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Game #4242

Aston Villa

Saturday, 26 December 1992

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Lost

4th (-2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Coventry City

Highfield Road

Attendance: 24,245

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

Coventry City

3-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 26 December 1992

🕒 | HT Coventry City 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 52’ Goal, 0-1, (Coventry City), Micky Quinn
🥅 | 55’ Goal, 0-2, (Coventry City), Micky Quinn
🥅 | 59’ Goal, 0-3, (Coventry City), Robert Rosario
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Cyrille Regis, Sub on, Stefan Beinlich
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Garry Parker, Sub on, Neil Cox
🟨 | Booking, Kevin Richardson, Foul
🕒 | FT Coventry City 3-0 Aston Villa

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

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 26 December 1992

  • Coventry, having put five past Liverpool in their previous game, inflict Villa's biggest ever defeat against Cov and only their seventh loss to the Highfield Road side in fifty six years.

  • Ray Houghton makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W11 D9 L5, 1 Goal and 6 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.57 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Meanwhile, Dean Saunders’ Premier League goalless streak extends to 7 games.

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield 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

Coventry City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1986-87

FIXTURE HISTORY

Coventry City

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Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

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

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1992-93 |
Matchday | #26 |
League Match | #21 |
Manager Game | #77 |
Saturday, 26 December 1992

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🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, Lancashire, 1983-1998
Kick off: 12.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

🕒 77 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 21 🟥 23 | 1.56

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, Lancashire, 1983-1998
Matches Officiated: 10
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 4
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 26 December 1991, Villa 3-1 West Ham, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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None

CARDS

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🟨 Peter Atherton
🟨 Micky Quinn

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

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

In two changes from the team that drew with Manchester City, Cyrille Regis replaces Dalian Atkinson, whilst Bryan Small comes in for Dwight Yorke.

Starting XI Average Age | 28.99 |

Oldest Player |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.90 |

Youngest Player |
LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.14 |

Referee

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Bobby Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Coventry City

GK Jonathan Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Brian Borrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Peter Atherton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Paul Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Phil Babb | 🇮🇪 |
LB Kenny Sansom | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lloyd McGrath | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Robert Rosario | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Micky Quinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Stefan Beinlich | 🇩🇪 | for CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 75’ |
🔁 RB Neil Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (CF Peter Ndlovu | 🇿🇼 |)
🔁 | CF Micky Quinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🟨 | (CB Andy Pearce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Steve Ogrizovic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/14

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/14

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH QUOTES

“At least we were consistent. Useless at the back, useless in midfield and crap up front. “We were second in too many departments. “It’s inexplicable. “If we play like that against Arsenal we will get relegated never mind any titles.” Ron Atkinson.
Quotes

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday Mirror*
Sunday, 27 December 1992

Mick Quinn produced another goal-studded display to leave Villa boss Ron Atkinson fuming. Big Ron locked his players in the dressing room for half an hour and emerged to rap: "We were consistent - hopeless at the back, hopeless in midfield and crap up front." In the 52nd minute Lee Hurst headed forward, Robert Rosario flicked it on and Quinn volleyed home. Three minutes later Kevin Gallacher played Rosario through and his centre to the far post was thumped home by the rotund Scouser. Then Quinn flicked on for Rosario to beat Nigel Spink with a low shot.
Reports

🟥 26 Dec 1992, Villa 0-3 Coventry, Highfield Road

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