

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

West Ham United

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1979-80

FIXTURE HISTORY
West Ham United
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Previous 5 vs. West Ham: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨

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

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1996-97 |
Matchday | #20 |
League Game | #16 |
Manager Game | #101 |
Wednesday, 4 December 1996

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🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1996-2009
Kick off: 7.45pm
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

🕒 101 | 🟩 | 45 🟨 | 28 🟥 28 | 1.61

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1996-2009

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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None

CARDS
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🟨 Michael Hughes
🟨 John Moncur

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

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Villa name an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.75 |

Oldest Player
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 33.39 |

Youngest Player
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.49 |

Referee

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 |

MANAGER

Harry Redknapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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West Ham United

GK Ludek Mikloško | 🇨🇿 |
LB Keith Rowland | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
LB Julian Dicks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Marc Rieper-Jonsen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Slaven Bilić | 🇭🇷 |
RB Tim Breacker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Ian Bishop | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Hughes | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
M John Moncur | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Iain Dowie | 🇬🇧 |
CF Florin Răducioiu | 🇷🇴 |

Line Ups

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Keith Rowland | 🇬🇧 | (W Stan Lazaridis | 🇦🇺 |)
🔁 | RB Tim Breacker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (LB Mark Bowen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stuart Brock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carl Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Les Sealey (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Frank Lampard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ilie Dumitrescu | 🇷🇴 |

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

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 4 Dec 1996, Villa 2-0 West Ham, Upton Park

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