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Aston Villa 1-0 Stoke City - December 26, 1980 / Division 1 1980/1981

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Division 1 1980/1981 - Round 24

Villa Park - Birmingham - England

December 26, 1980

Aston Villa

1 - 0

Stoke City

Peter Withe

38'

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38' - Goal Peter Withe38

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46' - Substitution Paul Randallis substituted by Peter Griffiths

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Aston Villa

1 - 0

Stoke City

Aston Villa Stoke City

Team line-ups

Aston Villa

Rimmer

Jimmy Rimmer

England

B.date10/02/1948

Age32 years

positionGoalkeeper

Evans

Allan Evans

Scotland

B.date12/10/1956

Age24 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Williams

Gary Williams

England

B.date17/06/1960

Age20 years

positionDefender

Swain

Kenny Swain

England

B.date28/01/1952

Age28 years

positionRight full-back

Cowans

Gordon Cowans

England

B.date27/10/1958

Age22 years

H1m70

positionCentre Midfield

McNaught

Ken McNaught

Scotland

B.date11/01/1955

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Mortimer

Dennis Mortimer

England

B.date05/04/1952

Age28 years

positionCentre Midfield

Bremner

Des Bremner

Scotland

B.date07/09/1952

Age28 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Shaw

Gary Shaw

England

B.date21/01/1961

Age19 years

H1m75

positionForward

Morley

Tony Morley

England

B.date26/08/1954

Age26 years

positionLeft Winger

Withe38

Peter Withe

England

B.date30/08/1951

Age29 years

H1m85

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jimmy Rimmer		32	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Allan Evans		24	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Williams		20	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Swain		28	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gordon Cowans		22	154	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ken McNaught		25	126	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dennis Mortimer		28	185	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Des Bremner		28	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gary Shaw		19	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tony Morley		26	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Withe	38	29	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Stoke City

Fox

Peter Fox

England

B.date05/07/1957

Age23 years

positionGoalkeeper

O'Callaghan

Brendan O'Callaghan

Republic of Ireland

B.date23/07/1955

Age25 years

positionDefender

Dodd

Alan Dodd

England

B.date20/09/1953

Age27 years

positionDefender

Munro

Iain Munro

Scotland

B.date24/08/1951

Age29 years

positionDefender

Hampton

Peter Hampton

England

B.date12/09/1954

Age26 years

positionLeft full-back

Evans

Ray Evans

England

B.date20/09/1949

Age31 years

positionRight full-back

Bracewell

Paul Bracewell

England

B.date19/07/1962

Age18 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Doyle

Michael Doyle

England

B.date25/11/1946

Age34 years

positionRight Midfielder

Randall46

Paul Randall

England

B.date16/02/1958

Age22 years

positionForward

Chapman

Lee Chapman

England

B.date05/12/1959

Age21 years

H1m88

positionStriker

Heath

Adrian Heath

England

B.date11/01/1961

Age19 years

H1m68

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Fox		23	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brendan O'Callaghan		25	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Dodd		27	222	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Iain Munro		29	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Hampton		26	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ray Evans		31	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Bracewell		18	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael Doyle		34	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Randall	46	22	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Lee Chapman		21	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Adrian Heath		19	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Peter Griffiths	46	23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Peter Withe

David Geddis

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Michael Doyle

Dennis Thorley

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Saunders

340

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Saunders vs Stoke City

4 victories

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on December 26, 1980

Saunders vs Durban

2 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 1980

Manager

Age

Match num

Alan Durban

138

Success rate in this team:

38 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Durban vs Aston Villa

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 26, 1980

Durban vs Saunders

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 26, 1980

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Key figures

Only back at the time of George Ramsay head of (01/07/1884-01/07/1926), you can see a manager go over Ron Saunders with 41% of wins in Premier League (48%).

Aston Villa keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 06/12/1980).

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Ron Saunders has reached 33% of clean sheets .

