Game #2960
Aston Villa
8-2-11, 18 PTS
Tuesday, 26 December 1967
Lost
16th (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥
Division Two
Attendance: 18,180
Cardiff City
Ninian Park
7-7-9, 21 PTS
Cardiff City
3-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa lose to a Cardiff side who are reduce to ten men through injury after 50 minutes and are forced to play with nine for the final twenty.
KEY MAN
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 26 December 1967
🟢 | 1’ Debut, Barry Ansell
🥅 | 16’ Goal, 0-1, (Cardiff City), Les Lea
🕔 | HT Cardiff City 1-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 51’ Goal, 0-2, (Cardiff City), John Toshack
💥 | 51’ Player retired injured, (Cardiff City), Bobby Brown
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, John Woodward, Sub on, Johnny McLeod
💥 | 72’ Player retired injured, (Cardiff City), David Carver
🥅 | 81’ Goal, 0-3, (Cardiff City), Les Lea
🕔 | FT Cardiff City 3-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Tommy Cummings' Villa fail to score for the second time in four games and lose for the first time in five to make it eight wins, two draws and eleven defeats in twenty one League games so far this season. Villa had now lost for the nineteenth time in their last thirty one games, this time managing to do so against a Cardiff side that was reduced to nine men for the last 18 minutes of the match. Meanwhile, full back Barry Ansell made his one and only appearance for Villa aged 20 after joining from school football in 1965. Ansell would move on to non-League football in 1969.
Aston Villa
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Cardiff City
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1926-27
FIXTURE HISTORY
Cardiff City
Previous 5 vs. Cardiff: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1967-68 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Match | #21 |
Manager Game | #22 |
Tuesday, 26 December 1967
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Tommy Cummings | 🏴 | Sunderland, 1967-1968
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Tommy Cummings | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 22 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 2 🟥 12 | 1.18
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
Tommy Cummings | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Unknown
Cards: None
Unknown
CARDS
Villa
None
Cardiff City
None
TEAM NEWS
Barry Ansell comes in for his debut in place of Charlie Aitken who misses his first game of the season.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 23.19 |
Oldest Player |
GK Colin Withers | 🏴 | 27.78 |
Youngest Player |
FB Barry Ansell | 🏴 | 20.25 |
MANAGER
Tommy Cummings | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Colin Withers | 🏴 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴 |
FB Barry Ansell | 🏴 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴 |
M Lew Chatterley | 🏴 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴 |
M Tommy Mitchinson | 🏴 |
M Bobby Park | 🏴 |
F John Woodward | 🏴 | 🔁 |
F Brian Godfrey | 🏴 |
F Brian Greenhalgh | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Jimmy Scoular | 🏴 |
Cardiff City
GK Bob Wilson (ex) | 🏴 |
D Graham Coldrick | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Don Murray | 🏴 |
RB David Carver | 🏴 | ❌ |
LH Brian Harris | 🏴 |
M Malcolm Clarke | 🏴 |
W Les Lea | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
W Barrie Jones | 🏴 |
F Peter King | 🏴 |
F John Toshack | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Bobby Brown | 🏴 | ❌ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Johnny MacLeod | 🏴 | for F John Woodward | 🏴 | 71' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | D Graham Coldrick | 🏴 | (D Gary Bell | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/12
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/12
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 2 |
F Peter Broadbent | 🏴 |
RB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
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
🟢 FB Barry Ansell | 🏴 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 FB Barry Ansell | 🏴 |
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
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