Game #1568
Aston Villa
20-8-6, 48 PTS
Saturday, 14 March 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
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Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
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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 sixth consecutive game.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
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Final Appearances
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Won
5-1
🟩 14 Mar 1931, Villa 5-1 Arsenal, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Pongo Waring | 1' | 37' | Billy Walker | 44' | Eric Houghton | 65' | 80' |
Assist(s) | Joe Beresford | 1' | 37' | Jack Mandley | 44' | Billy Walker | 80' |
Match Timeline
⚽ | 1' Goal, 1-0, Pongo Waring, Assist by Joe Beresford
🚑 | 13' Player retires from field of play with injury, Pongo Waring
🥅 | 17' Goal, 1-1, (Arsenal), Jack
🚑 | 17' Player returns to field of play, Pongo Waring
⚽ | 37' Goal, 2-1, Pongo Waring, Assist by Joe Beresford
⚽ | 44' Goal, 3-1, Billy Walker, Assist by Jack Mandley
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 3-1 Blackburn Rovers
⚽ | 65' Goal, 4-1, Eric Houghton
⚽ | 80' Goal, 5-1, Eric Houghton, Assist by Billy Walker
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 5-1 Blackburn Rovers
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Match | #34 |
Manager Game | #218 |
Saturday, 14 March 1931
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: F. Robinson | 🏴 | Blackburn, 1930-1935
HT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 5-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Officials
Referee: F. Robinson | 🏴 | Blackburn, 1930-1935
Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥
Head to Head
Total 🕒 48 | 🟩 W26 (54% ) | 🟨 D8 | 🇺(71% ) | 🟥 L14 (29% ) | ⚽ 97 | 🥅 62 | GD 35
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 217 | 🟩 | 109 🟨 36 🟥 72 | 1.67
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Division One
Arsenal
21-8-4, 50 PTS
Villa Park
Attendance: 60,997
Preedy
Parker
John
Jones
Roberts
Thompson
Hulme
Brain
Jack
James
Bastin
Herbert Chapman | 🏴 |
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: 1929-30
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
On This Day
Villa take the lead in the first minutes of the game and equal the record goals in a season set by Sheffield Wednesday of 105 goals.
Villa go on to score plenty more as Arsenal are destroyed at Villa Park.
Pongo Waring scores his FORTY SECOND goal in thirty two games
Jack Mandley contributes his ninth assist in eight games.
Villa record seven consecutive victories.
Villa make it twenty wins, eight draws and six defeats in their thirty four division one games having scored ONE HUNDRED AND NINE goals breaking the League record previously set by Sheffield Wednesday.
Villa score four or more for the sixteenth time in 36 games this season having scored six three times, seven once and eight once.
Villa sit two points behind Arsenal in second place but the Londoners retain a game in hand.
Up next is the disgraceful Derby County who inflicted such damage on Villa in the reverse fixture in November in their typical roughhouse fashion.
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