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Portugal 2-1 Scotland - November 18, 1981 / World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1982

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World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1982 - Group 6

Estadio da Luz - Lisbon - Portugal

November 18, 1981

25 000

2 - 1

Scotland

Manuel Fernandes

33'

Manuel Fernandes

56'

Paul Sturrock

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9' - Goal Paul Sturrock

33' - Goal Manuel Fernandes33

42' - Substitution Frank Grayis substituted by Stewart Kennedy

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46' - Substitution Jaime Magalhãesis substituted by Diamantino46

51' - Substitution Penteado Gregorio Freixois substituted by António Veloso51

56' - Goal Manuel Fernandes56

65' - Substitution Steve Archibaldis substituted by Kenny Dalglish

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Portugal

2 - 1

Scotland

Portugal Scotland

Team line-ups

Portugal

Bento

Portugal

B.date25/06/1948

Age33 years

H1m73

positionGoalkeeper

Gregorio Freixo51

Penteado Gregorio Freixo

Portugal

B.date08/09/1952

Age29 years

positionDefender

Dito

Portugal

B.date18/01/1962

Age19 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Carlos Simões

Portugal

B.date28/07/1951

Age30 years

positionCentral defender

Eurico

Portugal

B.date29/09/1955

Age26 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Costa

José Alberto Costa

Portugal

B.date31/10/1953

Age28 years

positionMidfield

Teixeira

Adelino Teixeira

Portugal

B.date04/06/1952

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Jaime Magalhães46

Jaime Magalhães

Portugal

B.date10/07/1962

Age19 years

H1m76

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Romeu

Portugal

B.date04/03/1954

Age27 years

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Oliveira

António Oliveira

Portugal

B.date10/06/1952

Age29 years

H1m72

positionForward

Fernandes3356

Manuel Fernandes

Portugal

B.date05/06/1951

Age30 years

H1m72

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Bento		33	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Penteado Gregorio Freixo	51	29	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dito		19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Carlos Simões		30	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eurico		26	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	José Alberto Costa		28	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Adelino Teixeira		29	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jaime Magalhães	46	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Romeu		27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	António Oliveira		29	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Manuel Fernandes	3356	30	21	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

Scotland

Thomson

Billy Thomson

Scotland

B.date10/02/1958

Age23 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Hansen

Alan Hansen

Scotland

B.date13/06/1955

Age26 years

H1m88

positionSweeper

Miller

Willie Miller

Scotland

B.date02/05/1955

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Gray42

Frank Gray

Scotland

B.date27/10/1954

Age27 years

positionLeft full-back

Stewart

Ray Stewart

Scotland

B.date07/09/1959

Age22 years

positionRight full-back

Souness

Graeme Souness

Scotland

B.date06/05/1953

Age28 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Hartford

Asa Hartford

Scotland

B.date24/10/1950

Age31 years

positionMidfield

Strachan

Gordon Strachan

Scotland

B.date09/02/1957

Age24 years

H1m68

positionCentre Midfield

Archibald65

Steve Archibald

Scotland

B.date27/09/1956

Age25 years

H1m82

positionStriker

Sturrock9

Paul Sturrock

Scotland

B.date10/10/1956

Age25 years

positionStriker

Provan

David Provan

Scotland

B.date08/05/1956

Age25 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Billy Thomson		23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Hansen		26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Willie Miller		26	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank Gray	42	27	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ray Stewart		22	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graeme Souness		28	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Asa Hartford		31	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gordon Strachan		24	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Steve Archibald	65	25	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Sturrock	9	25	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Provan		25	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		António Veloso	51	24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Diamantino	46	22	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	G		Stewart Kennedy	42	32	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Kenny Dalglish	65	30	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Penteado Gregorio Freixo

Humberto Coelho

OUT

José Alberto Costa

António Sousa

OUT

António Oliveira

Jordão

OUT

Bento

Antonio Amaral

OUT

Dito

Gabriel Mendes

OUT

Carlos Simões

Rodolfo Reis

OUT

Jaime Magalhães

Carlos Freire

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paul Sturrock

Kenny Dalglish

OUT

David Provan

John Robertson

OUT

Billy Thomson

Alan Rough

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Juca

Success rate in this team:

44 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Juca vs Scotland

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 18, 1981

Juca vs Stein

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 18, 1981

Manager

Age

Match num

Jock Stein

Success rate in this team:

39 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

63 %

Stein vs Portugal

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on November 18, 1981

Stein vs Juca

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on November 18, 1981

Referee

Charles Corver

1 victory	1 draw	1 loss	Portugal3 matches	General total	Scotland3 matches	1 victory	1 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Portugal1 match	Season total	Scotland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on November 18, 1981					Latest figure on March 30, 1983

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Key figures

Portugal keeps its 4 matches with at least one goal scored at home in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone running (since 01/05/1938). It's a record streak. The first of history

Portugal keeps its 5 matches with at least one goal conceded in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone running (since 29/04/1981). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 28/03/1973-16/10/1976 time period (5 matches).

