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Game #3748

Aston Villa

Saturday, 19 March 1983

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Won

4th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

Division One

Coventry City

Villa Park

Attendance: 20,509

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

Aston Villa

4-0

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Coventry City

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Assist(s) | Dennis Mortimer | 38' | Des Bremner | 70' |

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 19 March 1983

⚽ | 24' Goal, 1-0, Gary Shaw
⚽ | 29' Goal, 2-0, Peter Withe
⚽ | 38' Goal, 3-0, Allan Evans, Assist by Dennis Mortimer
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 3-0 Coventry City
⚽ | 70' Goal, 4-0, Peter Withe, Assist by Des Bremner
🔁 | 87' Sub off, Gary Shaw, Sub on, Tony Morley
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-0 Coventry City

🟨 | Booking, Allan Evans, Dissent

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

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 19 March 1983
  • Villa recover from their European exit to hammer Coventry at Villa Park as Tony Barton's side remain 4th in the first division table with eleven games of the season left.

  • Tony Barton's Villa, reigning European Champions, put aside their European disappointment to hammer Coventry and make it sixteen wins, three draws and twelve losses in thirty one League games this season.

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, 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: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Coventry City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY
Coventry City
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Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨

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

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season: 1982-83
Matchday: #46
League Match: #31
Manager Game: #71
Saturday, 19 March 1983

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🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Trevor Spencer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Salisbury, 1972-1984
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 3-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

🕒 71 | 🟩 | 35 🟨 | 11 🟥 25 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Trevor Spencer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Salisbury, 1972-1984

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Allan Evans, Dissent

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

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Tony Barton names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.65 |

Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.57 |

Youngest Player |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.81 |

Referee

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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Aston Villa

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

MANAGER

Dave Sexton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Coventry City

GK Les Sealey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Brian Roberts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Paul Dyson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian Butterworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Gary Gillespie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Danny Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Francis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve Hunt (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve Whitton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Jim Melrose | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Mark Hateley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 87' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Ian Butterworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (F Keith Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 19 Mar 1983, Villa 4-0 Coventry, Villa Park

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