Game #4112

Aston Villa

Saturday, 14 April 1990

Won

2nd (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division One

Chelsea

Villa Park

Attendance: 28,361

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-0

Chelsea

Scorer(s) | Gordon Cowans | 13' |

Assist(s) | Tony Cascarino | 13' |

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 14 April 1990

⚽ | 13’ Goal, 1-0, Gordon Cowans, Assist by Tony Cascarino
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Chelsea
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Derek Mountfield, Sub on, Andy Comyn
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Chelsea

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

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 14 April 1990

Villa make it nineteen first division victories in twenty seven games as they remain second and close the gap to leaders Liverpool to five points whilst opening up a ten point gap ahead of third placed Arsenal.
Villa win consecutive games as Liverpool lose but the leaders still have a game in hand with four to play.
Villa's achievements however are once again pilloried by the spiteful coverage in the Birmingham Evening Mail as they offer grudging support solely "for reasons of local patriotism."
Gordon Cowans makes his 425th start in a Villa shirt (442 Starts) to make it W203 D102 L137, 57 Goals and 77 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.30 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 11 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Arsenal, Highbury

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟥 17 Apr 1990, Villa 0-2 United, Old Trafford

Aston Villa

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

Chelsea

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1970-71

FIXTURE HISTORY

Chelsea

Previous 5 vs. Chelsea: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

All the matches

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

Chelsea

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 1 January 1990, Villa 3-0 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟥 3 November 1990, Villa 0-1 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge.

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #48 |
League Match | #34 |
Manager Game | #146 |
Saturday, 14 April 1990

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, 1984-1997
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers

Timeline

On This Day

Trophies

Fixture

Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 146 | 🟩 | 68 🟨 | 32 🟥 46 | 1.62

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, 1984-1997

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, 1984-1997

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

None

CARDS

🟨 Gareth Hall
🟨 Kevin Wilson

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

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Derek Mountfield (first start in 8) and Stuart Gray replace Andy Comyn and Kevin Gage.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.27 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.70 |

Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.50 |

Referee

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Bobby Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Chelsea

GK Dave Beasant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Tony Dorigo (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Erland Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
CB Ken Monkou | 🇳🇱 |
M Gareth Hall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
M John Bumstead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Peter Nicholas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Kevin McAllister | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Kevin Wilson | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
CF Kerry Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Gordon Durie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 CB Andy Comyn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 77' |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

M Mark Blake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

LB Clive Wilson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

	🕒	✅	⚽	🔥	🟩	🟨	🟥	🥅	⛔	Yellow	Red
GK Nigel Spink \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|	314	313*	0	1	124	81	109	409	85	3	0

RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

85*

40*

CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

72*

35*

CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |

41*

24*

CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |

43*

23*

M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

206

182

M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

106

W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

164

135*

58*

CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 |

SUBSTITUTES

Player	🕒	🔁	⚽	🔥	🟩	🟨	🟥	🥅	⛔	Yellow	Red
CB Andy Comyn \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|	5	2	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	0

UNUSED

Player	🇺
M Mark Blake \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|	8*

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

Squad Bios

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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

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

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

Tables & Programmes

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCH QUOTES

"We have won our last two 1-0 and four more 1-0’s would suit me. “Our strength is our ability to defend. "Basically we are a solid side, hard to break down. We take a goal here and a goal there. “It would be silly to expect my team to swarm over the opposition. “They are not a team built that way - they are not really able to sustain their attacks, even though in mid-season there was a spell when we did play with more confidence. “The side has developed from the three central defenders. They have prevented up going a goal down or the other side getting the equaliser. “Much as the purists might like something better, we live in a real world and I am satisfied. “The results suit me and the Villa fans.” Graham Taylor.

Quotes

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

MATCH REPORTS

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Sunday Tribune
Sunday, 15 April 1990

GORDON COWANS clawed Liverpool's title advantage back to only a point with his third goal of the season at Villa Park. With only four games left, Graham Taylor's men remain undaunted in pursuit of the unlikely, still needing another Anfield slip like today's against Forest to realise their championship dream. They held on like grim death to their precious lead for the last half-an-hour against a Chelsea side determined to salvage their 11-match unbeaten run. In the end, the Villa hero was again their new £1.5m striker, Tony Cascarino who set Cowans up.

Reports

🟩 14 Apr 1990, Villa 1-0 Chelsea, Villa Park

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