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Game #2560

Aston Villa

14-5-3, 33 PTS

Saturday, 12 December 1959

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Won

1st (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩

Division Two

Cardiff City

12-6-3, 30 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 54,763

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-0

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Cardiff City

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🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 12 December 1959

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Cardiff City
⚽ | 77' Goal, 1-0, Jimmy Adam, Assist by Jimmy MacEwan
⚽ | 89' Goal, 2-0, Gerry Hitchens
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Cardiff City

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 12 December 1959

  • Described as a game that none of the 50,000 who attended will ever forget, Villa and Cardiff go toe to toe in a high tempo battle of two excellent football teams. Villa though, with the edge, take the win and continue their unbeaten home run. Villa remain one point ahead of Rotherham at the top of the table but open a three point gap to Cardiff in third and are now seven points clear of 4th placed Middlesbrough.

  • Joe Mercer's Villa bounce back from their shock defeat at Millmoor to beat Cardiff and make it fourteen wins, five draws and three defeats, all away, in twenty two division two games so far this season.

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1956-57

Cardiff City

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1926-27

FIXTURE HISTORY

Cardiff City

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Previous 5 vs. Cardiff: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

League 🕒 27 | 🟩 14 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 12 | ⚽ 38 | 🥅 31 |
FA Cup 🕒 3 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 2 | ⚽ 8 | 🥅 5 |

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1959-60 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Match | #22 |
Manager Game | #50 |
Saturday, 12 December 1959

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🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Harry Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

🕒 47 | 🟩 | 23 🟨 10 🟥 14 | 1.68

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Harry Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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CARDS

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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Pat Saward replaces Alan Deakin.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.30 |

Oldest Player |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.50 |

Youngest Player |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 25.19 |

Referee

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 |
W Jimmy Adam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Bill Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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Cardiff City

GK Graham Vearncombe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
LB Alec Milne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
D Ron Stitfall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
D Danny Malloy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
D Derrick Sullivan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Steve Gammon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Graham Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
W Brian Walsh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Johnny Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Derek Tapscott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Joe Bonson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

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Substitutes

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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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

Squad Bios

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

SQUAD STATS

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Cardiff XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 1 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 12 Dec 1959, Villa 2-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH VIDEO

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