Game #3631
Aston Villa
21-6-5, 48 PTS
Saturday, 7 March 1981
1st= (+1)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴 |
RB Kenny Swain | 🏴 | 🟨 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Tony Morley | 🏴 | 🔥 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴 |
Ron Saunders | 🏴 | 1974-1982
Substitutes:
🔁 | M Colin Gibson | 🏴 | for CB Ken McNaught | 🏴 | 85' |
Unused Substitutes:
None
🟨 Kenny Swain, for complaining about a rash Sunderland tackle
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1976-77
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Ron Saunders names the same line up for a fourth successive match.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.21 |
Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴 | 33.09 |
Youngest Player |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴 | 19.30 |
Villa climb back to the top of the first division table, level on points with Ipswich as they win for the seventh consecutive League game and eighth time in ten matches with both clubs now seven points clear of their nearest rivals.
It isn’t all good news however as Peter Withe faces another suspension after his eighth booking of the season and Ken McNaught is stretchered off at Roker Park with his ankle in a cast after suspected ligament damage.
Ron Saunders, confined to his sick bed, hands over the reigns to Roy MacLaren as Villa win their seventh game in a row to make it twenty one wins, six draws and five defeats in thirty two League matches this season. As a result Villa go level on points with Ipswich at the top of the Division One table.
Scorer(s) | Allan Evans | 2' | Dennis Mortimer | 19' |
Assist(s) | Tony Morley | 2' | Gordon Cowans | 19' |
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 2’ Goal, 1-0, Allan Evans, Assist by Tony Morley, (75 Seconds)
⚽ | 19’ Goal, 2-0, Dennis Mortimer, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🟨 | 23' Booking, Kenny Swain for complaining about a rash Sunderland tackle
🕒 | HT Sunderland 0-2 Aston Villa
🥅 | 68’ Goal, 2-1, (Sunderland), Joe Hinnigan
🔁 | 85' Sub off, Ken McNaught, Sub on, Colin Gibson
🕒 | FT Sunderland 1-2 Aston Villa
Season | 1980-81 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Match | #32 |
Manager Game | #349 |
Saturday, 7 March 1981
Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
*Absent with illness*
Roy MacLaren (Caretaker) | 🏴 | Auchterarder, 1981
Referee: Colin Seel | 🏴 | Carlisle, 1974-1985
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Referee: Colin Seel | 🏴 | Carlisle, 1974-1985
Previous 5 vs. Sunderland: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
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Final Appearances:
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Ron Saunders | 🏴 | 1974-1982
🕒 349 | 🟩 | 160 🟨 | 95 🟥 94 | 1.65
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Sunderland
10-7-16, 27 PTS
Roker Park
Attendance: 27,278
GK Barry Siddall | 🏴 |
RB Joe Hinnigan | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CB Gordon Chisholm | 🏴 |
CB Shaun Elliott | 🏴 |
CB Rob Hindmarch | 🏴 |
LB Joe Bolton | 🏴 |
M Kevin Arnott | 🏴 |
M Ian Bowyer | 🏴 | 🔁 |
F Tom Ritchie | 🏴 |
F Gary Rowell | 🏴 |
F Stan Cummins | 🏴 |
Ken Knighton | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | M Ian Bowyer | 🏴 | (M John Cooke | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes:
None
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League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1972-73
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
“That's the most intense spell of pressure 23 have been under this season.
“I personally have never experienced an atmosphere like that, with the fervour of the crowd really carrying the Sunderland team forward.
"At half time I told the players not to be complacent and to think that it was still 0-0.
“We were expecting a bit of a Sunderland come back but nothing that strong.
"It needed every ounce of professionalism and character that Ron Saunders has built into Aston Villa in the last five years to withstand that bout of pressure."
Roy MacLaren.
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