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Game #4264

Aston Villa

Sunday, 18 April 1993

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Won

2nd (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Manchester City

Villa Park

Attendance: 33,108

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

Aston Villa

3-1

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Manchester City

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🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 18 April 1993

🥅 | 34’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), Niall Quinn
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Manchester City
⚽ | 47’ Goal, 1-1, Dean Saunders, Assist by Tony Daley
⚽ | 67’ Goal, 2-1, Garry Parker (pen)
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Garry Parker, Sub on, Bryan Small
⚽ | 89’ Goal, 3-1, Ray Houghton, Assist by Steve Staunton
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-1 Manchester City

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

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 18 April 1993
  • Villa, trailing at half time, are subject to Ron’s riot act at half time and hit three second half goals to keep the title race alive into the final three games of the campaign.

  • Villa face moneybags Blackburn next as United have relegation threatened Palace.

  • Manchester United are one point ahead and on a superior goal difference. 

  • Despite the eventual storm to victory the game was most noticeable for a bizarre banner in the away end then positioned in the bottom tier of the North Stand. The Manchester City fans - long time strangers to even moderate success - had taken time to produce a large banner supporting Villa’s title run against their local revivals and signed it from the “City of Manchester”. A small club mentality that shocked even the most battle wearied spectators.

  • Villa won the game so presumably both sets of fans left happy but Villa’s brave fight had all but come to the end and these would prove to be the last points the club would earn this season.

  • Garry Parker scores his first goal and first goal involvement for 15 games to make it 74 Appearances, W34 D21 L19, 11 Goals and 3 Assists.

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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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: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨

League 🕒 118 | 🟩 46 | 🟨 31 | 🟥 41 | ⚽ 190 | 🥅 177 |
FA Cup 🕒 6 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 3 | ⚽ 9 | 🥅 12 |
League Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 6 | 🥅 0 |
Other 🕒 1 | 🟩 0 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 |

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

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1992-93 |
Matchday | #48 |
League Match | #39 |
Manager Game | #99 |
Sunday, 18 April 1993

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🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Philip Don | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesex, 1987–1995
Kick off: 1.30pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

🕒 99 | 🟩 | 46 🟨 | 27 🟥 26 | 1.67

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Philip Don | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesex, 1987–1995

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

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Shaun Teale drops out as Garry Parker returns in the only change from the side that beat Arsenal last time out.

Starting XI Average Age | 26.84 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 33.39 |

Youngest Player |
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 21.28 |

Referee

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Neil Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
M Ray Houghton | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Dalian Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Peter Reid | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Manchester City

GK Tony Coton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Terry Phelan | 🇮🇪 |
CB Keith Curle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Michel Vonk | 🇳🇱 |
RB Ray Ranson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Peter Reid | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Fitzroy Simpson | 🇯🇲 |
M Garry Flitcroft | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W David White | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Rick Holden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Niall Quinn | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 LB Bryan Small | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 76’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Rick Holden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB David Brightwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Martyn Margetson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Kare Ingebrigtsen | 🇳🇴 |

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

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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

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

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

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

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"We are nuisances aren't we? "After we drew at home to Coventry last week everybody was saying that was it then we went and won at Arsenal. "After United beat Chelsea they were saying the same again. “But we keep clinging on in there. "We showed great character and great commitment. We kept on battling and straining every last sinew. “For a team of so-called fairies and fanny merchants, we don't half show some determination" Ron Atkinson.
Quotes

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Irish Independent*
Monday, 19 April 1993
`GOOD LUCK Villa from the City of Manchester' read a banner unfurled by visiting supporters at Villa Park yesterday. But any suggestions that Peter Reid's team would lie down to assist Manchester United's Premier League championship rivals were seriously misplaced. At the halfway stage of a tense encounter, the gripping title race looked set to end prematurely. Aston Villa, starting the day four points adrift, were trailing an inspired City team through a stunning Niall Quinn header and did not look capable of restoring the gap at the top of the table to a single point. Dean Saunders, the Villa striker who, within three minutes of the restart had ended his personal goal famine after 1,095 minutes, revealed afterwards that manager Ron Atkinson had "crucified" the team in the dressing room. That justifiable verbal assault had the desired effect as Villa raised their game and a worried home crowd were transformed into a joyful throng by the time Ray Houghton completed their recovery with a superbly taken third goal a minute from the end. Delighted Villa boss Atkinson quipped afterwards: "We are nuisances aren't we? "After we drew at home to Coventry last week everybody was saying that was it then we went and won at Arsenal. "After United beat Chelsea they were saying the same again. but we keep clinging on in there. "We showed great character and great commitment. We kept on battling and straining every last sinew."
Reports

🟩 18 Apr 1993, Villa 3-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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