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Game #3772

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 19 October 1983

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Drew

2nd Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨

UEFA Cup

FC Spartak Moscow

Attendance: 49,980

🟨 18 October 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

FC Spartak Moscow

2-2

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Aston Villa

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🟨 18 October 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 19 October 1983

🕒 | HT Spartak Moscow 0-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 47’ Goal, 1-0, Colin Gibson
🥅 | 52’ Goal, 1-1, (Spartak Moscow), Yuri Gavrilov
⚽ | 68’ Goal, 2-1, Mark Walters
🥅 | 90’+1 Goal, 2-2, (Spartak Moscow, pen), Yuri Gavrilov
🕒 | FT Spartak Moscow 2-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 19 October 1983

  • Villa face FC Spartak Moscow for the first time in competitive football, Spartak become the 128th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football, Villa’s 15th continental European opponents and their first from Russia.

  • A laughable penalty award in unmerited injury time secures Spartak an undeserved draw on their home patch but regardlessTony Barton's Villa secure two away goals as they draw in Moscow in the second round of the UEFA Cup.

🟨 18 October 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

FC Spartak Moscow

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Soviet Top League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Soviet Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1979

Aston Villa

FC Spartak Moscow

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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FC Spartak Moscow

Previous 5 vs. Spartak: None

FC Spartak Moscow

PREVIOUS MATCH

None
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FC Spartak Moscow

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 1983-84
Matchday: #13
European Match: #3
Manager Game: #95
Wednesday, 19 October 1983

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🟨 18 October 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Roger Schoeters | 🇧🇪 | Mol, 1979 -1986
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 95 | 🟩 | 46 🟨 | 16 🟥 33 | 1.62

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Roger Schoeters | 🇧🇪 | Mol, 1979 -1986 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Des Bremner replaces Alan Curbishley.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.12 |

Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.16 |

Youngest Player |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.39 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 18 October 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Steve McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Konstantin Beskov | 🇷🇺 |

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FC Spartak Moscow

GK Rinat Dasaev | 🇷🇺 |
RB Vladimir Sochnov | 🇷🇺 |
RB Gennadiy Morozov | 🇷🇺 |
CB Boris Pozdnyakov | 🇷🇺 |
CB Aleksandr Bubnov | 🇷🇺 |
LB Sergey Bazulev | 🇷🇺 | 🟨 |
M Evgeniy Kuznetsov | 🇷🇺 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Fedor Cherenkov | 🇷🇺 |
F Yuriy Gavrilov | 🇷🇺 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Sergey Rodionov | 🇷🇺 |
CF Sergey Argudyaev | 🇺🇦 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Evgeniy Kuznetsov | 🇷🇺 | 🟨 | (M Valeriy Gladilin | 🇷🇺 |)
🔁 | CF Sergey Argudyaev | 🇺🇦 | (F Yuriy Reznik | 🇺🇦 |)

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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Not recorded

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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Not Recorded

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

🟨 18 October 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

Game
Start
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
45
44*
0
0
22
7
16
49
17
0
0

SUBSTITUTES

Game
Sub
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

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SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🇷🇺 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🇷🇺 : 11/13

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

"We more than held our own and I think the penalty decision against Brendan Ormsby was harsh.” Tony Barton.
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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