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Game #4530

Aston Villa

Saturday, 19 September 1998

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Drew

1st (-)

Last 5 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨

Premier League

Leeds United

Elland Road

Attendance: 33,162

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

Leeds United

0-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 19 September 1998

🕒 | HT Leeds United 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Alan Thompson, Sub on, Mark Draper
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Gary Charles, Sub on, Simon Grayson
🕒 | FT Leeds United 0-0 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Ian Taylor
🟨 | Booking, Alan Wright

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

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 19 September 1998
  • Villa extend their unbeaten Premier League run to 6 but are held to a goalless draw at Elland Road to end a run of four consecutive top flight wins under John Gregory.

  • Villa’s second draw of the season under John Gregory sees them remain first in the table.

  • Mark Bosnich keeps his 85th clean sheet in a Villa shirt on his 218th appearance (217 Starts) to make it W100 D52 L66, 1 Assist, 9 Bookings, 1 Red Card, 212 Goals Conceded at a rate of 0.97 goals per game and 85 Clean Sheets (39%) so far in his Villa career.

  • Simon Grayson makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (37 Starts) to make it W25 D9 L16, 2 Goals, 2 Assists and 3 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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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

Leeds United

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1991–92

FIXTURE HISTORY
Leeds United
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Previous 5 vs. Leeds: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨

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

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1998-99 |
Matchday | #7 |
League Game | #6 |
Manager Game | #20 |
Saturday, 19 September 1998

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🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1995-2004
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 20 | 🟩 | 15 🟨 | 2 🟥 3 | 2.35

Villa Career Form:

Champions

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1995-2004

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Ian Taylor
🟨 Alan Wright

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

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Ian Taylor and Ugo Ehiogu return with Mark Draper and Simon Grayson dropping out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.88 |

Oldest Player |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.52 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 17.58 |

Referee

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

George Graham (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Leeds United

GK Nigel Martyn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Ian Harte | 🇮🇪 |
CB Martin Hiden | 🇦🇹 |
CB Lucas Radebe | 🇿🇦 |
CB Robert Molenaar | 🇳🇱 |
RB Gunnar Halle | 🇳🇴 |
M Bruno Ribeiro | 🇵🇹 | 🔁 |
M Lee Bowyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Hopkin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Harry Kewell | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
CF Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | 🇳🇱 |

Line Ups

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 61’ |
🔁 | RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Bruno Ribeiro | 🇵🇹 | (M Alf-Inge Håland | 🇳🇴 |)
🔁 | W Harry Kewell | 🇦🇺 | (W Lee Sharpe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Fabio Ferraresi | 🇮🇹 |
CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Paul Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Wetherall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Clyde Wijnhard | 🇳🇱 |

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

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 14/16

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/16

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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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🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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MATCH QUOTES
“We’re not a championship team yet and I don’t think Villa are either”. George Graham.
Quotes

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Saturday, 19 September 1998
*All locked up without a hint of a key.* George Graham, the Leeds manager said, “We’re not a championship team yet and I don’t think Villa are either”. John Gregory, the Villa manager, seemed surprised to learn that his team would not win the title this season. Given Gregory’s record since he took over from Brian Little at the end of February one could hardly blame him. Under his management Villa have won 13 Premiership matches out of 17, drawn two and lost two. That is championship-winning form. Watching Villa on Saturday, however, it was clear that Graham had a point. The signing of Paul Merson will go some way towards offsetting the loss of Dwight Yorke but he lacks the latter’s ability to drag defences apart. Neither Merson nor Julian Joachim could produce anything to disturb the authority of the excellent Lucas Radebe at the heart of the Leeds defence, although there were moments when the carelessness of others might have given away simple goals. Villa’s best chance of winning the game came in the 87th minute when Robert Molenaar’s attempt at trapping a long lob from Gareth Southgate on his chest saw the ball bounce loose to Joachim, who surged past the Dutch defender but shot wide with only Martyn to beat. Graham grumbled about Villa’s time-wasting and felt the referee Jeff Winter could have added another 10 minutes. Winter could have added 10 days and it would still have been goalless. The one redeeming feature was further evidence of the potential of Gareth Barry, the 17-year-old who has replaced Steve Staunton in Villa’s back three. Barry’s cool control in defence offered a sharp contrast to the perspiring inadequacies of both attacks. “If he wants to bring the ball down in our penalty box I won’t knock it out of him,” said Gregory, “I’ll encourage it.” Maybe there is hope for English football after all.
Reports

🟨 19 Sep 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road

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