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Game #3776

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 2 November 1983

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Lost

2nd Round

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥

UEFA Cup

FC Spartak Moscow

Villa Park

Attendance: 29,511

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-2

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FC Spartak Moscow

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Assist(s) | Tony Morley | 2' |

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 2 November 1983

⚽ | 2’ Goal, 1-0, Peter Withe, Assist by Tony Morley
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Spartak Moscow
🥅 | 46’ Goal, 1-1, (Spartak Moscow), Cherenkov
🥅 | 90’+1 Goal, 1-2, (Spartak Moscow), Dennis Mortimer o.g.
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Spartak Moscow

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 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 2 November 1983
  • Three poor performances had seen Villa struggle in the League Cup, humiliated in the League and knocked out of the UEFA Cup as a previously buoyant Tony Barton side looked suddenly thoroughly out of sorts. 

  • Despite taking a 2’ lead Villa are given a torrid time by Spartak with Nigel Spink repeatedly saving them but he could do nothing about a last minute deflection to knock Villa out.

  • Tony Barton's Villa come off the back of the heavy Arsenal defeat to lose to Spartak at home and exit the UEFA Cup at the second round on an aggregate defeat but that hardly told the story.

  • Spartak had scored an injury time equaliser in the away leg that punctured an outstanding Villa performance to leave the tie equal at 'half time'; Villa scored after just two minutes of the home leg only for Spartak to hit an equaliser on the night in Birmingham with just seconds of the second half played; 

  • Spartak then hit an injury time winner through a Dennis Mortimer own goal credited to their 'two' goal hero Cherenkov. Cruel.

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, 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

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: 🟨

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

FC Spartak Moscow

PREVIOUS MATCH
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FC Spartak Moscow

SUBSEQUENT MATCH
None

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season: 1983-84
Matchday: #17
European Match: #4
Manager Game: #99
Wednesday, 2 November 1983

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🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Egbert Mulder | 🇳🇱 | Steenwijk, 1983
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2 (3-4)
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥

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

🕒 99 | 🟩 | 47 🟨 | 17 🟥 35 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Egbert Mulder | 🇳🇱 | Steenwijk, 1983

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 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Colin Gibson replaces Gary Williams.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.08 |

Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.20 |

Youngest Player |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.43 |

Referee

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mark Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
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 | 🇷🇺 |
LB Sergey Bazulev | 🇷🇺 |
CB Boris Pozdnyakov | 🇷🇺 |
CB Aleksandr Bubnov | 🇷🇺 |
RB Vladimir Sochnov | 🇷🇺 |
RB Gennadiy Morozov | 🇷🇺 |
M Evgeniy Kuznetsov | 🇷🇺 |
M Valeriy Gladilin | 🇷🇺 |
M Fedor Cherenkov | 🇷🇺 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Yuriy Gavrilov | 🇷🇺 |
CF Sergey Rodionov | 🇷🇺 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Mervyn Day | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Paul Rideout | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Andrey Mikhalychev | 🇷🇺 |
CB Evgeniy Mileshkin | 🇷🇺 |
CB Sergey Shvetsov | 🇷🇺 |
CF Sergey Argudyaev | 🇺🇦 |

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 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, 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 🇷🇺 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🇷🇺 : 14/15

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

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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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🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟥 2 Nov 1983, Villa 1-2 Spartak, Villa Park

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