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Game #4523

Aston Villa

Sunday, 10 May 1998

Won

7th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Attendance: 39,372

Arsenal

Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-0

Arsenal

Assist(s) | None

MATCH SUMMARY

Villa end the season in seventh place with a tenth win in twelve Premier League games after their remarkable recovery under John Gregory.

KEY MAN

Gareth Barry, full debut at 17

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 10 May 1998

🟥 | 24’ Sending off, Ugo Ehiogu
⚽ | 37’ Goal, 1-0, Dwight Yorke (pen)
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Arsenal
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Julian Joachim, Sub on, Stan Collymore
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Arsenal

🟨 | Booking, Ugo Ehiogu
🟨 | Booking, Mark Draper

ON THIS DAY

Villa fielded their youngest side of season.

17 year old midfielder Gareth Barry made his full debut.

Villa had now won 9 of their 11 Premier League games under John Gregory finishing the season 7th in the table.

Right back Fernando Nélson made his final appearance for Villa aged 26 before moving on to FC Porto for a fee of £1,020,000. Nélson played for Villa in 1996-97 and 1997-98 making 73 appearances.

Former Villa defender Martin Keown lined up for Arsenal with former Villa midfielder David Platt entering the fray as a 66’ substitute.

Centre forward Savo Milošević made his final squad appearance for Villa aged 24 before moving on to Real Zaragoza in July 1998.

Aston Villa

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

Arsenal

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1997–98

FIXTURE HISTORY

Arsenal

Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1997-98 |
Matchday | #51 |
League Game | #38 |
Manager Game | #13 |
Sunday, 10 May 1998

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

MANAGERIAL RECORD

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 13 | 🟩 | 10 🟨 | 0 🟥 3 | 2.31

Villa Career Form:

Champions

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 28 Feb 98, Villa 2-1 Liverpool (h)
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

Villa

🟥 🟨 🟨

Arsenal

🟨 🟨 🟨

TEAM NEWS

Mark Bosnich is recalled for the final game of the season as Gareth Barry makes his full debut aged 17.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.19 |

Oldest Player
FB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 28.42 |

Youngest Player
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 17.22 |

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 | 🔴 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | ⚽ |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Arsène Wenger | 🇫🇷 |

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Arsenal

GK David Seaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Nigel Winterburn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tony Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gilles Grimandi | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
M Patrick Viera | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
M Ray Parlour | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Emmanuel Petit | 🇫🇷 |
W Marc Overmars | 🇳🇱 |
CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 |
CF Ian Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |

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Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 73’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Ray Parlour | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M David Platt (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Ian Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Christopher Wreh | 🇱🇷 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 |
CF Darren Byfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Alex Manninger | 🇦🇹 |
CB Steve Bould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stephen Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

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

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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SQUAD STATS

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

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

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

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

🟢 RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

MATCH STATS

Not recorded

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

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