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Game #3378

Aston Villa

9-13-13, 31 PTS

Saturday, 20 March 1976

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Drew

17th= (-1)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟨

Division One

Leicester City

10-16-9, 36 PTS

Filbert Street

Attendance: 24,663

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

Leicester City

2-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Brian Little | 40' | Chico Hamilton | 86' |

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 20 March 1976

🥅 | 14’ Goal, 0-1, (Leicester City), Chris Nicholl o.g.
⚽ | 40’ Goal, 1-1, Chris Nicholl, Assist by Brian Little
🕒 | HT Leicester City 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 54’ Goal, 1-2, (Leicester City), Chris Nicholl o.g.
⚽ | 86’ Goal, 2-2, Chris Nicholl, Assist by Chico Hamilton
🕒 | FT Leicester City 2-2 Aston Villa

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

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 20 March 1976

  • Chris Nicholl scores all four goals in the two all draw at Filbert Street in an incredible game that leaves Villa, now 17th in the table, still without an away win in eighteen games on their return to the top flight.

  • Ron Saunders' Villa make it nine wins, thirteen draws and thirteen defeats in thirty five League games following their return to the top flight as Chris Nicholl scores all four goals in a 2-2 draw.

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1974-75

Leicester City

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1963-64

FIXTURE HISTORY

Leicester City

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Previous 5 vs. Leicester: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

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

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1975-76 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Match | #35 |
Manager Game | #96 |
Saturday, 20 March 1976

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🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Ivan Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Accrington, 1970-1976
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 96 | 🟩 | 43 🟨 | 26 🟥 27 | 1.61

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Ivan Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Accrington, 1970-1976
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 4
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 4 October 1975, Villa 0-0 Middlesbrough, Ayresome Park.
Cards:

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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None

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

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Chico Hamilton replaces Leighton Phillips.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.31 |

Oldest Player |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 | 29.46 |

Youngest Player |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 20.32 |

Referee

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK John Burridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Jimmy Bloomfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Leicester City

GK Mark Wallington | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Dennis Rofe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jeff Blockley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Alan Woollett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Stephen Whitworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Kember | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jon Sammels | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Keith Weller | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Brian Alderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Frank Worthington | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Bob Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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LB Bobby McDonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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W Lenny Glover | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

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

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 3 |
CF Keith Leonard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

"If the worst comes to the worst. I'll do the same next week.” “When the ball comes into the six yard box you have to go for it. “Only on very rare occasions would I deliberately leave alone a ball that was that close to goal. I might not always reach it but at least I’ve got to try. “No goalkeeper would have stopped that [his second own goal]. It was a cracker. "l was relieved when that one went in [the second equaliser].“ Chris Nicholl.
Quotes

🟨 20 Mar 1976, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Filbert Street

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 22 March 1976

Chris Nicholl would do it all over again in similar circumstances and not just to see his name in the record books. Nicholl, scorer of all four goals in Aston Villa’s 2-2 draw at Leicester on Saturday, has to look back 33 years to find the last time the same thing happened in English football. Twice he put Leicester ahead, twice he equalised the second time just four minutes from the whistle and from the way he spoke afterwards it seems we may not have to wait another 33 years for it to happen again. “If the worst comes to the worst. I’ll do the same next week,” he said. “When the ball comes into the six yard box you have to go for it. Only on very rare occasions would I deliberately leave alone a ball that was that close to goal. I might not always reach it but at least I’ve got to try.” Nicholl thought his third goal was the best “no goalkeeper would have stopped that. It was a cracker” and his fourth the most satisfying - “l was relieved when that one went In” and his achievement must cast doubts on the merits of both sides as attacking forces. The draw, welcome though it was, means that Villa have managed only one win in their last 12 matches and the eight points collected from those 24 at stake is more like relegation form than anything else. There is little wrong with their approach. Their willingness to move forward at Filbert Street was a refreshing reminder of what football is all about but when the goals did not come they teetered on the brink of capitulation for long periods and without the constant harassing of Nicholl and lan Ross could easily have surrendered. They did, in fact, relinquish the midfield almost without a struggle which meant that Andy Gray saw little of the ball while Brian Little and Frank Carrodus, after a bright opening, quickly faded. A game that promised much rarely delivered and because of Nicholl it turned into an almost unreal exercise.
Reports

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