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Game #4336

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 5 October 1994

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Won

2nd Round

Last 5 | 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

League Cup

Wigan Athletic

Springfield Park

Attendance: 2,633

🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

Wigan Athletic

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Aston Villa (Holders)

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🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 5 October 1994

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Michael Oakes
⚽ | 43’ Goal, 1-0, Nii Lamptey
🕒 | HT Wigan Athletic 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 60’ Goal 2-0, Guy Whittingham
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 3-0, Nii Lamptey
🕒 | FT Wigan Athletic 0-3 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Nii Lamptey, Foul

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 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

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ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 5 October 1994
  • Villa record an 8-0 aggregate victory over Wigan in the League Cup as the mercurial Nii Lamptey hits a brace.

  • Goalkeeper Michael Oakes, 20, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining as a trainee and signing professional forms in July 1991 to become the 699th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Nii Lamptey scores a brace on his 4th appearance in a Villa shirt (2 Starts) to make it W2 D0 L2, 3 Goals and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.33 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #699 | Youth Team promotion

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: 1993-94

Wigan Athletic

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY
Wigan Athletic
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Previous 5 vs. Wigan: 🟩 🟩

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

🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1994-95 |
Matchday | #12 |
Manager Game | #171 |
Wednesday, 5 October 1994

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🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Peter Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Loughborough, 1994-2001
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-0 (8-0)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

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

🕒 171 | 🟩 | 76 🟨 | 44 🟥 51 | 1.59

Villa Career Form:

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Peter Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Loughborough, 1994-2001

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Nii Lamptey, Foul

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 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Ugo Ehiogu, Ray Houghton, Andy Townsend, Earl Barrett and Nigel Spink drop out as Dave Farrell (first start of the season), Shaun Teale, Nii Lamptey, Michael Oakes and Steve Staunton come in.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.82 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 34.86 |

Youngest Player |
M Nii Lamptey | 🇬🇭 | 19.83 |

Referee

🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

MANAGER

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

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Aston Villa

GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Phil King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
M Nii Lamptey | 🇬🇭 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dave Farrell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
CF Graham Fenton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Guy Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Graham Barrow | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Wigan Athletic

GK Simon Farnworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Andy Farrell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Greg Strong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Robertson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Joe Jakub | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Matt Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Dave Campbell | 🇬🇧 |
M Neill Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Kilford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Andy Lyons | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Pat Gavin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | RB Matt Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Neil Morton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Andy Lyons | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Paul Rennie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Earl Barrett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Mark Statham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/14

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

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

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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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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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🟩 5 Oct 1994, Villa 3-0 Wigan, Springfield Park

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