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Nottingham 1-0 Arsenal - September 27, 1986 / Division 1 1986/1987

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Division 1 1986/1987 - Round 8

Nottingham City Ground - Nottingham - England

September 27, 1986

Nottingham

1 - 0

Arsenal

Nigel Clough

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0' - Goal Nigel Clough0

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46' - Substitution Charly Nicholasis substituted by Ian Allinson

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Nottingham

1 - 0

Arsenal

Nottingham Arsenal

Team line-ups

Nottingham

Sutton

Steve Sutton

England

B.date16/04/1961

Age25 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Metgod

John Metgod

Netherlands

B.date27/02/1958

Age28 years

H1m87

positionSweeper

Fleming

Gary Fleming

Northern Ireland

B.date17/02/1967

Age19 years

positionDefender

Fairclough

Chris Fairclough

England

B.date12/04/1964

Age22 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Pearce

Stuart Pearce

England

B.date24/04/1962

Age24 years

H1m77

positionLeft full-back

Campbell

David Campbell

Northern Ireland

B.date02/06/1965

Age21 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Webb

Neil Webb

England

B.date30/07/1963

Age23 years

H1m83

positionRight Midfielder

Bowyer

Ian Bowyer

England

B.date06/06/1951

Age35 years

positionCentre Midfield

Clough0

Nigel Clough

England

B.date19/03/1966

Age20 years

H1m75

positionOffensive Midfielder

Carr

Franz Carr

England

B.date24/09/1966

Age20 years

positionForward

Birtles

Garry Birtles

England

B.date27/07/1956

Age30 years

H1m83

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Steve Sutton	25	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Metgod	28	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Fleming	19	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Fairclough	22	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stuart Pearce	24	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Campbell	21	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Neil Webb	23	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ian Bowyer	35	312	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nigel Clough	20	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Franz Carr	20	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Garry Birtles	30	226	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

Arsenal

Lukic

John Lukic

England

B.date11/12/1960

Age25 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Adams

Tony Adams

England

B.date10/10/1966

Age19 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

O'Leary

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age28 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Anderson

Viv Anderson

England

B.date29/07/1956

Age30 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Sansom

Kenny Sansom

England

B.date26/09/1958

Age28 years

H1m68

positionLeft full-back

Davis

Paul Davis

England

B.date09/12/1961

Age24 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Rocastle

David Rocastle

England

B.date02/05/1967

Age19 years

H1m75

positionRight Midfielder

Williams

Steve Williams

England

B.date12/07/1958

Age28 years

positionMidfield

Nicholas46

Charly Nicholas

Scotland

B.date30/12/1961

Age24 years

H1m78

positionStriker

Quinn

Niall Quinn

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/10/1966

Age19 years

H1m91

positionStriker

Groves

Perry Groves

England

B.date19/04/1965

Age21 years

H1m78

positionLeft Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	John Lukic		25	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Adams		19	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary		28	502	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Viv Anderson		30	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Sansom		28	309	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Davis		24	221	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Rocastle		19	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve Williams		28	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Charly Nicholas	46	24	151	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Niall Quinn		19	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Perry Groves		21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

139

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Ian Allinson	46	28	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

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

Perry Groves

Graham Rix

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Brian Clough

620

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Clough vs Arsenal

12 victories

7 draws

12 losses

Latest figure on September 27, 1986

Clough vs Graham

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 27, 1986

Manager

Age

Match num

George Graham

Success rate in this team:

33 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

45 %

Graham vs Nottingham

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 27, 1986

Graham vs Clough

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 27, 1986

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Key figures

No Nottingham Forest manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Brian Clough has reached 35% of clean sheets in Premier League.

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Brian Clough has done less than 1 goals conceded per game .

End of streak for Arsenal after 5 consecutive matches without a loss (since 02/09/1986).

