Game #2734
Aston Villa
12-7-14, 31 PTS
Monday, 15 April 1963
Lost
13th (-2)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Division One
Attendance: 26,299
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Molineux
17-8-9, 42 PTS
Wolves
3-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa, with a more defensive set up, dominate the first half and enter the break ahead but two goals in two minutes turn the game on its head and with Wolves' goal experiencing miraculous escapes, Villa are sent to a record breaking seventh consecutive defeat. In those seven defeats, arguably only Burnley away saw Villa outplayed. The thing was Villa just couldn't turn chances into goals and were being continually punished without mercy. Meanwhile Villa have less than 24 hours to find goalscoring form as they prepare to face Wolves once again.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Monday, 15 April 1963
⚽ | 44' Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Bobby Thomson
🕒 | HT Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 50' Goal, 1-1, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Jimmy Murray
🥅 | 51' Goal, 1-2, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Terry Wharton
🥅 | 70' Goal, 1-3, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Alan Hinton
🕒 | FT Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Joe Mercer's Villa lose seven successive games for the first time in the club’s history.
Villa’s latest fixture is their sixth in eighteen days as their wildly interrupted season delivered the inevitable fixture list congestion in the final two months of the season.
As a result, Villa make it twelve wins, seven draws and fourteen defeats in thirty three division one games so far this season as a campaign of such promise before the fixture interruption comes completely off the rails and sets a record for failure that no-one could or would have predicted.
Aston Villa
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Wolverhampton Wanderers
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1959-60
FIXTURE HISTORY
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Previous 5 vs. Wolves: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Match | #33 |
Manager Game | #224 |
Monday, 15 April 1963
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: J Buckley | 🏴 | Knutsford, -1963
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Joe Mercer | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 221 | 🟩 | 104 🟨 46 🟥 71 | 1.62
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: J Buckley | 🏴 | Knutsford, -1963
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
None
Wolverhampton Wanderers
None
TEAM NEWS
Despite six successive defeats Joe Mercer resists the temptation to make further changes and names an unchanged line up for the first time since December.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 23.53 |
Oldest Player |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴 | 30.33 |
Youngest Player |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 | 18.82 |
MANAGER
Joe Mercer | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴 |
FB Cammie Fraser | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴 |
M Mike Tindall | 🏴 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴 |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Stan Cullis | 🏴 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers
GK Fred Davies | 🏴 |
CB David Woodfield | 🏴 |
LB Bobby Thomson | 🏴 |
D George Showell | 🏴 |
M John Kirkham | 🏴 |
M Ron Flowers | 🏴 |
M Peter Broadbent | 🏴 |
W Terry Wharton | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Alan Hinton | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Barry Stobart | 🏴 |
CF Jimmy Murray | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
SQUAD STATS
Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Wolves XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injured | 2 |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Positions:
GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half
M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward
Match Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
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