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Game #4328

Aston Villa

Monday, 29 August 1994

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Won

10th (+2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩

Premier League

Coventry City

Highfield Road

Attendance: 12,218

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

Coventry City

0-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Andy Townsend | 3’ |

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Monday, 29 August 1994

⚽ | 3’ Goal, 1-0, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Andy Townsend
🟨 | 5’ Booking, Kevin Richardson, High tackle
🕒 | HT Coventry City 0-1 Aston Villa
🕒 | FT Coventry City 0-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 29 August 1994

  • Villa win the first time this season and for the 3rd time in their last 16 Premier League games under Ron Atkinson. 

  • Villa are unbeaten in their last 5 games under Ron Atkinson. 

  • Dean Saunders makes his 100th appearance in a Villa shirt (99 Starts) to make it W46 D29 L25, 34 Goals and 7 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.44 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Having taken until the final day of the previous campaign to score his first League goals, Dwight Yorke scores his first for the 1994-95 season on his 4th appearance to make it 115 Appearances, 78 Starts, W48 D32 L36, 30 Goals, 13 Assists and 2 Bookings at a goal per game rate of one for every 3.83 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Andy Townsend secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 51st appearance to make it W25 D13 L13, 4 Goals, 9 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Ugo Ehiogu makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (38 Appearances) to make it W17 D9 L12, 1 Assist and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1993-94

Coventry City

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

Aston Villa

Coventry City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Coventry City

Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1994-95 |
Matchday | #4 |
League Match | #4 |
Manager Game | #163 |
Monday, 29 August 1994

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🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Paul Durkin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Dorset, 1987-2004
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 163 | 🟩 | 72 🟨 | 44 🟥 47 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Paul Durkin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Dorset, 1987-2004
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 2 April 1994, Villa 0-3 Manchester City, Maine Road.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Kevin Richardson, High tackle

🟨 Steve Morgan
🟨 Phil Babb
🟨 Paul Cook

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ray Houghton and Dalian Atkinson make way as Phil King and Dwight Yorke return.

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.89 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 34.76 |

Youngest Player |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.83 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
LB Phil King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
CF John Fashanu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Phil Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Coventry City

GK Steve Ogrizovic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Morgan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Phil Babb | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB David Busst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Brian Borrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Rennie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Julian Darby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Sean Flynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Cook | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Willie Boland | 🇮🇪 |
CF Roy Wegerle | 🇺🇸 |

Line Ups

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M David Rennie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (CF John Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nii Lamptey | 🇬🇭 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jonathan Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
D Ally Pickering | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/14

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/14

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

UNAVAILABLE

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M Ray Houghton
GK Michael Oakes
CF Dalian Atkinson
CB Shaun Teale
F Graham Fenton
CF Guy Whittingham
M Dave Farrell
D Chris Boden
LB Bryan Small

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

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MATCH QUOTES

"THE season isn't old, it only felt like it as two weary-looking sides made watching hard work at Highfield Road last night."
Quotes

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Tuesday, 30 August 1994

YORKE ON MARK TO LIFT VILLA THE season isn't old, it only felt like it as two weary-looking sides made watching hard work at Highfield Road last night. Villa struck early through Dwight Yorke in the third minute and, heedless of the risk that has cost them four points to late goals in their two most recent matches, barely troubled Coventry's defence in the following 87. This amounted to a negative feat of considerable proportion, for Coventry's goals against column thus far had read 1,4,4, figures which would worry a fourth-change bowler, never mind a football manager. If Villa were flat and predictable, they at least had the consolation of their first victory after three consecutive draws. Coventry have one point and were unassertive and under-confident. Dull in midfield until Paul Cook was moved inside to provide an occasional daring and sometimes inaccurate pass, their most threatening player was left-back Steve Morgan. Predictions of Coventry's relegation have been made every autumn since Harold Wilson was Prime Minister. The Villa manager is still searching for the formation to exploit the gladiatorial talents of John Fashanu, last night mysteriously voted man of the match by Sky TV. Initially, Dean Saunders appeared to have benefited from the assistance of this bludgeon of a footballer but last night the Welshman, unusually for him, was a shadowy figure on the fringes of action. The only attacker of substance proved to be Dwight Yorke. Omitted on Saturday, the Trinidad international made a lightning impression, perfectly timing his run to angle into goal a leaping header to Andy Townsend's cross after a shocking piece of defending by David Rennie. It was the night's only moment of true decisiveness. Coventry were totally without rhythm and not a lot of method, either. In trying to induce a more regular flow of crosses, Atkinson selected Phil King and Steve Staunton, but Staunton had probably his worst game in claret and blue while King remained defensively inclined. The right side was more dangerous. Earl Barrett used his speed and athleticism to the full and allowed Yorke to concentrate on his footwork in more productive areas. His 17th minute shot into the side netting was Villa's total goal attempt for more than an hour before a small flurry failed to worry Steve Ogrizovic at all. Morgan had three serious long-range drives, only one of which caused Mark Bosnich the slightest concern. "If the TV cameras hadn't been here, he'd have put his foot on it," said Atkinson later. The rest merits no mention.
Reports

🟩 29 August 1994, Villa 1-0 Coventry, Highfield Road.

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