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Game #3558

Aston Villa

Saturday, 20 October 1979

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Won

14th (+2)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

Division One

Derby County

Baseball Ground

Attendance: 20,152

🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

Derby County

1-3

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Gordon Cowans | 6' | 58' | Gary Shaw | 71' |

🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 20 October 1979

⚽ | 6’ Goal, 1-0, Brian Little, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🟨 | 29' Booking, Jimmy Rimmer, Arguing with referee Owen about lack of protection
💥 | 31' Jimmy Rimmer laid out in goalmouth after a collision
💥 | 36' Play resumes following treatment to Rimmer who remains dazed
🟨 | 39' Booking, Brendan Ormsby, Foul
🥅 | 44’ Goal, 1-1, (Derby County), Paul Emson
🕒 | HT Derby County 1-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 2-1, Gary Shaw, Assist by Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 71’ Goal, 3-1, Dennis Mortimer, Assist by Gary Shaw
🕒 | FT Derby County 1-3 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 20 October 1979

Ron Saunders' Villa win for the second time in three Division One games to make it three wins, five draws and three defeats in eleven League matches this season as they sit in 14th place in the table.

🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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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

Derby County

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League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1974-75

Aston Villa

Derby County

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Derby County

Previous 5 vs. Derby: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1979-80 |
Matchday | #15 |
League Match | #11 |
Manager Game | #276 |
Saturday, 20 October 1979

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🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Derek Owen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1978-1984 🆘
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
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

🕒 276 | 🟩 | 121 🟨 | 78 🟥 77 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Derek Owen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1978-1984 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 1
🆘 "Penalised every minor incident" only to leave Rimmer unprotected and injured.
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 🟨

🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ron Saunders names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.77 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.71 |

Youngest Player |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 17.92 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
RB Kenny Swain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Mike Pejic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
CF David Geddis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Colin Addison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Derby County

GK John Middleton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Steve Buckley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Aidan McCaffery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Keith Osgood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Vic Moreland | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB David Langan | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Bruce Rioch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Steve Emery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Emson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Roy Greenwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Roger Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

Line Ups

🟩 20 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Billy Caskey | 🇬🇧 |

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 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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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 October 1979, Villa 3-1 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 3 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

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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, 22 October 1979

​Aston Villa's demolition job on Derby County had County's new manager Colin Addison groaning in despair about the inadequacies of his outfit. Villa's 3-1 win - their first away in the league - was certainly very convincing, and they would not have been flattered if the score had been doubled. But any judgment on Villa's latest progress will have to be deferred until they play a side of true First Division ability. Derby are scarcely fit to be described in that category. Addison, who gained so much respect as Ron Atkinson's assistant at West Bromwich Albion last season. knows it and he said as much after watching his side's capitulation. "If we didn't know already this game proved that it is going to be a very long and hard season for us," he said. "Villa cut us up more than any other side. But we have no excuses. We played badly. It was very disappointing and we gave away two of the goals." Ron Saunders, Villa's manager, did not give the impression of being absolutely ecstatic about the performance apart from agreeing that it was the best his side had played all season. There were several bonus points, however, about Villa's display which suggests that Saunders' revamped side is beginning to move in the right direction. Little's first goal after a 33-week famine was perhaps the biggest. He certainly looked something like his former self and if Villa could get 15 goals a campaign out of him a lot of their problems up front would be solved. New centre-forward Geddis is still waiting to score his first goal after seven games and it may be that Saunders will have to buy another striker to complement him. Geddis cannot be faulted for his work rate but he possibly needs another experienced forward to feed off. In other areas, Villa could not be faulted. Ormsby who replaced McNaught at centre half, had a magnificent game and he scarcely made a mistake. The same could be said of fullback Pejic. In midfield Villa were handsomely served by Mortimer and Cowans while the other new boy, Bremner looks to be the bell winner the side has needed ever since Cropley broke his leg. Neat volley After Little had opened the scoring in the sixth minute with a neat volley when a Cowans corner had been only half cleared it was soon evident that Villa were the strongest side. Emson headed a smart 44th minute equaliser for Derby after a rare lapse in defence. But after the interval Villa were completely in command. Cowans hit a perfect cross to Shaw in the 58th minute for him to put Villa ahead again and Mortimer confirmed their superiority in the 71st minute after yet another brilliant run by Cowans. Derby were let off lightly and they can be thankful that they were. Villa must clearly be more ruthless, though, against opponents of Derby's paucity.
Reports

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