Game #4109

Aston Villa

Saturday, 24 March 1990

Lost

1st (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥

Division One

Crystal Palace

Selhurst Park

Attendance: 18,586

Crystal Palace

1-0

Aston Villa

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | Not recorded

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Tony Cascarino | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Steve Coppell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Crystal Palace

GK Nigel Martyn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Rudi Hedman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Andy Thorn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gary O’Reilly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Phil Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Gray (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Geoff Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Pardew | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Garry Thompson (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Mark Bright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 72' |
🔁 CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 🟢 | for W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

🟥 24 March 1990, Villa 0-1 Palace, Selhurst Park.

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 24 March 1990

Villa lose for the 3rd time in 6 League games under Graham Taylor but remain 1st in the table, 3 points clear of Liverpool.
Villa make it 17 First Division victories in 24 games under Graham Taylor to sit 8 ahead of reigning champions Arsenal.
Forward Dwight Yorke, 18, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after moving from Signal Hill (Tobago) in November 1989 for a fee of £120,000 to become the 668th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Former Villa striker Garry Thompson hits an early goal as Palace’s incessant offside trap and aggressive midfield play sinks them not for the first time this season.

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