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Game #4448

Aston Villa

Saturday, 7 December 1996

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Won

5th= (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Southampton

The Dell

Attendance: 15,232

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

Southampton

0-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Alan Wright | 34’ |

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 7 December 1996

⚽ | 34’ Goal, 1-0, Andy Townsend, Assist by Alan Wright
🕒 | HT Southampton 0-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 54’ Sub off, Dwight Yorke, Sub on, Julian Joachim
🕒 | FT Southampton 0-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Ian Taylor
🟨 | Booking, Steve Staunton
🟨 | Booking, Savo Milošević
🟨 | Booking, Mark Draper

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 7 December 1996

  • Villa make it four successive Premier League wins under Brian Little - winning three away - but fall back to 5th in the table.

  • Goalkeeper Stuart Brock, 20, makes his second and final squad appearance for Villa as an unused substitute before moving to Northampton Town in March 1997 on a free transfer.

  • Andy Townsend scores his 11th goal on his 150th appearance in a Villa shirt (149 Starts) to make it W72 D34 L44, 11 Goals, 22 Assists, 23 Bookings and 4 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

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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: 1995-96

Southampton

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1975-76

Aston Villa

Southampton

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Southampton

Previous 5 vs. Southampton: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1996-97 |
Matchday | #21 |
League Game | #17 |
Manager Game | #102 |
Saturday, 7 December 1996

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🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Steve Lodge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Barnsley, 1987-2001
Kick off: 3.00pm
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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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 102 | 🟩 | 46 🟨 | 28 🟥 28 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Steve Lodge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Barnsley, 1987-2001
Matches Officiated: 17
🟩 : 9
🟨 : 5
🟥 : 3
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 21 September 1996, Villa 0-0 Manchester United, Villa Park 🆘
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Ian Taylor
🟨 Steve Staunton
🟨 Savo Milošević
🟨 Mark Draper

🟨 Ulrich van Gobbel
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🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa name an unchanged line up for the second successive game.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.76 |

Oldest Player
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 33.40 |

Youngest Player
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.50 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🔁 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Graham Souness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Southampton

GK Dave Beasant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Graham Potter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Richard Dryden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Claus Lundekvam | 🇳🇴 |
RB Ulrich van Gobbel | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
RB Jason Dodd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Eyal Berkovic | 🇮🇱 |
M Neil Maddison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Matt Oakley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Gordon Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Egil Østenstad | 🇳🇴 |

Line Ups

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 54’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | LB Graham Potter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Robbie Slater | 🇦🇺 |)
🔁 | M Neil Maddison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Jim Magilton | 🇬🇧 |)
🔁 | CF Gordon Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Ken Monkou | 🇳🇱 |)

Substitutes

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Stuart Brock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Carl Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Neil Moss | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Steve Basham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

UNAVAILABLE

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

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MATCH QUOTES

"VILLA skipper Andy Townsend gave his team victory yesterday with 34th minute goal, but it was in controversial fashion."
Quotes

🟩 7 December 1996, Villa 1-0 Southampton, The Dell.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday World*
Sunday, 8 December 1996

VILLA skipper Andy Townsend gave his team victory yesterday with 34th minute goal, but it was in controversial fashion. Alan Wright had beaten Southampton's Matthew Oakley to the ball on halfway and got up to run into acres of space down the left where Milosevic found him. Wright only had Beasant to beat, but spotted Townsend bursting into the box and squared to the skipper to steer into the empty net with no off side given. Southampton wondered why the flag had not been raised, but the officials were adamant that Townsend had remained onside.
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