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Game #3473

Aston Villa

9-6-8, 24 PTS

Monday, 2 January 1978

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Drew

11th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨

Division One

Queens Park Rangers

3-9-12, 15 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 34,750

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Queens Park Rangers

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Assist(s) | Andy Gray | 22' |

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Monday, 2 January 1978

⚽ | 22’ Goal, 1-0, Brian Little, Assist by Andy Gray
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Queens Park Rangers
🥅 | 62’ Goal, 1-1, (Queens Park Rangers), Gordon Smith, o.g.
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Queens Park Rangers

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

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 2 January 1978

  • Villa are forced to play on the increasingly poor Villa Park pitch and once again face a referee reluctant to award clear penalties as they fail to overcome a poor QPR in their first game of 1978.

  • Ron Saunders' Villa make it nine wins, six draws and eight defeats in twenty three division one games this season.

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, 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: 1976-77

Queens Park Rangers

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Queens Park Rangers

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Previous 5 vs. QPR: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

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

Queens Park Rangers

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Queens Park Rangers

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1977-78 |
Matchday | #32 |
League Match | #23 |
Manager Game | #191 |
Monday, 2 January 1978

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🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Neil Midgley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Salford, 1977-1992 🆘
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 191 | 🟩 | 91 🟨 | 49 🟥 51 | 1.69

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Neil Midgley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Salford, 1977-1992 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 1
🆘 Refused Villa two clear penalties, adding insult by awarding a free kick outside the area, before allowing a foul to go unpunished that immediately led to Rangers' goal.
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

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

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Gordon Cowans replaces Frank Carrodus.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.00 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.92 |

Youngest Player |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.20 |

Referee

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |

MANAGER

Frank Sibley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Queens Park Rangers

GK Phil Parkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Don Shanks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tommy Cunningham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ernie Howe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Ian Gillard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stan Bowles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Leighton James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M John Hollins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Francis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Eastoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Don Givens | 🇮🇪 |

Line Ups

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CF Peter Eastoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Martyn Busby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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LB Mick Buttress | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, 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

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 2 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

"The pitch was a source of problems to both sides but we really should have been awarded two penalties. “Dennis Mortimer was clearly tripped in the second half and John Deehan was also fouled two yards inside the area. "But we are not supposed to complain against refereeing decisions and I can say no more.” Ron Saunders.
Quotes

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟨 2 Jan 1978, Villa 1-1 QPR, Villa Park

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MATCH VIDEO

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