Scotland keeps its 5 matches with at least one goal scored away from home running (since 12/10/1977). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 29/11/1961 (4 matches)

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VPortugal 1-0 Northern Ireland19/11/1980

VPortugal 3-0 Israel17/12/1980

DPortugal 1-1 Bulgaria15/04/1981

VPortugal 2-0 Spain20/06/1981

VPortugal 2-0 Poland23/09/1981

LPortugal 1-2 Sweden14/10/1981

Overall

LNorthern Ireland 1-0 Portugal29/04/1981

VPortugal 2-0 Spain20/06/1981

LSweden 3-0 Portugal24/06/1981

VPortugal 2-0 Poland23/09/1981

LPortugal 1-2 Sweden14/10/1981

LIsrael 4-1 Portugal28/10/1981

Current form

Away

LHungary 3-1 Scotland31/05/1980

VSweden 0-1 Scotland10/09/1980

VIsrael 0-1 Scotland25/02/1981

LWales 2-0 Scotland16/05/1981

VEngland 0-1 Scotland23/05/1981

DNorthern Ireland 0-0 Scotland14/10/1981

Overall

VScotland 3-1 Israel28/04/1981

LWales 2-0 Scotland16/05/1981

VScotland 2-0 Northern Ireland19/05/1981

VEngland 0-1 Scotland23/05/1981

VScotland 2-0 Sweden09/09/1981

DNorthern Ireland 0-0 Scotland14/10/1981

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	1	2
Drawless streak	3	6
Scoring streak	16	3
Conceding streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	2	4
Winless streak	1	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	2	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

7	Number of games (Competition total)	7
3	Number of games (Home / Away)	3
2	Victories (Competition total)	4
2	Victories (Home / Away)	2
1	Draws (Competition total)	3
0	Draws (Home / Away)	1
4	Losses (Competition total)	0
1	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

6	Goals scored (Competition total)	8
5	Goals scored (Home / Away)	2
10	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
0.86	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.14
1.67	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.67
1.43	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.29
0.67	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	1
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	5
2	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	2
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
1-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-0 (2 times)

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
1	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Jordão	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	John Robertson
Humberto Coelho	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Gordon Strachan
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	John Robertson
Jordão	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 3 matches	John Robertson

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

3 v

1 d

0 l

6 gf

2 ga

Away

6 matches

1 v

1 d

4 l

3 gf

10 ga

Total

10 matches

4 v

2 d

4 l

9 gf

12 ga

Historical head to head

Home

6 matches

4 v

1 d

1 l

10 gf

3 ga

Away

4 matches

0 v

1 d

3 l

2 gf

6 ga

Total

10 matches

4 v

2 d

4 l

12 gf

9 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	April 21, 1971
Home	2 - 0	April 21, 1971

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	March 26, 1980
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

October 15, 1980 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1982

Scotland

0 - 0

Portugal

March 26, 1980 - Eliminatoires Euro 1980

Scotland

4 - 1

Portugal

November 29, 1978 - Eliminatoires Euro 1980

Portugal

1 - 0

Scotland

May 13, 1975 - Rencontres amicales 1975

Scotland

1 - 0

Portugal

October 13, 1971 - Eliminatoires Euro 1972

Scotland

2 - 1

Portugal

Best historical scorers against Scotland

Sebastiao Lucas Matateu	1 goal	1959 - 1959
Fernando Gomes	1 goal	1980 - 1980
José Antonio Travaços	1 goal	1950 - 1950
Fonseca Junior Alberto	1 goal	1978 - 1978
José Torres	1 goal	1966 - 1966
Eusebio	1 goal	1971 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/05/1950. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Portugal

Archie Gemmill	2 goals	1971 - 1980
Willie Bauld	1 goal	1950 - 1950
Thomas Gemmell	1 goal	1955 - 1955
Kenny Dalglish	1 goal	1980 - 1980
Andy Gray	1 goal	1980 - 1980
John O'Hare	1 goal	1971 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/05/1950. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Scotland

Nené	6 matches	1971 - 1980
Humberto Coelho	4 matches	1971 - 1980
José Alberto Costa	3 matches	1978 - 1980
Fernando Peres	3 matches	1966 - 1971
Han Shéu	3 matches	1978 - 1980
Bento	3 matches	1978 - 1980

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/05/1950. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Portugal

Kenny Dalglish	4 matches	1975 - 1980
Archie Gemmill	4 matches	1971 - 1980
Danny McGrain	3 matches	1975 - 1980
Martin Buchan	3 matches	1971 - 1978
Robert Evans	3 matches	1950 - 1959
Alan Rough	3 matches	1978 - 1980