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Game #4480

Aston Villa

Saturday, 20 September 1997

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Won

9th (+6)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

Premier League

Derby County

Villa Park

Attendance: 35,444

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-1

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Derby County

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Assist(s) | Stan Collymore | 73' | Fernando Nélson | 75’ |

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 20 September 1997

🥅 | 15’ Goal, 0-1, (Derby County), Francesco Baiano
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Derby County
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Saša Ćurčić, Sub on, Julian Joachim
⚽ | 73’ Goal, 1-1, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Stan Collymore
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 2-1, Julian Joachim, Assist by Fernando Nélson
🔁 | 87’ Sub off, Steve Staunton, Sub on, Riccardo Scimeca
🔁 | 88’ Sub off, Stan Collymore, Sub on, Savo Milošević
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-1 Derby County

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

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 20 September 1997

  • Villa record a third successive Premier League win to lift them to 9th in the table under Brian Little as Derby are beaten at Villa Park. 

  • Dwight Yorke scores his 3rd goal in 4 league games as Julian Joachim opens his account for the season.

  • Fernando Nélson contributes his first assist in a Villa shirt on his 46th appearance (42 Starts) to make it W20 D13 L13, 1 Assist and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career. 

  • Mark Bosnich makes his 175th appearance in a Villa shirt (174 Starts) to make it W77 D43 L55, 170 Goals Conceded at a rate of 0.97 goals per game, 68 Clean Sheets (39%), 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Dwight Yorke scores his 85th goal in a Villa shirt on his 254th appearance (214 Starts) to make it W109 D64 L81, 85 Goals, 38 Assists and 3 Bookings at a goal per game rate of one for every 2.99 games he has played so far in his Villa career. 

  • Julian Joachim scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 31st appearance (22 Starts) to make it W9 D6 L16 and 5 Goals so far in his Villa career at a goal involvement rate of one for every 6.20 games played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, 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

Derby County

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1974-75

FIXTURE HISTORY

Derby County

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Previous 5 vs. Derby: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥

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

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1997-98 |
Matchday | #8 |
League Game | #7 |
Manager Game | #134 |
Saturday, 20 September 1997

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MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1992-2004
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

🕒 134 | 🟩 | 59 🟨 | 37 🟥 38 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1992-2004
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 4
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 5 April 1997, Villa 3-1 Everton, Villa Park.
Cards: None

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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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

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Saša Ćurčić makes his first start of the season as Simon Grayson drops to the subs bench

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.60 |

Oldest Player
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.32 |

Youngest Player
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 24.90 |

Referee

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 | 🔥 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | 🔁 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
F Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Jim Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Derby County

GK Mart Poom | 🇪🇪 |
CB Gary Rowett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Chris Powell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jacob Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Christian Dailly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Lee Carsley | 🇮🇪 |
M Paul Trollope | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Stefano Eranio | 🇮🇹 |
M Jonathan Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Dean Sturridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Francesco Baiano | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | for M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | 68’ |
🔁 | CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 87’ |
🔁 | CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | for CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Jonathan Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Aljoša Asanović | 🇭🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Dean Sturridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Deon Burton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | F Francesco Baiano | 🇮🇹 | (CF Paulo Wanchope | 🇨🇷 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Russell Hoult | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robin van der Laan | 🇳🇱 |

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

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/16

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

"Joachim, who has struggled to make a first team impact since signing from Leicester two years ago, had been on the field only seven minutes when he grabbed the winner."
Quotes

🟩 20 Sep 1997, Villa 2-1 Derby, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 21 September 1997

JULIAN Joachim came off the substitutes' bench to complete a stirring Aston Villa revival with a second half winner that broke Derby's stubborn resistance in the Premiership clash at Villa Park. Joachim, who has struggled to make a first team impact since signing from Leicester two years ago, had been on the field only seven minutes when he grabbed the winner. It added to the equaliser two minutes earlier by Dwight Yorke and enabled Villa to register their third successive Premiership success after losing the opening four matches. Derby grabbed a shock early lead through Francesco Baiano after a mistake by Ugo Ehiogu but that was just about the sum total of their attacking aspirations. They were forced to defend for most of the game and in the first half restricted Villa to mainly long-range efforts with Jacob Laursen outstanding at the back. But in the second half Villa started to hurt them more and it was just a matter of how long Smith's men could survive against the odds as they seldom moved out of their own half. Man of the match Steve Staunton was a constant threat with his surging runs and thunderbolt like shots while Yorke tormented the Derby rearguard in the second 45 minutes. After a fiercely contested but uninspiring opening 15 minutes Derby stunned the home side by snatching the lead courtesy of that mistake by Ehiogu. The former England player tried to head a through ball back to Mark Bosnich but he woefully fell short with the effort and let in Baiano. Jim Smith's £1.5 million capture from Fiorentina saw his first effort blocked but reacted to scoop the rebound into the unguarded net. Derby were forced to defend deeper and deeper in the second half and Villa's pressure finally told off with two goals in two minutes. First Yorke struck from close range following a Staunton corner. The ball was headed back across goal by first Taylor and then Collymore before Yorke swivelled to score from close range. Derby had hardly recovered before Villa went in front. Nelson tried to pick out Yorke with a low centre and, although he missed his kick. Joachim was to make no mistake at the far post.
Reports

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