Game #2987
Aston Villa
0-2-2, 2 PTS
Saturday, 24 August 1968
17th= (-1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥
GK Colin Withers | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
CB Dick Edwards | 🏴 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴 | 🚑 | 🔁 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴 |
M Mike Ferguson | 🏴 |
M Tommy Mitchinson | 🏴 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴 |
F Brian Godfrey | 🏴 |
F Brian Greenhalgh | 🏴 |
F John Woodward | 🏴 |
Tommy Cummings | 🏴 | 1967-1968
Substitutes:
🔁 | M John Chambers | 🏴 | 🟢 | for CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴 | 76' |
Unused Substitutes:
None
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad:
Injury | 2 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴 |
M Lew Chatterley | 🏴 |
Tommy Cummings names the same line up for a third successive game.
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.41 |
Oldest Player |
GK Colin Withers | 🏴 | 28.45 |
Youngest Player |
F Brian Greenhalgh | 🏴 | 21.52 |
Another mixed goalkeeping performance from Colin Withers with excellence interspersed with two goal conceding mistakes. Villa lose for the second time in four winless games under Tommy Cummings to sit 17th in the table.
Tommy Cummings' Villa fail to score for the first time this season and have now gone eight games without a win as they make it two draws and two defeats in four division two games.
Meanwhile, midfielder John Chambers made his Villa debut aged 18 after joining from school football in 1965.
Lost
0-2
🟥 24 Aug 1968, Villa 0-2 Blackburn, Ewood
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🥅 | 10’ Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Malcolm Darling
🕒 | HT Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Aston Villa
🚑 | 60' Player retires from field of play with injury, Fred Turnbull, no substitution made
🥅 | 62’ Goal, 0-2, (Blackburn Rovers), John Connelly
🚑 | 63' Player returns to field of play, Fred Turnbull
🔁 | 76' Sub off, Fred Turnbull, Sub on, John Chambers 🟢
🕒 | FT Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Aston Villa
Season | 1968-69 |
Matchday | #4 |
League Match | #4 |
Manager Game | #49 |
Saturday, 24 August 1968
Manager: Tommy Cummings | 🏴 | Sunderland, 1967-1968
Referee: Norman Burtenshaw | 🏴 | Great Yarmouth, 1965-1972
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥
Referee: Norman Burtenshaw | 🏴 | Great Yarmouth, 1965-1972
Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
🟢 M John Chambers | 🏴 | #530 | Youth team promotion
Final Appearances:
None
Tommy Cummings | 🏴 | 1967-1968
🕒 49 | 🟩 | 16 🟨 9 🟥 24 | 1.16
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
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Division Two
Blackburn Rovers
3-1-0, 7 PTS
Ewood Park
Attendance: 12,666
GK Adam Blacklaw | 🏴 |
FB Billy Wilson | 🏴 |
CB Dick Mulvaney | 🏴 |
LB Keith Newton | 🏴 |
CH John Coddington | 🏴 |
WH Barrie Hole | 🏴 |
M Stuart Metcalfe | 🏴 |
M Eamonn Rogers | 🇮🇪 |
W John Connelly | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Don Martin | 🏴 |
F Malcolm Darling | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Eddie Quigley | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
No Substitutions Made
Unused Substitutes:
LB Maurice Whittle | 🏴 |
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1927–28
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
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