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Game #3505

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 4 October 1978

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Drew

3rd Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨

League Cup

Crystal Palace

Villa Park

Attendance: 30,690

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

1-1

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Crystal Palace

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Assist(s) | Ken McNaught | 41' |

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 4 October 1978

⚽ | 41’ Goal, 1-0, Brian Little, Assist by Ken McNaught
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Crystal Palace
💥 | 60’ Missed penalty, Tommy Craig
🥅 | 74’ Goal, 1-1, (Crystal Palace, pen), Nick Chatterton
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Gary Shelton, Sub on, Leighton Phillips
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Crystal Palace

🟨 | Booking, John Gregory, Dissent
🟨 | Booking, John Deehan, Innocuous tackle

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 4 October 1978

Injury ravaged Villa can only draw with second division high flyers Palace in the League Cup third round ahead of a Selhurst Park replay.

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, 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: 1976-77

Crystal Palace

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

Aston Villa

Crystal Palace

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Crystal Palace

Previous 5 vs. Palace: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1978-79 |
Matchday | #10 |
Manager Game | #223 |
Wednesday, 4 October 1978

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🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Tony Morrissey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cheshire, 1968-1979 🆘
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
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

🕒 223 | 🟩 | 104 🟨 | 57 🟥 62 | 1.65

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Tony Morrissey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cheshire, 1968-1979 🆘
Matches Officiated: 9
🟩 : 5
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 2
🆘 "Sometime justice sleeps"
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 15 October 1977, Villa 3-0 Norwich, Villa Park.
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 🟨

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🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Frank Carrodus replaces Gordon Cowans.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.45 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.67 |

Youngest Player |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 17.81 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |
M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Tommy Craig | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Terry Venables | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Crystal Palace

GK John Burridge (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Paul Hinshelwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jim Cannon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
D Billy Gilbert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Kenny Sansom | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nicky Chatterton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Peter Nicholas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Jerry Murphy | 🇮🇪 |
M Vince Hilaire | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Dave Swindlehurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mike Elwiss | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82' |

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CB Terry Fenwick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, 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 Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, 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

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 5 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“If that is what football is about them I don’t like football any more. “I keep reading about what good football this side plays [Palace] and then that kind of thing happens. “They tried to kick us off the park. “I must be preaching the wrong thing here. “Shelton was done four times before they finally got him. “The way injuries are going for us at the moment we are going to have to close up shop and play our games off in the summer. “It was not what was happening on the ball that bothered me - you expect that in football - it was that was going on off it.” Ron Saunders.
Quotes

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟨 4 October 1978, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park.

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