Game #3964
Aston Villa
Saturday, 2 May 1987
Lost
22nd (-1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥
Division One
Arsenal
Highbury
Attendance: 18,463
Arsenal
2-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Steve Hunt | 24' |
MANAGER
Billy McNeill | 🏴 | 1986-1987
Aston Villa
GK Kevin Poole | 🏴 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴 |
CB Paul Elliott | 🏴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴 | 🔥 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴 |
CF Simon Stainrod | 🏴 |
MANAGER
George Graham (ex) | 🏴 |
Arsenal
GK Rhys Wilmot | 🏴 |
RB Viv Anderson | 🏴 |
CB David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 |
CB Tony Adams | 🏴 |
M Steve Williams | 🏴 |
M David Rocastle | 🏴 |
M Paul Davis | 🏴 |
M Michael Thomas | 🏴 |
W Martin Hayes | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Niall Quinn | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Charlie Nicholas | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Tony Daley | 🏴 | for M Paul Birch | 🏴 | 67' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Niall Quinn | 🇮🇪 | (W Perry Groves | 🏴 |)
🟥 2 May 1987, Villa 1-2 Arsenal, Highbury.
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 2 May 1987
Billy McNeill's Villa lose for the third time in four games and now have fourteen wins in their last sixty seven League games losing thirty two. As a result Villa fall back to the bottom of the table, six points off safety and four points off the relegation play off place with two games to play and six points available. Mathematically it is still possible for Villa to survive but they will need two high scoring wins and their rivals Leicester and Oxford to lose their remaining matches.
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