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Game #3418

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 22 February 1977

Won

Semi Final

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

League Cup

Attendance: 40,438

Queens Park Rangers

Highbury

Villa qualify for a record breaking fifth League Cup final appearance after finally seeing off a dogged QPR side in the second replay at Highbury. Brian Little hit a hat-trick to make it fourteen goals for the season as Ron Saunders reaches his fourth League Cup final in five seasons.

Aston Villa

3-0

Queens Park Rangers

Assist(s) | Dennis Mortimer | 21' | 89' |

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 22 February 1977

⚽ | 21’ Goal, 1-0, Brian Little, Assist by Dennis Mortimer
⚽ | 28’ Goal, 2-0, Brian Little
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Queens Park Rangers
🔁 | 50' Sub off, Alex Cropley, Sub on, Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 89’ Goal, 3-0, Brian Little, Assist by Dennis Mortimer
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-0 Queens Park Rangers

🟨 | Booking, John Deehan

ON THIS DAY

Ron Saunders' Villa shrug off the neutral replay being played on Rangers' doorstep to hammer their opponents courtesy of a Brian Little hat-trick to reach a record fifth League Cup final.

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1974-75

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 | #33 |
Manager Game | #136 |
Tuesday, 22 February 1977

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Bob Matthewson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 1968-1977
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 136 | 🟩 | 65 🟨 | 35 🟥 36 | 1.69

Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Bob Matthewson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 1968-1977
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: 🟨 🟨

Bob Matthewson

CARDS

Villa

🟨

Queens Park Rangers

🟨

TEAM NEWS

Ron Saunders names an unchanged line up.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.06 |

Oldest Player |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 | 30.39 |

Youngest Player |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.56 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Dave Sexton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

GK Phil Parkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Dave Clement | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Frank McLintock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB David Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Ian Gillard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Don Masson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Dave Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Francis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stan Bowles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Don Givens | 🇮🇪 |
CF Peter Eastoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 50' |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

M John Hollins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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 | 1 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

TABLE

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PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

"They were all tremendous, weren't they?

“It would be difficult to pick out any individuals.

“They all played as a team and we played with style.

“Brian Little was absolutely magnificent.

“I have asked the referee for the ball so that he tan remember his tremendous achievement of scoring a hat-trick.

"Little has been making goads for his fellow strikers this season. It's nice for him that he has now scored three superb goals.

"Its becoming quite a habit [a fourth League Cup final in five years]. But it's a nice habit."

Ron Saunders.



"It's one of the greatest games of my career.

"It will probably take some time to sink in.

“I will just go to sleep tonight remembering it.

“That will be my celebration."

Brian Little.

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Trinity Mirror. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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