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Game #4449

Aston Villa

Sunday, 22 December 1996

Won

4th (+1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Wimbledon

Attendance: 28,874

Villa Park

Aston Villa

5-0

Wimbledon

Assist(s) | Andy Townsend | 61’ | Saša Ćurčić | 86’ |

MATCH SUMMARY

Villa hammer Wimbledon to extend their winning tune to five Premier League games.

KEY MAN

Savo Milošević, destroyed Wimbledon

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 22 December 1996

⚽ | 38’ Goal, 1-0, Dwight Yorke
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 2-0, Savo Milošević
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Wimbledon
⚽ | 61’ Goal, 3-0, Ian Taylor, Assist by Andy Townsend
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Fernando Nélson, Sub on, Carl Tiler
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 4-0, Savo Milošević
🔁 | 79’ Sub off, Mark Draper, Sub on, Saša Ćurčić
⚽ | 86’ Goal, 5-0, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Saša Ćurčić
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 5-0 Wimbledon

🟨 | Booking, Saša Ćurčić

ON THIS DAY

Future Villa midfielder Øyvind Leonhardsen lined up for Wimbledon.

Aston Villa

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

Wimbledon

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1987-88

FIXTURE HISTORY

Wimbledon

Previous 5 vs. Wimbledon: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1996-97 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Game | #18 |
Manager Game | #103 |
Sunday, 22 December 1996

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1992-2006
Kick off: 4.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Score: 🟩 5-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 103 | 🟩 | 47 🟨 | 28 🟥 28 | 1.64

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1992-2006
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 17 April 1996, Villa 1-1 West Ham, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

Villa

🟨

Wimbledon

🟨

TEAM NEWS

Mark Bosnich replaces Michael Oakes in an otherwise unchanged line up.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.96 |

Oldest Player
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 33.44 |

Youngest Player
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.54 |

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
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

Joe Kinnear | 🇮🇪 |

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Wimbledon

GK Neil Sullivan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Alan Kimble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Chris Perry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Kenny Cunningham | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Dean Blackwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Neal Ardley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Øyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 |
M Vinnie Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Robbie Earle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Marcus Gayle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Efan Ekoku | 🇳🇬 |

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Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Carl Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 | 74’ |
🔁 | M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | 🔥 | 🟨 | for M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 79’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Chris Perry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (RB Brian McAllister | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | CB Kenny Cunningham | 🇮🇪 | (CF Dean Holdsworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Brendan Murphy | 🇮🇪 |
M Peter Fear | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mick Harford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 8 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/16

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

"Milosevic has been a different player since the collapse of his move to Perugia last month, finally showing the kind of form on a consistent basis that persuaded manager Brian Little to pay £3.5m for his services in the summer of 1995 and warned that the best was still to come from his flourishing partnership with Dwight Yorke."

MATCH REPORT

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*Evening Herald*
Monday, 23 December 1996

ASTON VILLA striker Savo Milosevic helped destroy Wimbledon's proud unbeaten run with two goals and then sent a shiver down the spine of the rest of the Premiership title chasers. Milosevic has been a different player since the collapse of his move to Perugia last month, finally showing the kind of form on a consistent basis that persuaded manager Brian Little to pay £3.5m for his services in the summer of 1995 and warned that the best was still to come from his flourishing partnership with Dwight Yorke. Many more performances likes this from the Serb and any thoughts Little may have of moving into the market for the likes of Liverpool's Stan Collymore, Celtic's Pierre Van Hooydonk or any other multi-million pound striker may well be rendered redundant. The Dons' previously mean-machine defence on their travels only seven Premiership goals conceded previously away from home simply could not contain the Milosevic-Yorke combination as Villa powered to a 5-0 win. While Milosevic rejoiced in finally producing the goods, Yorke is already on a red-hot scoring streak with 11 goals in the last 12 matches and chasing last season's tally of 25. Milosevic said: "Myself and Dwight have got to know each other over the past 18 months as a partnership and things definitely now look much better for us but I think there is more to come from the both of us. Milosevic added: ''The good thing for Aston Villa is that we have a hit a winning streak while some of the other leading teams such as Liverpool, Arsenal and Newcastle have been losing the odd game recently. We also still have a lot more to come from us as a team."

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