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNottingham Forest 2-1 West Ham02/04/1986

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Chelsea12/04/1986

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Everton26/04/1986

VNottingham Forest 4-0 Charlton27/08/1986

DNottingham Forest 1-1 Watford30/08/1986

VNottingham Forest 6-0 Aston Villa13/09/1986

Overall

DNottingham Forest 1-1 Watford30/08/1986

VWest Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest02/09/1986

VSouthampton 1-3 Nottingham Forest06/09/1986

VNottingham Forest 6-0 Aston Villa13/09/1986

VChelsea 2-6 Nottingham Forest20/09/1986

DBrighton & Hove 0-0 Nottingham Forest24/09/1986

Current form

Away

LSheffield Wednesday 2-0 Arsenal16/04/1986

VBirmingham City 0-1 Arsenal03/05/1986

LOxford United 3-0 Arsenal05/05/1986

LCoventry 2-1 Arsenal26/08/1986

LLiverpool 2-1 Arsenal30/08/1986

DLuton Town 0-0 Arsenal13/09/1986

Overall

LLiverpool 2-1 Arsenal30/08/1986

VArsenal 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday02/09/1986

DArsenal 0-0 Tottenham06/09/1986

DLuton Town 0-0 Arsenal13/09/1986

DArsenal 0-0 Oxford United20/09/1986

VArsenal 2-0 Huddersfield Town23/09/1986

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	9	7
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	3	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	5
Winless streak	4	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	1	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

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

Goals

22	Goals scored (Competition total)	5
11	Goals scored (Home / Away)	2
7	Goals conceded (Competition total)	4
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	4
3.14	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.71
3.67	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.67
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.57
0.33	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.33

Betting aid

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

Neil Webb	10 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Tony Adams
Neil Webb	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Tony Adams
Garry Birtles	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Neil Webb	10 goals during the last 6 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 5 matches	Tony Adams

Historical head to head

Home

36 matches

16 v

7 d

13 l

51 gf

42 ga

Away

35 matches

4 v

9 d

22 l

29 gf

68 ga

Total

71 matches

20 v

16 d

35 l

80 gf

110 ga

Historical head to head

Home

35 matches

22 v

9 d

4 l

68 gf

29 ga

Away

36 matches

13 v

7 d

16 l

42 gf

51 ga

Total

71 matches

35 v

16 d

20 l

110 gf

80 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	November 09, 1957
Home	4 - 0	November 09, 1957

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	April 24, 1915
Away	3 - 0	April 13, 1971

Latest head to head

April 08, 1986 - Division 1 1985/1986

Arsenal

1 - 1

Nottingham

October 26, 1985 - Division 1 1985/1986

Nottingham

3 - 2

Arsenal

April 13, 1985 - Division 1 1984/1985

Arsenal

1 - 1

Nottingham

August 29, 1984 - Division 1 1984/1985

Nottingham

2 - 0

Arsenal

February 25, 1984 - Division 1 1983/1984

Nottingham

0 - 1

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Colin Addison	5 goals	1962 - 1965
Peter Davenport	5 goals	1983 - 1985
Alan Hinton	4 goals	1964 - 1967
Ian Storey-Moore	4 goals	1966 - 1971
Johnny Quigley	3 goals	1960 - 1962
John Barnwell	3 goals	1964 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/11/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Nottingham

Frank Stapleton	6 goals	1977 - 1981
David Herd	5 goals	1958 - 1960
George Graham	5 goals	1967 - 1972
Ray Kennedy	5 goals	1970 - 1972
Geoff Strong	4 goals	1961 - 1963
Danny R Clapton	3 goals	1959 - 1959

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/11/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Bob McKinlay	21 matches	1958 - 1968
Peter Hindley	17 matches	1963 - 1972
Peter Grummitt	15 matches	1960 - 1969
Henry Newton	14 matches	1964 - 1970
Viv Anderson	14 matches	1977 - 1984
John Robertson	13 matches	1972 - 1982

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/11/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Nottingham

Graham Rix	18 matches	1977 - 1986
David O'Leary	17 matches	1977 - 1985
George Armstrong	16 matches	1962 - 1972
Terry Neill	14 matches	1960 - 1969
Billy McCullough	14 matches	1959 - 1965
Pat Jennings	13 matches	1977 - 1984