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Game #4520

Aston Villa

Saturday, 18 April 1998

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Won

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Southampton

The Dell

Attendance: 15,238

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

Southampton

1-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Simon Grayson | 6’ | Alan Wright | 60’ |

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 18 April 1998

⚽ | 6’ Goal, 1-0, Lee Hendrie, Assist by Simon Grayson
🥅 | 19’ Goal, 1-1, (Southampton), Matt Le Tissier
🕒 | HT Southampton 1-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 59’ Sub off, Simon Grayson, Sub on, Gary Charles
⚽ | 60’ Goal, 2-1, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Alan Wright
🕒 | FT Southampton 1-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 18 April 1998

  • Villa make it eight wins in nine Premier League games to consolidate eighth place in the table under John Gregory.

  • Villa had now won 7 of their 8 Premier League games under John Gregory including their last 6.

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

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

Southampton

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1975-76

Aston Villa

Southampton

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Southampton

Previous 5 vs. Southampton: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1997-98 |
Matchday | #48 |
League Game | #35 |
Manager Game | #10 |
Saturday, 18 April 1998

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🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester-le-Street | 1988-2000
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 10 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 0 🟥 2 | 2.40

Villa Career Form:

Champions

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chester-le-Street | 1988-2000
Matches Officiated: 12
🟩 : 8
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 3
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 22 March 1997, Villa 2-0 Blackburn, Ewood Park. 🆘
Cards: None

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Mark Draper returns in place of Savo Milošević.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.54 |

Oldest Player
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.89 |

Youngest Player
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.93 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Dave Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Southampton

GK Paul Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jason Dodd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ken Monkou | 🇳🇱 |
CB Richard Dryden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
LB John Beresford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Francis Benali | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Carlton Palmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Matt Le Tissier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Matt Oakley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Egil Østenstad | 🇳🇴 |
CF David Hirst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 59’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Richard Dryden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Duncan Spedding | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF David Hirst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Steve Basham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Neil Moss | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kevin Richardson (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Stig Johansen | 🇳🇴 |

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

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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MATCH QUOTES

"Villa boss John Gregory set his side the highly improbable target of winning all their remaining matches when he took charge at the end of February and they have now won seven out of their eight Premiership games since then."
Quotes

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Sunday Tribune*
Sunday, 19 April 1998

MATTHEW Le Tissier celebrated his recall to the England fold with a stunning 20- yard volley but even his latest contender for goal of the month was not enough to halt Aston Villa's amazing march on Europe. Villa boss John Gregory set his side the highly improbable target of winning all their remaining matches when he took charge at the end of February and they have now won seven out of their eight Premiership games since then. This well-deserved victory was set up by Lee Hendrie's impressive sixth-minute solo effort and was completed with the coolest possible finish from leading scorer Dwight Yorke with half an hour left. In between those two strikes came Le Tissier's cameo performance, which is sure to make headlines but still unlikely to win him a place on the plane to the World Cup in France. Hoddle has already revealed that Le Tissier will only be travelling with him to France if he "ends up getting four or five players in a similar mould getting injured". Even Hoddle cannot fail to be impressed by the television replays of Le Tissier's 20th-minute equaliser. He started the move by setting Francis Benali away down the left and was there to meet Steve Staunton's weak headed clearance on the edge of the penalty area. Le Tissier hardly broke stride as he sweetly struck his shot into the far corner of the net and three minutes later he could have had a second when he narrowly glanced a header wide from Carlton Palmer's cross. Yet despite having several more good touches and even the odd display of tackling back, it was Villa who ran the midfield. And no-one was more impressive than 20- year-old Hendrie. He gave the visitors the lead when he picked up the ball 25 yards out on the right wing and after turning Richard Dryden inside and out. he placed his shot inside the near post. Villa continued to dominate after the break, with Hendrie side-footing a first time shot wide and Jones saving well from Joachim. But they needed Yorke's coolness to give them their winner when he nonchalantly steered his right-foot volley from Wright's pinpoint cross wide of keeper Jones and into the far corner. For all Southampton's gallant attempts at an equaliser as Le Tissier faded, it was Villa who deserved the victory and they came the closest to scoring late on with Hendrie firing inches wide and Yorke almost meeting a Joachim cross.
Reports

🟩 18 April 1998, Villa 2-1 Southampton, The Dell.

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