Game #3301
Aston Villa
7-5-3, 19 PTS
Saturday, 2 November 1974
Lost
3rd= (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥
Division Two
Attendance: 10,979
Fulham
Craven Cottage
5-5-5, 15 PTS
Fulham
3-1
Aston Villa
Assists(s) | Chico Hamilton | 63' |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa lose for the first time in eleven games as they are well beaten at mid-table Fulham to leave them in third and now eight points behind leaders Manchester United with one game in hand. Villa had now won just twice in nineteen games at Craven Cottage since their first meeting in 1937.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 2 November 1974
🥅 | 2’ Goal, 0-1, (Fulham), John Lacy
🕒 | HT Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Sammy Morgan, Sub on, Bobby Campbell
🥅 | 48’ Goal, 0-3, (Fulham), Viv Busby
🥅 | 52’ Goal, 0-3, (Fulham), Barry Lloyd
⚽ | 63’ Goal, 1-3, Brian Little, Assist by Chico Hamilton
🕒 | FT Fulham 3-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Ron Saunders' Villa lose for the first time in eleven to make it seven wins, five draws and three defeats in his first fifteen League games as Villa boss.
Aston Villa
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Fulham
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Fulham
Previous 5 vs. Fulham: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1974-75 |
Matchday | #19 |
League Match | #15 |
Manager Game | #19 |
Saturday, 2 November 1974
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Derek Nippard | 🏴 | Christchurch, 1967-1978
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Ron Saunders | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 19 | 🟩 | 9 🟨 | 7 🟥 3 | 1.79
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Ron Saunders | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Derek Nippard | 🏴 | Christchurch, 1967-1978
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards:
Derek Nippard
CARDS
Villa
None
Fulham
None
TEAM NEWS
John Gidman returns from his three match suspension in place of deputy Neil Rioch as Brian Little replaces Frank Carrodus.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.31 |
Oldest Player |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 | 32.53 |
Youngest Player |
RB John Gidman | 🏴 | 20.82 |
MANAGER
Ron Saunders | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴 |
FB John Robson | 🏴 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Leighton Phillips | 🏴 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴 |
F Brian Little | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Alec Stock | 🏴 |
Fulham
GK Peter Mellor | 🏴 |
RB John Cutbush | 🏴 |
CB Bobby Moore | 🏴 |
LB Les Strong | 🏴 |
M Alan Mullery | 🏴 |
M John Lacy | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Jimmy Conway | 🇮🇪 |
M Barry Lloyd | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Alan Slough | 🏴 |
W Les Barrett | 🏴 |
CF Viv Busby | 🏴 | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | F Bobby Campbell | 🇬🇧 | for F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | 46' |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Made
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
CF John Mitchell | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/12
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/12
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 2 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴 | Ankle
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴 | Leg strain
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
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“We were awful.
“We gave three goals away.
“We just didn’t play.
“It was our worst performance.”
Ron Saunders.
*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 4 November 1974
Aston Villa manager, Ron Saunders, just voted Second Division manager of the month, came straight to the point: “We were awful.”
If you had looked at statistics from past seasons you might have had a hint of the result, but the weight of recent evidence was on the side of Villa.
Although they have yet to win against Fulham since both clubs returned to the Second Division and have only won at Craven Cottage twice in their life, just look at what Villa had going for them.
Unbeaten in ten games; only two goals conceded in the last seven League games and Leighton Phillips had never been on a losing Villa side, just for good luck.
All that was blown apart in 1 min 31 sec.
A short corner from Barry Lloyd to full back John Cutbush allowed him to a lob at the far post for centre-half John Lacy to head the fifth goal of his career.
Cutbush had already shown his danger on the overlap with a run that brought two shots from Alan Slough one blocked, one saved that eventually brought the corner.
Thus Villa had from the first minute to strengthen the left side of their defence. But by the 81st minute - with the game lost - they still hadn’t learned the lesson. Lloyd tapped a short corner to Cutbush (familiar?) and Slough, unmarked, got too far under the cross, heading over.
Saunders’s remarks were scathing:
“We gave three goals away. We just didn’t play. It was our worst performance.”
No argument, but it was also a refreshing, exciting game (“Give us ten out of ten for entertainment.” said Saunders sarcastically) with Fulham, without a win in six League matches putting their game together beautifully.
This catalogue of shots, near misses and goals will give an idea of how frequently the action flowed and how that path down Fulham’s right flanks was trodden.
14th minute: Cutbush on the overlap and Viv Busby flies in to head over;
15th minute: Cutbush cross-shot from the right brings a corner;
20th minute: Jimmy Conway hits a cross shot from the right;
24th minute: build up on the right allows Lacy THREE successive shots, two blocked and one wide;
27th minute: Cutbush cross from right and Jimmy Cumbes beats out a Lloyd shot;
28th minute: Cutbush cross from right and Les Barrett lobs over;
48th minute: Barrett’s run down the right takes him through the Villa cover, Cumbes misses the cross and John Gidman’s half clearance allows Busby a tap-in goal;
52nd minute: Conway and Slough use the right side for a through ball that Lloyd delicately heads in for the third goal;
Ray Graydon at least was in good form again for Villa and was involved with Chico Hamilton in the move which brought Brian Little’s headed goal after 63 minutes.
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