Game #1571

Aston Villa

Saturday, 4 April 1931

Lost

WWDWL

Division One

Portsmouth

Fratton Park

Attendance: 26,677

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

Portsmouth

5-0

Aston Villa

Scorer(s) | None |

Assist(s) | None

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 4 April 1931

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 4 April 1931

Villa suffer a result as shocking as it is damaging to their title prospects as a team that had scored ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN goals in their previous thirty nine games drew a blank for only the second time this season to lose heavily at Portsmouth to make it twenty one wins, nine draws and seven defeats in their thirty seven division one games.

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 28 Mar 1931, Villa 4-1 Blackpool, Villa Park

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 7 Apr 1931, Villa 4-3 Newcastle, Villa Park

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20

Portsmouth

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Portsmouth

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Portsmouth: | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟨 |

Portsmouth

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟨 3 Dec 1930, Villa 2-2 Portsmouth, Villa Park

Portsmouth

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 17 Oct 1931, Villa 3-0 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #39 |
League Match | #37 |
Manager Game | #221 |
Saturday, 4 April 1931

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

MATCH SUMMARY

Scorers

Timeline

On This Day

Trophies

Matches

Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Billy Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1926-1934

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 220 | 🟩 | 110 🟨 37 🟥 73 | 1.67

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Billy Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1926-1934

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

George Brown replaces Jack Mandley in Billy Smith's first change in nine matches.

Referee

Manager

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

MANAGER

Billy Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1926-1934

Aston Villa

MANAGER

Jack Tinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Portsmouth

Line Ups

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Substitutes

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half 

M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

	Game	Start	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red
GK Reg Miles \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|

CB Alec Talbot | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

	Game	Sub	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red

UNUSED

	Unused

Squad Bios

🟥 4 Apr 1931, Villa 0-5 Portsmouth, Fratton Park

SQUAD STATS

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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