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Game #3979

Aston Villa

Saturday, 3 October 1987

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Won

8th (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩

Division Two

Plymouth Argyle

Home Park

Attendance: 10,515

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

Plymouth Argyle

1-3

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Aston Villa

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🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 3 October 1987

⚽ | 2’ Goal, 1-0, Mark Walters, Assist by Alan McInally, 70 Seconds
⚽ | 9’ Goal, 2-0, Mark Lillis
🥅 | 13’ Goal, 2-1, (Plymouth Argyle), Mark Smith
⚽ | 39’ Goal, 3-1, Mark Walters
🕒 | HT Plymouth Argyle 1-3 Aston Villa
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Alan McInally, Sub on, Allan Evans
🕒 | FT Plymouth Argyle 1-3 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 3 October 1987

Graham Taylor's Villa make it seven games unbeaten and win their fourth in six.

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Plymouth Argyle

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

Aston Villa

Plymouth Argyle

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Plymouth Argyle

Previous 5 vs. Plymouth: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1987-88 |
Matchday | #13 |
League Match | #12 |
Manager Game | #13 |
Saturday, 3 October 1987

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🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Howard King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Merthyr Tydfil, 1980-1994
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
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

🕒 13 | 🟩 | 5 🟨 | 5 🟥 3 | 1.54

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Howard King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Merthyr Tydfil, 1980-1994
Matches Officiated: 5
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 28 December 1985, Villa 1-1 Albion, Villa Park.
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

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None

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Steve Hunt replaces David Hunt.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.14 |

Oldest Player |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.18 |

Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.07 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Dave Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Plymouth Argyle

GK Geoff Crudgington (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Jason Rowbotham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
D Leigh Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nicky Law | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Mark Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M John Matthews | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M John Brimacombe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kevin Hodges | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kevin Summerfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Clayton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Stewart Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 75' |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | LB Jason Rowbotham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (W Doug Anderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CB Andy Morrison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
187
186*
0
1
63
55
69
261
52
2
0

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

"It may be two or three games yet before we start seeing the best of McInally, when he is fully match fit but what we have seen so far is very encouraging." Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟩 3 October 1987, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Home Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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