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Game #4153

Aston Villa

6-10-10, 28 PTS

Saturday, 9 March 1991

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Lost

16th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

Division One

Luton Town

9-5-14, 32 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 20,587

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-2

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Luton Town

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Assist(s) | David Platt | 69' |

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 9 March 1991

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Gary Penrice
🥅 | 27’ Goal, 0-1, (Luton Town), Derek Mountfield o.g.
🥅 | 45’ Goal, 0-2, (Luton Town)
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-2 Luton Town
💥 | 50’ Missed penalty, David Platt
⚽ | 69’ Goal, 1-2, Tony Cascarino, Assist by David Platt
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Luton Town

🔁 | Sub off, Derek Mountfield, Sub on, Ian Olney
🔁 | Sub off, Kent Nielsen, Sub on, Kevin Gage

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

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 9 March 1991
  • David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 misses a second half penalty to allow Luton victory and inflict a second successive defeat on Villa as they drop to 16th in the first division table following their 🟥 eleventh loss in thirty four games under Jozef Vengloš 🇨🇿 (thirteen wins).

  • Centre forward Gary Penrice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 26 makes his debut appearance in a Villa shirt joining moving from Watford for a fee of £1,000,000 the previous day to become the 669th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Midfielder Stuart Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 30 makes his 🕒 131st and final appearance in a Villa shirt (124 Starts) before moving on to Southampton in September 1991 for £200,000. Villa had paid Barnsley £175,000 for his services 4 years earlier. Gray left with a record of 🟩 W51 🟨 D35 🟥 L45, ⚽ 15 Goals and 🔥 2 Assists, 🟨 7 Bookings & 🟥 1 Red Card across his Villa career.

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 CF Gary Penrice | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #669 | £1,000,000 signing from Watford

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-91 🕒 131 | ✅ 124 🔁 (7) | ⚽ 15 | 🔥 2 | 🇺 7 | #652 |

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

Luton Town

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

FIXTURE HISTORY
Luton Town
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Previous 5 vs. Luton: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥

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

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FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1990-91 |
Matchday | #37 |
League Match | #26 |
Manager Game | #37 |
Saturday, 9 March 1991

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MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | Ružomberok, 1990-1991
Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, 1984-1997
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
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

🕒 37 | 🟩 | 13 🟨 | 11 🟥 13 | 1.35

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Jozef Vengloš | 🇨🇿 | 1990-1991

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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

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

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

David Platt and Gary Penrice (debut) replace Mark Blake and Kevin Gage.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.68 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.61 |

Youngest Player |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 19.36 |

Referee

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

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 | 🇮🇪 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
CF Gary Penrice | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |

MANAGER

Jimmy Ryan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Luton Town

GK Alec Chamberlain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Dave Beaumont | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Graham Rodger | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Marvin Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB John Dreyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Pembridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Darron McDonough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kingsley Black | 🇬🇧 |
W David Preece | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Lars Elstrup | 🇩🇰 |
CF Iain Dowie | 🇬🇧 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🔁 RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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D Richard Harvey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Sean Farrell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

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

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

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

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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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🟥 9 Mar 1991, Villa 1-2 Luton, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"We are in a false position, but now we have to work hard for 90 minutes in every match to put things right. "The players know their capabilities, and if we can maintain the positive aspects of our game, we will soon be climbing the table. "We have to work for the breaks, and I'm sure we will get them." Peter Withe. "I still want to take the spot-kicks unless someone else says otherwise. ”There's no pressure on me. If I am strong enough to take one in Turin, in the World Cup then I am strong enough to take one against Spurs next week if the occasion arises. "It was a miserable result but it's not all doom and gloom.” David Platt. "I was disappointed I didn't score early on. “I normally put those kind of chances away. “Pressure is what you make of it. ”I know what it's like having just come from Watford. "What you have to do is to battle, keep your nerve and refuse to panic." Gary Penrice.
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday Mirror*
Sunday, 10 March 1991
Mark Pembridge chose exactly the right moment for his first goal for Luton - a crucial winner which may yet decide who goes down at the end of the season. Pembridge exploded a volley past Nigel Spink on the stroke of half-time. Luton, with just one point from their previous eight away games, got an early bonus when Derek Mountfield blasted a 27th-minute own goal that rattled Villa's growing composure. And when Pembridge blasted the second Luton looked as if they would coast through the second half. But the alarm bells soon started ringing when, shortly after the break, John Dreyer was pulled up for trying to escort Tony Cascarino out of the penalty area. But luck was on Town's side as David Platt's vicious spot kick flew straight to Chamberlain. The keeper then went one better when cleanly gathering Cascarino's follow up shot. Cascarino did eventually score, after 67 minutes, with a neat header.
Reports

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