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WBA 1-0 Sunderland - April 24, 1985 / Division 1 1984/1985

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Division 1 1984/1985 - Journée 27

The Hawthorns - West Bromwich - England

April 24, 1985

1 - 0

Sunderland

David Cross

logo West Bromwich Albion WBA

0' - Goal David Cross0

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46' - Substitution Tony Grealishis substituted by Clive Whitehead46

46' - Substitution Gordon Armstrongis substituted by Howard Gayle

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

WBA

1 - 0

Sunderland

WBA Sunderland

Team line-ups

WBA

Godden

Tony Godden

England

B.date02/08/1955

Age29 years

positionGoalkeeper

Bennett

Martyn Bennett

England

B.date04/08/1961

Age23 years

positionDefender

Robertson

Ally Robertson

Scotland

B.date09/09/1952

Age32 years

positionCentral defender

Cowdrill

Barry Cowdrill

England

B.date03/01/1957

Age28 years

positionDefender

Nicholl

Jimmy Nicholl

Northern Ireland

B.date28/12/1956

Age28 years

positionRight full-back

Grealish46

Tony Grealish

Republic of Ireland

B.date21/09/1956

Age28 years

positionCentre Midfield

Owen

Gary Owen

England

B.date07/07/1958

Age26 years

positionMidfield

MacKenzie

Steve MacKenzie

England

B.date23/11/1961

Age23 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Cross0

David Cross

England

B.date08/12/1950

Age34 years

positionForward

Thompson

Garry Thompson

England

B.date07/10/1959

Age25 years

H1m85

positionForward

Valentine

Carl Valentine

Canada

B.date04/07/1958

Age26 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Tony Godden		29	254	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martyn Bennett		23	131	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Robertson		32	396	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Barry Cowdrill		28	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jimmy Nicholl		28	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Grealish	46	28	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary Owen		26	183	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve MacKenzie		23	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Cross		34	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Garry Thompson		25	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Carl Valentine		26	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

123

Sunderland

Turner

Chris Turner

England

B.date15/09/1958

Age26 years

positionGoalkeeper

Armstrong46

Gordon Armstrong

England

B.date15/07/1967

Age17 years

positionDefender

Chisholm

Gordon Chisholm

Scotland

B.date08/04/1960

Age25 years

positionDefender

Venison

Barry Venison

England

B.date16/08/1964

Age20 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Pickering

Nick Pickering

England

B.date04/08/1963

Age21 years

positionLeft full-back

Daniel

Peter Daniel

England

B.date12/12/1955

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Lemon

Paul Lemon

England

B.date03/06/1966

Age18 years

positionMidfield

Wallace

Ian Wallace

Scotland

B.date23/05/1956

Age28 years

positionForward

Walker

Clive Walker

England

B.date26/05/1957

Age27 years

positionForward

Hodgson

David Hodgson

England

B.date06/08/1960

Age24 years

positionForward

Cummins

Stan Cummins

England

B.date06/12/1958

Age26 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Chris Turner		26	162	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gordon Armstrong	46	17	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gordon Chisholm		25	155	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Barry Venison		20	135	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nick Pickering		21	152	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Peter Daniel		29	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Lemon		18	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ian Wallace		28	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Clive Walker		27	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Hodgson		24	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stan Cummins		26	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Clive Whitehead	46	29	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Howard Gayle	46	26	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ally Robertson

Michael Forsyth

OUT

Steve MacKenzie

Gary Robson

OUT

David Cross

Steve Hunt

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Gordon Armstrong

Gary Bennett

OUT

Peter Daniel

Steve Berry

OUT

David Hodgson

Reuben Agboola

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Johnny Giles

154

Success rate in this team:

39 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

46 %

Giles vs Sunderland

2 victories

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on April 24, 1985

Giles vs Ashurst

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 24, 1985

Manager

Age

Match num

Len Ashurst

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

34 %

Ashurst vs WBA

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 24, 1985

Ashurst vs Giles

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 24, 1985

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Key figures

WBA keeps its 3 matches with only one goal conceded at most at home running (since 08/04/1985).

Sunderland keeps its 17 consecutive matches without a draw away from home running (since 10/11/1984). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 21/01/1928-01/12/1928 time period (19 matches).

No Sunderland manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Len Ashurst has done less than 0.98 goals scored per game .

