Game #2713
Aston Villa
Monday, 12 November 1962
4th Round
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴 |
FB Cammie Fraser | 🏴 | 🟢 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
M Mike Tindall | 🏴 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Alan O’Neill | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |
F Ken Fencott | 🏴 |
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964
Substitutes:
No Substitutions permitted in period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions permitted in period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad:
Injury | 2 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴 |
Cammie Fraser (debut), Kenny Fencott and Derek Dougan replace Gordon Lee, Jimmy MacEwan and Bobby Thomson.
Starting XI Average Age
| 22.53 |
Oldest Player |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 | 30.80 |
Youngest Player |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 | 18.40 |
Villa recover from the Hillsborough thuggery to trounce Preston in the League Cup Fourth Round to reach the last 8.
Joe Mercer's Villa get back to winning ways for the first time in four as they beat second division Preston in the fourth round of the League Cup.
Meanwhile, full back Cammie Fraser made his Villa debut aged 21 after joining from Dunfermline Athletic in October 1962.
Won
6-2
🟩 12 Nov 1962, Villa 6-2 Preston, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Harry Burrows | 14' (pen) | 5-0 | Alan Baker | 23' | 59' | Alan O’Neill | 52' | 74' |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 14' Goal, 1-0, Harry Burrows, pen
⚽ | 23' Goal, 2-0, Alan Baker
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Preston North End
⚽ | 52' Goal, 3-0, Alan O'Neill
⚽ | 59' Goal, 4-0, Alan Baker
⚽ | Goal, 5-0, Harry Burrows
⚽ | 74' Goal, 6-0, Alan O'Neill
🥅 | Goal, 6-1, (Preston North End), Dawson
🥅 | Goal, 6-2, (Preston North End), Dawson
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 6-2 Preston North End
Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #20 |
Manager Game | #203 |
Monday, 12 November 1962
Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 6-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
Referee: Unknown
Previous 5 vs. Preston: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩
League 🕒 86 | 🟩 46 | 🟨 9 | 🟥 31 | ⚽ 162 | 🥅 128 |
FA Cup 🕒 7 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 2 | 🟥 3 | ⚽ 8 | 🥅 10 |
League Cup 🕒 3 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 12 | 🥅 6 |
For the 53rd time in 96 games one or other of the sides has scored 3 or more goals. ⚽ Villa 32 Preston 25. Both have done so on 4 occasions.
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
🟢 FB Cammie Fraser | 🏴 | #495 | £24,500 signing from Dunfermline
Final Appearances:
None
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964
🕒 200 | 🟩 | 97 🟨 41 🟥 62 | 1.66
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Preston North End
Villa Park
Attendance: 18,815
GK Alan Kelly | 🇮🇪 |
RB John Donnelly | 🏴 |
RB George Ross | 🏴 |
CB Jim Smith | 🏴 |
M John O'Neill | 🇮🇪 |
M Dave Barber | 🏴 |
W Dave Wilson | 🏴 |
W Peter Thompson | 🏴 |
F Alan Spavin | 🏴 |
CF Alec Alston | 🏴 |
CF Alex Dawson | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
Jimmy Milne | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1937–38
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
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