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Arsenal 2-0 Norwich City - April 04, 1988 / Division 1 1987/1988

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Division 1 1987/1988 - Round 36

Highbury - London - England

April 04, 1988

Arsenal

2 - 0

Norwich City

Alan Smith

45'

Perry Groves

90'

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45' - Goal Alan Smith45

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46' - Substitution David Williamsis substituted by Wayne Biggins

90' - Goal Perry Groves90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

2 - 0

Norwich City

Arsenal Norwich City

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Lukic

John Lukic

England

B.date11/12/1960

Age27 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Adams

Tony Adams

England

B.date10/10/1966

Age21 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Caesar

Gus Caesar

England

B.date05/03/1966

Age22 years

positionDefender

Sansom

Kenny Sansom

England

B.date26/09/1958

Age29 years

H1m68

positionLeft full-back

Winterburn

Nigel Winterburn

England

B.date11/12/1963

Age24 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Rocastle

David Rocastle

England

B.date02/05/1967

Age20 years

H1m75

positionRight Midfielder

Davis

Paul Davis

England

B.date09/12/1961

Age26 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Williams

Steve Williams

England

B.date12/07/1958

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Hayes

Martin Hayes

England

B.date21/03/1966

Age22 years

H1m83

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Groves90

Perry Groves

England

B.date19/04/1965

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft Winger

Smith45

Alan Smith

England

B.date21/11/1962

Age25 years

H1m91

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	John Lukic		27	179	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Adams		21	131	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gus Caesar		22	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Sansom		29	387	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nigel Winterburn		24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Rocastle		20	117	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Davis		26	294	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve Williams		29	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Martin Hayes		22	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Perry Groves	90	22	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Smith	45	25	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

136

Norwich City

Gunn

Bryan Gunn

Scotland

B.date22/12/1963

Age24 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Butterworth

Ian Butterworth

England

B.date25/01/1964

Age24 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Spearing

Anthony Spearing

England

B.date07/10/1964

Age23 years

positionDefender

Linighan

Andy Linighan

England

B.date18/06/1962

Age25 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

Culverhouse

Ian Culverhouse

England

B.date22/09/1964

Age23 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Williams46

David Williams

Wales

B.date11/03/1955

Age33 years

positionMidfield

Fox

Ruel Fox

Montserrat

B.date14/01/1968

Age20 years

H1m68

positionRight Midfielder

Putney

Trevor Putney

England

B.date09/04/1960

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Goss

Jeremy Goss

Wales

B.date11/05/1965

Age22 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

Drinkell

Kevin Drinkell

England

B.date18/06/1960

Age27 years

H1m80

positionForward

Fleck

Robert Fleck

Scotland

B.date11/08/1965

Age22 years

H1m78

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Bryan Gunn		24	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Butterworth		24	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony Spearing		23	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andy Linighan		25	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Culverhouse		23	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Williams	46	33	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ruel Fox		20	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trevor Putney		27	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jeremy Goss		22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kevin Drinkell		27	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Robert Fleck		22	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Wayne Biggins	46	26	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Alan Smith

Niall Quinn

OUT

Kenny Sansom

Lee Dixon

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

George Graham

100

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Graham vs Norwich City

3 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 04, 1988

Graham vs Stringer

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 04, 1988

Manager

Age

Match num

Dave Stringer

Success rate in this team:

33 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

33 %

Stringer vs Arsenal

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 04, 1988

Stringer vs Graham

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 04, 1988

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Key figures

No Norwich City manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Dave Stringer has done less than 0.98 goals scored per game .

George Graham has registered 100 participation since the 14/05/1986 as the manager of Arsenal next after this match..

No Norwich City manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Dave Stringer has reached 48% of losses .

