Game #1937
Aston Villa
Saturday, 5 January 1946
Lost
3rd Round
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
FA Cup
Coventry City
Highfield Road
Attendance: 27,000
Coventry City
2-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Not recorded
MANAGER
Alex Massie | 🏴 | 1946-1950
Aston Villa
GK Alan Wakeman | 🏴 |
RB Vic Potts | 🏴 |
LB George Cummings | 🏴 |
FB Harry Parkes | 🏴 |
RB Ernie Callaghan | 🏴 |
M Eddie Lowe | 🏴 |
W Andy Kerr | 🏴 |
W Les Smith | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🚑 | ❌ |
F Jackie Martin | 🏴 |
F George Edwards | 🏴 |
F Bob Iverson | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Coventry City
Not Recorded
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟥 5 Jan 1946, Villa 1-2 Coventry, Highfield Road.
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 5 January 1946
Les Smith scores Villa's first official goal of the season as Villa participate in their first official fixture of the 1945-46 season as they enter the FA Cup which for this campaign will be played as mandatory double headers, home and away, with the aggregate score over both legs deciding which team will progress.
Villa face Division Two side Coventry at Highfield Road but are narrowly beaten ahead of the second leg at Villa Park having lost goalscorer Smith to injury in the second half.
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