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Game #3168 | League game #2855
Season game #7 | Premier League game #7
Bobby Gould game #124
City retain the only unbeaten run in the Premiership, thanks to a committed rearguard action which thwarts Villa’s strikeforce. Phil Babb and Peter Atherton are superb and Oggy, in for the flu victim Gould, has a commanding game. John Gayle joins from Birmingham for £100,000.
Aston Villa 5th | City 3rd (22)
Referee:
Martin Bodenham
1
Nigel Spink
2
Earl Barrett
3
Steve Staunton
4
Shaun Teale
5
Paul McGrath
15
Gordon Cowans
6
Kevin Richardson
14
Andy Townsend
10
Dalian Atkinson
9
Dean Saunders
22
Guy Whittingham
76'
Substitutes
13
Mark Bosnich
17
Neil Cox
7
Ray Houghton
76'
Coach
Ron Atkinson
72'
64'
Coach
1
3
5
4
2
14
6
15
22
9
10
1
3
6
20
4
17
32
16
12
10
7
Aston Villa
Coventry City
64'
Substitute
In:Paul R Williams
Out:John Williams
72'
Substitute
In:Tony Sheridan
Out:Roy Wegerle
Substitute
76'
In:Ray Houghton
Out:Guy Whittingham
Substitutions
Out
Guy Whittingham
In
Ray Houghton
76'
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