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Villa vs.

Crewe Alexandra

🟩 27 Aug 2019, Villa 6-1 Crewe, Gresty Road

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Game #5503

Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Jarred Gillett | 🇦🇺 | Queensland, 2019-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟩 3-0
FT Score: 🟩 6-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Season | 2019-20 |
Matchday | #4 |
Manager Game | #42 |
Tuesday, 27 August 2019

​Scorer(s) | Ezri Konsa | 4’ | Conor Hourihane | 24’ | 45’+3 | Keinan Davis | 69’ | Frédéric Guilbert | 76’ | Jack Grealish | 87’ |

Assist(s) | Henri Lansbury | 24' | 76' | 87' | Anwar El Ghazi | 45'+3 | Jack Grealish | 69' |

Match Timeline

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Starting XI

GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔁 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | ⚽ |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | 🟢 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | 🔥 |
W Jota | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | for LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 43’ |
🔁 M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ | for W Jota | 🇪🇸 | 68’ |
🔁 CF Cameron Archer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | for CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82' |

Unused Substitutes

GK Ørjan Nyland | 🇳🇴 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Starting XI

GK Dave Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Perry Ng | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Oli Lancashire | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Eddie Nolan | 🇮🇪 |
LB Rio Adebisi | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ryan Wintle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Callum Ainley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tom Lowery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Charlie Kirk | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Owen Dale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Chris Porter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CF Chuma Anene | 🇳🇴 | for CF Chris Porter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 | M Oli Finney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Charlie Kirk | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 66’ |
🔁 | M James Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Tom Lowery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 68’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Will Jääskeläinen | 🇫🇮 |
CB Nicky Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Green | 🇮🇪 |
W Daniel Powell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Matt Targett, Ezri Konsa, Marvelous Nakamba
⚽ | 4’ Goal, 1-0, Ezri Konsa
⚽ | 24’ Goal, 2-0, Conor Hourihane, Assist by Henri Lansbury
🔁 | 43’ Sub off, Matt Targett, Sub on, Frédéric Guilbert
⚽ | 45’+3 Goal, 3-0, Conor Hourihane, Assist by Anwar El Ghazi
🕒 | HT Crewe Alexandra 0-3 Aston Villa
🟨 | 58’ Booking, Henri Lansbury for a bad foul
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Jota, Sub on, Jack Grealish
⚽ | 69’ Goal, 4-0, Keinan Davis, Assist by Jack Grealish
⚽ | 76’ Goal, 5-0, Frédéric Guilbert, Assist by Henri Lansbury
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Keinan Davis, Sub on, Cameron Archer 🟢
🥅 | 84’ Goal, 5-1, (Crewe Alexandra), Ryan Wintle
⚽ | 87’ Goal, 6-1, Jack Grealish, Assist by Henri Lansbury
🕒 | FT Crewe Alexandra 1-6 Aston Villa

On This Day

  • New look Villa hammer Crewe in the second round of the League Cup.

  • Right back Frédéric Guilbert scores his first goal for Villa on his second appearance for the club.

  • Centre back Ezri Konsa makes a goalscoring debut for Villa aged 21 after joining from Brentford for a fee of £11,970,000 in July 2019. Konsa becomes the 937th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Left back Matt Targett makes his Villa debut aged 23 after joining from Southampton for a fee of £14,040,000 in July 2019. Targett becomes the 938th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Defensive midfielder Marvelous Nakamba makes his Villa debut aged 25 after joining from Club Brugge KV for a fee of £10,800,000 in August 2019. Nakamba becomes the 939th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Centre forward Cameron Archer makes his Villa debut aged 18 after coming through the ranks. Archer becomes the 940th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Midfielder Aaron Tshibola makes his first squad appearance since 21 January 2017.

🟩 7 January 1989, Villa 3-2 Crewe, Gresty Road.

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Game #4044

Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Ken Redfern | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Whitley Bay, 1978-1993
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #27 |
Manager Game | #78 |
Saturday, 7 January 1989

Scorer(s) | David Platt | 52' | Kevin Gage | 57' | Alan McInally | 79' |

Assist(s) | Gordon Cowans | 52' | David Platt | 79' |

Match Timeline

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Starting XI

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 46' |
🔁 | CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46' |

Unused Substitutes

None

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Starting XI

GK Dean Greygoose | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Wayne Goodison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Paul Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Aaron Callaghan | 🇮🇪 |
D Wakely Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Peter Billing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kenny Swain (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Aidan Murphy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Gardiner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Paul Fishenden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

No Substitutions Made

Unused Substitutes

D Ian Macowat | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Rob Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

