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Game #4054

Aston Villa

Sunday, 12 March 1989

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Drew

14th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨

Division One

Manchester United

Villa Park

Attendance: 28,332

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-0

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Manchester United

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 12 March 1989

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester United
🔁 70’ Sub off, Ian Ormondroyd, Sub on, Ian Olney
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester United

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

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 12 March 1989
  • Villa secure a goalless draw with Manchester United at Villa Park as Alan McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 impresses but Ian Ormondroyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 becomes the latest player to feel the wrath of a frustrated Villa Park crowd.

  • Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa make it five League games without a win as they draw with sixth placed Manchester United, failing to score for the second consecutive game.

  • Midfielder Stuart Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (48 Starts) and makes it 🟩 W20 🟨 D14 🟥 L16, ⚽ 6 Goals and 🔥 0 Assists so far in his Villa career.

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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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

Manchester United

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1984-85

FIXTURE HISTORY
Manchester United
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Previous 5 vs. United: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨

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

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #37 |
League Match | #28 |
Manager Game | #88 |
Sunday, 12 March 1989

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🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Mike Peck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kendal, 1980-1993
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨

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

🕒 88 | 🟩 | 39 🟨 | 22 🟥 27 | 1.58

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mike Peck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kendal, 1980-1993

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

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Alan McInally, Steve Sims (first start of the season) and Lee Butler replace Gordon Cowans, Derek Mountfield and Nigel Spink.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.02 |

Oldest Player |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.72 |

Youngest Player |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.65 |

Referee

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Lee Butler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Nigel Callaghan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Alex Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Manchester United

GK Jim Leighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Lee Martin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
LB Mal Donaghy | 🇬🇧 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Steve Bruce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Russell Beardsmore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gordon Strachan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Bryan Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Lee Sharpe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Brian McClair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Mark Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 70' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Lee Martin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Ralph Milne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Russell Beardsmore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (LB Clayton Blackmore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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None

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

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/13

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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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🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"I think I have been a bit hard on [Steve] Sims. “He came in at the end of last season to help us to promotion. "The fans had given him some stick. But he never let it worry him and he did exceptionally well this afternoon.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Irish Independent*
Monday, 13 March 1989
JIM LEIGHTON, Manchester United's Scottish international goalkeeper, emerged as the Old Trafford club's hero at Aston Villa, a brilliant late save from Alan Mclnally preventing the home side snatching a late winner. It was the highlight of a keen cut-and-thrust encounter in which the lack of goals was the only disappointment. Following some indifferent displays recently Aston Villa manager Graham Taylor again turned to one of his Watford old boys, Steve Sims, to bring more stability to the Midlanders' defence. Playing in only his second League game of the season Sims effectively shut out United strikers and made a major contribution to Villa's improved form. Villa were also forced to draft in goalkeeper Lee Butler for only his second game. United, now beaten only once in their last 12 games, struggled in attack for long spells. Despite some skilful and industrious work by Gordon Strachan, strikers Brian McClair and Mark Hughes were ineffective against the rugged play of Sims and Martin Keown. It was not until the final 20 minutes that United were able to turn on the pressure to trouble the home side. lan Ormondroyd, a £650,000 Villa buy from Bradford City, is noticeably struggling to adjust to life in the First Division, and he was substituted by lan Olney after 70 minutes.
Reports

🟨 12 Mar 1989, Villa 0-0 United, Villa Park

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