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Aston Villa 2-0 Liverpool - January 10, 1981 / Division 1 1980/1981

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Division 1 1980/1981 - Round 26

Villa Park - Birmingham - England

January 10, 1981

2 - 0

Liverpool

Peter Withe

19'

Dennis Mortimer

82'

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19' - Goal Peter Withe19

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82' - Goal Dennis Mortimer82

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Aston Villa

2 - 0

Liverpool

Aston Villa Liverpool

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

Swain

Kenny Swain

England

B.date28/01/1952

Age28 years

positionRight full-back

Gibson

Colin Gibson

England

B.date06/04/1960

Age20 years

positionLeft 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

Mortimer82

Dennis Mortimer

England

B.date05/04/1952

Age28 years

positionCentre Midfield

Bremner

Des Bremner

Scotland

B.date07/09/1952

Age28 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Withe19

Peter Withe

England

B.date30/08/1951

Age29 years

H1m85

positionForward

Shaw

Gary Shaw

England

B.date21/01/1961

Age19 years

H1m75

positionForward

Morley

Tony Morley

England

B.date26/08/1954

Age26 years

positionLeft Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jimmy Rimmer		32	151	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Allan Evans		24	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Swain		28	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Gibson		20	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gordon Cowans		22	156	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ken McNaught		25	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dennis Mortimer	82	28	187	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Des Bremner		28	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Withe	19	29	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gary Shaw		19	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tony Morley		26	44	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

Liverpool

Clemence

Ray Clemence

England

B.date05/08/1948

Age32 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Irwin

Colin Irwin

England

B.date09/02/1957

Age23 years

positionDefender

Money

Richard Money

England

B.date13/10/1955

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

A. Kennedy

Alan Kennedy

England

B.date31/08/1954

Age26 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Neal

Phil Neal

England

B.date20/02/1951

Age29 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Souness

Graeme Souness

Scotland

B.date06/05/1953

Age27 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Lee

Sammy Lee

England

B.date07/02/1959

Age21 years

H1m58

positionMidfield

Ray Kennedy

England

B.date28/07/1951

Age29 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

McDermott

Terry McDermott

England

B.date08/12/1951

Age29 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Johnson

David Johnson

England

B.date23/10/1951

Age29 years

positionForward

Dalglish

Kenny Dalglish

Scotland

B.date04/03/1951

Age29 years

H1m78

positionRight Winger

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Ray Clemence	32	639	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Irwin	23	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Richard Money	25	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Kennedy	26	118	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Neal	29	358	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graeme Souness	27	165	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sammy Lee	21	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Kennedy	29	343	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Terry McDermott	29	255	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Johnson	29	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kenny Dalglish	29	210	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

213

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Graeme Souness

Jimmy Case

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Saunders

343

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Saunders vs Liverpool

4 victories

3 draws

8 losses

Latest figure on January 10, 1981

Saunders vs Paisley

4 victories

1 draw

7 losses

Latest figure on January 10, 1981

Manager

Age

Match num

Robert Paisley

387

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

57 %

Paisley vs Aston Villa

7 victories

1 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on January 10, 1981

Paisley vs Saunders

7 victories

1 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on January 10, 1981

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Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Liverpool after 8 consecutive matches without a loss (since 29/11/1980). It was the best streak for the club since 30/08/1980-22/11/1980 (22 matches).

Kenny Dalglish played his game number 150 in Premier League

Aston Villa keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw at home running (since 13/12/1980). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 26/03/1980-01/11/1980 time period (12 matches).