🥅 | 5’ Goal, 0-1, (Crewe Alexandra), Mark Gardiner
🥅 | 34’ Goal, 0-2, (Crewe Alexandra), Martin Keown o.g.
🟨 | 43’ Booking, Alan McInally, Stamp
🕒 | HT Crewe Alexandra 2-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Allan Evans, Sub on, Andy Gray
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Tony Daley, Sub on, Ian Olney
⚽ | 52’ Goal, 1-2, David Platt, Assist by Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 57’ Goal, 2-2, Kevin Gage
⚽ | 79’ Goal, 3-2, Alan McInally, Assist by David Platt
🕒 | FT Crewe Alexandra 2-3 Aston Villa

On This Day

Graham Taylor's Villa squeeze past Division Four side Crewe Alexandra in the FA Cup third round tie at Gresty Road after falling two behind as former Villan Kenny Swain plays as a striker against his old club as a 37 year old.

🟩 16 October 1974, Villa 1-0 Crewe, Villa Park.

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Game #3298

Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Peter Willis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bishop Auckland, 1972-1986
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

Season | 1974-75 |
Matchday | #16 |
Manager Game | #16 |
Wednesday, 16 October 1974

Scorer(s) | Chico Hamilton | 88' |

Assists(s) | Sammy Morgan | 88' |

Match Timeline

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Starting XI

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | 🔥 |
F Keith Leonard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Keith Leonard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 67' |

Unused Substitutes

None

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Starting XI

GK Geoff Crudgington (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Tommy Lowry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Rowlands | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Phil Nicholls | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Kelley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Carter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Hughen Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Hugh Reed | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Gerry Humphreys | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
W Chris Duffey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Albert Kinsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | F Albert Kinsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (F Dennis Nelson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

Unused Substitutes

None

Match Timeline

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Crewe Alexandra
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Keith Leonard, Sub on, Brian Little
⚽ | 88’ Goal, 1-0, Chico Hamilton, Assist by Sammy Morgan
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Crewe Alexandra

On This Day

Ron Saunders' Villa leave it late to beat Fourth Division side Crewe in the League Cup third round to set up a last 16 tie with Hartlepool.

🟨 9 October 1974, Villa 2-2 Crewe, Gresty Road.

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Game #3296

Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Peter Willis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bishop Auckland, 1972-1986 🆘
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨

Season | 1974-75 |
Matchday | #14 |
Manager Game | #14 |
Wednesday, 9 October 1974

Scorer(s) | Sammy Morgan | 10' | Keith Leonard | 57' |

Assists(s) | Sammy Morgan | 57' |

Match Timeline

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Starting XI

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Keith Leonard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟨 |

Substitutes

No Substitutions Made

Unused Substitutes

M Alan Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Starting XI

GK Geoff Crudgington (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Tommy Lowry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Phil Nicholls | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Eric Snookes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Carter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Hughen Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ray Lugg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Les Wain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Chris Duffey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Albert Kinsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Dennis Nelson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Les Wain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Hugh Reed | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |)

Unused Substitutes

None

Match Timeline

⚽ | 10’ Goal, 1-0, Sammy Morgan
🕒 | HT Crewe Alexandra 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 49’ Goal, 1-1, (Crewe Alexandra), Chris Duffey
⚽ | 57’ Goal, 2-1, Keith Leonard, Assist by Sammy Morgan
🥅 | 85’ Goal, 2-2, (Crewe Alexandra), Hughie Reed
🟥 | 86’ Sending off, (Crewe Alexandra), Dennis Nelson
🕒 | FT Crewe Alexandra 2-2 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Ian Ross for breaking from a defensive wall
🟨 | Booking, Keith Leonard
🟨 | Booking, Sammy Morgan

On This Day

Ron Saunders' Villa can only draw with Fourth Division side Crewe in the League Cup third round necessitating a Villa Park replay.

🟩 28 Jan 1928, Villa 3-0 Crewe, Villa Park

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Game #1420

Manager | Billy Smith led Management Committee |
FT Score | 3-0 |
FT Result | Won |
Last 5 Games | LLWWW |

Season | 1927-28 |
Matchday | #27 |
Manager Game | #70 |
Saturday, 28 January 1928

Scorer(s) | Billy Cook | Billy Cook | Billy Cook |

Assist(s) | Not recorded

Match Timeline

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Starting XI

GK Ben Olney |
CB Vic Milne |
FB Tommy Smart |
FB Teddy Bowen |
M Frank Moss |
M Billy Kingdon |
W Arthur Dorrell |
W Dicky York |
F Joe Beresford |
F Billy Cook |
F Billy Walker |

Substitutes

No Substitutions permitted in period

Unused Substitutes

No Substitutions permitted in period

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Substitutes

Unused Substitutes

Match Timeline

On This Day

  • Villa face Crewe Alexandra for the first time in competitive football, Crewe become the 74th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.

  • Villa record three successive wins in all competitions and secure a fourth round FA Cup victory over division three Crewe.

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