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Game #4083

Aston Villa

Saturday, 25 November 1989

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Won

1st= (+2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division One

Wimbledon

Plough Lane

Attendance: 5,888

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

Wimbledon

0-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Tony Daley | 23' | Kent Nielsen | 82' |

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 25 November 1989

⚽ | 23’ Goal, 1-0, David Platt, Assist by Tony Daley
🕒 | HT Wimbledon 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 82’ Goal, 2-0, Tony Daley, Assist by Kent Nielsen
🕒 | FT Wimbledon 0-2 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Ian Olney, Timewasting

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

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 25 November 1989

  • Villa make it seven first division victories in eight games as they rise to a season high of joint first in the table, alongside reigning champions Arsenal.

  • Villa make it consecutive first division victories to climb to their highest position since the end of the title winning season in 1980-81.

  • Villa record their first ever competitive victory over Wimbledon as Tony Daley scores one and makes one whilst David Platt hits his eleventh of the season.

  • Kent Nielsen contributes an assist for the second successive game to make it W7 D4 L5, 1 Goal and 2 Assists so far in his Villa career.

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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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

Wimbledon

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Wimbledon

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Previous 5 vs. Wimbledon: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

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

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #19 |
League Match | #15 |
Manager Game | #117 |
Saturday, 25 November 1989

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🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Brian Hill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kettering, 1978-1995
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 117 | 🟩 | 50 🟨 | 29 🟥 38 | 1.53

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Brian Hill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kettering, 1978-1995
Matches Officiated: 12
🟩 : 9
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 3
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 21 January 1989, Villa 0-4 Forest, City Ground.
Cards: 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Ian Olney, Timewasting

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

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Graham Taylor names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.05 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.32 |

Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.95 |

Referee

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 | 🔥 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Bobby Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Wimbledon

GK Hans Segers | 🇳🇱 |
LB Terry Phelan | 🇮🇪 |
CB Eric Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Roger Joseph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Keith Curle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Wise | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vaughan Ryan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul McGee | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
W Carlton Fairweather | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Fashanu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Steve Cotterill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Roger Joseph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB John Scales | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Paul McGee | 🇮🇪 | (CF Alan Cork | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Mark Blake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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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

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/13

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/13

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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

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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MATCH QUOTES

“When you come to Wimbledon, the game is won or lost in your own penalty - and Mountfield, McGrath and Nielsen won it for us. You have to say to yourselves: 'We are not too good to come and scrap.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Monday, 27 November 1989

Aston Villa must face the real test of their Championship credentials, or so we are led to believe. Having confounded their critics by climbing to their highest position since the 1981 title triumph, Villa take on Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Millwall, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea in six consecutive matches which can make or break their season. In truth, though, Villa will never have a tougher assignment than the one they received at Plough Lane on Saturday. Villa's ability to rise to the occasion against quality opposition has rarely been in question but frequent failings against rough and tumble outfits have put serious doubts over their competitive nature. Those doubts were well and truly dispelled against a Wimbledon side who beat them three times last season and whose physical, direct approach continues to deflate football's biggest egos. Villa succeeded on Saturday because they were prepared to match steel with steel and had the extra touch of class where it mattered. You won't see a better pass than the 40-yard volley which Gordon Cowans delivered for Tony Daley to set up David Platt's 11th goal of the season on 23 minutes. And Daley's precision shot eight minutes from time was a fair reward for a scintillating performance which suggested the unpredictable little winger is capable of finding the one ingredient which has been missing from his game - consistency. Yet the real heroes of this victory - Villa's seventh in eight League games - were to be found in the other penalty area. Nigel Spink battled on bravely with a gashed knee after making a crucial early save from Eric Young, while Paul McGrath. Derek Mountfield and Kent Nielsen formed a central defensive trio which threw up an impenetrable fortress in front of the goalkeeper. With Platt and a revitalised lan Ormondroyd occupying deep positions to help nullify the Wimbledon bombardment. Villa never had the opportunity to mount any sustained pressure of their own. lan Olney ran himself to a standstill as the- and lone out-and-out target man, however, and those two exhilarating goals from Platt and Daley were enough to secure Villa's first-ever competitive victory over the Dons. Taylor said: “When you come to Wimble-don, the game is won or lost in your own penalty area - and Mountfield, McGrath and Nielsen won it for us. “You have to say to yourselves: We are not too good to come and scrap”
Reports

🟩 25 Nov 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane

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