Aston Villa v Liverpool 19-09-1992

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Liverpool have just sold Dean Saunders to Aston Villa for £2.3m. Will he come back to haunt his old club? *NB* This coverage is NOT edited. Recorded live off the tv at the time of broadcast by pressing record and pause. Before the days of home editing.

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00:00Dean Saunders plays against them today for his new club Aston Villa

00:03and he's only one of three Villa players offloaded by Liverpool since Graeme Soones became the manager.

00:10Ray Houghton was transferred here for £825,000 in July

00:14and Steve Staunton moved for £1.1 million last August.

00:20The transferred players always like to do well against their old club

00:23and with Villa unchanged from the side which drew 1-1 at Leeds on Sunday

00:27this may prove a difficult afternoon for Liverpool

00:29who haven't won a league game at Villa Park since 1984.

00:34The absence today through injury of both Ian Rush and Paul Stewart

00:38who scored all six of those goals in the Cup Winners' Cup tie in midweek

00:41certainly doesn't help their cause.

00:44Rosenthal is in front of a five-man midfield

00:46and there are two players making their full debut

00:48number nine Don Hutchinson who's waited two years in the reserves

00:51and number two Torben Pichnick, the Danish international

00:55signed this week for £1.5 million.

00:57Saunders

00:58and won't he be keen to get a goal today?

01:04Thoughtful figure Graeme Soones

01:05what a job he has really following the four previous Liverpool managers

01:08who each won the championship for the club

01:11between them a total of 13 times.

