Game #3656
Aston Villa

Wednesday, 21 October 1981
2nd Round
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴 | 🔥 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴 | 🔥 |
Ron Saunders | 🏴 | 1974-1982

Substitutes
🔁 | M Ivor Linton | 🏴 | for RB Gary Williams | 🏴 | 68' |
Unused Substitutes
Not recorded
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Trophy Record
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1980-81
Matchday Squad
Goalkeepers
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴 |
Defenders
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 |
Full Backs
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 |
Midfielders
M Colin J Gibson | 🏴 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴 |
M Ivor Linton | 🏴 |
Wingers
W Tony Morley | 🏴 |
Forwards
F Gary Shaw | 🏴 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴 |
Unavailable
Not recorded
Team News
Peter Withe replaces David Geddis.
Team Stats
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.56 |
Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴 | 33.72 |
Youngest Player |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴 | 19.93 |
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
None
Scorer(s) | Tony Morley | 5' | 85' |
Assist(s) | Gary Shaw | 5' | Peter Withe | 85' |
Match Timeline
⚽ | 5’ Goal, Tony Morley, Assist by Gary Shaw
🕒 | HT Berliner FC Dynamo 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 50’ Goal, (Berliner FC Dynamo), Hans-Jurgen Riediger
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Gary Williams, Sub on, Ivor Linton
⛔ | 80’ Missed penalty, (Berliner FC Dynamo)
⚽ | 85’ Goal, Tony Morley, Assist by Peter Withe
🕒 | FT Berliner FC Dynamo 1-2 Aston Villa
Season: 1981-82
Matchday: #15
European Match: #3
Manager Game: #374
Wednesday, 21 October 1981

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Franz Wöhrer | 🇦🇹 | Wien, 1981
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩
Officials
Referee: Franz Wöhrer | 🇦🇹 | Wien, 1981
Linesmen:
Match Stats
Not recorded
Ron Saunders | 🏴 | 1974-1982
🕒 374 | 🟩 | 171 🟨 | 104 🟥 99 | 1.65
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
European Cup
Berliner FC Dynamo

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark
Attendance: 25,000
GK Bodo Rudwaleit | 🇩🇪 |
D Artur Ullrich | 🇩🇪 |
D Michael Noack | 🇩🇪 |
CB Rainer Troppa | 🇩🇪 |
M Norbert Trieloff | 🇩🇪 |
M Frank Terletzki | 🇩🇪 |
M Bernd Schulz | 🇩🇪 |
M Rainer Ernst | 🇩🇪 |
F Hans-Jürgen Riediger | 🇩🇪 | ⚽ |
F Wolf-Rüdiger Netz | 🇩🇪 |
CF Ralf Sträßer | 🇩🇪 | 🔁 |
Jürgen Bogs | 🇩🇪 |

Substitutes
🔁 | CF Ralf Sträßer | 🇩🇪 | (M Roland Jüngling | 🇩🇪 |)
Unused Substitutes
Not Recorded
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
East German Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FDGB-Pokal Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1980-81
Opposition Matchday Squad
Goalkeepers
GK Bodo Rudwaleit | 🇩🇪 |
Defenders
D Artur Ullrich | 🇩🇪 |
D Michael Noack | 🇩🇪 |
CB Rainer Troppa | 🇩🇪 |
Midfielders
M Norbert Trieloff | 🇩🇪 |
M Frank Terletzki | 🇩🇪 |
M Bernd Schulz | 🇩🇪 |
M Rainer Ernst | 🇩🇪 |
M Roland Jüngling | 🇩🇪 |
Forwards
F Hans-Jürgen Riediger | 🇩🇪 |
F Wolf-Rüdiger Netz | 🇩🇪 |
CF Ralf Sträßer | 🇩🇪 |
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded

On This Day
Villa face Berliner FC Dynamo 🇩🇪 for the first time in competitive football, Dynamo become the 118th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football, Villa’s seventh continental European opponents and their first from Germany 🇩🇪.
Ron Saunders' 🏴 Villa win in Berlin thanks to two Tony Morley 🏴 goals to take two crucial away goals and seize the advantage in the European Cup second round as Ivor Linton 🏴 comes on as substitute to make his first appearance for Villa since Saturday, 3 May 1980.
Villa, unbeaten in twelve games in all competitions, secure a crucial first leg away win in Berlin in the second round of the European Cup as Tony Morley 🏴 scores five minutes from the start and five from the end.
Forward Gary Shaw 🏴 🔥 sets up Tony Morley’s 🏴 ⚽ first goal to record his 50th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 86th appearance (84 Starts) at a rate of one goal involvement for every 1.72 games he has played so far in his Villa career.
Winger Tony Morley 🏴 ⚽ scores his twentieth goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 80th appearance.
Midfielder Ivor Linton 🏴 makes his first appearance in 18 months and 61 games to make it 🕒 29 appearances (17 Starts) in a Villa shirt.
Starting XI
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Match Media
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