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VArsenal 2-1 Manchester United20/02/1988

VArsenal 3-1 Everton24/02/1988

VArsenal 4-0 Charlton27/02/1988

VArsenal 2-1 Tottenham06/03/1988

LArsenal 1-2 Nottingham Forest12/03/1988

DArsenal 1-1 Newcastle United19/03/1988

Overall

VArsenal 2-1 Tottenham06/03/1988

LArsenal 1-2 Nottingham Forest12/03/1988

DArsenal 1-1 Newcastle United19/03/1988

DDerby County 0-0 Arsenal26/03/1988

DOxford United 0-0 Arsenal30/03/1988

DChelsea 1-1 Arsenal02/04/1988

Current form

Away

DSouthampton 0-0 Norwich City23/01/1988

VNewcastle United 1-3 Norwich City13/02/1988

DCoventry 0-0 Norwich City20/02/1988

LSwindon Town 2-0 Norwich City23/02/1988

VTottenham 1-3 Norwich City12/03/1988

LQueens Park Rangers 3-0 Norwich City19/03/1988

Overall

VNorwich City 1-0 Manchester United05/03/1988

VTottenham 1-3 Norwich City12/03/1988

VNorwich City 4-2 Oxford United16/03/1988

LQueens Park Rangers 3-0 Norwich City19/03/1988

LNorwich City 0-3 Sheffield Wednesday26/03/1988

VNorwich City 2-0 Charlton02/04/1988

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	4
Unbeaten streak	1	4
Winless streak	2	5
Scoring streak	9	1
Conceding streak	3	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	3	7
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	3	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

33	Number of games (Competition total)	34
17	Number of games (Home / Away)	17
15	Victories (Competition total)	12
10	Victories (Home / Away)	5
10	Draws (Competition total)	6
3	Draws (Home / Away)	3
8	Losses (Competition total)	16
4	Losses (Home / Away)	9

Goals

47	Goals scored (Competition total)	36
32	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
29	Goals conceded (Competition total)	43
14	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	20
1.42	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.06
1.88	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.71
0.88	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.26
0.82	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.18

Betting aid

14	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
13	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
10	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	17
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	11
15	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	13
9	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
2-1 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (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

Alan Smith	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	11 goals	Kevin Drinkell
Alan Smith	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Robert Fleck
Michael Thomas	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Kevin Drinkell
Michael Thomas	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Perry Groves	2 goals during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	4 goals during the last 8 matches	Kevin Drinkell

Historical head to head

Home

15 matches

8 v

4 d

3 l

21 gf

12 ga

Away

15 matches

5 v

4 d

6 l

25 gf

19 ga

Total

30 matches

13 v

8 d

9 l

46 gf

31 ga

Historical head to head

Home

15 matches

6 v

4 d

5 l

19 gf

25 ga

Away

15 matches

3 v

4 d

8 l

12 gf

21 ga

Total

30 matches

9 v

8 d

13 l

31 gf

46 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	January 12, 1952
Home	3 - 0	September 24, 1983

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	November 21, 1972
Away	3 - 0	November 21, 1972

Latest head to head

November 14, 1987 - Division 1 1987/1988

Norwich City

2 - 4

Arsenal

May 09, 1987 - Division 1 1986/1987

Arsenal

1 - 2

Norwich City logo Norwich City

December 13, 1986 - Division 1 1986/1987

Norwich City

1 - 1

Arsenal

April 06, 1985 - Division 1 1984/1985

Arsenal

2 - 0

Norwich City logo Norwich City

December 26, 1984 - Division 1 1984/1985

Norwich City

1 - 0

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Norwich City

Alan Ball	5 goals	1972 - 1975
David Rocastle	2 goals	1987 - 1987
John Radford	2 goals	1972 - 1972
Tony Woodcock	2 goals	1982 - 1984
Brian Talbot	2 goals	1980 - 1981
Frank Stapleton	2 goals	1976 - 1979

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 23/09/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

John Deehan	5 goals	1982 - 1984
Martin Peters	4 goals	1975 - 1976
Justin Fashanu	3 goals	1979 - 1981
Graham Paddon	3 goals	1972 - 1972
Kevin Drinkell	3 goals	1986 - 1987
Terry Anderson	2 goals	1972 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 23/09/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Norwich City

David O'Leary	18 matches	1975 - 1987
Graham Rix	13 matches	1977 - 1987
Pat Rice	12 matches	1972 - 1978
Frank Stapleton	11 matches	1976 - 1981
Kenny Sansom	11 matches	1980 - 1987
Liam Brady	10 matches	1974 - 1980

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 23/09/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Kevin Keelan	12 matches	1972 - 1979
Martin Peters	10 matches	1975 - 1980
Graham Paddon	9 matches	1972 - 1981
Colin Suggett	8 matches	1973 - 1978
Duncan Forbes	7 matches	1972 - 1976
David Jones	7 matches	1976 - 1980