Read the next 5 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VAston Villa 3-0 Tottenham18/10/1980

VAston Villa 4-1 Brighton & Hove22/10/1980

VAston Villa 2-0 Leicester01/11/1980

DAston Villa 1-1 Leeds United15/11/1980

DAston Villa 1-1 Arsenal29/11/1980

VAston Villa 3-0 Birmingham City13/12/1980

Overall

DAston Villa 1-1 Leeds United15/11/1980

LLiverpool 2-1 Aston Villa22/11/1980

DAston Villa 1-1 Arsenal29/11/1980

LMiddlesbrough 2-1 Aston Villa06/12/1980

VAston Villa 3-0 Birmingham City13/12/1980

LBrighton & Hove 1-0 Aston Villa20/12/1980

Current form

Away

VSouthampton 1-2 Stoke City11/10/1980

DBirmingham City 1-1 Stoke City25/10/1980

DSunderland 0-0 Stoke City08/11/1980

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Stoke City25/11/1980

LWolverhampton 1-0 Stoke City29/11/1980

DManchester United 2-2 Stoke City13/12/1980

Overall

VStoke City 1-0 Crystal Palace22/11/1980

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Stoke City25/11/1980

LWolverhampton 1-0 Stoke City29/11/1980

DStoke City 2-2 Everton06/12/1980

DManchester United 2-2 Stoke City13/12/1980

VStoke City 1-0 Leicester20/12/1980

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	8	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	8	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	3
Winless streak	5	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	1	3
Conceding streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

23	Number of games (Competition total)	23
11	Number of games (Home / Away)	11
13	Victories (Competition total)	7
8	Victories (Home / Away)	2
5	Draws (Competition total)	10
2	Draws (Home / Away)	5
5	Losses (Competition total)	6
1	Losses (Home / Away)	4

Goals

39	Goals scored (Competition total)	27
22	Goals scored (Home / Away)	9
21	Goals conceded (Competition total)	31
6	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	19
1.7	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.17
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.82
0.91	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.35
0.55	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.73

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	12
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	5
8	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	5
12	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	12
4	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
1-0 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-1 (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

Gary Shaw	13 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	10 goals	Lee Chapman
Gary Shaw	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Lee Chapman
Gordon Cowans	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Gary Shaw	10 goals during the last 16 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 3 matches	Lee Chapman

Historical head to head

Home

40 matches

29 v

6 d

5 l

104 gf

36 ga

Away

40 matches

11 v

12 d

17 l

48 gf

65 ga

Total

80 matches

40 v

18 d

22 l

152 gf

101 ga

Historical head to head

Home

40 matches

17 v

12 d

11 l

65 gf

48 ga

Away

40 matches

5 v

6 d

29 l

36 gf

104 ga

Total

80 matches

22 v

18 d

40 l

101 gf

152 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	February 17, 1923
Home	6 - 0	February 17, 1923

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	December 10, 1966
Away	3 - 1	August 26, 1963

Latest head to head

March 29, 1980 - Division 1 1979/1980

Stoke City

2 - 0

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

November 17, 1979 - Division 1 1979/1980

Aston Villa

2 - 1

Stoke City logo Stoke City

May 16, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Aston Villa

1 - 0

Stoke City logo Stoke City

October 02, 1976 - Division 1 1976/1977

Stoke City

1 - 0

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

March 27, 1976 - Division 1 1975/1976

Aston Villa

0 - 0

Stoke City logo Stoke City

Best historical scorers against Stoke City

Tony Hateley	3 goals	1963 - 1965
John MacLeod	1 goal	1966 - 1966
Willie Anderson	1 goal	1967 - 1967
Allan Evans	1 goal	1979 - 1979
Mike Tindall	1 goal	1964 - 1964
Andy Gray	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Aston Villa

Harry Burrows	6 goals	1965 - 1966
Peter Dobing	4 goals	1963 - 1966
Royston Vernon	2 goals	1965 - 1966
Jimmy Greenhoff	1 goal	1975 - 1975
George Eastham	1 goal	1966 - 1966
Geoff Scott	1 goal	1979 - 1979

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Stoke City

John Sleeuwenhoek	7 matches	1963 - 1967
Charlie Aitken	7 matches	1963 - 1967
Tony Hateley	6 matches	1963 - 1966
Alan Deakin	6 matches	1963 - 1966
John MacLeod	5 matches	1964 - 1967
Phillip Woosnam	5 matches	1963 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Aston Villa

Alan Bloor	8 matches	1964 - 1977
Dennis Viollet	7 matches	1963 - 1967
Peter Dobing	7 matches	1963 - 1967
Eric Skeels	6 matches	1963 - 1966
Alan Dodd	6 matches	1975 - 1980
Maurice Setters	5 matches	1964 - 1966