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Game #4119

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 5 September 1990

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Lost

18th (-5)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥

Division One

Manchester City

Maine Road

Attendance: 30,199

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

Manchester City

2-1

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Aston Villa

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🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 5 September 1990

🕒 | HT Manchester City 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 47’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City, pen), Mark Ward
🥅 | 80’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester City), Neil Pointon
⚽ | 82’ Goal, 1-2, David Platt (pen)
🔁 | 84’ Sub off, Derek Mountfield, Sub on, Ian Olney
🕒 | FT Manchester City 2-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Paul McGrath, Deliberate handball
🟨 | Booking, Chris Price, Dissent

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

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 5 September 1990

  • Villa lose in a game they dominate as the City 'keeper is forced to make multiple saves to deny Tony Daley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Gordon Cowans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and Kevin Gage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 before the home side are awarded a soft penalty by referee John Watson for which replays confirmed what the naked eye saw in real time - that no contact had been made. 

  • Watson doubled down on the controversy by refusing Villa a spot kick for a clear shove on David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 with City hitting a second on the break as Villa continued to take the game to them. 

  • Unlucky thought the defeat was Villa make it one point from nine in the first division as they fall to 18th in the table under Jozef Vengloš 🇨🇿.

  • Full back Kevin Gage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (124 Starts) and makes it 🟩 W59 🟨 D26 🟥 L40, ⚽ 12 Goals and 🔥 13 Assists so far in his Villa career.

  • Paul McGrath 🇮🇪 collects his 🟨 first booking in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 50th appearance.

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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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 City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1975-76

FIXTURE HISTORY

Manchester City

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Previous 5 vs. Manchester City: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥

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

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1990-91 |
Matchday | #3 |
League Match | #3 |
Manager Game | #3 |
Wednesday, 5 September 1990

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🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | Ružomberok, 1990-1991
Referee: John Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Whitley Bay, 1986–1995 🆘
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991

🕒 3 | 🟩 | 0 🟨 | 1 🟥 2 | 0.33

Villa Career Form:

Relegation

Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991

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

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: John Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Whitley Bay, 1986–1995 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

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

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Jozef Vengloš names an unchanged line up for the first time.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.53 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.10 |

Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.90 |

Referee

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

MANAGER

Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991

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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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 |

MANAGER

Howard Kendall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Manchester City

GK Andy Dibble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Neil Pointon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
LB Mark Ward | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CB Colin Hendry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Ian Brightwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Lake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Brennan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Peter Reid | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Adrian Heath (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W David White | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Niall Quinn | 🇮🇪 |

Line Ups

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 84' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Mark Ward | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Steve Redmond | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CF Clive Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/13

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

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

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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MATCH QUOTES

"I am still learning. "We deserved a better result and had a lot of quality out there. "The players should not lose confidence after a performance like tonight's." Jozef Vengloš. "Our first win will come soon, hopefully against Coventry on Saturday. "We have been creating a fair proportion of chances and there is certainly no lack of confidence in the side. "We are probably playing better now than we were at the same stage last season when we had two more points. “What we need now is a lucky break. “We are getting along on fine. The boss is in a clearly no-win situation at the moment. “If we had started well everybody would have said that he has done it with Graham Taylor's team. “It’s difficult for him because we haven't won a game yet. “But there's nothing wrong with the team and it will show when we have got our first three points.” Stuart Gray. “I was definitely caught from behind and I was amazed when no Penalty was awarded.” David Platt.
Quotes

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Daily Mirror*
Thursday, 6 September 1990

JOZEF VENGLOS, Aston Villa's new boss, saw his fighting side rudely kicked in the teeth last night. Villa slid to a heartbreaking defeat, and are now fixed perilously close to the foot of the table, without a win in their opening three matches. Manchester's City stand-in keeper, Andy Dibble - called in at almost the last minute - defied Villa's desperate efforts in a pulsating finish. It leaves Venglos staring at the harsh facts of First Division life, facing an uphill struggle to revive last season's championship challenge. English soccer can be the cruellest game in the world, because Villa could rightly claim they , deserved at least one point. Czechoslovakian World Cup coach Venglos, who succeeded England's Graham Taylor at Villa Park, confessed before the game: "I am still learning." Their rapid fire counter-attacks threatened to cut Howard Kendall's City to ribbons during the first half, after Tony Cascarino hit the bar. And it needed a controversial penalty at the start of the second half to push City's noses in front just when Villa, were scenting that elusive victory. Paul McGrath seemed to make contact with the ball in his initial challenge on striker Niall Quinn. Then the two Republic of Ireland internationals tangled again, very briefly, and Whitley Bay referee John Watson pointed to the spot. Outraged Villa protested in vain but it made no difference. Ward coolly slotted the ball inside Nigel Spink's left-hand post. Suddenly, the adrenalin was pumping through City's veins, despite the blow of losing skipper, Paul Lake after 55 minutes, hurt in a seemingly innocuous incident. Lake was carried off on a stretcher, and replaced by Steve Redmond, with the first bulletin from the dressing room speaking of possible damaged knee ligaments. Villa's anger and frustration over the penalty pushed them into a pulsating finale, but not until City had delivered the potential killer blow. With 10 minutes left former Everton left-back Neil Pointon swapped passes with the impressive Quinn and then toe-ended his shot inches beyond Spink's despairing grasp. A minute later Pointon boobed at the other end, bringing down the persistent Platt with a tackle from behind. Platt, who had claimed a spot kick from the hapless Watson after falling in the area only six minutes earlier, got up to beat Dibble from the 12-yard mark. But it was then left to Dibble to deny Villa a point with a series of brilliant reaction saves. Venglos said: "We deserved a better result and had a lot of quality out there. "The players should not lose confidence after a performance like tonight's."
Reports

🟥 5 Sep 1990, Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Maine Road

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