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Game #4564

Aston Villa

Saturday, 17 April 1999

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Won

5th (+1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Liverpool

Anfield

Attendance: 44,306

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

Liverpool

0-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Julian Joachim | 33’ |

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 17 April 1999

⚽ | 33’ Goal, 1-0, Ian Taylor, Assist by Julian Joachim
🕒 | HT Liverpool 0-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Paul Merson
🔁 | 90’ Sub off, Julian Joachim, Sub on, Gareth Barry
🕒 | FT Liverpool 0-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Mark Bosnich

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

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 17 April 1999

  • Having previously not won in 11 under John Gregory and fallen from 1st to 7th, Villa record consecutive victories to climb to 5th in the Premier League table.

  • Goalkeeper Mark Bosnich, 27, makes his 228th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (227 Starts) before moving on to Manchester United on a free transfer having allowed his contract to run down. Bosnich, a player never far from controversy, left the stable environment of Villa that brought calm to his rough edges. Once gone there was no such protection and Bosnich became better known for his off field exploits than his on pitch performances. Bosnich the player however proved to be one of Villa’s greatest goalkeepers before his ultimate betrayal with a record of 221 Goals Conceded at a rate of 0.97 goals per game and 90 Clean Sheets (39%) across his career of W105 D54 L69, 1 Assist, 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card. Bosnich had sat out much of the 1998-99 season as Michael Oakes was often preferred as Villa’s ‘keeper by John Gregory as the contract saga rolled on but it was valuable experience for the want away ‘keeper who would play just 42 games across the remainder of his career before retiring just 4 years later following drug charges.

  • Ian Taylor makes his 175th appearance in a Villa shirt (162 Starts) to make it W79 D42 L54, 22 Goals, 12 Assists and 30 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Steve Watson makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (26 Appearances) to make it W9 D7 L10, 3 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 1992-99 🕒 228 | 227 (1) | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 1 | 🇺34 | #688 |

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

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1994-95

FIXTURE HISTORY

Liverpool

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Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

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

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1998-99 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Game | #34 |
Manager Game | #54 |
Saturday, 17 April 1999

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🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1992-2004
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 54 | 🟩 | 28 🟨 | 10 🟥 16 | 1.74

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1992-2004
Matches Officiated: 10
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 6
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 19 September 1998, Villa 0-0 Leeds, Elland Road.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Mark Bosnich

CARDS

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🟨 Rigobert Song
🟨 Karl-Heinz Riedle

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

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Lee Hendrie returns in place of Alan Thompson.

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.85 |

Oldest Player |
CB Colin Calderwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 34.26 |

Youngest Player |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.93 |

Referee

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 🟨 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Colin Calderwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | (ft)

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Liverpool

GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Stig Inge Bjørnebye | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
LB Dominic Matteo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Rigobert Song | 🇨🇲 | 🟨 |🔁 |
CB Phil Babb | 🇮🇪 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jamie Redknapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Ince | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve McManaman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Robbie Fowler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Karl-Heinz Riedle | 🇩🇪 | 🟨 |

Line Ups

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 70’ |
🔁 | M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Rigobert Song | 🇨🇲 | (CF Sean Dundee | 🇩🇪 |)
🔁 | LB Stig Inge Bjørnebye | 🇳🇴 | (M Øyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Steve Staunton (ex) | 🇮🇪 |
M Jean-Michel Ferri | 🇫🇷 |

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

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 15/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/16

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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

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH QUOTES

"Ian Taylor’s first-half goal made it one win in eight for the Merseyside club who are now accepting the prospect of failing to qualify for Europe for only the third time since they first ventured abroad in 1964."
Quotes

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*The Guardian*
Saturday, 17 April 1999

*Taylor keeps his eye on the prize* The football played a secondary role to memories of the 96 Liverpool supporters who lost their lives a decade ago on an emotion-charged Anfield occasion. In such circumstances, it was, therefore, perhaps not surprising that Liverpool should produce the sort of perfunctory performance that has so blighted their season. Ian Taylor’s first-half goal made it one win in eight for the Merseyside club who are now accepting the prospect of failing to qualify for Europe for only the third time since they first ventured abroad in 1964. It was a strange and emotional afternoon, one in which the football scarcely mattered as the game paid its respects to the dead of Hillsborough. Every Premier League ground held its minute silence but, naturally, at Anfield the day was weighted with special significance. Villa played their part admirably, the travelling supporters behaving impeccably and keeper Mark Bosnich and substitute Paul Merson laying wreaths in front of the Kop before kick-off. That air of goodwill between rival clubs seemed to extend to the contest once it started. A place in Europe is still on the agenda, for Villa at least, but the level of competitiveness did not reflect that. Robbie Fowler capped a promising Steve McManaman-inspired break with an errant 20-yard shot and Mark Draper’s free-kick found Taylor at the far post whose touch-on sparked a furious scramble, ultimately tidied up by Jamie Carragher. By halfway through the first period, the thoughts of the Kop clearly lay elsewhere, a chant of “Stand up if you want justice” bringing the stand to its feet and quickly travelling around the stadium. Inevitably, given the current fragility of the Liverpool psyche, the first concerted Villa attack brought a goal and a predictably muted response from Anfield. Alan Wright’s left-wing cross found Julian Joachim unmarked and his 15-yard drive was intercepted, and practically walked past James into the goal, by Taylor. The goal at least raised the level of competition, Rigobert Song soon getting booked for a quite dreadful two-footed lunge on Lee Hendrie. On the stroke of half-time Carragher made a timely goal-line clearance after Dion Dublin had met Steve Watson’s cross for what looked like being goal number two. Shortly after the restart keeper James did his utmost to present Villa with precisely that, delaying his kick from a Carragher backpass and coming within inches of Joachim intercepting. It was the wake-up call Liverpool needed and, with Oyvind Leonhardsen providing better balance on the left of midfield as a half-time substitute, started at least worrying the visitors’ defence.
Reports

🟩 17 Apr 1999, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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