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

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

VAston Villa 1-0 Stoke City26/12/1980

Overall

LMiddlesbrough 2-1 Aston Villa06/12/1980

VAston Villa 3-0 Birmingham City13/12/1980

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

VAston Villa 1-0 Stoke City26/12/1980

DNottingham Forest 2-2 Aston Villa27/12/1980

LIpswich Town 1-0 Aston Villa03/01/1981

Current form

Away

DStoke City 2-2 Liverpool01/11/1980

DCrystal Palace 2-2 Liverpool15/11/1980

LWolverhampton 4-1 Liverpool25/11/1980

VSunderland 2-4 Liverpool29/11/1980

DIpswich Town 1-1 Liverpool13/12/1980

DManchester United 0-0 Liverpool26/12/1980

Overall

VLiverpool 2-1 Tottenham06/12/1980

DIpswich Town 1-1 Liverpool13/12/1980

VLiverpool 1-0 Wolverhampton20/12/1980

DManchester United 0-0 Liverpool26/12/1980

DLiverpool 0-0 Leeds United27/12/1980

VLiverpool 4-1 Altrincham03/01/1981

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	9	0
Winless streak	0	2
Drawless streak	2	1
Scoring streak	9	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	2
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	3	8
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

25	Number of games (Competition total)	25
12	Number of games (Home / Away)	12
14	Victories (Competition total)	11
9	Victories (Home / Away)	2
6	Draws (Competition total)	12
2	Draws (Home / Away)	8
5	Losses (Competition total)	2
1	Losses (Home / Away)	2

Goals

42	Goals scored (Competition total)	46
23	Goals scored (Home / Away)	18
23	Goals conceded (Competition total)	27
6	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	18
1.68	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.84
1.92	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.5
0.92	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.08
0.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.5

Betting aid

14	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
9	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
13	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	16
4	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
1-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-2 (4 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	14 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Kenny Dalglish
Gary Shaw	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Kenny Dalglish
Gordon Cowans	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Terry McDermott
Gary Shaw	11 goals during the last 18 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 5 matches	Ray Kennedy

Historical head to head

Home

56 matches

30 v

10 d

16 l

127 gf

71 ga

Away

58 matches

11 v

9 d

38 l

64 gf

139 ga

Total

114 matches

41 v

19 d

54 l

191 gf

210 ga

Historical head to head

Home

58 matches

38 v

9 d

11 l

139 gf

64 ga

Away

56 matches

16 v

10 d

30 l

71 gf

127 ga

Total

114 matches

54 v

19 d

41 l

210 gf

191 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	January 16, 1932
Home	6 - 1	January 16, 1932

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	October 10, 1953
Away	3 - 0	April 01, 1978

Latest head to head

November 22, 1980 - Division 1 1980/1981

Liverpool

2 - 1

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

May 03, 1980 - Division 1 1979/1980

Liverpool

4 - 1

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

December 08, 1979 - Division 1 1979/1980

Aston Villa

1 - 3

Liverpool

May 08, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Liverpool

3 - 0

Aston Villa logo Aston Villa

April 16, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Aston Villa

3 - 1

Liverpool

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Tony Hateley	5 goals	1963 - 1966
Andy Gray	4 goals	1976 - 1977
John Deehan	3 goals	1976 - 1979
Brian Little	2 goals	1976 - 1979
Allan Evans	2 goals	1979 - 1980
Eric Houghton	1 goal	1935 - 1935

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Aston Villa

Roger Hunt	9 goals	1963 - 1966
Ian St-John	6 goals	1963 - 1967
Kenny Dalglish	5 goals	1978 - 1980
Ian Callaghan	5 goals	1963 - 1976
Bobby Graham	4 goals	1964 - 1966
Gordon Hodgson	4 goals	1933 - 1935

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Charlie Aitken	12 matches	1963 - 1975
John Sleeuwenhoek	10 matches	1963 - 1967
John Gidman	8 matches	1975 - 1979
Alan Deakin	8 matches	1963 - 1967
Mick Wright	8 matches	1963 - 1967
Dennis Mortimer	8 matches	1976 - 1980

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Aston Villa

Ian Callaghan	15 matches	1963 - 1977
Ron Yeats	11 matches	1963 - 1967
Ray Clemence	11 matches	1975 - 1980
Tommy Lawrence	11 matches	1963 - 1967
Willie Stevenson	11 matches	1963 - 1967
Phil Neal	11 matches	1975 - 1980