Game #2254
Aston Villa
13-13-14, 39 PTS

Saturday, 25 April 1953
12th=
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩
GK Dennis Parsons | 🏴 |
LB Peter Aldis | 🏴 |
FB Harry Parkes | 🏴 |
CB Frank Moss | 🏴 |
M Larry Canning | 🏴 |
M Danny Blanchflower | 🇬🇧 |
M Amos Moss | 🏴 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
W Colin Gibson | 🏴 |
F Johnny Dixon | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Davy Walsh | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
CF Tommy Thompson | 🏴 |
George Martin | 🏴 | 1950-1953

Substitutes:
No Substitutions permitted in period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions permitted in period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20
Matchday Squad:
Injury | 5 |
W Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 |
LB Dicky Dorsett | 🏴 |
W Herbert Smith | 🏴 |
W Norman Lockhart | 🇬🇧 |
F Ken Roberts | 🏴 |
George Martin names the same line up for a third successive game.
Not recorded
Johnny Dixon scores his third in two games as Amos Moss scores one and creates one - his third assist in four games - as Villa win on the road at Cardiff.
George Martin's Villa record successive wins to make it thirteen wins, thirteen draws and fourteen defeats in forty division one games so far this season.
Villa climb to joint 12th - their highest placing since November.

Won
2-1
🟩 25 Apr 1953, Villa 2-1 Cardiff, Ninian
Scorer(s) | Johnny Dixon | 30' | Amos Moss | 47' |
Assist(s) | Amos Moss | 30' | Davy Walsh | 47' |
Match Timeline:
🥅 | 15' Goal, 0-1, (Cardiff City), Grant
⚽ | 30' Goal, 1-1, Johnny Dixon, Assist by Amos Moss
🕒 | HT Cardiff City 1-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 47' Goal, 1-2, Amos Moss, Assist by Davy Walsh
🕒 | FT Cardiff City 1-2 Aston Villa
Season | 1952-53 |
Matchday | #45 |
League Match | #40 |
Manager Game | #110 |
Saturday, 25 April 1953

Manager: George Martin | 🏴 | Glasgow, 1950-1953
Referee: W. J. Edwards | 🏴 | Yeovil, 1949-1953
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩
Referee: W. J. Edwards | 🏴 | Yeovil, 1949-1953
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
None
George Martin | 🏴 | 1950-1953
Villa Career Form:
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Cardiff City
14-12-14, 40 PTS

Ninian Park
Attendance: 29,917
Howells, Sullivan, Sherwood, Mansell, Hollyman, Montgomery, Edwards, Chisholm, Williams, Tiddy, Grant (g).
Manager: Cyril Spiers (ex).
Cyril Spiers (ex) | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1926-27
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded

