Villa play without their first choice defence, in a stadium they know nothing about, against a Kyiv 🇺🇦 side they have hardly seen but Tony Barton's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 men put in an excellent defensive performance to take a 🟨 goalless draw back to Villa Park in the European Cup quarter final.

Villa's performance is all the more impressive given the problems surrounding the tie.

Barton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 had formally protested to the Soviet Football Federation about the hotel accommodation after the team was unexpectedly denied rooms in the plush Hotel Yalta and moved to a lesser establishment. 

Not only that but the game itself was played in Simferopol after Dynamo's own pitch was ruled out by a severe winter with Villa kept in the dark about the venue until the very last. 

On the field centre back Allan Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 failed his fitness fight, with left back Colin Gibson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 also missing out.

Villa face FC Dynamo Kyiv 🇺🇦 for the first time in competitive football, Kyiv become the 120th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football, Villa’s eighth continental European opponents and their first from Ukraine 🇺🇦.

Winger Tony Morley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 100th start in a Villa shirt.