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Game #4020

Aston Villa

Saturday, 10 September 1988

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Drew

8th (-3)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨

Division One

Liverpool

Villa Park

Attendance: 41,409

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

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🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 10 September 1988

⚽ | 39’ Goal, 1-0, Alan McInally
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Liverpool
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 1-1, (Liverpool), Ray Houghton
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Tony Daley, Sub on, Paul Birch
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Alan McInally, Sub on, Garry Thompson
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Liverpool

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 10 September 1988

Graham Taylor's Villa draw with reigning Champions Liverpool after taking a first half lead through Alan McInally - his fourth in three games - as Villa remain unbeaten and in 8th position on the table.

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1987-88

Aston Villa

Liverpool

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Liverpool

Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #3 |
League Match | #3 |
Manager Game | #54 |
Saturday, 10 September 1988

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🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: David Hutchinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cambridgeshire, 1978-1990
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
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

🕒 54 | 🟩 | 27 🟨 | 14 🟥 13 | 1.76

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: David Hutchinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cambridgeshire, 1978-1990 🆘
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 4
🆘 : 3
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 6 September, Villa 1-2 Oxford, Villa Park.
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

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None

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Kevin Gage replaces Steve Sims.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.26 |

Oldest Player |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 31.93 |

Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.91 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Kenny Dalglish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Liverpool

GK Bruce Grobbelaar | 🇿🇼 |
RB Barry Venison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Nicol | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Gary Gillespie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Nigel Spackman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
M Ronnie Whelan | 🇮🇪 |
M Jan Mølby | 🇳🇴 |
W John Barnes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF John Aldridge | 🇮🇪 |
CF Ian Rush | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82' |
🔁 CF Garry Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 82' |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W John Barnes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Peter Beardsley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |

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

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa 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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
228
227*
0
1
85
64
79
308
63
3
0

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/13

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

"Full marks to Allan [Evans], he reminded me of the job in hand [closing down Liverpool]. I was gone. You don't often score against a team like Liverpool. "I have to put my greater stamina down to the manager. He has me doing two-mile runs with speed sections in them. What's more, he keeps up with me." Alan McInally.
Quotes

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 11 September 1988

Houghton rescues Liverpool from valiant Aston Villa ASTON VILLA produced a sterling display to take a point off Liverpool following a pulsating game which the Birmingham club dominated for long spells. Liverpool suffered a shock setback when Alan Mclnally put Villa ahead after 39 minutes following a cross from Chris Price. It was Mclnally's fourth goal of the season and Liverpool struggled at times to combat the skill and enthusiasm of the Birmingham side. Liverpool, who paraded lan Rush for his first full game, were often harassed out of possession by the eager Villa men. Liverpool drafted in lan Rush to start his first game with Peter Beardsley dropped to substitute role. The Welsh international, however, made a quiet start and it was Villa who mounted most of the early attacks. After 25 minutes, Rush, playing his first game since leaving Juventus, converted a John Barnes cross but his effort was disallowed for offside. Ronnie Whelan then tried a shot which goalkeeper Nigel Spink took comfortably. Kevin Gage, recalled to Villa's defence specifically to mark John Barnes, kept at his task but the England player managed to slip clear on one occasion, only to loop his shot over the bar. Liverpool slowly moved forward more menacingly as an attacking unit. Gordon Cowans failed to cut out a Barnes pass and Ray Houghton's snap shot was smothered at close range by Nigel Spink. But in the 39th minute, Alan Mclnally glided home his fourth goal of the season to put Villa ahead from a cross by Chris Price. It was the first goal conceded by Liverpool this season. Villa almost made it two two minutes into the second-half but Evans' header was cleared off the line by Barry Venison. Then, Gage's crisply struck shot was tipped over by Grobbelaar. Ray Houghton equalised for Liverpool after 63 minutes, planting the ball past Spink after collecting a quickly taken free-kick which caught Villa cold. This goal sparked off Liverpool's late bid for a winner with Rush hitting the post with a shot as he was sitting on the ground.
Reports

🟨 10 September 1988, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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