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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

🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

FC Spartak Moscow

2-2

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Aston Villa

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🟨 19 Oct 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

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 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 19 October 1983
  • Villa take the game to Spartak 🇷🇺 and look to be heading for a first leg win before a soft 89' penalty saves the Soviets.

  • 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 regardless Tony Barton's Villa secure two away goals as they draw in Moscow in the second round of the UEFA Cup.

  • Colin Gibson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 5th goal in 🕒 14 matches, having scored ⚽ three in his first 🕒 144 appearances in a Villa shirt.

  • Winger Tony Morley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 175th appearance in a Villa shirt.

🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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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

FC Spartak Moscow

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

FIXTURE HISTORY
FC Spartak Moscow
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Previous 5 vs. Spartak: None

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

FC Spartak Moscow

PREVIOUS MATCH
None
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FC Spartak Moscow

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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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🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Roger Schoeters | 🇧🇪 | Mol, 1983
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨

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

🕒 95 | 🟩 | 46 🟨 | 16 🟥 33 | 1.62

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Roger Schoeters | 🇧🇪 | Mol, 1983

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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None

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 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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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

🟨 19 Oct 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

🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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

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Substitutes

🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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

Squad Bios

🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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

🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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UNAVAILABLE
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M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟨 19 Oct 1983, Villa 2-2 Spartak

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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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