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Game #3073

Tuesday, 31 March 1970

Attendance: 30,096

Drew

Division Two

22nd (-)

Oxford United

LDLWD

Villa Park

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.

Aston Villa

0-0

Oxford United

Assists(s) | None |

KEY MAN

RELATED MATCHES

MATCH TIMELINE

HT Aston Villa 0-0 Oxford United
FT Aston Villa 0-0 Oxford United

ON THIS DAY

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.

Aston Villa

Oxford United

FIXTURE HISTORY

Previous 5 vs. Oxford: | - | - | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟨 |

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1969-70 |
Matchday | #43 |
League Match | #39 |
Manager Game | #13 |
Tuesday, 31 March 1970

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager | Vic Crowe |
FT Result | Drew |
FT Score | 0-0 |
Last 5 Games | LDLWD |

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Unknown

CARDS

Villa

None

Oxford United

None

TEAM NEWS

Vic Crowe names the same line up for a third consecutive game.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.36 |

Oldest Player |
CB George Curtis | 30.93 |

Youngest Player |
M Chico Hamilton | 19.43 |

MANAGER

Vic Crowe

MANAGER

Aston Villa

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 |

Oxford United

Kearns, Lucas, Shuker, Smithson, Clarke, Thompson, Clayton, Way, Skeen, Evanson, Atkinson.

Manager: Gerry Summers.

SUBSTITUTES

None

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

Jimmy Brown |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

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

“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.

*Birmingham Daily Post*
Wednesday, 1 April 1970