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Game #3501

Aston Villa

3-1-1, 6 PTS

Saturday, 9 September 1978

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Won

5th (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Division One

Ipswich Town

Portman Road

Attendance: 22,166

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

Ipswich Town

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Aston Villa

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🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 9 September 1978

⚽ | 17’ Goal, 1-0, John Gregory, Assist by Brian Little
🟨 | 10' Booking, Gordon Smith
🕒 | HT Ipswich Town 0-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, John Gidman (Injury), Sub on, Lee Jenkins 🟢
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 2-0, Andy Gray (pen)
🕒 | FT Ipswich Town 0-2 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

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 9 September 1978

  • Villa win for the first time in three as Andy Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽ scores his third of the season from the penalty spot in the final seconds.

  • Villa beat Ipswich to make it 🟩 three wins, 🟨 a draw and 🟥 a defeat in five division one games so far this season under Ron Saunders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

  • Midfielder Lee Jenkins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 17, makes his 🕒 debut appearance in a Villa shirt as a 70' substitute having graduated from the youth ranks to become the 597th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Gordon Cowans makes his 🕒 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (61 Starts) to make it 🟩 W36 🟨 D16 🟥 L23, ⚽ 10 Goals and 🔥 5 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 5.00 games he has played so far in his Villa career. 

  • Centre forward Andy Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 makes his 🕒 125th start in a Villa shirt.


🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Lee Jenkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #597 | Youth team promotion

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

Ipswich Town

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League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1977-78

FIXTURE HISTORY

Ipswich Town

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Previous 5 vs. Ipswich: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

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

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1978-79 |
Matchday | #6 |
League Match | #5 |
Manager Game | #219 |
Saturday, 9 September 1978

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🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Tom Bune | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sussex, 1974-1985
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 219 | 🟩 | 104 🟨 | 55 🟥 60 | 1.68

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Tom Bune | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sussex, 1974-1985 🆘
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
🆘 Bizarrely gave a corner before changing his mind to award a 90' penalty to Villa
Previous 5: 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 1 October 1977, Villa 0-1 Birmingham, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Gordon Smith

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

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

John Gregory and Tommy Craig replace Frank Carrodus and Gary Shelton.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.65 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.60 |

Youngest Player |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.88 |

Referee

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Tommy Craig | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Bobby Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Ipswich Town

GK Paul Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mick Mills | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Russell Osman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kevin Beattie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB George Burley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Arnold Mühren | 🇳🇱 |
M Brian Talbot | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M John Wark | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Clive Woods | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Eric Gates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Paul Mariner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Lee Jenkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | for RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 70' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | F Eric Gates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Trevor Whymark | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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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

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman 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

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 3 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH QUOTES

“At this stage it is impossible to say exactly how long John [Gidman] will be out. “It could be anything between two and seven to eight weeks. “He had his ankle put in plaster and we won’t know for certain until the plaster is removed in about a week’s time. “Nobody is to blame for what happened. He went for the ball, checked, and seemed to go over on his ankle. “He [Gordon Smith] jarred a knee and it is very swollen. “Again we shall have to wait about 48 hours before we know the extent of his injury.” Ron Saunders. “I don’t think out lads were at fault. “Little and Gray are very good players and it’s as simple as that.” Ipswich manager Bobby Robson.
Quotes

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 11 September 1978

Aston Villa right back John Gidman could be out of action for as much as two months after straining ligaments in his left ankle during Villa’s 2-0 win over Ipswich at Portman Road. At first it was feared that the England international had broken his left ankle having turned over on it in the 70th minute after Clive Woods had won the ball from him. But it was not until after examination at Ipswich Hospital on Saturday evening that Gidman was told he had strained ligaments. Said Villa manager Ron Saunders yesterday: “At this stage it is impossible to say exactly how long John will be out. It could be anything between two and seven to eight weeks. “He had his ankle put in plaster yesterday and we won’t now for certain until the plaster is removed in about a week’s time. “Nobody is to blame for what happened. He went for the ball, checked, and seemed to go over on his ankle.” Saunders is also concerned about an injury to his other defender Gordon Smith: “He jarred a knee and it is very swollen.” he said. “Again we shall have to wait about 48 hours before we know the extent of his injury. The sight of Gidman being carried off on a stretcher naturally cast a shadow over the proceedings but it failed to dampen the enthusiasm of a much improved Villa side. The return of Tommy Craig to the midfield gave the Midlanders more poise and control, despite the fact that Craig is not fully fit having only two games in the reserves since his last first team game in March. But perhaps the most comforting sight for the particularly melodic group of Villa supporters who had made the ling trip was the form and clever interplay between strikers Brian Little and Andy Gray. Little had a field day. A series of long skilful runs in which he took on and beat several players had Ipswich manager Bobby Robson praising him rather than disciplining his own back four. “I don’t think our lads were at fault.” he said. “Little and Gray are very good players and it’s as simple as that. Fearless Gray Gray produced the sort of form that has earned him such praise in the past. His cleverly headed flick-ons and fearless challenges in the air blended perfectly with Little’s speed and skill. John Gregory opened the scoring in the 17th minute after a well worked move involving Gidman, Gordon Cowans and Little. And then in the 90th minute Gray netted from the penalty spot after an earlier shot had been punched over the bar by defender Mick Mills.
Reports

🟩 9 Sep 1978, Villa 2-0 Ipswich, Portman Road

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