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FA Cup Semi-final
Villa Park | Sat 27 Mar 1965 at 15:00
| Liverpool | 2 | - | 0 | Chelsea |
Starting Lineup
| 1 |  |
Tommy Lawrence |
| 2 |  |
Chris Lawler |
| 3 |  |
Gerry Byrne |
| 4 |  |
Gordon Milne |
| 5 |  |
Ron Yeats (c) |
| 6 |  |
Willie Stevenson |
| 7 |  |
Ian Callaghan |
| 8 |  |
Roger Hunt |
| 9 |  |
Ian St John |
| 10 |  |
Tommy Smith |
| 11 |  |
Peter Thompson |
Substitutes
Goals
- Peter Thompson 63'
- Willie Stevenson 79' pen
Notes
- - Average age of the Liverpool starting lineup: 24.76
- - Average age of the Chelsea starting lineup: 23.24
- - Gordon Milne was the designated penalty taker on the day but didn't fancy the challenge of taking Liverpool's penalty: "It was one of those days when the ball is like a balloon and the goal shrinks. It was one of those pictures I had in my mind. Willie was next to me and I said: 'Willie, I don't fancy this.' 'No problem.'
Willie Stevenson surprised everybody by stepping up, but his seemingly confident penalty was everything but: "I thought I was having quite a good game so I said: 'I'll take it.' The best thing about that was I meant to put it in the bottom right-hand corner, my right facing it, but my foot just slipped as I came to the ball and instead of going on the ground it went about six feet up straight back into the net. They are all great goals."
From Liverpoolfc.com's documentary "Ee-aye-addio - 1965 and all that."
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Other details
- Manager: Bill Shankly
- Opposition manager: Tommy Docherty
- Referee: Smith DW
- Attendance: 67,686
- Half-time score: 0
- 0 - Game number: 2641
- FA Cup game number: 206
