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Belgium 1-1 Austria - March 28, 1979 / Euro Qualifying 1980

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Euro Qualifying 1980 - Group 2

Parc Astrid - Bruxelles - Belgium

March 28, 1979

6 264

Belgium

1 - 1

Austria

(penalty) René Vandereycken

21'

61'

Hans Krankl

logo Belgium BEL

21' - Goal René Vandereycken21

logo Belgium BEL

61' - Goal Hans Krankl

70' - Substitution Julien Coolsis substituted by Willy Geurts70

logo Austria AUS

Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Belgium

1 - 1

Austria

Belgium Austria

Team line-ups

Belgium

Pfaff

Jean-Marie Pfaff

Belgium

B.date04/12/1953

Age25 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Meeuws

Walter Meeuws

Belgium

B.date11/07/1951

Age27 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Renquin

Michel Renquin

Belgium

B.date03/11/1955

Age23 years

H1m80

positionDefender

Broos

Hugo Broos

Belgium

B.date10/04/1952

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Gerets

Eric Gerets

Belgium

B.date18/05/1954

Age24 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Vercauteren

Franky Vercauteren

Belgium

B.date28/10/1956

Age22 years

H1m75

positionLeft Midfielder

Vandereycken21

René Vandereycken

Belgium

B.date22/07/1953

Age25 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

Cools70

Julien Cools

Belgium

B.date13/02/1947

Age32 years

positionForward

Janssens

Jean Janssens

Belgium

B.date28/09/1944

Age34 years

positionForward

Cluytens

Albert Cluytens

Belgium

B.date16/11/1955

Age23 years

positionForward

Van der Elst

François Van der Elst

Belgium

B.date01/12/1954

Age24 years

H1m72

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jean-Marie Pfaff		25	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Walter Meeuws		27	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michel Renquin		23	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Hugo Broos		26	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eric Gerets		24	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Franky Vercauteren		22	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	René Vandereycken	21	25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Julien Cools	70	32	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jean Janssens		34	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Albert Cluytens		23	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	François Van der Elst		24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Austria

Koncilia

Friedrich Koncilia

Austria

B.date25/02/1948

Age31 years

H1m81

positionGoalkeeper

Pezzey

Bruno Pezzey

Austria

B.date03/02/1955

Age24 years

H1m88

positionSweeper

Obermayer

Erich Obermayer

Austria

B.date23/01/1953

Age26 years

H1m82

positionSweeper

Weber

Heribert Weber

Austria

B.date28/06/1955

Age23 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Mirnegg

Hans-Dieter Mirnegg

Austria

B.date24/05/1954

Age24 years

H1m77

positionLeft full-back

Sara

Robert Sara

Austria

B.date09/06/1946

Age32 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

Hattenberger

Roland Hattenberger

Austria

B.date07/12/1948

Age30 years

H1m83

positionMidfield

Baumeister

Ernst Baumeister

Austria

B.date22/01/1957

Age22 years

H1m81

positionMidfield

Krankl61

Hans Krankl

Austria

B.date14/02/1953

Age26 years

H1m82

positionStriker

Schachner

Walter Schachner

Austria

B.date01/02/1957

Age22 years

H1m80

positionForward

Kreuz

Wilhelm Kreuz

Austria

B.date29/05/1949

Age29 years

H1m76

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Friedrich Koncilia		31	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Bruno Pezzey		24	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Erich Obermayer		26	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Heribert Weber		23	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Hans-Dieter Mirnegg		24	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Robert Sara		32	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roland Hattenberger		30	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ernst Baumeister		22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Hans Krankl	61	26	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Walter Schachner		22	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Wilhelm Kreuz		29	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Willy Geurts	70	25	4	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

Jean Janssens

Guy Dardenne

OUT

Albert Cluytens

Jan Ceulemans

OUT

François Van der Elst

Ludo Coeck

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Roland Hattenberger

Herbert Prohaska

OUT

Hans Krankl

Franz Oberacher

OUT

Bruno Pezzey

Heinrich Strasser

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Guy Thys

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

35 %

Thys vs Austria

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 28, 1979

Thys vs Stotz

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 28, 1979

Manager

Age

Match num

Karl Stotz

Success rate in this team:

60 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

60 %

Stotz vs Belgium

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 28, 1979

Stotz vs Thys

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 28, 1979

Referee

Franco Angelo Martinez

0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Belgium1 match	General total	Austria1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Belgium1 match	Season total	Austria1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on March 28, 1979					Latest figure on March 28, 1979

