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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 Sep 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 Sep 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

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

🟩 19 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 19 September 1987

  • Villa record successive 🟩 wins for the first time this season and the first time under Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to climb to 11th in the second division table thanks to a 19' strike from bad boy against Barnsley, Steve Hunt.

  • Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa make it 🟩 three Division Two wins in nine.

  • Neale Cooper 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 23 makes his 🕒 22nd & final appearance (21 Starts) before moving on to Rangers in the summer of 1988 for a fee of £250,000. Villa had bought Cooper only 14 months earlier for £350,000 from Aberdeen and he would leave with a record of 🟩 W3 🟨 D10 🟥 L9, ⚽ 1 Goal and🔥 0 Assists.

  • Winger Steve Hunt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (71 Starts).

🟩 19 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 CB Neale Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1987 🕒 22 | ✅ 21 🔁 (1) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 | #639 |

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

Huddersfield Town

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Huddersfield Town

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Previous 5 vs. Huddersfield: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨

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

🟩 19 Sep 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 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rutland, 1987–1990
Kick off: 3.00pm
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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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 9 | 🟩 | 3 🟨 | 3 🟥 3 | 1.33

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

🟩 19 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rutland, 1987–1990

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rutland, 1987–1990
🕒 1 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | 🆘 : 0
🕒 1 | 🟩 100% | 🟨 0% | 🟥 0% | 🆘 : 0%
Cards 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | 0.00 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 0 |
Last 5: 🟩

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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None

CARDS

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None

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

🟩 19 Sep 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

🟩 19 Sep 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 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road

SUBSTITUTES

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

SUBSTITUTES

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

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Substitutes

🟩 19 Sep 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

Squad Bios

🟩 19 Sep 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 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 19 Sep 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 Sep 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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