Game #2284
Aston Villa
10-3-14, 23 PTS
Saturday, 23 January 1954
18th=
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
GK Keith Jones | 🏴 |
FB Harry Parkes | 🏴 |
CB Con Martin | 🇮🇪 |
LB Peter Aldis | 🏴 |
M Danny Blanchflower | 🇬🇧 |
M Bill Baxter | 🏴 |
M Amos Moss | 🏴 |
W Ken O Roberts | 🏴 | 🟢 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
W Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 |
F Johnny Dixon | 🏴 |
CF Tommy Thompson | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 1953-1958
Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
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
None
Team News
Ken O Roberts (debut), Peter Aldis and Amos Moss replace Roy Chapman, Amos Moss and Frank Moss.
Team Stats
Not recorded
Debut Appearances
🟢 F Ken O Roberts | 🏴 | #436 | Free transfer from Wrexham
Final Appearances
None
Lost
2-3
🟥 23 Jan 1954, Villa 2-3 Blackpool, Bloomfield
Scorer(s) | Tommy Thompson | 23' | 41' |
Assist(s) | Ken O Roberts | 23' | 41' |
Match Timeline
🥅 | 22' Goal, 0-1, (Blackpool), Stephenson
⚽ | 23' Goal, 1-1, Tommy Thompson, Assist by Ken O Roberts
⚽ | 41' Goal, 2-1, Tommy Thompson, Assist by Ken O Roberts
🕒 | HT Blackpool 1-2 Aston Villa
🚑 | 46' Player retires from field of play with injury, Garrett
🥅 | 68' Goal, 2-2, (Blackpool), Perry
🥅 | 76' Goal, 2-3, (Blackpool), Perry
🕒 | FT Blackpool 3-2 Aston Villa
Season | 1953-54 |
Matchday | #28 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #23 |
Saturday, 23 January 1954
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Eric Houghton | 🏴 | Billingborough, 1953-1958
Referee: Tom Seymour | 🏴 | Wakefield, 1949-1954
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 2-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
Officials
Referee: Tom Seymour | 🏴 | Wakefield, 1949-1954
Previous 5 vs. Blackpool: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩
Head to Head
Total 🕒 27 | 🟩 W12 (44% ) | 🟨 D5 | 🇺(63% ) | 🟥 L10 (37% ) | ⚽ 57 | 🥅 43 | GD 14
Match Stats
Not recorded
Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 1953-1958
Villa Career Form:
Division One
Blackpool
10-8-10, 28 PTS
Bloomfield Road
Attendance: 16,629
Farm, Crosland, Frith, Shimwell, Garrett, Kelly, Mudie, Stephenson (g), Harris, Taylor, Perry (g) (g).
Manager: Joe Smith.
Joe Smith | 🏴 |
Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
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: 1952-53
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
Starting XI
Match Media
On This Day
Forward Ken O Roberts makes his Villa debut after moving from Wrexham in May 1953 and in so doing becomes the youngest player to ever start a League match for Villa.
Roberts contributes two assists for Tommy Thompson on debut but Eric Houghton's Villa lose for the sixth time in eight to make it ten wins, three draws and fourteen defeats in twenty seven division one games so far this season.
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