Game #4103

Aston Villa

Saturday, 24 February 1990

Lost

1st (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥

Division One

Wimbledon

Villa Park

Attendance: 29,325

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-3

Wimbledon

Scorer(s) | None

Assist(s) | None

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 24 February 1990

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

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 24 February 1990

Villa suffer a shock defeat - their first since December - as they miss an early penalty before the referee is hoodwinked by gamesmanship from John Fashanu to award Wimbledon a game changing penalty. Despite the loss, Villa remain first in the table and two points clear of Liverpool.
Graham Taylor’s Villa lose for the first time in eight League games as they fall back to 2nd place, one point behind leaders Liverpool.

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 21 Feb 1990, Villa 2-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟥 4 Mar 1990, Villa 0-2 Coventry, Highfield Road

Aston Villa

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

Wimbledon

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Wimbledon

Previous 5 vs. Wimbledon: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

All the matches

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

Wimbledon

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 25 November 1989, Villa 2-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane.

Wimbledon

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 20 October 1990, Villa 0-0 Wimbledon, Plough Lane.

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #39 |
League Match | #26 |
Manager Game | #137 |
Saturday, 24 February 1990

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Mike James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sussex, 1981-1993
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥

Scorers

Timeline

On This Day

Trophies

Fixture

Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 137 | 🟩 | 64 🟨 | 31 🟥 42 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mike James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sussex, 1981-1993
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 3
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 22 October 1986, Villa 2-4 Watford, Vicarage Road.
Cards: None

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Mike James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sussex, 1983-1992

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

None

CARDS

None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Graham Taylor names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.94 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.57 |

Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.20 |

Referee

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Bobby Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Wimbledon

GK Hans Segers | 🇳🇱 |
CB Eric Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB John Scales | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Keith Curle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Wise | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lawrie Sanchez | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Vaughan Ryan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Miller | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Paul McGee | 🇮🇪 |
CF Steve Anthrobus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF John Fashanu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 77’ |
🔁 M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 77’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Lawrie Sanchez | 🇬🇧 | (CF Alan Cork | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

CB John Scales | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

	🕒	✅	⚽	🔥	🟩	🟨	🟥	🥅	⛔	Yellow	Red
GK Nigel Spink \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|	305	304*	0	1	120	80	105	400	81	3	0

RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

77*

25*

CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

70*

25*

CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |

32*

CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |

34*

RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

115

114

W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

155

126*

63*

M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

34*

16*

CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

44*

17*

SUBSTITUTES

Player	🕒	🔁	⚽	🔥	🟩	🟨	🟥	🥅	⛔	Yellow	Red
M Stuart Gray \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|	85	5	14	1	34	23	28	0	0	4	1

M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

202

UNUSED

Player	🇺

Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺

Squad Bios

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

Tables & Programmes

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCH QUOTES

“We never felt that the 2-0 win at Tottenham last Wednesday would win us the championship and neither do we feel that the 3-0 defeat by Wimbledon has lost us the championship. “There will be no change to our thinking and no signs of any panic. “We will look at certain things this week but the lads have done remarkably well and one defeat does not alter what we have already achieved. “People said the bubble had burst when we lost at Norwich earlier in the season. “They said the same after Millwall and the will probably say it again now. “But we don’t want to give anybody ammunition against us by criticising the side. "We will just knuckle dews like we always do and we will certainly be determined to make a return to our winning ways for the televised game at Coventry en Sunday." "As far as we are concerned we will be working to get It out of our system this week before we go into action again." John Ward, Villa assistant manager.

Quotes

🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCH REPORTS

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Sunday Tribune
Sunday, 25 February 1990

TWO goals from John Fashanu destroyed Aston Villa's hopes of stretching their lead at the top of the first division. Wimbledon scored three second-half goals after Villa's David Platt had missed a fifth-minute penalty. Fashanu, returning after missing four games with an ankle injury, opened the scoring in the 57th minute when he slotted a penalty past Nigel Spink. Horsham referee Michael James had no hesitation in pointing to the spot after Derek Mountfield had bought Fashanu down. The England striker made it 2-0 in the 69th minute when he touched home a free kick from Denis Wise, to record his sixth goal in 17 games. With six minutes left Paul Miller made it three when he broke down the right, rounded Gordon Cowans and Paul McGrath before slotting home his first goal of the season. Villa should have taken the lead in the fifth minute when the referee awarded a penalty after Tony Daley had been fouled by Paul McGee. But Platt, scorer of 21 goals this season, saw his kick pushed away by goalkeeper Hans Segers.

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🟥 24 Feb 1990, Villa 0-3 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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