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Game #2948

Saturday, 23 September 1967

Attendance: 12,862

Lost

Division Two

20th= (-2)

Crystal Palace

LWLLL

Villa Park

Villa lose for the seventh time in nine League games and fail to score for the fifth time under Tommy Cummings as they fall to joint 20th in the table and only out of the relegation places on goal average.

Aston Villa

0-1

Crystal Palace

Assist(s) | None |

KEY MAN

RELATED MATCHES

MATCH TIMELINE

16’ Goal, 0-1, (Crystal Palace, pen), Bobby Woodruff
HT Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
FT Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace

ON THIS DAY

Tommy Cummings' Villa make it seven defeats in nine League games and their fifth without scoring. As a result Villa had now lost fifteen of their last nineteen games.

Aston Villa

Crystal Palace

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY

Previous 5 vs. Palace: | - | - | - | 🟩 | 🟩 |

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1967-68 |
Matchday | #10 |
League Match | #9 |
Manager Game | #10 |
Saturday, 23 September 1967

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Tommy Cummings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sunderland, 1967-1968
Referee: Vernon Batty | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cheshire, 1962-1973
FT Result | Lost |
FT Score | 0-1 |
Last 5 Games | LWLLL |

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Vernon Batty | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cheshire, 1962-1973
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None

CARDS

Villa

Crystal Palace

TEAM NEWS

Tommy Mitchinson, Bobby Park and Johnny MacLeod replace Peter Broadbent, Lionel Martin and Tony Scott.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.61 |

Oldest Player |
CF Barry Stobart | 29.32 |

Youngest Player |
CF John Inglis | 20.68 |

MANAGER

Tommy Cummings

MANAGER

Aston Villa

GK Colin Withers |
RB Mick Wright |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek |
LB Charlie Aitken |
M Lew Chatterley |
M Willie Anderson |
M Alan Deakin |
M Bobby Park |
M Tommy Mitchinson |
W Johnny MacLeod |
CF Barry Stobart |

Crystal Palace

Jackson J, Long, Presland, Payne, McCormick, Bannister, Light, Kember, Dyson, Woodruff (g), Jackson C.

Manager: Bert Head.

SUBSTITUTES

None

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

D Keith Bradley |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Peter Broadbent

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Player Abbreviations:

GK : Goalkeeper

LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back

CB, D : Centre Back, Defender

M, W : Midfielder. Winger

F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward

🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

MATCH STATS

Not recorded

TABLE

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PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 25 September 1967