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Game #4547

Aston Villa

Saturday, 26 December 1998

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Lost

1st= (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Blackburn Rovers

Ewood Park

Attendance: 27,536

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

Blackburn Rovers

2-1

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🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 26 December 1998

🥅 | 44’ Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Kevin Gallacher
🕒 | HT Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Aston Villa
🟥 | 56’ Sending off, Michael Oakes
🔁 | 57’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Adam Rachel 🟢 🔴
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Ian Taylor, Sub on, Stan Collymore
⚽ | 81’ Goal, 1-1 Riccardo Scimeca
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Julian Joachim, Sub on, Simon Grayson
🥅 | 88’ Goal, 1-2, (Blackburn Rovers), Tim Sherwood
🕒 | FT Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Riccardo Scimeca

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

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 26 December 1998
  • Villa lose for the 3rd time in 19 League games under John Gregory in a controversial loss at Blackburn as they suffer outrageous misfortune from a poor refereeing performance that hands the hosts an undeserved win as a Christmas gift. 

  • Dermot Gallagher’s latest failing forces Villa to lose their advantage after three months at the top of the Premier League table as they fall to 2nd place for the first time in 14 games.

  • Michael Oakes is sent off on his 47th appearance in a Villa shirt (45 Starts) to make it W18 D11 L18, 58 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.23 goals per game and 15 Clean Sheets (32%) so far in his Villa career. 

  • Adam Rachel, 22, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt following the sending off of Michael Oakes to become the 732nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Rachel would move on to Blackpool in September 1999 without adding to his appearances.

  • Riccardo Scimeca scores his first goal in a Villa shirt on his 83rd appearance (54 Starts) to make it W42 D16 L25, 1 Goal and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career. 

  • Steve Watson makes his 10th start in a Villa shirt (11 Appearances) to make it W4 D3 L34, 2 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Future Villa boss Tim Sherwood scores the winner for Blackburn against 10 man Villa on 88’ whilst future Villa centre forward Chris Sutton lines up for the Rovers.

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 GK Adam Rachel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #732 | Youth Team promotiion

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 GK Adam Rachel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998 🕒 1 | 0 (1) | 🥅 1 | ⛔ 0 | 🇺37 | #732 |

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

Blackburn Rovers

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1994–95

FIXTURE HISTORY
Blackburn Rovers
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Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥

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

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1998-99 |
Matchday | #24 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #37 |
Saturday, 26 December 1998

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🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Dermot Gallagher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxfordshire, 1992-2007
Kick off: 6.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

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

🕒 37 | 🟩 | 23 🟨 | 6 🟥 8 | 2.03

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Dermot Gallagher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxfordshire, 1992-2007

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟥 Michael Oakes
🟨 Ian Taylor

CARDS
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🟨 Callum Davidson
🟨 Jason Wilcox
🟨 Marlon Broomes
🟨 Kevin Davies

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

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Riccardo Scimeca returns with Stan Collymore dropping out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.04 |

Oldest Player |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.58 |

Youngest Player |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.62 |

Referee

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Brian Kidd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Blackburn Rovers

GK John Filan | 🇦🇺 |
LB Callum Davidson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Christian Dailly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Stéphane Henchoz | 🇨🇭 | 🔁 |
RB Jeff Kenna | 🇮🇪 |
M Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Billy McKinlay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Jason Wilcox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Keith Gillespie | 🇮🇪 |
CF Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | GK Adam Rachel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 57’ |
🔁 | CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 69’ |
🔁 | RB Simon Grayson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Stéphane Henchoz | 🇨🇭 | (CB Marlon Broomes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | CF Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | CF Chris Sutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Kevin Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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RB Gary Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Alan Fettis | 🇬🇧 |
M Damien Johnson | 🇬🇧 |

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

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/16

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟥 26 Dec 1998, Villa 1-2, Blackburn, Ewood

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MATCH REPORTS

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