Game #2575
Aston Villa
Saturday, 12 March 1960
Won
Quarter Final
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
FA Cup
Preston North End
Villa Park
Attendance: 69,732
Aston Villa
2-0
Preston North End
Assist(s) | Jimmy MacEwan | 10' | 78' |
MANAGER
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Sims | 🏴 | 🚑 |
FB John Neal | 🏴 |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 | 🚑 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴 |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Cliff Britton | 🏴 |
Preston North End
GK Fred Else | 🏴 |
RB Bob Wilson | 🏴 |
CB Garbutt Richardson | 🏴 |
CB Jim Smith | 🏴 |
LB Joe Walton | 🏴 |
M Gordon Milne | 🏴 |
W Les Dagger | 🏴 |
W Peter Thompson | 🏴 |
W Tom Finney | 🏴 |
W Sammy Taylor | 🏴 |
CF Davie Sneddon | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 12 March 1960, Villa 2-0 Preston, Villa Park.
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 12 March 1960
Joe Mercer's Villa make it successive wins as they beat top flight side Preston in the quarter final of the FA Cup. North End are Villa's third top flight scalp in the Cup after Leeds and Chelsea were brushed aside in the third and fourth rounds.
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