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Game #4496

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 9 December 1997

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Won

3rd Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

UEFA Cup

Steaua București

Villa Park

Attendance: 35,102

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Aston Villa

2-0

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Steaua Bucharest

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Assist(s) | Steve Staunton | 71' | Lee Hendrie | 85' |

🟩 9 Dec 1997, Villa 2-0 Steaua, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 9 December 1997

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Steaua București
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Simon Grayson, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
⚽ | 71’ Goal, 1-0, Savo Milošević, Assist by Steve Staunton
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Mark Draper, Sub on, Fernando Nélson
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 2-0, Ian Taylor, Assist by Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Steaua București
Villa win 3-2 on aggregate

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

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ON THIS DAY
Tuesday, 9 December 1997
  • Villa secure an 3-2 aggregate win over Steaua București to qualify for the UEFA 4th Round despite having been beaten in Budapest.

  • Savo Milošević contributes his 40th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 102nd appearance (96 Starts) to make it W47 D26 L29, 28 Goals, 12 Assists and 12 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.55 he has played so far in his Villa career. 

  • Fernando Nélson secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 60th appearance (55 Starts) to make it W25 D17 L18, 3 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Alan Wright makes his 125th start in a Villa shirt (127 Appearances) to make it W57 D33 L37, 3 Goals, 8 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Mark Draper makes his 100th start in a Villa shirt (102 Appearances) to make it W47 D26 L29, 6 Goals, 13 Assists, 3 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

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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

Steaua București

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
Liga 1 Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Cupa României Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1996-97

FIXTURE HISTORY
Steaua București
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Previous 5 vs. Steaua: 🟥

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

Steaua București

PREVIOUS MATCH
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Steaua București

SUBSEQUENT MATCH
None

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FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1997-98 |
Matchday | #24 |
Manager Game | #150 |
Tuesday, 9 December 1997

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MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Bernd Heynemann | 🇩🇪 | Magdeburg, 1997
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0 (3-2)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

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

🕒 150 | 🟩 | 65 🟨 | 41 🟥 44 | 1.57

Villa Career Form:

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Bernd Heynemann | 🇩🇪 | Magdeburg, 1997

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 tbc

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

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Ian Taylor replaces Dwight Yorke.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.99 |

Oldest Player
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.53 |

Youngest Player
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 24.28 |

Referee

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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 Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | ⚽ |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Mihai Stoichiţă | 🇷🇴 |

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Steaua București

GK Zoltan Ritli | 🇷🇴 |
LB Iulian Miu | 🇷🇴 |
CB Valeriu Răchită | 🇷🇴 | 🔁 |
CB Adrian Matei | 🇷🇴 |
RB Tiberiu Csik | 🇷🇴 |
M Iosif Rotariu | 🇷🇴 |
M Laurentiu Reghecampf | 🇷🇴 |
M Catalin Munteanu | 🇷🇴 |
M Damian Militaru | 🇷🇴 |
CF Cristian Ciocoiu | 🇷🇴 | 🔁 |
CF Marius Lăcătuş | 🇷🇴 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | for RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 62’ |
🔁 | RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 | for M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Valeriu Răchită | 🇷🇴 | (M Erik Lincar | 🇷🇴 |)
🔁 | CF Cristian Ciocoiu | 🇷🇴 | (CF Lavi Hrib | 🇷🇴 |)
🔁 | CF Marius Lăcătuş | 🇷🇴 | (CF Marius Luca | 🇷🇴 |)

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Lee Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Saša Ćurčić | 🇷🇸 |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Daniel Gherasim | 🇷🇴 |
CB Marius Baciu | 🇷🇴 |
M Ciprian Mozacu | 🇷🇴 |
M Narcis Raducan | 🇷🇴 |

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

🟩 9 Dec 1997, Villa 2-0 Steaua, Villa Park

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/17

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🇷🇴 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🇷🇴 : 18/18

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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MATCH QUOTES
"Milosevic, who had scored the winner in the first round against Bordeaux, again came up trumps with the vital opening goal after 71 minutes of a tense third round tie."
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Irish Independent*
Wednesday, 10 December 1997
Savo puts Villa into last eight SAVO MILOSEVIC and lan Taylor fired Aston Villa into the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup for the first time in 20 years as Steaua Bucharest's resistance crumbled at Villa Park last night. Milosevic, who had scored the winner in the first round against Bordeaux, again came up trumps with the vital opening goal after 71 minutes of a tense third round tie. The Yugoslav international drilled home from the edge of the area to draw Villa level 2-2 on aggregate and that would have been good enough to take them through on the away goal rule. But then Taylor put the icing on an outstanding individual display in midfield when he scored the second goal five minutes from time to send the 35,000 crowd wild with delight. It was no more than Villa deserved for they had dominated territorially throughout and, with steadier finishing, would not have left the tie on a knife edge for so long. Villa, whose leading scorer Dwight Yorke failed a fitness test on a heel injury, should have taken the lead in the 18th minute. Irish international Steve Staunton subject of speculation linking him to a big money move to Italian club Lazio had Steaua 'keeper Ritli beaten all ends up with his thumping free-kick from 20 yards, but it cannoned off the crossbar and flew over the top. Collymore could have had a hat-trick, while Taylor and Staunton also missed some very good chances before Milošević pounced in the 71st minute. He latched onto a long ball from Staunton and broke clear of Csik, before rifling a low shot past Ritli. Then five minutes from time Hendrie released Taylor who beat the offside trap and kept his cool to plant a shot wide of the exposed Steaua 'keeper.
Reports

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