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Game #4503

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 14 January 1998

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Won

3rd Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩

FA Cup

Portsmouth

Villa Park

Attendance: 23,355

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-0

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Portsmouth

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🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 14 January 1998

⚽ | 21’ Goal, 1-0, Savo Milošević
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Portsmouth
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Mark Draper, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Portsmouth

🟨 | Booking, Ugo Ehiogu

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

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 14 January 1998
  • Villa beat first division Portsmouth in the FA Cup third round replay at Villa Park.

  • Savo Milošević scores his 30th goal in a Villa shirt on his 109th appearance (103 Starts) to make it W49 D30 L30, 30 Goals, 13 Assists and 14 Bookings at a goal per game rate of one for every 2.53 games he has played so far in his Villa career. 

  • Mark Bosnich keeps his 75th clean sheet in a Villa shirt on his 192nd appearance (191 Starts) to make it W84 D50 L58, 1 Assist, 9 Bookings, 1 Red Card, 187 Goals Conceded at a rate of 0.97 goals per game and 75 Clean Sheets (39%) so far in his Villa career.

  • Simon Grayson makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (21 Starts) to make it W9 D8 L8, 1 Goals, 1 Assist and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Former Villa loanee Alan McLoughlin lines up for Portsmouth

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, 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

Portsmouth

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1949-50

FIXTURE HISTORY
Portsmouth
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Previous 5 vs. Portsmouth: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨

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

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1997-98 |
Matchday | #31 |
Manager Game | #157 |
Wednesday, 14 January 1998

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🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Uriah Rennie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1997-2008
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩

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

🕒 157 | 🟩 | 67 🟨 | 45 🟥 45 | 1.57

Villa Career Form:

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Uriah Rennie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1997-2008

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Ugo Ehiogu

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

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Dwight Yorke comes in with Fernando Nélson dropping out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.52 |

Oldest Player
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.63 |

Youngest Player
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.61 |

Referee

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MANAGER

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | ⚽ |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Dwight Yorke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Alan Ball | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Portsmouth

GK Alan Knight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Lee Russell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Andy Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Adrian Whitbread | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Andy Awford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Robbie Pethick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Craig Foster | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
M Alan McLoughlin (ex) | 🇮🇪 |
M Fitzroy Simpson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F John Durnin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Paul Hall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Craig Foster | 🇦🇺 | (CF Mathias Svensson | 🇸🇪 |)
🔁 | M Fitzroy Simpson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Jimmy Carter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Fernando Nélson | 🇵🇹 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Aaron Flahavan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Sammy Igoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Waterman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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

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

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/16

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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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🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"Collymore and Alan Wright then hit the Pompey woodwork as the visitors, who had led Villa 2-0 in the first match at Fratton Park which finished in a 2-2 draw, were in danger of being over-run."
Quotes

🟩 14 Jan 1998, Villa 1-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Irish Independent*
Thursday, 15 January 1998
Savo Milosevic’s first-half strike gave Aston Villa a 1-0 victory over managerless Portsmouth and set up a fourth round derby clash with midlands neighbours West Brom. Stan Collymore turned Steve Staunton's long ball into the path of Milosevic, who steadied himself before firing home from close range for his sixth goal of the campaign after 21 minutes. Collymore and Alan Wright then hit the Pompey woodwork as the visitors, who had led Villa 2-0 in the first match at Fratton Park which finished in a 2-2 draw, were in danger of being over-run. But Portsmouth created more chances after the break and John Durnin was unlucky to see his looping header rebound off the crossbar.
Reports

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