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Game #4495

Aston Villa

Saturday, 6 December 1997

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Won

12th= (+2)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Coventry City

Villa Park

Attendance: 33,250

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

3-0

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Coventry City

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Assist(s) | Mark Draper | 21’ | Alan Wright | 71’ | 85’ |

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 6 December 1997

⚽ | 21’ Goal, 1-0, Stan Collymore, Assist by Mark Draper
🔁 | 34’ Sub off, Dwight Yorke, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🟥 | 45’ Sending off, (Coventry City), Paul Williams
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Coventry City
⚽ | 71’ Goal, 2-0 Lee Hendrie, Assist by Alan Wright
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Savo Milošević, Sub on, Julian Joachim
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 3-0 Julian Joachim, Assist by Alan Wright
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Stan Collymore, Sub on, Saša Ćurčić 🔴
🟥 | 88’ Sending off, (Coventry City), Gary Breen
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-0 Coventry City

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 6 December 1997

  • Villa record their second win in 3 Premier League games and 3rd in 11 under Brian Little as they beat Coventry at Villa Park to climb to 12th in the table.

  • Midfielder Saša Ćurčić, 25, makes his 34th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (23 Starts) before moving on to Crystal Palace for a fee of £1,350,000 in March 1998. Villa had paid Bolton Wanderers £5,400,000 for Ćurčić just 15 months earlier but he proved utterly hopeless in claret and blue and it is a surprise he lasted this long which he probably wouldn’t have done by for the benevolence of Brian Little. Ćurčić’s embarrassing spell resulted in W14 D7 L13, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 5 Bookings.

  • Left Back Lee Collins, 20, makes his first squad appearance for Villa after coming through the youth ranks.

  • Stan Collymore scores his first goal in 14 games and his second in a Villa shirt on his 18th appearance to make it W7 D3 L8, 2 Goals, 3 Assists, 1 Booking and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career. 

  • Julian Joachim secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 37th appearance (11 Starts) to make it W10 D8 L19 and 7 Goals at a goal involvement rate of one for every 5.29 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Alan Wright contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 126th appearance (124 Starts) to make it W56 D33 L37, 3 Goals, 8 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Lee Hendrie scores his first goal in a Villa shirt on his 11th appearance (3 Starts) which comes 9 months after his 10th to make it W3 D3 L5, 2 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Future Villa centre forward Dion Dublin lines up for Coventry.

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | #717 | 🕒 34 | 23 (11) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 1 | 🇺 16 | #717 |

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Coventry City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1986-87

Aston Villa

Coventry City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Coventry City

Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1997-98 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Game | #17 |
Manager Game | #149 |
Saturday, 6 December 1997

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🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1994-2004
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 3-0
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

🕒 149 | 🟩 | 64 🟨 | 41 🟥 44 | 1.56

Villa Career Form:

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1994-2004
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 13 September 1997, Villa 3-0 Barnsley, Oakwell.
Cards: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨
🟨

🟥 Gary Breen
🟥 Paul Williams
🟨 Paul Williams
🟨 Paul Williams
🟨 David Burrows
🟨 Darren Huckerby
🟨 Marcus Hall

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Mark Bosnich, Gareth Southgate and Simon Grayson return with Michael Oakes, Fernando Nélson and Riccardo Scimeca dropping out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.69 |

Oldest Player
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 28.90 |

Youngest Player
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 24.28 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🔁 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Gordon Strachan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Coventry City

GK Steve Ogrizovic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Roland Nilsson | 🇸🇪 |
CB Gary Breen | 🇮🇪 | 🟥 |
CB Richard Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB David Burrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Paul Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
M Trond Egil Soltvedt | 🇳🇴 |
M Paul Telfer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Darren Huckerby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Noel Whelan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | for F Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 34’ |
🔁 | F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | for CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 72’ |
🔁 | M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 | 🔴 | for CF Stan Collymore | 86’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Paul Telfer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (M Gavin Strachan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Noel Whelan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (LB Marcus Hall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿| 🟨 |)
🔁 | W Darren Huckerby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Simon Haworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Lee Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Magnus Hedman | 🇸🇪 |
M Michael O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |

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

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

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

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 6 December 1997, Villa 3-0 Coventry, Villa Park.

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