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Game #3888

Aston Villa

5-7-11, 22 PTS

Thursday, 26 December 1985

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Lost

18th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

Division One

Leicester City

6-7-10, 25 PTS

Filbert Street

Attendance: 13,752

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

Leicester City

3-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Steve Hodge | 32' |

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

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MATCH TIMELINE

Thursday, 26 December 1985

🥅 | 17' Goal, 0-1, (Leicester City), Alan Smith
⚽ | 32' Goal, 1-1, Mark Walters, Assist by Steve Hodge
🥅 | 41' Goal, 1-2, (Leicester City), Alan Smith
🕒 | HT Leicester City 2-1 Aston Villa
💥 | 66' Missed Penalty, Mark Walters
🥅 | 82' Goal, 1-3, (Leicester City), Mark Bright
🔁 | 82' Sub off, Darren Bradley, Sub on, Tony Daley
🕒 | FT Leicester City 3-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Dean Glover
🟨 | Booking, Tony Dorigo
🟨 | Booking, Gary Williams

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

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

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ON THIS DAY

Thursday, 26 December 1985

  • Villa crash to 18th in the table as they are beaten by a Leicester side who sat just one place above them at the start of play.

  • Graham Turner’s Villa lose for the fifth time in six League games and now have just five wins in twenty three Division One games and eleven defeats as they fall to 19th place in the table.

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

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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

Leicester City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1963-64

FIXTURE HISTORY

Leicester City

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Previous 5 vs. Leicester: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

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

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1985-86 |
Matchday | #28 |
League Match | #23 |
Manager Game | #74 |
Thursday, 26 December 1985

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🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1984-1986
Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, Lancashire, 1983-1998
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

🕒 74 | 🟩 | 26 🟨 | 19 🟥 29 | 1.31

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Roger Dilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Mossley, Lancashire, 1983-1998
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 4 February 1984, Villa 0-0 Luton, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Dean Glover
🟨 Tony Dorigo
🟨 Gary Williams

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

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Gary Shaw replaces Andy Gray.

Starting XI Average Age
| 22.75 |

Oldest Player |
CF Simon Stainrod | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 26.92 |

Youngest Player |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.00 |

Referee

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

MANAGER

Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

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Aston Villa

GK Kevin Poole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Paul Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Dean Glover | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Darren Bradley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Steve Hodge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Simon Stainrod | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Gordon Milne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Leicester City

GK Ian Andrews | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Andy Feeley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Russell Osman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Simon Morgan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |
M Ally Mauchlen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gary McAllister | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Ian Wilson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Ian Banks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Laurie Cunningham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Alan Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Darren Bradley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Laurie Cunningham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Mark Bright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |)

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Substitutes

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

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

🟥 26 Dec 1985, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

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

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

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