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Chelsea 3-1 Aston Villa - April 16, 1985 / Division 1 1984/1985

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Division 1 1984/1985 - Round 27

Stamford Bridge - London - England

April 16, 1985

Chelsea

3 - 1

Aston Villa

Mickey Thomas

(o.g) Allan Evans

John Bumstead

45'

Mark Walters

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0' - Goal Mickey Thomas photo Allan Evans

0' - Own goal Allan Evans0

0' - Goal Mark Walters

45' - Goal John Bumstead45

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46' - Substitution John Bumsteadis substituted by Gordon Davies46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Chelsea

3 - 1

Aston Villa

Chelsea Aston Villa

Team line-ups

Chelsea

Niedzwiecki

Eddie Niedzwiecki

Wales

B.date03/05/1959

Age25 years

positionGoalkeeper

McLaughlin

Joe McLaughlin

Scotland

B.date02/06/1960

Age24 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Howard

Terry Howard

England

B.date26/02/1966

Age19 years

positionVersatile Defender

Pates

Colin Pates

England

B.date10/08/1961

Age23 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Dublin

Keith Dublin

England

B.date29/01/1966

Age19 years

positionDefender

Bumstead4546

John Bumstead

England

B.date27/11/1958

Age26 years

H1m70

positionCentre Midfield

Thomas0

Mickey Thomas

Wales

B.date07/07/1954

Age30 years

H1m68

positionLeft Midfielder

Spackman

Nigel Spackman

England

B.date02/12/1960

Age24 years

H1m86

positionMidfield

Speedie

David Speedie

Scotland

B.date20/02/1960

Age25 years

H1m68

positionForward

Nevin

Pat Nevin

Scotland

B.date06/09/1963

Age21 years

H1m68

positionRight Winger

Dixon

Kerry Dixon

England

B.date24/07/1961

Age23 years

H1m83

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Eddie Niedzwiecki		25	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joe McLaughlin		24	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Terry Howard		19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Pates		23	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Keith Dublin		19	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Bumstead	4546	26	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mickey Thomas		30	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nigel Spackman		24	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Speedie		25	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Pat Nevin		21	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kerry Dixon		23	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Aston Villa

Spink

Nigel Spink

England

B.date08/08/1958

Age26 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Williams

Gary Williams

England

B.date17/06/1960

Age24 years

positionDefender

Glover

Dean Glover

England

B.date29/12/1963

Age21 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Evans0

Allan Evans

Scotland

B.date12/10/1956

Age28 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Dorigo

Tony Dorigo

England

B.date31/12/1965

Age19 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Gibson

Colin Gibson

England

B.date06/04/1960

Age25 years

positionLeft full-back

McMahon

Steve McMahon

England

B.date20/08/1961

Age23 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

Birch

Paul Birch

England

B.date06/11/1962

Age22 years

H1m68

positionMidfield

Walters0

Mark Walters

England

B.date02/06/1964

Age20 years

H1m75

positionLeft Midfielder

Withe

Peter Withe

England

B.date30/08/1951

Age33 years

H1m85

positionForward

Rideout

Paul Rideout

England

B.date14/08/1964

Age20 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Nigel Spink	26	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Williams	24	198	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dean Glover	21	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Allan Evans	28	284	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Dorigo	19	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Gibson	25	184	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve McMahon	23	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Birch	22	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark Walters	20	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Withe	33	196	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Rideout	20	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

111

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Gordon Davies	46	29	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Terry Howard

Dale Jasper

OUT

Eddie Niedzwiecki

Steve Francis

OUT

Mickey Thomas

Joey Jones

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Nigel Spink

Kevin Poole

OUT

Dean Glover

Brenand Ormsby

OUT

Paul Birch

Didier Six

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

John Neal

196

Success rate in this team:

41 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Neal vs Aston Villa

7 victories

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on April 16, 1985

Neal vs Turner

4 victories

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on April 16, 1985

Manager

Age

Match num

Graham Turner

Success rate in this team:

38 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

36 %

Turner vs Chelsea

6 victories

1 draw

5 losses

Latest figure on April 16, 1985

Turner vs Neal

4 victories

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on April 16, 1985

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Key figures

No Aston Villa manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Graham Turner has done less than 1.36 goals scored per game in Premier League.

Aston Villa keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 23/03/1985).

End of streak for Aston Villa after 4 matches with only one goal conceded at most (since 27/03/1985).

