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Game #3420

Aston Villa

14-3-8, 31 PTS

Wednesday, 2 March 1977

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Won

4th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩

Division One

Derby County

5-8-11, 18 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 37,396

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

4-0

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Derby County

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🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 2 March 1977

⚽ | 2’ Goal, 1-0, Dennis Mortimer, 70 Seconds
⚽ | 15’ Goal, 2-0 John Gidman
⚽ | 31’ Goal, 3-0, Brian Little, Assist by Chris Nicholl
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 3-0 Derby County
🔁 | 79’ Sub off, David Hughes, Sub on, Gordon Smith
⚽ | 81’ Goal, 4-0, Gordon Cowans, Assist by John Deehan
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-0 Derby County

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 2 March 1977

Ron Saunders' Villa make it ten goals in three games without reply as they take their Cup form into the league to make it fourteen wins, three draws and eight defeats in twenty five division one games this season.

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Derby County

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

Aston Villa

Derby County

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Derby County

Previous 5 vs. Derby: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1976-77 |
Matchday | #35 |
League Match | #25 |
Manager Game | #138 |
Wednesday, 2 March 1977

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🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Ken Salmon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hadley Wood, Herts, 1974-1985
HT Score: 🟩 3-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 138 | 🟩 | 67 🟨 | 35 🟥 36 | 1.71

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Ken Salmon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hadley Wood, Herts, 1974-1985
Replaced by J Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Coaliffe on 68'
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

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None

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

David Hughes and Gordon Cowans replace Alex Cropley and Andy Gray.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.17 |

Oldest Player |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 | 30.41 |

Youngest Player |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.36 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK John Burridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 | 🔥 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |

MANAGER

Colin Murphy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Derby County

GK Colin Boulton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Peter Daniel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Colin Todd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ron Webster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Tony Macken | 🇮🇪 |
RB David Langan | 🇮🇪 |
M Jeff King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Henry Newton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Leighton James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F Charlie George | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Kevin Hector | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M David Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 79' |

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CF Jeff Bourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

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

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/12

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 3 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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

Quotes

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 2 March 1977, Villa 4-0 Derby, Villa Park.

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