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Game #3737

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 26 January 1983

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Won

Final

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩

Super Cup

Barcelona

Villa Park

Attendance: 31,750

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

Aston Villa

3-0

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FC Barcelona

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Assist(s) | Ken McNaught | 80' | Gordon Cowans | 104' |

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 26 January 1983

🟨 | 9’ Booking, (FC Barcelona), Julio Alberto, Scything tackle on Andy Blair
🟨 | 38' Booking, (FC Barcelona), Urbano Ortega
🟨 | 40' Booking, Colin Gibson
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 FC Barcelona
🟨 | 50’ Booking, Ken McNaught, Foul
🟨 | 50’ Booking, (FC Barcelona), Julio Alberto, Deliberate Handball
🟥 | 50’ Sending off, (FC Barcelona), Julio Alberto, Second Booking
🟨 | 53’ Booking, (FC Barcelona), José Ramón Alexanko
🟨 | 77' Booking, Allan Evans, Push
🟨 | 68’ Booking, (FC Barcelona), Bernd Schuster, High tackle
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Tony Morley, Sub on, Mark Walters
⚽ | 79’ Goal, 1-0, Gary Shaw, Assist by Ken McNaught
💥 | Migueli remains on the floor with a facial cut
💥 | Game delayed for four minutes by Barcelona players protesting goal
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 FC Barcelona
💥 | 99’ Missed penalty, Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 99’ Goal, 2-0, Gordon Cowans from rebound
🟨 | 101' Booking, (FC Barcelona), Javier Urruti for kicking Cowans
💥 | 101’ Schuster kicked ball into crowd ahead of restart after referee had placed the ball on the centre spot
💥 | 101’ Schuster attempts to lead walk off of Barcelona players
⚽ | 104’ Goal, 3-0, Ken McNaught, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🟨 | 105’ Booking, (FC Barcelona), Manolo
🟥 | 105’ Sending off, (FC Barcelona), Marcos Alonso, Punching Mark Walters
🟨 | 110' Booking, Allan Evans, Trip
🟥 | 110’ Sending off, Allan Evans, Second Booking
🔁 | 113’ Sub off, Gary Williams, Sub on, Paul Birch
🕒 | AET Aston Villa 3-0 FC Barcelona

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

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 26 January 1983

  • Villa triumph over the "thuggery" of "brutal" Barcelona 🇪🇸 who "kicked everything that moved" to win the UEFA Super Cup.

  • Tony Barton's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa, reigning European Champions, win the Super Cup by hammering Barcelona 🇪🇸 on a bewildering European night at Villa Park.

  • Midfielder Paul Birch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his debut in a Villa shirt to become the 622nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Forward Gary Shaw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 60th goal for the club and records his 80th goal involvement as he makes his 🕒 150th start in a Villa shirt (152 Appearances).

  • Centre forward Peter Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 125th appearance in a Villa shirt.

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup Winners: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Barcelona

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
La Liga Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Copa del Rey Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

FIXTURE HISTORY

Barcelona

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Previous 5 vs. Barcelona: 🟨 🟥 🟥

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

Barcelona

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Barcelona

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

None

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 1982-83
Matchday: #35
Manager Game: #60
Wednesday, 26 January 1983

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🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Alexis Ponnet | 🇧🇪 | Brussels, 1975-1989
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Aggregate: Result: 🟨 Drew
Aggregate Score: 🟨 1-1
AET Result: 🟩 Won
AET Score: 🟩 3-0
Aggregate: Result: 🟩 Won
Aggregate Score: 🟩 3-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

🕒 60 | 🟩 | 28 🟨 | 11 🟥 21 | 1.58

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Alexis Ponnet | 🇧🇪 | Brussels, 1975-1989 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟥 Allan Evans
🟨 Allan Evans, Push
🟨 Allan Evans, Trip
🟨 Colin Gibson
🟨 Ken McNaught, Foul

CARDS

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🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

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

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Andy Blair replaces Dennis Mortimer.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.70 |

Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.43 |

Youngest Player |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.19 |

Referee

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Andy Blair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Udo Lattek | 🇩🇪 |

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Barcelona

GK Javier Urruti | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
CB José Ramón Alexanko | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
CB Migueli | 🇪🇸 |
LB Julio Alberto | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
M Víctor Muñoz | 🇪🇸 |
M Urbano Ortega | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
M Bernd Schuster | 🇩🇪 | 🟨 |
M Tente Sánchez | 🇪🇸 |
M Periko Alonso | 🇪🇸 |
M Marcos Alonso | 🇪🇸 | 🟥 |
W Lobo Carrasco | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 72’ |
🔁 | M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 113’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Lobo Carrasco | 🇪🇸 | (CF Quini | 🇪🇸 |)
🔁 | CF Quini | 🇪🇸 | (LB Manolo | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Pello Artola | 🇪🇸 |
CB Antonio Olmo | 🇪🇸 |
M Periko Alonso | 🇪🇸 |

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

🟩 26 Jan 1983, Villa 3-0 Barcelona, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 16/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🇪🇸 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🇪🇸 : 15/16

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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

“I was very disappointed with Barcelona, they have quality players and don’t need to play like they did. “It was only my players’ restraint which prevented it getting even worse. “I don’t feel we intimidated them at all and there is no reason why we should fear sanctions from UEFA. “People are continually knocking British football but I’m sure no one wants to see us play the way Barcelona did tonight. “When we looked at it before the game it seemed worth competing in because it is another European tournament, another medal. “Now my feelings are bitter sweet. “We will be without Allan Evans in Europe next time and we could have lost a few more players [through injury] for Saturday’s FA Cup tie against Wolves. “I only saw bits and pieces of the Spurs game last year [Cup Winners Cup semi final with Barcelona for which they were heavily fined] but I can’t believe it could have been worse than this. “People keep going on about what’s wrong with British football and saying that we are inferior to the continentals. “But if that’s the way they want to see us play every Saturday, then I don’t want any part of it. “I thought there might be some trouble because Barcelona have a reputation for violence away from home and they were coming here to defend a one goal lead. “But I never expected anything like this. “I don’t know why they do it.” Tony Barton.
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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