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Game #3975

Aston Villa

Saturday, 19 September 1987

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Won

11th (+5)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

Division Two

Huddersfield Town

Leeds Road

Attendance: 6,884

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

Huddersfield Town

0-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Kevin Gage | 19' |

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 19 September 1987

⚽ | 19’ Goal, 1-0, Steve Hunt, Assist by Kevin Gage
🕒 | HT Huddersfield Town 0-1 Aston Villa
🕒 | FT Huddersfield Town 0-1 Aston Villa

🔁 | Sub off, Neale Cooper, Sub on, David Hunt

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 19 September 1987

Graham Taylor's Villa win successive games for the first time and make it three Division Two wins in nine as Neale Cooper makes his final appearance aged 23 before moving on to Rangers in the summer of 1988 for a fee of £250,000. Villa had bought Cooper 14 months earlier for £350,000 from Aberdeen. Cooper played for Villa in 1986-87 and 1987-88 making 15 appearances and scoring once.

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 CB Neale Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1987 | 🕒 22 | 21 (1) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 | #638 |

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Huddersfield Town

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1925-26

Aston Villa

Huddersfield Town

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Huddersfield Town

Previous 5 vs. Huddersfield: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1987-88 |
Matchday | #9 |
League Match | #9 |
Manager Game | #9 |
Saturday, 19 September 1987

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🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rutland, 1983–1991
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 9 | 🟩 | 3 🟨 | 3 🟥 3 | 1.33

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rutland, 1983–1991
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

None

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Graham Taylor names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.03 |

Oldest Player |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.15 |

Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.03 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CB Neale Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 | 🔴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Lillis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Jimmy Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Huddersfield Town

GK Brian Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB David Burke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian Bray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Gordon Tucker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Simon Webster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Simon Trevitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Ian Banks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy May | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Barham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F David Cork | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Duncan Shearer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M David Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Neale Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | RB Simon Trevitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Dave Cowling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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W Mark Burke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Peter Ward | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

Game
Start
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
183
182*
0
1
61
53
69
258
51
2
0

SUBSTITUTES

Game
Sub
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/13

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/13

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

UNAVAILABLE

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Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

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MATCH QUOTES

"A good result but there is still a lot which is not right." Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.

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MATCH REPORTS

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