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Game #3892

Aston Villa

Saturday, 11 January 1986

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Drew

18th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨

Division One

Coventry City

Highfield Road

Attendance: 10,328

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

Coventry City

3-3

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Mark Walters | 2' | Paul Birch | 61' | Simon Stainrod | 79' |

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 11 January 1986

⚽ | 2’ Goal, 1-0, Simon Stainrod, Assist by Mark Walters, (73 Seconds)
🥅 | 22’ Goal, 1-1, (Coventry City), Cyrille Regis
🥅 | 41’ Goal, 1-2, (Coventry City), Brian Kilcline
🥅 | 44’ Goal, 1-3, (Coventry City, pen), Brian Kilcline
🕒 | HT Coventry City 3-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 61’ Goal, 2-3, Andy Gray, Assist by Paul Birch
💥 | 69’ Missed penalty, Allan Evans
⚽ | 79’ Goal, 3-3, Paul Elliott, Assist by Simon Stainrod
🕒 | FT Coventry City 3-3 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Tony Dorigo, Foul

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

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 11 January 1986
  • Villa fritter away a 2' lead to fall 1-3 behind by half time before equalising and missing a penalty in the second. Villa sit 18th in the table, one point off the relegation places.

  • Graham Turner’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa now have just 🟩 five wins in 🕒 twenty six Division One games and 🟥 twelve defeats as they remain in 18th place in the table, and are now just a single point off the drop zone.

  • Centre forward Andy Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 scores his ⚽ 75th goal in a Villa shirt, just his 6th ⚽in 🕒 27 appearances since re-joining the club and over 8 years since his 50th ⚽.

  • Centre forward Andy Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 contributes his ⚽ 🔥 100th goal involvement in a Villa shirt at a rate of one every 1.68 games.

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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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: 1981-82

Coventry City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY
Coventry City
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Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨

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

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1985-86 |
Matchday | #32 |
League Match | #26 |
Manager Game | #78 |
Saturday, 11 January 1986

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🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1984-1986
Referee: Don Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sandbach, 1979-1987
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-3
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 3-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

🕒 78 | 🟩 | 26 🟨 | 22 🟥 30 | 1.28

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

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

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Don Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sandbach, 1979-1987

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Tony Dorigo, Foul

CARDS
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🟨

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

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Graham Turner names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.20 |

Oldest Player |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 30.14 |

Youngest Player |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.04 |

Referee

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

MANAGER

Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Paul Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M David Norton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Steve Hodge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Kerr | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Simon Stainrod | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Don Mackay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Coventry City

GK Steve Ogrizović | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Greg Downs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brian Kilcline | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CB Trevor Peake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Brian Borrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Wayne Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lloyd McGrath | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Kenny Hibbitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Terry Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Brian Kilcline | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M David Bowman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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CB Dean Glover | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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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

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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

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

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

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

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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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🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH QUOTES
“If it had been a boxing match the referee would have stopped it It because we were so tar ahead on points." Andy Gray.
Quotes

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟨 11 Jan 1986, Villa 3-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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