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Coventry 1-1 Man United - December 26, 1983 / Division 1 1983/1984

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Division 1 1983/1984 - Round 19

Highfield Road - Coventry - England

December 26, 1983

Coventry

1 - 1

Man United

(penalty) Terry Gibson

Arnold Mühren (penalty)

logo Coventry COV

0' - Goal Terry Gibson0

0' - Goal Arnold Mühren

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46' - Substitution Nicholas Platnaueris substituted by Ashley Grimes46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Coventry

1 - 1

Man United

Coventry Man United

Team line-ups

Coventry

Avramovic

Radojko Avramovic

Serbia

B.date29/11/1949

Age34 years

positionGoalkeeper

Platnauer46

Nicholas Platnauer

England

B.date10/06/1961

Age22 years

H1m80

positionDefender

Allardyce

Sam Allardyce

England

B.date19/10/1954

Age29 years

positionDefender

Peake

Trevor Peake

England

B.date10/02/1957

Age26 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Roberts

Brian Roberts

England

B.date06/11/1955

Age28 years

H1m73

positionDefender

Pearce

Stuart Pearce

England

B.date24/04/1962

Age21 years

H1m77

positionLeft full-back

Daly

Gerry Daly

Republic of Ireland

B.date30/04/1954

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Bennett

Dave Bennett

England

B.date11/06/1959

Age24 years

positionMidfield

Gynn

Micky Gynn

England

B.date19/08/1961

Age22 years

H1m65

positionMidfield

Bamber

David Bamber

England

B.date01/02/1959

Age24 years

positionForward

Gibson0

Terry Gibson

England

B.date23/12/1962

Age21 years

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Radojko Avramovic		34	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nicholas Platnauer	46	22	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sam Allardyce		29	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Trevor Peake		26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brian Roberts		28	206	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stuart Pearce		21	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gerry Daly		29	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dave Bennett		24	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Micky Gynn		22	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Bamber		24	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Terry Gibson		21	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Man United

Wealands

Jeffrey Wealands

England

B.date26/08/1951

Age32 years

positionGoalkeeper

McQueen

Gordon McQueen

Scotland

B.date26/06/1952

Age31 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Moran

Kevin Moran

Republic of Ireland

B.date29/04/1956

Age27 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Albiston

Arthur Albiston

Scotland

B.date14/07/1957

Age26 years

H1m71

positionLeft full-back

Duxbury

Mike Duxbury

England

B.date01/09/1959

Age24 years

positionRight full-back

Moses

Remi Moses

England

B.date14/11/1960

Age23 years

positionDefensive Midfielder

Wilkins

Ray Wilkins

England

B.date14/09/1956

Age27 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Graham

Arthur Graham

Scotland

B.date26/10/1952

Age31 years

positionMidfield

Mühren0

Arnold Mühren

Netherlands

B.date02/06/1951

Age32 years

H1m78

positionPlaymaker

Stapleton

Frank Stapleton

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/07/1956

Age27 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Crooks

Garth Crooks

England

B.date10/03/1958

Age25 years

H1m73

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Jeffrey Wealands	32	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gordon McQueen	31	211	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kevin Moran	27	147	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Arthur Albiston	26	316	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mike Duxbury	24	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Remi Moses	23	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Wilkins	27	167	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Arthur Graham	31	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Arnold Mühren	32	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Stapleton	27	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Garth Crooks	25	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

120

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Ashley Grimes	46	26	14	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

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Garth Crooks

Norman Whiteside

OUT

Gordon McQueen

Bryan Robson

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Bobby Gould

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

44 %

Gould vs Man United

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 1983

Gould vs Atkinson

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 1983

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Atkinson

135

Success rate in this team:

52 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

46 %

Atkinson vs Coventry

8 victories

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on December 26, 1983

Atkinson vs Gould

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 1983

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Key figures

Coventry keeps its 5 matches with only one goal conceded at most at home running (since 25/10/1983).

It's the first time Arnold Mühren scores a goal vs Coventry in Premier League since the 16/01/1982 (with Ipswich Town vs Coventry )

No Manchester United manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Ron Atkinson has done less than 0.82 goals conceded per game .

