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Game #2392
Aston Villa
Saturday, 21 April 1956
Won
DDLWW
Division One
Preston North End
Deepdale
Attendance: 16,175
Preston North End
0-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Not recorded
MANAGER
Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 1953-1958
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Sims |
CB Jimmy Dugdale |
FB Peter Aldis |
FB Ray Hogg |
M Vic Crowe |
M Bill Baxter |
W Les Smith |
W Tommy Southren |
F Jackie Sewell |
F Johnny Dixon |
CF Derek Pace |
MANAGER
Frank Hill | 🏴 |
Preston North End
Else, Walton, Mattinson, Dunn, Cunningham, Docherty, Baxter, Thompson (ex), Hatsell, Finney, Campbell.
Manager: Frank Hill.
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 21 Apr 1956, Villa 1-0 Preston, Deepdale
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 21 April 1956
Eric Houghton's Villa record successive wins for only the second time this season to make it ten wins, thirteen draws and eighteen defeats in forty one division one games this season.
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