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Game #3757

Aston Villa

Monday, 2 May 1983

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Lost

4th= (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Division One

Swansea City

Vetch Field

Attendance: 9,173

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

Swansea City

2-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Allan Evans

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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MATCH TIMELINE

Monday, 2 May 1983

🥅 | 10' Goal, 0-1, (Swansea City), Colin Pascoe
⚽ | Goal, 1-1, Gary Shaw, Assist by Allan Evans
🕒 | HT Swansea City 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 50' Goal, 1-2, (Swansea City), Darren Gale
🕒 | FT Swansea City 2-1 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

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 2 May 1983

  • Villa are surprisingly beaten at relegation threatened Swansea - their third defeat in five division one games - to fall back to joint fourth in the table with two games left to play - against champions Liverpool and mid-table Arsenal.

  • Tony Barton's Villa, reigning European Champions, lose to relegation threatened Swansea and make it twenty wins, four draws and sixteen losses in forty League games this season.

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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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

Swansea City

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Swansea City

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Previous 5 vs. Swansea: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

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

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 1982-83
Matchday: #55
League Match: #40
Manager Game: #80
Monday, 2 May 1983

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🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Dennis Hedges | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxford, 1979-1990
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

🕒 80 | 🟩 | 39 🟨 | 12 🟥 29 | 1.61

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Dennis Hedges | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxford, 1979-1990
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 13 March 1982, Villa 3-1 Wolves, Villa Park.
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

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Tony Barton names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.03 |

Oldest Player |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.09 |

Youngest Player |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.93 |

Referee

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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 Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Curbishley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

John Toshack | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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Swansea City

GK Chris Sander | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
D Gary Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
D Dudley Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Gary Stanley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Pascoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Chris Marustik | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Ray Kennedy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Robbie James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Jeremy Charles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Bob Latchford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Darren Gale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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D Nigel Stevenson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Reported

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟥 2 May 1983, Villa 1-2 Swansea, Vetch Field

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