01:15Atkinson, Saunders

01:16it's got very little support Saunders

01:19it's arriving now in the shape of Earl Barrett

01:21obstruction

01:25and clumsy obstruction at that

01:27it was a good chance

01:32for Gary Parker

01:33to add to the three that he's already scored this season for Villa

01:38and the disquiet for Liverpool

01:41maybe the one

01:42frogged into the game

01:43now it was a good cross here

01:45just over the top of Dalian Atkinson

01:47but it's retrieved by Gary Parker

01:49and his left foot is it

01:52Houghton

01:54and Nicol just prevents the corner does he

02:01yes

02:02Rosenthal

02:07Atkinson

02:09Saunders

02:09picks out Froggert

02:12and then runs to take up his position in the penalty area

02:15trying to take the deflection

02:18Will Barrett went in with his feet high

02:21but plays waved on

02:22and he tried to cut it back to Ray Houghton

02:25Walters looks for support

02:31Hutchinson

02:33gives Walters a chase

02:34and he'll get there as well

02:35it's a good break by Liverpool

02:36across Saunders

02:38Staunton who cleared

02:40Mark Wright's come out of the middle of the covering

02:43that took a deflection off Mark Wright

02:46Villa on the corner

02:47and now having saved his team in the penalty area

02:58Staunton has just taken that corner

02:59Ray Houghton

03:02Richardson

03:04cleared by Nicol

03:07Ray Houghton

03:09Will Barrett

03:11Saunders

03:17faces peak pitch

03:20who again gives a blatant obstruction

03:22play waved on

03:23McGrath heads back

03:25and James Saunders

03:27and it's the first save

03:31it's going to score

03:31Liverpool

03:32oh he's hit the bar

03:33what a let off for Villa

03:38and what a miss by Rosenthal

03:40Sean Teal's mistake

03:42Spink came off his line

03:44Rosenthal claimed it

03:46with the goal at his mercy

03:47unnecessarily

03:49tried to hit it too hard

03:50he could have rolled it in

03:51all he has to do is roll it forward

03:58and instead he tries to break the net

04:00Mark Walters

04:04his third goal of the season

04:06two minutes to go to half time

04:13and didn't he hit that sweetly

04:15right across the front of Nigel Spink

04:17and he was picked out with real perfection by David Burrows

04:23and Liverpool get the goal

04:26and Liverpool get the goal

04:27but they looked almost certain to score

04:29a moment earlier

04:31Parker

04:35leaves it for Houghton

04:36to run at them

04:38both Daly and Atkinson and Saunders

04:42had held back that time

04:43this is Parker

04:47inside the defenders for Froggert

04:49Saunders has made a break to the near post

04:52Dean Saunders has scored against his old club

04:55in time added on to the first half for stoppages

04:59he's got goals at every club

05:02for whom he's played

05:0524 for Liverpool

05:07in the 14 months that he was there

05:09and now he's first for Villa

05:11in his second match

05:12a typical Saunders goal

05:15when Froggert was freed down the left side

05:17Saunders saw the opportunities

05:19and he made a terrific break towards the near post

05:22Saunders

05:25Marsh

05:32Rosenthal's turn

05:35was impeded by Sean Thiel

05:37left side

05:39Daly and Atkinson's made a break down the middle

05:41here he is

05:42Saunders wants glory

05:43might have done better

05:44to have picked out Daly and Atkinson

05:46he's at Parker

05:47at Daly and Atkinson

05:49it's 2-1 Villa

05:50David James really had no chance there

06:00with Daly and Atkinson

06:01inside the 6-yard box

06:03Villa take the lead

06:06after 51 minutes

06:08Ray Houghton keeps his balance here

06:10and he keeps his awareness

06:12of where other players are

06:13Parker's shot was missed screwed

06:14but it turned into a perfect pass

06:17to Daly and Atkinson

06:18and that record

06:21of Liverpool's

06:22of not having won here

06:23for 9 seasons

06:24in danger of being extended to 10

06:27oh

06:29well did he run into Pichnik

06:31the linesman on this side

06:33thinks it was a foul

06:34and if it was

06:35I'd have to say that Pichnik

06:36is living dangerously

06:37the referee didn't give the decision

06:42but the linesman on this side

06:43has put his flag up

06:44and indicated an offence

06:45now what will happen

06:46I don't think he can have too many complaints

06:49about that

06:50it's a terrific striker of a ball

06:54Houghton

06:56it wasn't helped too much

06:58by the referee

06:59fast to find Richardson

07:01Richardson

07:02Richardson

07:02Wright who cleared

07:04Ray Houghton

07:12Saunders

07:13is this his second

07:14it is

07:15James Saunders

07:19emphatically underlines

07:21what Liverpool didn't fancy

07:25they bought him for 2.9 million

07:27they kept him 14 months

07:29sold him for 2.3 million

07:31and he's punished them with two goals

07:3366 minutes gone

07:36and Villa are ahead 3-1

07:39right at the feet of Jamie Redner

07:46Parker

07:50for Villa

07:51Saunders is peeled off to the right this time

07:54here he is

07:55faced by Pichnik

07:57steps inside

08:00and still Saunders

08:01hits the woodwork

08:03that's how close he was to the hat-trick

08:06hoping to improve on that this time

08:09in the new Premier League

08:10Gary Parker

08:11it's beginning to look embarrassingly easy

08:19for Aston Villa

08:20Saunders involved again

08:25little flick ball through

08:27to find Daly and Atkinson

08:29to find Daly and Atkinson

08:29who picked out Gary Parker

08:31with acres of space

08:3212 minutes to go

08:36and Villa make it 4-1

08:39nice ball over the top for Hutchinson

08:43but he was hit first time

08:45but he was hit first time into a penalty area

08:46where there wasn't a Liverpool player

08:47Houghton

08:53tried to pick out Parker

08:56this is Mark Wright

08:57Hutchinson

09:02looks like Spink

09:06looks like Spink should be favourite

09:06Rosenthal got to it

09:08oh Spink committed himself

09:10and came for a ball

09:11which he didn't claim

09:12and Ronnie Rosenthal

09:15pulls one back for Liverpool

09:17well Spink trying to make a save there

09:22outside his six yard box

09:23and when he didn't get it

09:25Rosenthal was able to nod it over the defender

09:29and there's no doubt

09:33that it's been Aston Villa's day

09:35victors over Liverpool

09:37by four goals to two

09:40but surely the headlines tomorrow morning

09:42will all concern this man

09:45Dean Saunders

09:46who scored twice against his old club

09:49and it might have been a hat-trick

09:50but for the woodwork

09:52and just...

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