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Game #3656

Aston Villa

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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
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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

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Won

2-1

🟩 21 Oct 1981, Villa 2-1 Dynamo Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark
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

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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:

Previous 5 vs. Berliner: None

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Head to Head

Total 🕒 1 | 🟩 W1 (100% ) | 🟨 D0 | 🇺(100% ) | 🟥 L0 (0% ) | ⚽ 2 | 🥅 1 | GD 1

Match Stats

Not recorded

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 374 | 🟩 | 171 🟨 | 104 🟥 99 | 1.65

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

🟩 12 Apr 2025, Villa 3-0 Southampton, St Mary's TBL.png

European Cup

Berliner FC Dynamo

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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 | 🇩🇪 |
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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

🟩 12 Apr 2025, Villa 3-0 Southampton, St Mary's TBL.png
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
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

214

214

🔥

0

0

🟩

95

🟨

63

🟥

56

67

🥅

230

CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

39

35

🔥

0

0

🟩

17

🟨

12

🟥

10

CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
🕒

154

152

🔥

24

7

🟩

65

🟨

51

🟥

38

LB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

55

51

🔥

0

1

🟩

21

🟨

20

🟥

14

M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

91

87

🔥

2

3

🟩

47

🟨

22

🟥

22

M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
🕒

105

105

🔥

6

5

🟩

52

🟨

30

🟥

23

M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

264

264

🔥

24

53

🟩

121

🟨

78

🟥

65

M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

221

206

🔥

27

29

🟩

101

🟨

61

🟥

59

CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

53

53

🔥

27

9

🟩

31

🟨

13

🟥

9

F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

86

84

🔥

36

14

🟩

46

🟨

20

🟥

20

W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

80

76

🔥

20

14

🟩

38

🟨

21

🟥

21

Substitutes
🕒

🔁

🔥

GK Sub

🟩

🟨

🟥

🥅

M Ivor Linton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🕒

29

🔁

12

🔥

0

0

Sub 1

🟩

11

🟨

5

🟥

13

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 2

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 3

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 4

🟩

🟨

🟥

🕒

🔁

🔥

Sub 5

🟩

🟨

🟥

Match Media
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