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Game #4576

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 14 September 1999

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Won

2nd Round

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩

League Cup

Chester

Deva Stadium

Attendance: 4,363

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

Chester City

0-1

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Aston Villa

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🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 14 September 1999

🟢 | 1' Najwan Ghrayib
🕒 | HT Chester City 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Paul Merson, Sub on, Darius Vassell
💥 | 77’ Missed Penalty, Lee Hendrie
⚽ | 77’ Goal, 1-0, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT Chester City 0-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Ian Taylor
🟨 | Booking, Najwan Ghrayib

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

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

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ON THIS DAY
Tuesday, 14 September 1999
  • Second placed Villa secure a narrow victory over fourth tier side and 92nd placed Chester in the first leg of their League cup second round tie.

  • Full back Najwan Ghrayib, 25, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Hapoel Haifa for a fee of £900,000 in August 1999 to become the 740th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Ian Taylor makes his 175th start in a Villa shirt (188 Appearances) to make it W87 D43 L58, 24 Goals, 12 Assists and 36 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 LB Najwan Ghrayib | 🇮🇱 | #740 | £900,000 signing from Hapoel Haifa

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

Chester

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY
Chester
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Previous 5 vs. Chester: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

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

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1999-00 |
Matchday | #8 |
Manager Game | #66 |
Tuesday, 14 September 1999

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🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: John Kirkby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1988-1999
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
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

🕒 66 | 🟩 | 34 🟨 | 11 🟥 21 | 1.71

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: John Kirkby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1988-1999

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Ian Taylor
🟨 Najwan Ghrayib

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

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Villa hand first starts of the season to Najwan Ghrayib, Gareth Barry, Steve Watson and Peter Enckelman and recall Alan Thompson as David James, Mark Delaney, Gareth Southgate, Dion Dublin and Alan Wright drop out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.33 |

Oldest Player |
CB Colin Calderwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 34.67 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.57 |

Referee

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Najwan Ghrayib | 🇮🇱 | 🟢 | 🟨 |
CB Colin Calderwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Shaun Reid | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Chester

GK Wayne Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Matt Doughty | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Goran Milosavljević | 🇷🇸 | 🔁 |
D Mattie Woods | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martyn Lancaster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Ross Davidson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Darren Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nick Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Neil Fisher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Luke Beckett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 66’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | D Goran Milovaijevic | 🇷🇸 | (M Paul Berry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M George Boateng | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Neil Cutler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Malone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Danny Carson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Jon Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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

🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

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

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

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

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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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🟩 14 Sep 1999, Villa 1-0 Chester, Deva

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MATCH QUOTES
"For all their travails, on and off the field, the Football League’s 92nd-placed club gave an excellent account of themselves, never allowing their Premiership visitors to achieve any rhythm or pattern in their play."
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Wednesday, 15 September 1999
*Hendrie spares Villa’s blushes* Lee Hendrie converted his own missed penalty to finally break Chester’s resolve in last night’s Worthington’s cup tie after the home team’s Yugoslav debutant Goran Milovaijevic handled Alan Thompson’s 78th-minute corner. Chester’s keeper Wayne Brown blocked the initial shot but Hendrie responded swiftly to score, ending a remarkably spirited performance from their troubled hosts. The tactical acumen of the American owner Terry Smith, who also replaced the manager Kevin Ratcliffe when he walked out earlier this season, may be open to question but his side certainly made up for that with their effort and toil last night. For all their travails, on and off the field, the Football League’s 92nd-placed club gave an excellent account of themselves, never allowing their Premiership visitors to achieve any rhythm or pattern in their play. Villa handed the goalkeeper Peter Enckelman, and the defenders Steve Watson, Gareth Barry and Najwan Grayib their first starts of the season and Grayib, a £1.5m summer signing from Hapoel Tel Aviv and playing the left wing-back role, was involved in two of Villa’s best moves of the first half. In the 23rd minute his fierce strike was well saved by Wayne Brown and two minutes later his cross found Julian Joachim who headed narrowly wide of the target. But they were little more than half chances and, while Chester hardly swamped Enckelman, they certainly enjoyed more than their share of possession with striker Luke Beckett leading a spirited attempt to inspire City to their second win of the season. It was his persistence and physical play that allowed him to career down the right touchline, cutting inside Colin Calderwood and forcing Enckelman into his first save. Such was the frequency of Chester’s attacks that the home fans adopted an ironic chant of “Villa, give us a shot”. Alan Thompson responded with efforts from distance that thundered wide of the mark. But, in the meantime, Andy Shelton had a penalty appeal against Ugo Ehiogu turned down and Neil Fisher almost caught Villa out with a quickly taken free-kick.
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