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Key figures

It's the first time René Vandereycken scores 1 goal in Euro Qualifying

It's the first time René Vandereycken scores 1 goal in his professional career with Belgium

Belgium keeps its 3 consecutive draws in Euro Qualifying running (since 20/09/1978). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 29/04/1972 (2 matches)

Read the next 12 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBelgium 2-0 Northern Ireland10/11/1976

LBelgium 0-2 Netherlands26/03/1977

VBelgium 4-0 Iceland03/09/1977

LBelgium 0-1 Italy21/12/1977

VBelgium 1-0 Austria22/03/1978

DBelgium 1-1 Norway20/09/1978

Overall

LBelgium 0-1 Italy21/12/1977

VBelgium 1-0 Austria22/03/1978

DEast Germany 0-0 Belgium19/04/1978

DBelgium 1-1 Norway20/09/1978

DPortugal 1-1 Belgium11/10/1978

LIsrael 1-0 Belgium15/11/1978

Current form

Away

VTurkey 0-1 Austria30/10/1977

DGreece 1-1 Austria15/02/1978

LBelgium 1-0 Austria22/03/1978

VSwitzerland 0-1 Austria04/04/1978

VNorway 0-2 Austria30/08/1978

VIsrael 0-1 Austria30/01/1979

Overall

LItaly 1-0 Austria18/06/1978

VAustria 3-2 Germany21/06/1978

VNorway 0-2 Austria30/08/1978

VAustria 3-2 Scotland20/09/1978

LAustria 1-2 Portugal15/11/1978

VIsrael 0-1 Austria30/01/1979

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	2	0
Winless streak	1	4
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	2	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	1	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	3	1
Unbeaten streak	3	1
Drawless streak	4	13
Scoring streak	3	5
Invincibility streak	3	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

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

Goals

2	Goals scored (Competition total)	6
1	Goals scored (Home / Away)	2
2	Goals conceded (Competition total)	4
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.33
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

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

Julien Cools	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Walter Schachner
Julien Cools	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Hans Krankl
Franky Vercauteren	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 2 matches	Walter Schachner

Historical head to head

Home

6 matches

1 v

0 d

5 l

7 gf

22 ga

Away

4 matches

0 v

0 d

4 l

4 gf

14 ga

Total

10 matches

1 v

0 d

9 l

11 gf

36 ga

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

4 v

0 d

0 l

14 gf

4 ga

Away

6 matches

5 v

0 d

1 l

22 gf

7 ga

Total

10 matches

9 v

0 d

1 l

36 gf

11 ga

Largest victory

Overall	1 - 0	March 22, 1978
Home	1 - 0	March 22, 1978

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 1	October 14, 1951
Away	8 - 1	October 14, 1951

Latest head to head

March 22, 1978 - Rencontres amicales 1978

Belgium

1 - 0

Austria

June 14, 1959 - Rencontres amicales 1959

Austria

4 - 2

Belgium

May 24, 1959 - Rencontres amicales 1959

Belgium

0 - 2

Austria

March 23, 1952 - Rencontres amicales 1952

Austria

2 - 0

Belgium

October 14, 1951 - Rencontres amicales 1951

Belgium

1 - 8

Austria

Best historical scorers against Austria

Vital van Landeghem	1 goal	1932 - 1932
Ivan Thys	1 goal	1925 - 1925
Bernard Voorhoof	1 goal	1933 - 1933
Raymond Braine	1 goal	1925 - 1925
Rik Coppens	1 goal	1959 - 1959
Willy Geurts	1 goal	1978 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/12/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Belgium

Anton Schall	6 goals	1927 - 1932
Franz Binder	2 goals	1933 - 1933
Viktor Hierländer	2 goals	1925 - 1928
Karl Skerlan	2 goals	1959 - 1959
Wilhelm Morocutti	2 goals	1925 - 1925
Erich Hof	2 goals	1959 - 1959

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/12/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Austria

Rik Coppens	3 matches	1952 - 1959
Armand Swartenbroeks	3 matches	1925 - 1928
Pierre Braine	3 matches	1925 - 1928
André Piters	2 matches	1959 - 1959
Raymond Braine	2 matches	1925 - 1927
Léopold Anoul	2 matches	1951 - 1952

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/12/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Belgium

Karl Rainer	4 matches	1927 - 1933
Fritz Gschweidl	3 matches	1928 - 1933
Josef Blum	3 matches	1925 - 1928
Leopold Hofmann	2 matches	1927 - 1928
Kurt Schmied	2 matches	1959 - 1959
Erich Hasenkopf	2 matches	1959 - 1959