Game #1566
Aston Villa
18-8-6, 44 PTS
Saturday, 28 February 1931
2nd
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
GK Reg Miles | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
LB Tommy Mort | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
M Jimmy Gibson | 🏴 |
M Joe Tate | 🏴 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 🔥 |
W Jack Mandley | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
F Joe Beresford | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Billy Walker | 🏴 |
CF Pongo Waring | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
Substitutes
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Unused Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Trophy Record
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Injury | 1 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
Team News
Billy Smith names the same line up for a fourth consecutive game.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
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Final Appearances
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Won
4-2
🟩 28 Feb 1931, Villa 4-2 Leicester, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Pongo Waring | 31' | Joe Beresford | 44' | 81' | 88' |
Assist(s) | Eric Houghton | 31' | Jack Mandley | 44' | 81' |
Match Timeline
🥅 | 9' Goal, 0-1, (Leicester City), Smith
⚽ | 31' Goal, 1-1, Pongo Waring, Assist by Eric Houghton
⚽ | 44' Goal, 2-1, Joe Beresford, Assist by Jack Mandley
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester City
🥅 | Goal, 2-2, (Leicester City), Richards
⚽ | 81' Goal, 3-2, Joe Beresford, Assist by Jack Mandley
⚽ | 88' Goal, 4-2, Joe Beresford
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-2 Leicester City
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #34 |
League Match | #33 |
Manager Game | #216 |
Saturday, 28 February 1931
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: George Stephenson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1929-1934
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Officials
Referee: George Stephenson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1929-1934
Previous 5 vs. Leicester: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Head to Head
Total 🕒 15 | 🟩 W6 (40% ) | 🟨 D2 | 🇺(53% ) | 🟥 L7 (47% ) | ⚽ 31 | 🥅 36 | GD -5
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 215 | 🟩 | 107 🟨 36 🟥 72 | 1.66
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Division One
Leicester City
13-3-14, 29 PTS
Villa Park
Attendance: 23,531
McLaren
Black
Osborne
Watson
Heywood
Ritchie
Adcock
Smith
Hine
Lockhead
Richards
Willie Orr | 🏴 |
Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes
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Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
On This Day
Joe Beresford scores a hat-trick as Villa make it five consecutive wins.
Pongo Waring scored his THIRTY NINTH goal in thirty games as Villa record five consecutive victories to make it eighteen wins, eight draws and six defeats in their thirty two division one games having scored ONE HUNDRED AND TWO goals and remain the leading scorers in the division.
Jack Mandley contributes his seventh assist in six games.
Villa score four or more for the fifteenth time in 34 games this season, and for the fifth successive game, having scored five twice, six three times, seven once and eight once.
Villa remain second but are now 4 points clear of third placed Wednesday but three points behind Arsenal who have two games in hand.
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