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Football: Villa ready to show Turks respect: Trabzonspor have the firepower
By PHIL SHAW
Tuesday, 18 October 1994
AFTER the clouds of coloured smoke which greeted them in Milan, Aston Villa step into the Avni Aker Stadium at Trabzon tonight amid reports that the Turkish team's followers are in the habit of firing guns into the air.
Whatever their veracity, Villa have had warning shots aplenty before the first leg of their Uefa Cup second round tie.
The most pertinent came from Brian Whitehouse, Villa's chief scout, who has watched Trabzonspor twice. After their draw at Ankaraguku, he informed Ron Atkinson that Villa's opponents were 'probably as good as Inter'. The impression was confirmed by Sunday's 3-1 defeat of Denizlispor, which took them to within a point of the leaders, Besiktas.
Trabzonspor are unbeaten at home, and dispatched Dinamo Bucharest in the first round. Two of their players, Kemizkanoglun Ogun and Cikrikci Orhan, played in Turkey's 5-0 rout of Iceland last week. That result, along with the three draws Galatasaray have achieved against Manchester United over the last year, demonstrate that Turkish football is currently on a high.
Whitehouse's report will ensure that Villa show the appropriate respect, and having seen off Bergkamp, Bergomi, Pagliuca and company, they ought to account for Trabzonspor over two legs. Optimism is qualified because while Villa are capable of winning the League Cup at Wembley, or of overcoming the Uefa Cup holders, they appear uninspired by less glamorous fixtures.
The outcome this evening may hinge, therefore, on their ability to metamorphose once more from the side who have taken only one of the last 15 Premiership points available into a big-game team. The transformation will be eased greatly if Andy Townsend, who showed his best Villa form against Internazionale, is passed fit.
The Irish international, who counts as an 'assimilated' player, missed Saturday's drab draw with Norwich with a groin injury but has been given until this afternoon to recover. As for the three permitted 'foreigners', Mark Bosnich may give way to Nigel Spink in goal, narrowing the choice to Dean Saunders, Dwight Yorke, Paul McGrath and Steve Staunton. Nii Lampety is absent on duty with Ghana.
Some 50 Villa supporters have made the arduous trek, others perhaps having been put off by horror stories from English fans in the 'hell' of Istanbul and Izmir. However, at least one aspect of the Black Sea port is designed to make the visitors feel at home. Trabzonspor's colours, omnipresent in the city, are claret and blue.
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Football: Mini-comeback will do the trick for Villa: Late strike lifts turks
Wednesday, 19 October 1994
Trabzonspor 1 Aston Villa 0 ASTON VILLA face another examination of their resilience in the Uefa Cup - though surely not as searching as that in the previous round against Internazionale - after conceding a late goal in the first leg of this second- round tie by the Black Sea last night.
Ron Atkinson's team, coming through the hot-house atmosphere of the Avni Aker Stadium, looked to have achieved an even better result after a committed and composed performance, when 12 minutes from time Orhan Kaynak sent a bullet-like header rifling into Villa's net.
'We were excellent in the first half, but in the second half they played considerably better and we played considerably worse,' Atkinson said.
Villa will now attempt to overturn the one-goal deficit in a fortnight's time at Villa Park, just as they did against Inter before beating the holders in a penalty shoot-out.
After surviving Trabzonspor's frenetic opening - with Phil King kicking off his own line from Cengiz - Atkinson's side took a stranglehold on the game.
Harrying and rushing their opponents at every opportunity, and with Andy Townsend overcoming a groin strain to play in midfield, Villa dictated the pace of the game. And with Welsh international Dean Saunders a particular threat, they should have grabbed a priceless away goal after 10 minutes.
Saunders escaped his marker to collect Steve Staunton's pass and crossed to the far post where Ray Houghton had his shot blocked. It fell directly into the path of Guy Whittingham, preferred to Dalian Atkinson, but the striker saw his side-foot effort from six yards cannon away to safety off the underside of the bar.
Two minutes later Whittingham forced keeper Viktor to fumble another Saunders centre, but as Houghton moved in for the kill Unal cleared the danger.
As Trabzonspor responded Orhan, Unal and Lemi were all off target. But seconds after the interval Villa had to thank the same part of the bar that denied Whittingham as Hami struck it with a dipping volley.
Staunton was booked for Villa, though the cautions for Lemi and Kemal could prove decisive as Trabzonspor will be without both defenders for the return match after collecting their second yellow cards of the competition.
Trabzonspor: Grishko; Lemi, Ogun, Kemal, Tolunay, Abdullah, Cengiz, Unal, Soner, Hami (Hamdi, 88), Orhan (Kahi, 89).
Aston Villa: Spink; Barrett, McGrath, Ehiogu, King; Houghton, Richardson, Townsend, Staunton; Whittingham, Saunders.
Referee: M Piraux (Bel).
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Sport: The Week in Review
Saturday, 22 October 1994
THE changed nature of European football competitions was illustrated when Manchester United were left happy with a 2-2 draw in the Champions' League at home to Barcelona but Newcastle United were left rueful with a 3-2 win, also at home, against Athletic Bilbao. The differences? Lee Sharpe equalised late in the round-robin stage of the European Cup while Newcastle led by three in the two-legged Uefa Cup.
Aston Villa were content with a one-goal deficit after their trip to Trabzonspor in Turkey in the same competition. In the Cup-Winners' Cup, Arsenal were pleased with a 2-1 win at Brondby, Chelsea less so with a goalless home draw.
Ernie Els proved irresistible in the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth. In the final he was never behind Colin Montgomerie and collected the largest prize in Europe, some pounds 160,000.
Michael Schumacher returned from his two-race suspension with victory in the Grand Prix of Europe. Nigel Mansell's return was less succesful, ending up in gravel.
As Great Britain prepared to take on the impressive Australians at Wembley, Gus Risman, one of rugby league's legends, died at the age of 83.
Richard Wetherell