Game #3225

Aston Villa

13-10-9, 36 PTS

Saturday, 10 March 1973

Lost

5th= (-2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

Division Two

Queens Park Rangers

17-12-4, 46 PTS

Loftus Road

Attendance: 21,578

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

Queens Park Rangers

1-0

Aston Villa

Scorer(s) | None

Assist(s) | None

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 10 March 1973

🕒 | HT Queens Park Rangers 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 47’ Goal, 0-1, (Queens Park Rangers), Mick Leach
🕒 | FT Queens Park Rangers 1-0 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 10 March 1973

Vic Crowe's Villa are beaten for the third match in succession - this time to second placed promotion rivals QPR - and make it thirteen wins, eleven draws and eight defeats in thirty two League games. As a result Villa drop to joint fifth in the table (Played 32, Points 36) with Luton Town (Played 32, Points 36) and Sheffield Wednesday (Played 33, Points 36). Second place - the final promotion place - is 9 points ahead and in the hands of Burnley (Played 32, Points 45) with QPR top after their win over Villa.

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 3 March 1973, Villa 2-3 Fulham, Villa Park.

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 17 March 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Queens Park Rangers

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1966-67

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Queens Park Rangers

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. QPR: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

Queens Park Rangers

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 14 October 1972, Villa 0-1 QPR, Villa Park.

Queens Park Rangers

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 19 August 1975, Villa 1-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1972-73 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Match | #32 |
Manager Game | #165 |
Saturday, 10 March 1973

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: John Gow | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Swansea, 1963-1978
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

Scorers

Timeline

On This Day

Trophies

Matches

Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 165 | 🟩 | 79 🟨 | 42 🟥 44 | 1.69

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: John Gow | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Swansea, 1963-1978
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 26 December 1970, Villa 2-0, Shrewsbury, Villa Park.
Cards:

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

John Gow

CARDS

None

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Pat McMahon replaces Bruce Rioch.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.69 |

Oldest Player |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.89 |

Youngest Player |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.30 |

Referee

Manager

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

Aston Villa

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Jimmy Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Alun Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Gordon Jago | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Queens Park Rangers

GK Phil Parkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Dave Clement | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ian Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Terry Mancini | 🇮🇪 |
CB Tony Hazell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Terry Venables | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dave Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Francis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mick Leach | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M John Delve | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Don Givens | 🇮🇪 |

Line Ups

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

CB Neil Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

CB Ron Abbott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

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

FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

	Unused

Squad Bios

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

SQUAD STATS

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

UNAVAILABLE

Injury | 4 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Bruce Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

Tables & Programmes

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

MATCH REPORTS

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🟥 10 Mar 1973, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road

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