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Game #3417

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 16 February 1977

Drew

Semi Final

WDWLD

League Cup Semi Final

Attendance: 48,429

Queens Park Rangers

Villa Park

Villa and QPR share the spoils in an outstanding game at Villa Park in the League Cup semi final replay as a John Deehan brace is cancelled out in extra time to leave the two clubs facing a second replay at Highbury.

Aston Villa

2-2

Queens Park Rangers

Assist(s) | John Gidman | 97' |

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 16 February 1977

FT Aston Villa 0-0 Queens Park Rangers
63’ Goal, John Deehan
79’ Goal, 1-1, (Queens Park Rangers), Gerry Francis
FT Aston Villa 1-1 Queens Park Rangers
97’ Goal, 2-1, John Deehan, Assist by John Gidman
112’ Missed penalty (Queens Park Rangers), Don Givens
114’ Goal, (Queens Park Rangers), Peter Eastoe
AET Aston Villa 2-2 Queens Park Rangers

Cards.
Booking, Alex Cropley, Late tackle

ON THIS DAY

Ron Saunders' Villa draw after full time and extra time of the semi final to leave the tie all square on aggregate after two legs. The tie will now be settled on a winner takes all tie.

Aston Villa

Queens Park Rangers

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1966-67

FIXTURE HISTORY

Queens Park Rangers

Previous 5 vs. QPR: | 🟥 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟨 |

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1976-77 |
Matchday | #32 |
Manager Game | #135 |
Wednesday, 16 February 1977

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager | Ron Saunders |
AET Result | Drew |
AET Score | 2-2 |
Aggregate Score | 2-2 |
Last 5 Games | WDWLD |

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Unknown

CARDS

Villa

🟨

Queens Park Rangers

None

Unknown

TEAM NEWS

Andy Gray replaces Gordon Cowans.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.04 |

Oldest Player |
CB Chris Nicholl | 30.37 |

Youngest Player |
F John Deehan | 19.55 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Ron Saunders

Aston Villa

GK John Burridge |
CB Chris Nicholl |
RB John Gidman |
FB John Robson |
M Alex Cropley |
M Leighton Phillips |
M Dennis Mortimer |
W Frank Carrodus |
F Brian Little |
F John Deehan |
CF Andy Gray |

Queens Park Rangers

Parkes, Clement, Gillard, Hollins (Eastoe (g)), McLintock, Webb, Thomas, Francis (g), Masson, Bowles, Givens.

Manager: Dave Sexton.

SUBSTITUTES

None

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

M David Hughes |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Injury | 1 |
Ray Graydon

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 we did more than enough to have won comfortably.

“All they had were half chances and they took them. In fact they took two out of three of them.

"Andy Gray struggled for a lot of the match and I thought about taking him off for the extra-time period but he wanted to stay and I decided to let him in case it affected the other players.

"But this was a wonderful advertisement for football.

“We took a lot of stick after the Ipswich match on Saturday and I hope that the people who handed it out then will dish out the praise now.

“There were long periods in the game when it seemed that we must be on our way to Wembley—but there were also little spells in the game when the gremlins were not on our side.

“But it was a good effort by Rangers to pick themselves up after the penalty had been awarded and after John Burridge had produced that marvellous save."

Ron Saunders.

*Birmingham Daily Post*
Thursday, 17 February 1977