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Game #4426

Aston Villa

Saturday, 27 April 1996

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Lost

4th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

Premier League

Manchester City

Villa Park

Attendance: 39,336

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-1

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Manchester City

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 27 April 1996

🔁 | 26’ Sub off, Julian Joachim, Sub on, Neil Davis 🔴
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester City
🥅 | 70’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), Steve Lomas
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-1 Manchester City

🟨 | Booking, Paul McGrath

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

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 27 April 1996
  • Villa fall to a huge deflection as League no-hopers Manchester City leave Villa Park with the points.

  • Forward Neil Davis, 22, makes his third and final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Walsall in November 1998 leaving with a record of W1 D1 L1 across his six week spell in and around the first team.

  • Julian Joachim makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (4 Starts) to make it W3 D3 L4 and 1 Goal so far in his Villa career.

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 CF Neil Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1996 🕒 3 | 0 (3) | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 3 | #714 |

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: 1995-96

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 🕒 124 | 🟩 46 | 🟨 34 | 🟥 44 | ⚽ 193 | 🥅 185 |
FA Cup 🕒 7 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 4 | ⚽ 9 | 🥅 13 |
League Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 6 | 🥅 0 |
Other 🕒 1 | 🟩 0 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 |

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

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1995-96 |
Matchday | #50 |
League Game | #37 |
Manager Game | #80 |
Saturday, 27 April 1996

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🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: David Elleray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Harrow, 1989-2002
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

🕒 80 | 🟩 | 36 🟨 | 23 🟥 21 | 1.64

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: David Elleray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Harrow, 1989-2002

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Paul McGrath

CARDS
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🟨 Nigel Clough
🟨 Niall Quinn

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

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Steve Staunton, Julian Joachim and Scott Murray replace Gary Charles, Ian Taylor and Dwight Yorke.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.99 |

Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 36.42 |

Youngest Player |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.62 |

Referee

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Scott Murray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 |
CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Alan Ball | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Manchester City

GK Eike Immel | 🇩🇪 |
CB Keith Curle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ian Brightwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kit Symons | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Steve Lomas | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
M Georgi Kinkladze | 🇬🇪 |
M Nicky Summerbee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Clough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Niall Quinn | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CF Uwe Rösler | 🇩🇪 |

Line Ups

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | CF Neil Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 | for F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 26’ |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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LB Michael Frontzeck | 🇩🇪 |
M Martin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mikheil Kavelashvili | 🇬🇪 |

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

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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

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

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

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

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 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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🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"STEVE Lomas claimed the most important goal of his career to keep Manchester City's survival hopes alive as Aston Villa went down to only their second home defeat of 1996."
Quotes

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 28 April 1996
STEVE Lomas claimed the most important goal of his career to keep Manchester City's survival hopes alive as Aston Villa went down to only their second home defeat of 1996. The Northern Irish midfielder was on the spot six yards out to turn the ball towards goal after big Niall Quinn had headed back Michael Brown's left-wing cross. And although Lomas' header took a huge deflection off Paul McGrath before ending in the back of the Villa net, there was no doubt that the flame-haired 22-year-old was taking the credit as he joined an impromptu party behind Mark Bosnich's goal. That second-half show was necessary, for City's lackadaisical approach in the opening period was criminal. Villa had to take some of the blame for a shocking first 30 minutes. Mark Draper, Tommy Johnson and occasionally Savo Milosevic were at least busy for Villa, Johnson volleying wide and Draper shooting over. City created their two best chances in injury time. Then Kinkladze, capitalising on a rare Ugo Ehiogu error, burst from half way, only to fire into the Holte End. Had Immel, reacting slowly, not got his hands up into his top right corner to keep out Milosevic’s bounding header, City might have been doomed. While Bosnich joined the attack later on, City hung on.
Reports

🟥 27 Apr 1996, Villa 0-1 Manchester City, Villa Park

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