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Game #3442

Aston Villa

1-0-0, 2 PTS

Saturday, 20 August 1977

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Won

8th

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

Division One

Queens Park Rangers

0-0-1, 0 PTS

Loftus Road

Attendance: 25,431

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

Queens Park Rangers

1-2

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Aston Villa

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🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 20 August 1977

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Jimmy Rimmer, Ken McNaught, John Gregory
🕒 | HT Queens Park Rangers 0-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | HT Booking, Jimmy Rimmer, Making stud marks in goalmouth
⚽ | 47’ Goal, 1-0, John Deehan
⚽ | 55’ Goal, 2-0, Frank Carrodus, Assist by Alex Cropley
🥅 | 88’ Goal, 2-1, (Queens Park Rangers), Peter Eastoe
🕒 | FT Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 20 August 1977

Ron Saunders' Villa open the season with a win at Loftus Road as Goalkeeper Jimmy Rimmer, 29, Centre back Ken McNaught, 22, and Midfielder John Gregory, 23, made their Villa debuts. Rimmer had joined from Arsenal earlier this month for a fee of £70,000, McNaught had arrived from Everton in July for £200,000 and Gregory from Northampton Town in June for £60,000.

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🟢 CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
🟢 M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1976-77

Queens Park Rangers

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

Aston Villa

Queens Park Rangers

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Queens Park Rangers

Previous 5 vs. QPR: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨

Queens Park Rangers

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Queens Park Rangers

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1977-78 |
Matchday | #1 |
League Match | #1 |
Manager Game | #160 |
Saturday, 20 August 1977

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🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Alf Grey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Great Yarmouth, 1972-1983
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
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

🕒 160 | 🟩 | 77 🟨 | 41 🟥 42 | 1.70

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Alf Grey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Great Yarmouth, 1972-1983
Matches Officiated: 6
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 22 January 1977, Villa 1-0 West Ham, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨

None

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ron Saunders hands debuts to Jimmy Rimmer, Ken McNaught and John Gregory.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.49 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.55 |

Youngest Player |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.83 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🟨 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟢 |
FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |
M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Dave Sexton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Queens Park Rangers

GK Phil Parkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Dave Clement | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Needham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Ian Gillard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M John Hollins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Francis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stan Bowles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Don Masson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Peter Eastoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Don Givens | 🇮🇪 |

Line Ups

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Brian Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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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 Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 3 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
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

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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MATCH QUOTES

"When you consider that his [John Gregory’s] last competitive game was for Northampton you must agree he did tremendously well on his First Division debut.” Ron Saunders. "I enjoyed it very much. ”But when I signed for Villa in the summer I never expected to be in the first team straight away and I don't suppose I would have been but for John Gidman's injury." John Gregory.
Quotes

🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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MATCH REPORTS

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🟩 20 August 1977, Villa 2-1 QPR, Loftus Road.

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