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Game #3595

Aston Villa

Saturday, 3 May 1980

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Lost

7th (-2)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

Division One

Liverpool

Anfield

Attendance: 51,451

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

Liverpool

4-1

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Aston Villa

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🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 3 May 1980

🥅 | 5’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), David Johnson
⚽ | 26’ Goal, 1-1, Own Goal, Avi Cohen
🕒 | HT Liverpool 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 51’ Goal, 1-2, (Liverpool) Avi Cohen
🥅 | 72’ Goal, 1-3, (Liverpool), David Johnson
🥅 | 78’ Goal, 1-4, (Liverpool), Noel Blake o.g.
🕒 | FT Liverpool 4-1 Aston Villa

🔁 | Sub off, Ivor Linton, Sub on, Tony Morley

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 3 May 1980

  • Villa face champions Liverpool on the final day and the youngsters are unsurprisingly beaten to leave Villa in fifth place but the final table is incomplete with Forest, a point behind still having three games to play, whilst Wolves have two. 

  • When the final games are completed Villa sit 7th in the table falling behind Forest and Wolves in the final round of matches.

  • Villa finish the campaign with sixteen wins, fourteen draws and twelve defeats in forty two Division One matches under Ron Saunders having been forced in the early months to play without stars Andy Gray and John Gidman, before losing John Deehan and then in the latter stages of the campaign suffering an injury crisis so severe that the club were forced to play 18 year old centre back Noel Blake in the final 3 games of the season.

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1976-77

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1978-79

Aston Villa

Liverpool

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Liverpool

Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1979-80 |
Matchday | #52 |
League Match | #42 |
Manager Game | #313 |
Saturday, 3 May 1980

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🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Terry Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rotherham, 1976-1982
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-4
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

🕒 313 | 🟩 | 137 🟨 | 89 🟥 87 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Terry Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rotherham, 1976-1982
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

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None

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ron Saunders names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 23.39 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.25 |

Youngest Player |
CB Noel Blake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.32 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kenny Swain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Noel Blake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Pat Heard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ivor Linton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF David Geddis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Bob Paisley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Liverpool

GK Ray Clemence | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Avi Cohen | 🇮🇱 | ⚽ |
CB Alan Hansen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Phil Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Phil Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Sammy Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Graeme Souness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Terry McDermott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ray Kennedy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Kenny Dalglish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF David Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Ivor Linton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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W Howard Gayle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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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

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 7 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mike Pejic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
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

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟥 3 May 1980, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Anfield.

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