Read the next 9 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LCoventry 1-2 Ipswich Town01/10/1983

LCoventry 1-2 West Bromwich Albion22/10/1983

VCoventry 2-1 Grimsby Town25/10/1983

VCoventry 1-0 Queens Park Rangers12/11/1983

DCoventry 0-0 Southampton26/11/1983

VCoventry 4-0 Liverpool10/12/1983

Overall

VCoventry 1-0 Queens Park Rangers12/11/1983

DWolverhampton 0-0 Coventry19/11/1983

DCoventry 0-0 Southampton26/11/1983

VLuton Town 2-4 Coventry03/12/1983

VCoventry 4-0 Liverpool10/12/1983

DNorwich City 0-0 Coventry17/12/1983

Current form

Away

VColchester United 0-2 Manchester United08/11/1983

DLeicester 1-1 Manchester United12/11/1983

DWest Ham 1-1 Manchester United27/11/1983

DOxford United 1-1 Manchester United07/12/1983

VIpswich Town 0-2 Manchester United10/12/1983

LOxford United 2-1 Manchester United19/12/1983

Overall

DManchester United 1-1 Oxford United30/11/1983

LManchester United 0-1 Everton03/12/1983

DOxford United 1-1 Manchester United07/12/1983

VIpswich Town 0-2 Manchester United10/12/1983

VManchester United 4-2 Tottenham16/12/1983

LOxford United 2-1 Manchester United19/12/1983

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	4	6
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	3	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	2	3
Scoring streak	11	4
Conceding streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

18	Number of games (Competition total)	18
8	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
9	Victories (Competition total)	11
4	Victories (Home / Away)	4
5	Draws (Competition total)	3
2	Draws (Home / Away)	3
4	Losses (Competition total)	4
2	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

28	Goals scored (Competition total)	34
12	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
20	Goals conceded (Competition total)	19
7	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	10
1.56	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.89
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.5
1.11	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.06
0.88	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.25

Betting aid

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

Terry Gibson	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	9 goals	Frank Stapleton
Terry Gibson	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Bryan Robson
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Arnold Mühren
Terry Gibson	5 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 2 matches	Arthur Graham

Historical head to head

Home

21 matches

12 v

3 d

6 l

32 gf

23 ga

Away

20 matches

5 v

6 d

9 l

18 gf

32 ga

Total

41 matches

17 v

9 d

15 l

50 gf

55 ga

Historical head to head

Home

20 matches

9 v

6 d

5 l

32 gf

18 ga

Away

21 matches

6 v

3 d

12 l

23 gf

32 ga

Total

41 matches

15 v

9 d

17 l

55 gf

50 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	December 28, 1982
Home	3 - 0	December 28, 1982

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	October 25, 1967
Away	2 - 0	April 11, 1981

Latest head to head

April 02, 1983 - Division 1 1982/1983

Man United

3 - 0

Coventry

December 28, 1982 - Division 1 1982/1983

Coventry

3 - 0

Man United

March 17, 1982 - Division 1 1981/1982

Man United

0 - 1

Coventry

August 29, 1981 - Division 1 1981/1982

Coventry

2 - 1

Man United

April 11, 1981 - Division 1 1980/1981

Coventry

0 - 2

Man United

Best historical scorers against Man United

Ernie Hunt	3 goals	1969 - 1971
Brian Alderson	3 goals	1973 - 1974
Garry Thompson	2 goals	1979 - 1980
Steve Whitton	2 goals	1981 - 1982
Ferguson Michael	2 goals	1977 - 1979
Willie Carr	2 goals	1971 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/03/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Coventry

Lou Macari	7 goals	1976 - 1983
Bobby Charlton	5 goals	1963 - 1972
George Best	5 goals	1967 - 1973
Sammy McIlroy	3 goals	1979 - 1980
John Aston	3 goals	1967 - 1969
Denis Law	2 goals	1969 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/03/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Mick Coop	22 matches	1967 - 1981
Billy Glazier	13 matches	1967 - 1974
Tommy Hutchison	12 matches	1973 - 1980
Chris Cattlin	11 matches	1968 - 1974
Willie Carr	10 matches	1968 - 1972
Steve Hunt	10 matches	1979 - 1983

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/03/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Coventry

Martin Buchan	20 matches	1972 - 1982
Sammy McIlroy	18 matches	1971 - 1981
Alex Stepney	18 matches	1967 - 1977
Lou Macari	17 matches	1973 - 1983
Steve Coppell	17 matches	1975 - 1983
Arthur Albiston	12 matches	1977 - 1983