Read the next 3 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Tottenham23/02/1985

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-5 Liverpool23/03/1985

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Leicester30/03/1985

LWest Bromwich Albion 1-2 Ipswich Town03/04/1985

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Aston Villa08/04/1985

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Chelsea20/04/1985

Overall

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Leicester30/03/1985

LWest Bromwich Albion 1-2 Ipswich Town03/04/1985

LNewcastle United 1-0 West Bromwich Albion06/04/1985

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Aston Villa08/04/1985

LEverton 4-1 West Bromwich Albion16/04/1985

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Chelsea20/04/1985

Current form

Away

LQueens Park Rangers 1-0 Sunderland23/02/1985

LLuton Town 2-1 Sunderland02/03/1985

VChelsea 2-3 Sunderland04/03/1985

VNorwich City 1-3 Sunderland16/03/1985

LEverton 4-1 Sunderland06/04/1985

VCoventry 0-1 Sunderland13/04/1985

Overall

LSunderland 0-3 Liverpool03/04/1985

LEverton 4-1 Sunderland06/04/1985

DSunderland 0-0 Newcastle United08/04/1985

VCoventry 0-1 Sunderland13/04/1985

DSunderland 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday16/04/1985

LSunderland 0-1 West Ham20/04/1985

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	1	2
Drawless streak	6	8
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	0	2
Drawless streak	16	1
Scoring streak	5	0
Goalless streak	0	2
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

37	Number of games (Competition total)	37
18	Number of games (Home / Away)	18
13	Victories (Competition total)	10
9	Victories (Home / Away)	3
6	Draws (Competition total)	9
3	Draws (Home / Away)	3
18	Losses (Competition total)	18
6	Losses (Home / Away)	12

Goals

47	Goals scored (Competition total)	37
28	Goals scored (Home / Away)	18
57	Goals conceded (Competition total)	51
20	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	31
1.27	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
1.56	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
1.54	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.38
1.11	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.72

Betting aid

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

Garry Thompson	17 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	9 goals	Clive Walker
Garry Thompson	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	Clive Walker
Derek Statham	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Clive Walker
Garry Thompson	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Colin West
Steve Hunt	3 goals during the last 6 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 3 matches	John Moore

Historical head to head

Home

56 matches

31 v

12 d

13 l

113 gf

81 ga

Away

56 matches

7 v

16 d

33 l

56 gf

130 ga

Total

112 matches

38 v

28 d

46 l

169 gf

211 ga

Historical head to head

Home

56 matches

33 v

16 d

7 l

130 gf

56 ga

Away

56 matches

13 v

12 d

31 l

81 gf

113 ga

Total

112 matches

46 v

28 d

38 l

211 gf

169 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	January 01, 1966
Home	5 - 1	December 26, 1932

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 1	October 22, 1892
Away	6 - 1	October 23, 1937

Latest head to head

September 08, 1984 - Division 1 1984/1985

Sunderland

1 - 1

WBA

April 23, 1984 - Division 1 1983/1984

WBA

3 - 1

Sunderland logo Sunderland

December 27, 1983 - Division 1 1983/1984

Sunderland

3 - 0

WBA

May 14, 1983 - Division 1 1982/1983

Sunderland

1 - 1

WBA

December 11, 1982 - Division 1 1982/1983

WBA

3 - 0

Sunderland logo Sunderland

Best historical scorers against Sunderland

Tony Brown	12 goals	1964 - 1970
Cyrille Regis	4 goals	1981 - 1984
Jeff Astle	3 goals	1967 - 1970
Garry Thompson	3 goals	1983 - 1984
Clive Clark	3 goals	1964 - 1966
John Kaye	2 goals	1965 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1964. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against WBA

Bob Lee	4 goals	1977 - 1977
George Mulhall	3 goals	1964 - 1967
Paul Bracewell	2 goals	1983 - 1983
Tony Towers	2 goals	1977 - 1977
Bobby Kerr	2 goals	1969 - 1970
Gary Rowell	2 goals	1977 - 1982

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1964. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sunderland

Tony Brown	12 matches	1964 - 1977
Doug Fraser	10 matches	1964 - 1970
Clive Clark	10 matches	1964 - 1969
Bobby Hope	9 matches	1964 - 1970
John Kaye	9 matches	1964 - 1970
John Osborne	8 matches	1967 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/08/1964. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

Martin Harvey	12 matches	1964 - 1970
Jimmy Montgomery	9 matches	1965 - 1970
Shaun Elliott	9 matches	1977 - 1984
George Mulhall	8 matches	1964 - 1969
Len Ashurst	8 matches	1964 - 1969
Nick Pickering	7 matches	1981 - 1984