Game #3677
Aston Villa
Saturday, 6 February 1982
Manchester United
4-1
Aston Villa (Champions)
Division One
Manchester United
Old Trafford
Attendance: 43,184
Lost
15th= (-1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
Assist(s) | Andy Blair | 21' |
MATCH SUMMARY
KEY MAN
MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 6 February 1982
⚽ | 21’ Goal, 1-0, David Geddis, Assist by Andy Blair
🥅 | 45’ Goal, 1-1, (Manchester United), Kevin Moran
🕒 | HT Manchester United 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 62’ Goal, 1-2, (Manchester United), Bryan Robson
🥅 | 66’ Goal, 1-3, (Manchester United), Steve Coppell
🥅 | 79’ Goal, 1-4, (Manchester United), Kevin Moran
🕒 | FT Manchester United 4-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Reigning Champions Villa lose for the sixth time in eight League games to make it six wins, seven draws and ten defeats after 23 games of their title defence.
As a result past the midway point of the season, Villa are nearly twenty points off the leaders, closer to the relegation places than a second successive League title.
Since losing to leaders Ipswich in October, Villa had won seven in all competitions, losing ten and drawing two.
With a successful title defence realistically if not mathematically impossible, and acrimony behind the scenes between board and manager, this fourth defeat in six proved to be Ron Saunders’ 393rd and final game in charge of Villa.
Saunders had proved a phenomenal manager of Villa, not just in his trophy achievements, but also from where the club had had to come in order to deliver those triumphs.
Although his predecessor Vic Crowe is due huge credit for creating a platform upon which Saunders could build, few expected two Cup wins, let alone a League title but a win rate of 46% between 1974-75 and 1981-82 duly delivered.
Although a contractual disagreement - as unnecessary as it was overstated - was the driving force behind his departure, perhaps even Saunders thought success in Europe was beyond him and his team’s current form. But with a quarter round tie already secured, Saunders was to leave ahead of one of Villa’s greatest achievements, having set Villa on the way to European glory under his assistant and successor, Tony Barton.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1980-81
Manchester United
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1976-77
FIXTURE DETAILS
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_0783455f6a544997bcb510527b8ab219~mv2.gif)
Season | 1981-82 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Match | #23 |
Manager Game | #395 |
Saturday, 6 February 1982
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Ken Redfern | 🏴 | Whitley Bay, 1978-1993
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-4
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Ron Saunders | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 395 | 🟩 | 181 🟨 | 106 🟥 109 | 1.64
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Ken Redfern | 🏴 | Whitley Bay, 1978-1993
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 29 September 1979, Villa 0-0 Middlesbrough, Ayresome Park.
Cards: None
TEAM NEWS
Allan Evans, Dennis Mortimer and Terry Bullivant replace Tony Morley, Brendan Ormsby and Gary Shelton.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.89 |
Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴 | 34.01 |
Youngest Player |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴 | 21.85 |
MANAGER
Ron Saunders | 🏴 |
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
Aston Villa
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴 |
RB Kenny Swain | 🏴 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴 |
M Andy Blair | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴 |
M Terry Bullivant | 🏴 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴 |
CF David Geddis | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 |
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_0783455f6a544997bcb510527b8ab219~mv2.gif)
Manchester United
GK Gary Bailey | 🏴 |
LB Arthur Albiston | 🏴 |
CB Martin Buchan | 🏴 |
CB Kevin Moran | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
RB John Gidman (ex) | 🏴 |
RB Mike Duxbury | 🏴 |
M Steve Coppell | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Ray Wilkins | 🏴 |
M Bryan Robson | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Frank Stapleton | 🇮🇪 |
CF Garry Birtles | 🏴 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
No Substitutions Made
SUBSTITUTES
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_0783455f6a544997bcb510527b8ab219~mv2.gif)
🔁 | CF Garry Birtles | 🏴 | (CF Scott McGarvey | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_0783455f6a544997bcb510527b8ab219~mv2.gif)
None
SQUAD STATS
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/12
SQUAD STATS
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_0783455f6a544997bcb510527b8ab219~mv2.gif)
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/12
MATCHDAY SQUAD
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
MATCHDAY SQUAD
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_0783455f6a544997bcb510527b8ab219~mv2.gif)
UNAVAILABLE
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_0783455f6a544997bcb510527b8ab219~mv2.gif)
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
MATCH QUOTES
MATCH REPORT
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