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Game #4546

Aston Villa

Monday, 21 December 1998

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Won

1st (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Charlton Athletic

The Valley

Attendance: 20,043

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

Charlton Athletic

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🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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MATCH TIMELINE
Monday, 21 December 1998

⚽ | 3’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Richard Rufus
🕒 | HT Charlton Athletic 0-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 56’ Sub off, Stan Collymore, Sub on, Riccardo Scimeca
🕒 | FT Charlton Athletic 0-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Alan Thompson
🟨 | Booking, Steve Watson
🟨 | Booking, Ian Taylor

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

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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ON THIS DAY
Monday, 21 December 1998
  • Villa record their second successive victory to leave them clear at the top of the Premier League but John Gregory’s side need an own goal to beat Charlton at the Valley ahead of a critical Christmas period for their title chase.

  • Michael Oakes keeps his 15th clean sheet and his first in 11 games on his 46th appearance in a Villa shirt (44 Starts) W18 D11 L17, 57 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.24 goals per game and 15 Clean Sheets (33%) so far in his Villa career.

  • Alan Wright makes his 175th start in a Villa shirt (177 Appearances) to make it W84 D43 L50, 3 Goals, 10 Assists and 9 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Ian Taylor secures his 75th win in a Villa shirt on his 160th appearance (148 Starts) to make it W75 D38 L47, 21 Goals, 9 Assists and 30 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Alan Thompson secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 20th appearance (17 Starts) to make it W10 D6 L4, 1 Goal, 2 Assists and 9 Bookings at a rate of a card every 2.22 games so far in his Villa career.

  • Steve Watson makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (9 Starts) to make it W4 D3 L3, 2 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Former Villa defender Carl Tiler and future Villa midfielder Mark Kinsella line up for Charlton.

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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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

Charlton Athletic

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1946-47

FIXTURE HISTORY
Charlton Athletic
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Previous 5 vs. Charlton: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟩

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

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1998-99 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Game | #18 |
Manager Game | #36 |
Monday, 21 December 1998

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🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1995-2004
Kick off: 9.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 36 | 🟩 | 23 🟨 | 6 🟥 7 | 2.08

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1995-2004

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Alan Thompson
🟨 Steve Watson
🟨 Ian Taylor

CARDS
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🟨 Danny Mills
🟨 Carl Tiler
🟨 Steve Jones

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

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Stan Collymore returns after a four game absence with Gareth Barry dropping out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.43 |

Oldest Player |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.57 |

Youngest Player |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.61 |

Referee

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Alan Curbishley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Charlton Athletic

GK Sasa Ilić | 🇦🇺 |
LB Chris Powell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Danny Mills | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Rufus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carl Tiler (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Neil Redfearn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Shaun Newton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
W John Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Steve Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Andy Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 56’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Shaun Newton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Clive Mendonca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Adam Rachel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Simon Royce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Paul Konchesky | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Keith Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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

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

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 14/16

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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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🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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MATCH QUOTES
"Villa came into the game with their championship self-belief reinvigorated by their epic comeback from 2-0 down to beat Arsenal 3-2 nine days ago."
Quotes

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Monday, 21 December 1998
*Villa scramble back to the top* Villa came into the game with their championship self-belief reinvigorated by their epic comeback from 2-0 down to beat Arsenal 3-2 nine days ago. The catalyst for that stirring victory was John Gregory’s gamble to bring on Stan Collymore as a third striker alongside Dion Dublin and Julian Joachim. The triple-play worked so well that last night Gregory, scenting wounded prey in a Charlton team without a win in their previous seven games, decided to “unleash the dogs of war”, as he put it, from the start. Gregory’s decision to rest the young defender Gareth Barry and switch from Villa’s normal 5-3-2 to 4-3-3 also extricated him from a predicament, because with Collymore moaning about life on the bench and Joachim having scored four goals in the previous four games it was difficult to know who to leave out. That Villa went ahead after 2min 40sec may sound like instant vindication for Gregory’s courage but the goal had more to do with pussycat defending than the dogs of war. Dublin took the ball to the right byline in the area and knocked in an innocuous cross which hit the defender Richard Rufus and bobbled into the net past Sasa Ilic. It was the sort of start Charlton could have done without because they came into this game having lost their last four. They had also only scored three goals in the previous six games. In an attempt to freshen things up, Charlton’s manager Alan Curbishley recently replaced Clive Mendonca with Steve Jones. On the half hour Jones went close when the Welsh international winger John Robinson beat Steve Watson on the left and fired in a low cross which fell at the striker’s feet three yards out, but it cannoned off him for a goal-kick. Jones’s partner Andy Hunt also headed just over, again from a Robinson cross, but generally Charlton lacked enough bodies and height in the box to make their possession count. However, Charlton’s defence, with the former Villa player Carl Tiler replacing the suspended Eddie Youds, were rarely troubled. Ilic made a fine low save to deny Dublin after 12 minutes and just before the break the striker’s overhead shot was headed off the line by Mark Kinsella.The second half started with a new referee. Gary Willard replaced Steve Dunn who pulled a hamstring, but the delay in sorting out the substitute extended the half-time break to 25 minutes. Curbishley made use of the extra time to drum it into his players that they must not defend so deep, press Villa better and get more bodies into the box. The plan quickly showed signs of working. On 51 minutes Shaun Newton cleverly beat Alan Wright on the right of the Villa area and flashed a shot just wide. Then two minutes later the ever-impressive Robinson launched a delicate chip towards the top corner of Michael Oakes’s goal which the keeper tipped over impressively. From the corner, a scramble on the six-yard line ended with Robinson stabbing a shot goalwards which Wright cleared off the line. Gregory’s response was immediate. He kennelled one of the dogs of war, Collymore, and replaced him with the defender Ricardo Scimeca in a reformed, and more secure, 3-5-2 line-up. Charlton responsed by bringing on a third striker of their own, Mendonca.
Reports

🟩 21 Dec 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley

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