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Game #3515

Aston Villa

6-5-4, 17 PTS

Saturday, 18 November 1978

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Won

7th= (+2)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division One

Bristol City

6-3-6, 15 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 27,621

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

2-0

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Bristol City

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Assist(s) | Gary Shelton | 59' | 70' |

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 18 November 1978

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Bristol City
⚽ | 59’ Goal, 1-0, John Deehan, Assist by Gary Shelton
⚽ | 70’ Goal, 2-0, Gordon Cowans, Assist by Gary Shelton
🟥 | 76’ Sending off, (Bristol City), Joe Royle
🔁 | 89' Sub off, Allan Evans, Sub on, Colin Gibson 🟢
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Bristol City

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 18 November 1978

Ron Saunders' Villa win consecutive matches to make it six wins, five draws and four defeats in fifteen division one games this season. Meanwhile, midfielder Colin Gibson made his Villa debut aged 18 after joining from school football in July 1976.

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Bristol City

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

Aston Villa

Bristol City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Bristol City

Previous 5 vs. Bristol City: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1978-79 |
Matchday | #20 |
League Match | #15 |
Manager Game | #233 |
Saturday, 18 November 1978

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🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Norman Glover | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chorley, 1977-1986
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
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

🕒 233 | 🟩 | 108 🟨 | 61 🟥 64 | 1.65

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Norman Glover | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chorley, 1977-1986
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

🟥 🟨 🟨

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ivor Linton replaces the injured Brian Little.

Starting XI Average Age
| 22.89 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.79 |

Youngest Player |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 17.93 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ivor Linton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Alan Dicks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Bristol City

GK John Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Donnie Gillies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Gerry Sweeney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB David Rodgers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Norman Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M John Bain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Trevor Tainton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Gow | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Tom Ritchie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Kevin Mabbutt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Joe Royle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |

Line Ups

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | for CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 89' |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M John Bain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (M Clive Whitehead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, 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

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

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

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 6 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Tommy Craig | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“He [Allan Evans, playing on after being mowed down in the first half, off the field for four minutes, suffering a facial injury, sore thigh and five stitches in an ankle wound] was seeing double when I took him off. “Considering we were without so many key players it was a tremendous performance, crowned by goals which were out of this world. “We played with a lot of fire and concentration over the whole 90 minutes. "Dennis Mortimer, Shelton and Deehan all did particularly well, and I was pleased with young Ivor Linton in his first full game. “I know he was a bit anxious about it, but he did well and was always improving as the match went along." Ron Saunders.
Quotes

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 18 November 1978, Villa 2-0 Bristol City, Villa Park.

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