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Game #3656

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 21 October 1981

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Won

2nd Round

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

European Cup

Berliner FC Dynamo

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

Attendance: 25,000

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

Berliner FC Dynamo

1-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Gary Shaw | 5' | Peter Withe | 85' |

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 21 October 1981

⚽ | 5’ Goal, Tony Morley, Assist by Gary Shaw
🕒 | HT Berliner FC Dynamo 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 50’ Goal, (Berliner FC Dynamo), Hans-Jurgen Riediger
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Gary Williams, Sub on, Ivor Linton
💥 | 80’ Missed penalty, (Berliner FC Dynamo)
⚽ | 85’ Goal, Tony Morley, Assist by Peter Withe
🕒 | FT Berliner FC Dynamo 1-2 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

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 21 October 1981

  • Villa face Berliner FC Dynamo 🇩🇪 for the first time in competitive football, Dynamo become the 118th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football, Villa’s seventh continental European opponents and their first from Germany 🇩🇪.

  • Ron Saunders' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa win in Berlin thanks to two Tony Morley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 goals to take two crucial away goals and seize the advantage in the European Cup second round as Ivor Linton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 comes on as substitute to make his first appearance for Villa since Saturday, 3 May 1980.

  • Villa, unbeaten in twelve games in all competitions, secure a crucial first leg away win in Berlin in the second round of the European Cup as Tony Morley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores five minutes from the start and five from the end.

  • Forward Gary Shaw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🔥 sets up Tony Morley’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ first goal to record his 50th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 86th appearance (84 Starts) at a rate of one goal involvement for every 1.72 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Winger Tony Morley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores his twentieth goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 80th appearance.

  • Midfielder Ivor Linton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his first appearance in 18 months and 61 games to make it 🕒 29 appearances (17 Starts) in a Villa shirt.

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1980-81

Berliner FC Dynamo

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East German Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FDGB-Pokal Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1980-81

FIXTURE HISTORY

Berliner FC Dynamo

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Previous 5 vs. Berliner: None

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

Berliner FC Dynamo

PREVIOUS MATCH

None
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Berliner FC Dynamo

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 1981-82
Matchday: #15
European Match: #3
Manager Game: #374
Wednesday, 21 October 1981

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🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Franz Wöhrer | 🇦🇹 | Wien, 1969-1987
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 374 | 🟩 | 171 🟨 | 104 🟥 99 | 1.65

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Franz Wöhrer | 🇦🇹 | Wien, 1969-1987
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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None

CARDS

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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Peter Withe replaces David Geddis.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.56 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33.72 |

Youngest Player |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.93 |

Referee

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |

MANAGER

Jürgen Bogs | 🇩🇪 |

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Berliner FC Dynamo

GK Bodo Rudwaleit | 🇩🇪 |
D Artur Ullrich | 🇩🇪 |
D Michael Noack | 🇩🇪 |
CB Rainer Troppa | 🇩🇪 |
M Norbert Trieloff | 🇩🇪 |
M Frank Terletzki | 🇩🇪 |
M Bernd Schulz | 🇩🇪 |
M Rainer Ernst | 🇩🇪 |
F Hans-Jürgen Riediger | 🇩🇪 | ⚽ |
F Wolf-Rüdiger Netz | 🇩🇪 |
CF Ralf Sträßer | 🇩🇪 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Ivor Linton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 68' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CF Ralf Sträßer | 🇩🇪 | (M Roland Jüngling | 🇩🇪 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

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

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark

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

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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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

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Reports

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