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Game #4542

Aston Villa

Saturday, 28 November 1998

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Drew

1st= (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

Premier League

Nottingham Forest

City Ground

Attendance: 25,753

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

Nottingham Forest

2-2

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Aston Villa

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🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 28 November 1998

🥅 | 32’ Goal, 0-1, (Nottingham Forest), Chris Bart-Williams
🥅 | 44’ Goal, 0-2, (Nottingham Forest), Dougie Freedman
🕒 | HT Nottingham Forest 2-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Paul Merson, Sub on Alan Thompson
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 1-2, Julian Joachim
⚽ | 63’ Goal, 2-2, Julian Joachim
🕒 | FT Nottingham Forest 2-2 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Gareth Southgate
🟨 | Booking, Lee Hendrie

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

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 28 November 1998

  • Villa recover from their first defeat in 13 Premier League games under John Gregory but are held at the City Ground as they are forced to sit joint top of the table.

  • Julian Joachim scores a brace on his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (40 Starts) to make it W31 D14 L30, 17 Goals, 4 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.57 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Future Villa winger Steve Stone lines up for Forest.

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

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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

Nottingham Forest

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1989-90

FIXTURE HISTORY

Nottingham Forest

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Previous 5 vs. Forest: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨

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

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1998-99 |
Matchday | #19 |
League Game | #14 |
Manager Game | #32 |
Saturday, 28 November 1998

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🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Gary Willard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worthing, 1990–2000
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 32 | 🟩 | 21 🟨 | 5 🟥 6 | 2.13

Villa Career Form:

Champions

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Gary Willard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worthing, 1990–2000
Matches Officiated: 8
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 3
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 14 February 1998, FA Cup, Villa 0-1 Coventry, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Gareth Southgate
🟨 Lee Hendrie

CARDS

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🟨 Scott Gemmill
🟨 Nigel Quashie
🟨 Chris Bart-Williams
🟨 Pierre van Hooijdonk

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ian Taylor and Julian Joachim return in place of Mark Draper and Stan Collymore.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.97 |

Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.71 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 17.77 |

Referee

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Dave Bassett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Nottingham Forest

GK Dave Beasant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Thierry Bonalair | 🇫🇷 |
LB Craig Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Chettle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jon Olav Hjelde | 🇳🇴 |
M Scott Gemmill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Quashie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Chris Bart-Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
CF Pierre van Hooijdonk | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
CF Dougie Freedman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Scott Gemmill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (M Andy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Dougie Freedman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (CF Jean-Claude Darcheville | 🇬🇫 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Adam Rachel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Mark Crossley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Christian Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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

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

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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

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH QUOTES

"Just as well Stan Collymore sat this one out. In his absence another enigmatic striker took centre stage. It was point made, and point earned, by his deputy Julian Joachim in this humdinger of a Midlands derby."
Quotes

🟨 28 Nov 1998, Villa 2-2 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Saturday, 28 November 1998

*Joachim points the way* Just as well Stan Collymore sat this one out. In his absence another enigmatic striker took centre stage. It was point made, and point earned, by his deputy Julian Joachim in this humdinger of a Midlands derby. Although Forest and Villa are spurred by contrasting aims this season, both sides showed enough manful spirit to give them hope - and signs of the vulnerability which might undermine it. This was an important test for Villa’s rearguard, which had been uncharacteristically outwitted and outmanoeuvred by Liverpool a week ago. If they expected a gentler afternoon with which they could retrieve their confidence - Forest went into the game with only four successful strikes at home - they were very much mistaken. Van Hooijdonk dominated the aerial contests and began to enjoy surging runs through the middle. Dougie Freedman was a bundle of energy and invention. On the flanks Steve Stone’s industry and Pierre Bonalair’s foraging caused Villa all sorts of discomfort. Forest’s early chances came courtesy of Steve Chettle. Oakes palmed away his downward header, then smothered a left-footed volley from Bonalair’s teasing cross. A small frisson of excitement murmured round the home crowd. That became a cacophony of skipped heartbeats as Van Hooijdonk waited in the six-yard box to convert a dream of a chance - Stone undertook all the hard graft to gift him such a simple task - but the Dutchman mishit spectacularly. Just after the half-hour, Forest reaped the reward from almost constant pressure. A sweeping move involving Van Hooijdonk, Stone, Freedman, and Nigel Quashie found its way to Chris Bart-Williams on the left. With a blazing strike, hit with devastating pace and precision, he beat Oakes. Forest doubled their lead a minute before half-time with a flash of breathtaking beauty. Freedman, fed by a touch from Van Hooijdonk, swivelled and unleashed a missile from the edge of the box into the top corner. The two-goal half-time margin was thoroughly deserved. Villa’s performance was a pale shadow of the colourful football which had propelled them to the Premiership summit. All they could muster in an anaemic first 45 minutes was a long range drive from Steve Watson to which Beasant clung. Collymore’s convenient tummy-ache impaired the league leaders’ attacking options. Dublin was well marshalled by Chettle, while Joachim, Collymore’s understudy, was struggling to make the most of his rare opportunity. It must have been some tirade from John Gregory during the break, as his exhortations had the desired effect, particularly on Joachim, who emerged eager and lively. From Wright’s whipped-in cross, he wriggled ahead of his man to poke the ball toward goal. Beasant gathered but the former Leicester man, who has been sidelined of late, made his intentions clear. When Watson advanced into the box and attempted to pass the ball in Beasant could only palm it straight into the path of Joachim, who gleefully rolled the rebound into an empty net. Villa, now were on the ascendancy. Taylor’s rising header from Wright’s whipped-in cross cleared the crossbar. Then came 60 seconds which turned the match. Freedman had the chance to settle Forest nerves, latching on to Quashie’s lofted pass and shimmying into the box. The angled finish drifted narrowly wide. Villa broke instantly, and Joachim capitalised, to gobble up the crumbs of another slice of hesitant defending. As he raced to meet a through ball, with Beasant rushing forward in a vain attempt to beat him to it, the diminutive striker got the better of the hulking figure of the goalkeeper. Beasant, stranded, was helpless as Joachim poked in the equaliser. It was breathless stuff in the final stages as both teams craved a winner. Van Hooijdonk met Stone’s corner with a ferocious header, forcing Oakes to block from point blank, then one of those 25-yard free-kicks was tipped away, while Dublin squandered a gilt-edged chance.
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