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Game #4039

Aston Villa

4-7-5, 15 PTS

Saturday, 10 December 1988

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Drew

14th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨

Division One

Middlesbrough

6-2-8, 14 PTS

Ayresome Park

Attendance: 18,096

🟨 10 Dec 1988, Villa 3-3 Boro, Ayresome

Middlesbrough

3-3

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Aston Villa

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🟨 10 Dec 1988, Villa 3-3 Boro, Ayresome

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 10 December 1988

⚽ | 3’ Goal, 1-0, Andy Gray
⚽ | 6’ Goal, 2-0, Alan McInally
🥅 | 18’ Goal, 2-1, (Middlesbrough), Mark Brennan
🔁 | 41’ Sub off Kevin Gage, Sub on, Paul Birch
🕒 | HT Middlesbrough 1-2 Aston Villa
🥅 | 49’ Goal, 2-2, (Middlesbrough), Gary Hamilton
🥅 | 67’ Goal, 2-3, (Middlesbrough), Tony Mowbray
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Paul Birch, Sub on, Derek Mountfield
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 3-3, Alan McInally
🕒 | FT Middlesbrough 3-3 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Paul Birch, Dissent
🟨 | Booking, Martin Keown
🟨 | Booking, Martin Keown
🟥 | Sending off, Martin Keown, Two bookable offences

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

🟨 10 Dec 1988, Villa 3-3 Boro, Ayresome

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 10 December 1988
  • Alan McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 hits his latest brace to top the scoring charts but after being two up after six minutes are pegged back by former Villan Bruce Rioch's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Boro before a refereeing error sees a last minute penalty to Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 men being refused.

  • Alan McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 scores his sixteenth and seventeenth goals of the season.

  • Centre back Martin Keown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off for the second time in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 111th appearance (110 Starts).

  • Centre forward Alan McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 makes his 🕒 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (41 Starts) to make it 🟩 W23 🟨 D14 🟥 L13, ⚽ 23 Goals and 🔥 11 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.47 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

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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

Middlesbrough

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

FIXTURE HISTORY
Middlesbrough
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Previous 5 vs. Middlesbrough: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

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

🟨 10 Dec 1988, Villa 3-3 Boro, Ayresome

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Match | #16 |
Manager Game | #73 |
Saturday, 10 December 1988

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MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Howard Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oadby, 1982-1988
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 3-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 73 | 🟩 | 35 🟨 | 19 🟥 19 | 1.70

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Howard Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oadby, 1982-1988

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟥 Martin Keown
🟨 Martin Keown
🟨 Martin Keown
🟨 Paul Birch, Dissent

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

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Graham Taylor names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.50 |

Oldest Player |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 32.18 |

Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.16 |

Referee

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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 Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy A Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Bruce Rioch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Middlesbrough

GK Stephen Pears | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Dean Glover (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Parkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gary Pallister | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tony Mowbray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
LB Colin Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gary Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Mark Burke (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Brennan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Stuart Ripley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Davenport | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 10 Dec 1988, Villa 3-3 Boro, Ayresome

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 | for RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 41' |
🔁 CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 70' |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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CB Alan Kernaghan | 🇮🇪 |
CF Bernie Slaven | 🇮🇪 |

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

🟨 10 Dec 1988, Villa 3-3 Boro, Ayresome

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/13

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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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MATCH QUOTES
"ASTON Villa striker Alan McInally brought his goal tally of the season to 17, and his teammate Martin Keown was sent off."
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday World (Dublin)*
Sunday, 11 December 1988
ASTON Villa striker Alan McInally brought his goal tally of the season to 17, and his teammate Martin Keown was sent off. Villa were two goals up inside seven minutes through Andy Gray and Mclnally but Middlesbrough roared back and went 3-2 ahead after 67 minutes with goals by Mark Brennan. Gary Hamilton and Tony Mowbray. McInally powered his way through to equalise.
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