• Another great European night at Villa Park as Villa beat Italian giants Inter to square the tie and win the resultant shootout thanks to Phil King's winner on a raucous late September evening.

• Ray Houghton scores his 10th goal in a Villa shirt on his 95th appeaarance (86 Starts) to make it W42 D27 L26, 10 Goals and 14 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.96 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

• Earl Barrett makes his 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (124 Starts) to make it W57 D33 L35, 2 Goals and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

• Villa suffer a narrow defeat in the UEFA Cup 1st Round at the San Siro to a disputed Dennis Bergkamp penalty as John Fashanu shocks the Italians with his centre circle kung-fu warm up.

• Villa face self confessed Villa fan Gianluca Pagliuca in the Inter goal.

One of the most controversial games in Villa’s history, heading into the 2nd leg Villa held a 2-0 lead and victory, while not assured, was certainly a strong possibility. The game however would not play out that way and a controversial refereeing performance - including allowing an Inter Milan goal despite the cross having clearly been delivered from a position out of play - saw Villa harshly penalised throughout and Inter the beneficiaries of the referee’s largesse. Such were the scale of the ‘errors’ by the officials on the night that still today there are real suspicions as to whether something altogether more sinister was going on. Internazionale would go on to win the UEFA Cup. Undeservedly then, Jozef Vengloš’ Villa were dumped out of the UEFA cup and had now lost twice in as many games. This demoralising defeat acted almost as a watershed moment for Vengloš’ Villa as their strong start to the season - losing only twice in fourteen games and winning nine - gave way to relegation form and a tumble down the table.

• Villa win in what is described as "arguably the best performance an English club side has ever produced in Europe." as the appointment of Jozef Vengloš continues to pay dividends. 

• Villa face Inter Milan for the first time in competitive football, Inter become the 131st team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football, Villa’s 17th continental European opponents and their second from Italy following their meeting with Juventus in their 1982-83 European Cup campaign.

• Villa put on one of the great Villa Park European nights - a setting for which these games were seemingly made. A stunning victory over Italian giants Inter Milan in the 1st leg left Villa’s prospects for progression looking very promising. 

• Villa were now unbeaten in the last five and had now lost just once in eleven games under Jozef Vengloš winning eight.

• Kent Nielsen scores his third goal for the club and in so doing contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 61st appearance (58 Starts) to make it W32 D12 L17, 3 Goals and 7 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 6.10 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

• Gordon Cowans contributes his 85th assist in a Villa shirt on his 460th appearance (443 Starts) to make it W212 D107 L141, 58 Goals and 85 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.22 games he has played so far in his Villa career.