Game #3112

Aston Villa

14-7-5, 35 PTS

Saturday, 16 January 1971

Won

1st= (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division Three

Port Vale

10-4-12, 24 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 28,965

Aston Villa

1-0

Port Vale

Scorer(s) | Bruce Rioch | 31' |

Assist(s) | Brian Godfrey | 31' |

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 16 January 1971

⚽ | 31’ Goal, 1-0, Bruce Rioch, Assist by Brian Godfrey
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Port Vale
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Port Vale

Not recorded

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 16 January 1971

Vic Crowe's League Cup finalists Villa make it fourteen wins, seven draws and five defeats in twenty six division three games so far this season to climb to joint first in the table, level on points with leaders Bristol Rovers, separated on goal average.

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 9 January 1971, Villa 2-1 Bristol Rovers, Eastville Stadium.

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 23 January 1971, Villa 1-1 Rotherham, Millmoor.

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Port Vale

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

Aston Villa

Port Vale

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Port Vale

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Port Vale: 🟩 🟩 🟥

Port Vale

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 19 October 1970, Villa 0-2 Vale, Vale Park.

Port Vale

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 6 November 1971, Villa 4-4 Vale, Vale Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1970-71 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Match | #26 |
Manager Game | #52 |
Saturday, 16 January 1971

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Gordon Hill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leicester, 1966-1975
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 52 | 🟩 | 24 🟨 | 14 🟥 14 | 1.65

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Gordon Hill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leicester, 1966-1975
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

Gordon Hill

CARDS

None

TEAM NEWS

Vic Crowe names an unchanged line up.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.31 |

Oldest Player |
F Brian Godfrey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 30.73 |

Youngest Player |
GK Geoff Crudgington | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.93 |

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

Aston Villa

GK Geoff Crudgington | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Keith Bradley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brian Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Bruce Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Brian Godfrey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Gordon Lee (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Port Vale

GK Stuart Sherratt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Clint Boulton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Bill Summerscales | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Roy Cross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LH John Green | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tony Lacey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Bobby Gough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Brian Horton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mike Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 |
F John James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Mike Morris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Tommy McLaren | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

F Dave Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

None

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

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

	Game	Start	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red
GK Geoff Crudgington \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|

RB Keith Bradley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Brian Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

	Game	Sub	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red

UNUSED

	Unused

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Injury | 3 |
CB George Curtis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
GK John Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

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AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

Bristol Rovers lose again, Fulham are held and Villa win to catapult them into joint first place behind Rovers only on goal average. Villa’s goal once again comes from Bruce Rioch and is from a planned move that brought success against Shrewsbury and Vale and had become a major tactical feature of Villa’s play as Brian Godfrey taps the ball forward to Rioch who shoots through the defensive wall within which Pat McMahon has broken away to create space.

MATCH QUOTES

“I’m glad his team [ex Villa team mate Gordon Lee] lost today. “There can be no room for sentiment in football. “I don’t care who manages the opposition - if it was my own brother I would still want to beat him. This can be the only way. “It’s a nice position to be in [top of the table].” “[Geoff Crudgington] has played extremely well and these couple of games will have been a very good experience for him.” Vic Crowe.

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

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Game #3112

Aston Villa

Saturday, 16 January 1971

Won

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division Three

Port Vale

Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-0

Port Vale

Scorer(s) | Bruce Rioch | 31' |

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 16 January 1971

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 16 January 1971

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

Aston Villa

Port Vale

Aston Villa

Port Vale

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Port Vale

Previous 5 vs. Port Vale: 🟩 🟩 🟥

Port Vale

PREVIOUS MATCH

Port Vale

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

MATCH SUMMARY

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

🕒 52 | 🟩 | 24 🟨 | 14 🟥 14 | 1.65

Villa Career Form:

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

MATCH OFFICIALS

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

MANAGER

Aston Villa

MANAGER

Port Vale

SUBSTITUTES

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED

SQUAD STATS

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

UNAVAILABLE

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

MATCH QUOTES

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

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