Game #3073
Aston Villa
6-13-20, 25 PTS

Tuesday, 31 March 1970
22nd (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
GK John Dunn | 🏴 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴 |
CB Brian Tiler | 🏴 |
CB George Curtis | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
M Bruce Rioch | 🏴 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴 |
M Lew Chatterley | 🏴 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴 |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴 |
Vic Crowe | 🏴 | 1970-1974

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Made
Unused Substitutes:
M Jimmy Brown | 🏴 |
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad:
None
Vic Crowe names the same line up for a third consecutive game.
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.36 |
Oldest Player |
CB George Curtis | 🏴 | 30.93 |
Youngest Player |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴 | 19.43 |
Villa meet an ultra defensive Oxford and are held to a goalless draw with the dropped point meaning Villa remain bottom of the table, three points from safety with three games left to play.
Vic Crowe's Villa make it two unbeaten but can only draw at home to record two wins, four draws and seven defeats in his thirteen games in charge. As a result Villa make it six wins, thirteen draws and twenty defeats in thirty nine division two matches this season scoring 24 goals and conceding 61. Villa remained bottom of the table on 25 points but with relegation rivals Preston North End (27) and Charlton Athletic (28) also drawing, potential safety is still within reach with six points left to play for.

Drew
0-0
🟨 31 Mar 1970, Villa 0-0 Oxford, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Oxford United
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Oxford United
Season | 1969-70 |
Matchday | #43 |
League Match | #39 |
Manager Game | #13 |
Tuesday, 31 March 1970

Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
Referee: Unknown
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
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Final Appearances:
None
Vic Crowe | 🏴 | 1970-1974
🕒 13 | 🟩 | 2 🟨 | 4 🟥 7 | 0.77
Villa Career Form:
Relegation
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division Two
Oxford United
11-14-14, 36 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 30,096
GK Mick Kearns | 🏴 |
RB Dick Lucas | 🏴 |
RB Mike Way | 🏴 |
CB Rodney Smithson | 🏴 |
CB Colin Clarke | 🏴 |
FB John Shuker | 🏴 |
RH Ron Atkinson | 🏴 |
M Ken Skeen | 🏴 |
M John Evanson | 🏴 |
M Brian Thompson | 🏴 |
F Roy Clayton | 🏴 |
Gerry Summers | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Made
Unused Substitutes:
W David Sloan | 🇬🇧 |
None
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded

“I thought Oxford’s performance was diabolical.
“They were negative throughout and I will never ask a Villa team to play in this way.
“We tried. perhaps in vain, to break a nine man defensive set-up and were unlucky not to have beaten them by a clear margin."
Vic Crowe.

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