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Game #4449

Aston Villa

Sunday, 22 December 1996

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Won

4th (+1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Wimbledon

Villa Park

Attendance: 28,874

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

Aston Villa

5-0

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Wimbledon

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🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 22 December 1996

⚽ | 38’ Goal, 1-0, Dwight Yorke
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 2-0, Savo Milošević
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Wimbledon
⚽ | 61’ Goal, 3-0, Ian Taylor, Assist by Andy Townsend
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Fernando Nélson, Sub on, Carl Tiler
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 4-0, Savo Milošević
🔁 | 79’ Sub off, Mark Draper, Sub on, Saša Ćurčić
⚽ | 86’ Goal, 5-0, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Saša Ćurčić
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 5-0 Wimbledon

🟨 | Booking, Saša Ćurčić

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

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 22 December 1996
  • Villa hammer Wimbledon to extend their winning run to 5 Premier League games under Brian Little.

  • Savo Milošević scores a brace for his first goals in 12 games on his 63rd appearance in a Villa shirt (60 Starts) to make it W32 D16 L15, 18 Goals, 8 Assists and 8 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.42 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Saša Ćurčić contributes his first assist in a Villa shirt on his 14th appearance (13 Starts) to make it W7 D3 L4, 0 Goals, 1 Assist and 3 Bookings at a goal so far in his Villa career.

  • Mark Bosnich makes his 150th appearance in a Villa shirt (149 Starts) to make it W68 D35 L48, 147 Goals Conceded at a rate of 0.98 goals per game and 55 Clean Sheets (37%) so far in his Villa career.

  • Andy Townsend makes his 150th start in a Villa shirt (151 Appearances) to make it W73 D34 L44, 11 Goals, 23 Assists, 23 Bookings and 4 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

  • Fernando Nélson secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 19th appearance (18 Starts) to make it W10 D5 L4 and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Future Villa midfielder Øyvind Leonhardsen lines up for Wimbledon.

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

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: 1995-96

Wimbledon

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1987-88

FIXTURE HISTORY
Wimbledon
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Previous 5 vs. Wimbledon: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

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

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1996-97 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Game | #18 |
Manager Game | #103 |
Sunday, 22 December 1996

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🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1995-2004
Kick off: 4.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Score: 🟩 5-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

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

🕒 103 | 🟩 | 47 🟨 | 28 🟥 28 | 1.64

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bristol, 1995-2004

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Saša Ćurčić

CARDS
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🟨 Alan Kimble

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

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Mark Bosnich replaces Michael Oakes in an otherwise unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.96 |

Oldest Player
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 | 33.44 |

Youngest Player
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.54 |

Referee

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Joe Kinnear | 🇮🇪 |

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Wimbledon

GK Neil Sullivan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Alan Kimble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Chris Perry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Kenny Cunningham | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Dean Blackwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Neal Ardley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Øyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 |
M Vinnie Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Robbie Earle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Marcus Gayle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Efan Ekoku | 🇳🇬 |

Line Ups

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | CB Carl Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 | 74’ |
🔁 | M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | 🔥 | 🟨 | for M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 79’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Chris Perry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (RB Brian McAllister | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | CB Kenny Cunningham | 🇮🇪 | (CF Dean Holdsworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Brendan Murphy | 🇮🇪 |
M Peter Fear | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mick Harford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 8 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/16

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"Milosevic has been a different player since the collapse of his move to Perugia last month, finally showing the kind of form on a consistent basis that persuaded manager Brian Little to pay £3.5m for his services in the summer of 1995 and warned that the best was still to come from his flourishing partnership with Dwight Yorke."
Quotes

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Evening Herald*
Monday, 23 December 1996
ASTON VILLA striker Savo Milosevic helped destroy Wimbledon's proud unbeaten run with two goals and then sent a shiver down the spine of the rest of the Premiership title chasers. Milosevic has been a different player since the collapse of his move to Perugia last month, finally showing the kind of form on a consistent basis that persuaded manager Brian Little to pay £3.5m for his services in the summer of 1995 and warned that the best was still to come from his flourishing partnership with Dwight Yorke. Many more performances likes this from the Serb and any thoughts Little may have of moving into the market for the likes of Liverpool's Stan Collymore, Celtic's Pierre Van Hooydonk or any other multi-million pound striker may well be rendered redundant. The Dons' previously mean-machine defence on their travels only seven Premiership goals conceded previously away from home simply could not contain the Milosevic-Yorke combination as Villa powered to a 5-0 win. While Milosevic rejoiced in finally producing the goods, Yorke is already on a red-hot scoring streak with 11 goals in the last 12 matches and chasing last season's tally of 25. Milosevic said: "Myself and Dwight have got to know each other over the past 18 months as a partnership and things definitely now look much better for us but I think there is more to come from the both of us. Milosevic added: ''The good thing for Aston Villa is that we have a hit a winning streak while some of the other leading teams such as Liverpool, Arsenal and Newcastle have been losing the odd game recently. We also still have a lot more to come from us as a team."
Reports

🟩 22 Dec 1996, Villa 5-0 Wimbledon, Villa Park

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