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Game #4414

Aston Villa

Sunday, 3 March 1996

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Lost

4th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Liverpool

Anfield

Attendance: 39,508

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

Liverpool

3-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 3 March 1996

🥅 | 2’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool)
🥅 | 5’ Goal, 0-2, (Liverpool)
🥅 | 8’ Goal, 0-3, (Liverpool)
🔁 | 23’ Sub off, LB Steve Staunton, Sub on, F Julian Joachim
🕒 | HT Liverpool 3-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Ugo Ehiogu
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Savo Milošević
🕒 | FT Liverpool 3-0 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 3 March 1996

  • Villa lose for the first time in 8 games under Brian Little however a disgraceful episode from Steve Staunton overshadows any deficiencies in the performance. Villa, 3-0 down in 8 minutes after conceding at 2’, 5’ & 8’, lose left back Staunton to injury on 23’ minutes only for him to then be seen laughing and joking with the Liverpool substitutes and staff as his team suffered on the pitch. Staunton would never recover the confidence of Villa fans and despite what promised and proved to be a long - although interrupted - Villa career would never see Staunton regarded as a celebrated player of the club. 

  • Gareth Farrelly makes his first start for the club after 3 substitute appearances to make it W3 D0 L1 so far in his early Villa career.

  • Future Villa centre forward Stan Collymore and future Villa ‘keeper David James line up for Liverpool.

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1994-95

Aston Villa

Liverpool

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Liverpool

Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1995-96 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Game | #28 |
Manager Game | #68 |
Sunday, 3 March 1996

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🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Keith Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Pontypridd, 1982-1996
Kick off: 4.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 68 | 🟩 | 30 🟨 | 21 🟥 17 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Keith Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Pontypridd, 1982-1996
Matches Officiated: 17
🟩 : 7
🟨 : 4
🟥 : 6
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 6 January 1996, FA Cup, Villa 3-0 Gravesend, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Riccardo Scimeca and Gareth Farrelly (first start of the campaign) replace Julian Joachim and Mark Draper.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.66 |

Oldest Player |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 32.64 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Farrelly | 🇮🇪 | 20.53 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 | 🤡 |
M Gareth Farrelly | 🇮🇪 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Roy Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Liverpool

GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Rob Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Mark Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Phil Babb | 🇮🇪 |
CB John Scales | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jason McAteer | 🇮🇪 |
M Michael Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W John Barnes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve McManaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Robbie Fowler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 23’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Mark Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Jamie Redknapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Ian Rush | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Tony Warner | 🇹🇹 |

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

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11

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

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

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

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH QUOTES

"Apart from Dwight Yorke, Villa, by contrast, were collectively below par in some cases more than one degree."
Quotes

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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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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*The Irish Independent”
Monday, 4 March 1996

ANYONE who thinks the English FA Premiership is a two-horse race had better think again. Liverpool gave their own view yesterday, and an emphatic one it was, three goals in the first eight minutes burning off Aston Villa's pretensions. They were simply awesome for half an hour yesterday, the pace and incisiveness of their attacks tearing apart the defence which had been the best in the Premiership. Robbie Fowler, who took his total to 29 goals for the season, and Steve McManaman were devastating, but it was hard to find a Liverpool player who was less than excellent. Apart from Dwight Yorke, Villa, by contrast, were collectively below par in some cases more than one degree. By the half-hour, the Villa supporters were giving their view of their defenders performance, with a mournful chant of "Oooh Ahhh Paul McGrath," even though it would have taken more than the absent Irishman to rescue them. It said everything about Villa's day that Savo Milosevic and Ugo Ehiogu were booked in the final two minutes, Savo Milosevic for kicking the ball away, Ehiogu for a scything tackle from behind on Fowler. Milosevic will now serve a suspension before the Coca-Cola Cup final, but, for reasons best known to himself, Keith Cooper decided that Ehiogu should be booked for ungentlemanly rather than violent conduct leaving the player on 19 points instead of 21. Ridiculously, unless he is booked playing for the reserves on Tuesday a handy escape route for Villa he will be at risk in Villa's next two matches. "If what Ehiogu did was only two points, the whole system needs looking at," Brian Little. the Villa manager, said afterwards the first time a manager has been known to complain that one of his own players was not dealt with firmly enough. Liverpool could not have had a better start, taking the lead with a splendid goal after 78 seconds. After around 20 passes, Stan Collymore's low cross found John Barnes and he flicked the ball to Steve McManaman who finished his intelligent run with a volley low below Bosnich's right hand. Collymore had a shot saved but, by the fourth minute, Villa's defence had been breached again. Another intricate series of passes ended with Jason McAteer supplying McManaman who transferred the ball to Fowler. Fowler, received it with his back to goal, turned away from Steve Staunton. and beat Bosnich with a rising drive from 30 yards. Four minutes later, Fowler timed his run to avoid an offside flag and accept Rob Jones' pass down the left. He cut in and, shooting from a narrow angle, beat Bosnich who did no more than deflect the ball on its way. At 3-0 Villa at last went forward, for the first time and Andy Townsend showed that they were taking part in the game with a shot over the bar.
Reports

🟥 3 March 1996, Villa 0-3 Liverpool, Anfield.

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