Read the next 6 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LChelsea 2-3 Millwall04/02/1985

VChelsea 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday06/02/1985

VChelsea 1-0 Newcastle United16/02/1985

LChelsea 2-3 Sunderland04/03/1985

LChelsea 0-2 Southampton09/03/1985

VChelsea 1-0 Queens Park Rangers06/04/1985

Overall

LChelsea 0-2 Southampton09/03/1985

VWatford 1-3 Chelsea16/03/1985

VSunderland 0-2 Chelsea30/03/1985

VChelsea 1-0 Queens Park Rangers06/04/1985

LNottingham Forest 2-0 Chelsea10/04/1985

DWest Ham 1-1 Chelsea13/04/1985

Current form

Away

VCoventry 0-3 Aston Villa19/01/1985

VWest Ham 1-2 Aston Villa23/02/1985

DNorwich City 2-2 Aston Villa09/03/1985

LManchester United 4-0 Aston Villa23/03/1985

VTottenham 0-2 Aston Villa30/03/1985

LWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Aston Villa08/04/1985

Overall

DAston Villa 1-1 Everton16/03/1985

LManchester United 4-0 Aston Villa23/03/1985

VAston Villa 2-0 Stoke City27/03/1985

VTottenham 0-2 Aston Villa30/03/1985

VAston Villa 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday06/04/1985

LWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Aston Villa08/04/1985

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Winless streak	0	2
Drawless streak	6	0
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	0	2
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	3	5
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

34	Number of games (Competition total)	35
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	17
13	Victories (Competition total)	13
10	Victories (Home / Away)	4
11	Draws (Competition total)	10
2	Draws (Home / Away)	4
10	Losses (Competition total)	12
4	Losses (Home / Away)	9

Goals

49	Goals scored (Competition total)	48
29	Goals scored (Home / Away)	20
39	Goals conceded (Competition total)	49
15	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	33
1.44	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.37
1.81	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.18
1.15	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.4
0.94	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.94

Betting aid

12	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	20
7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	11
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	11
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	13
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
18	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	14
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
1-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-3 (2 times)

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Kerry Dixon	19 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	12 goals	Paul Rideout
Kerry Dixon	12 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	6 goals	Mark Walters
Kerry Dixon	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	4 penalties	Allan Evans
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	2 penalties	Allan Evans
David Speedie	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 3 matches	Paul Rideout

Historical head to head

Home

43 matches

18 v

9 d

16 l

62 gf

57 ga

Away

42 matches

9 v

10 d

23 l

63 gf

93 ga

Total

85 matches

27 v

19 d

39 l

125 gf

150 ga

Historical head to head

Home

42 matches

23 v

10 d

9 l

93 gf

63 ga

Away

43 matches

16 v

9 d

18 l

57 gf

62 ga

Total

85 matches

39 v

19 d

27 l

150 gf

125 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	September 17, 1966
Home	4 - 0	December 11, 1954

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	April 15, 1952
Away	6 - 3	September 19, 1931

Latest head to head

September 08, 1984 - Division 1 1984/1985

Aston Villa

4 - 2

Chelsea

April 28, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Aston Villa

2 - 1

Chelsea

December 09, 1978 - Division 1 1978/1979

Chelsea

0 - 1

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

April 15, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Aston Villa

2 - 0

Chelsea

November 19, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Chelsea

0 - 0

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

Best historical scorers against Aston Villa

Robert Tambling	12 goals	1961 - 1967
Jimmy Greaves	5 goals	1958 - 1960
Barry Bridges	4 goals	1961 - 1965
Ron Tindall	3 goals	1957 - 1958
John Boyle	2 goals	1965 - 1966
Peter Brabrook	2 goals	1958 - 1960

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Tony Hateley	8 goals	1963 - 1966
Bobby Thomson	4 goals	1960 - 1961
Jimmy MacEwan	3 goals	1960 - 1963
Ron Wylie	2 goals	1960 - 1964
Peter McParland	2 goals	1959 - 1960
Peter Withe	2 goals	1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Aston Villa

Peter Bonetti	15 matches	1960 - 1979
Robert Tambling	13 matches	1960 - 1967
Ron Harris	12 matches	1963 - 1979
Peter Brabrook	10 matches	1957 - 1961
Marvin Hinton	9 matches	1964 - 1967
Terry Venables	9 matches	1960 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

John Sleeuwenhoek	11 matches	1961 - 1967
Alan Deakin	10 matches	1960 - 1966
Charlie Aitken	10 matches	1961 - 1967
Tony Hateley	9 matches	1963 - 1966
Phillip Woosnam	8 matches	1963 - 1966
Mick Wright	8 matches	1963 - 1967