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Game #3273

Aston Villa

11-12-10, 34 PTS

Saturday, 23 March 1974

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Won

9th= (+3)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩

Division Two

Portsmouth

12-9-13, 33 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 15,517

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

Aston Villa

4-1

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Portsmouth

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Assist(s) | Keith Leonard | 54' | 67' | Charlie Aitken | 80' | Brian Little | 86' |

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 23 March 1974

🥅 | 20’ Goal, 0-1, (Portsmouth), Norman Piper
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Portsmouth
⚽ | 54’ Goal, 1-1, Pat McMahon, Assist by Keith Leonard
⚽ | 67’ Goal, 2-1, Sammy Morgan, Assist by Keith Leonard
⚽ | 80’ Goal, 3-1, Pat McMahon, Assist by Charlie Aitken
⚽ | 86’ Goal, 4-1, Sammy Morgan, Assist by Brian Little
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-1 Portsmouth

🟨 | Booking, Chris Nicholl, Foul.

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

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 23 March 1974
  • After falling behind to Portsmouth’s sole attack of the first 45’, Villa respond with a fine second half showing as they hit four to record their biggest win since October thanks to braces from Pat McMahon and Sammy Morgan and a brace of assists from Keith Leonard on his home League debut. Villa climb back to 9th after their fourth win in six second division games and are now just four points off the third and final promotion place.

  • Vic Crowe's Villa win three successive games for the first time since November to make it eleven wins, twelve draws and ten defeats in thirty three League games this season.

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, 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: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Portsmouth

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League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1949-50

FIXTURE HISTORY
Portsmouth
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Previous 5 vs. Portsmouth: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

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

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1973-74 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Match | #33 |
Manager Game | #213 |
Saturday, 23 March 1974

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🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Peter Willis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bishop Auckland, 1974-1982
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

🕒 213 | 🟩 | 97 🟨 | 59 🟥 57 | 1.64

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Peter Willis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bishop Auckland, 1974-1982

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨

CARDS
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🟨

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

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Vic Crowe names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.11 |

Oldest Player |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 31.92 |

Youngest Player |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.21 |

Referee

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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Aston Villa

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Keith Leonard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |

MANAGER

John Mortimore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Portsmouth

GK David Best | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Phil Roberts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB John Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Billy Wilson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Alan Stephenson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Norman Piper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Brian Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Eoin Hand | 🇮🇪 |
M Albert McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Marinello | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Ron Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Brian Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Ken Foggo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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F Alun Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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None

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

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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

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

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/12

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE
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Injury | 1 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE
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Not Recorded

Unavailable
LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 23 Mar 1974, Villa 4-1 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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