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Norwich City 2-0 Middlesbrough - March 17, 1981 / Division 1 1980/1981

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Division 1 1980/1981 - Round 33

Carrow Road - Norwich - England

March 17, 1981

2 - 0

Middlesbrough

Joe Royle

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0' - Goal Joe Royle photo Joe Royle

0' - Goal Joe Royle0

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46' - Substitution Anthony McAndrewis substituted by Michael Angus

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Norwich City

2 - 0

Middlesbrough

Norwich City Middlesbrough

Team line-ups

Norwich City

Woods

Chris Woods

England

B.date14/11/1959

Age21 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Walford

Steve Walford

England

B.date05/01/1958

Age23 years

positionCentral defender

McDowell

John McDowell

England

B.date07/09/1951

Age29 years

positionDefender

Downs

Greg Downs

England

B.date13/12/1958

Age22 years

positionLeft central defender

Watson

Dave Watson

England

B.date20/11/1961

Age19 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Barham

Mark Barham

England

B.date12/07/1962

Age18 years

positionMidfield

McGuire

Michael McGuire

England

B.date04/09/1952

Age28 years

positionMidfield

O'Neill

Martin O'Neill

Northern Ireland

B.date01/03/1952

Age29 years

positionCentre Midfield

Paddon

Graham Paddon

England

B.date24/08/1950

Age30 years

positionMidfield

Fashanu

Justin Fashanu

England

B.date19/02/1961

Age20 years

positionForward

Royle00

Joe Royle

England

B.date08/04/1949

Age31 years

H1m85

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Chris Woods	21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Walford	23	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John McDowell	29	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Greg Downs	22	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dave Watson	19	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark Barham	18	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael McGuire	28	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Martin O'Neill	29	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Paddon	30	179	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Justin Fashanu	20	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Joe Royle	31	31	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

Middlesbrough

Platt

Jim Platt

Northern Ireland

B.date26/01/1952

Age29 years

positionGoalkeeper

McAndrew46

Anthony McAndrew

Scotland

B.date11/04/1956

Age24 years

positionDefender

Bailey

Ian Bailey

England

B.date20/10/1956

Age24 years

positionDefender

Ashcroft

Billy Ashcroft

England

B.date01/10/1952

Age28 years

positionCentral defender

Nattrass

Irving Nattrass

England

B.date12/12/1952

Age28 years

positionRight full-back

Armstrong

David Armstrong

England

B.date26/12/1954

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Johnston

Craig Johnston

England

B.date25/06/1960

Age20 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Proctor

Mark Proctor

England

B.date30/01/1961

Age20 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Hodgson

David Hodgson

England

B.date06/08/1960

Age20 years

positionForward

Cochrane

Terry Cochrane

Northern Ireland

B.date23/01/1953

Age28 years

positionRight Winger

Shearer

David Shearer

Scotland

B.date16/10/1958

Age22 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Platt		29	223	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony McAndrew	46	24	201	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Bailey		24	114	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Ashcroft		28	136	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Irving Nattrass		28	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Armstrong		26	288	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Craig Johnston		20	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark Proctor		20	103	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Hodgson		20	92	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Terry Cochrane		28	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Shearer		22	37	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

125

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Michael Angus	46	20	15	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

David Shearer

Bosko Jankovic

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ken Brown

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

29 %

Brown vs Middlesbrough

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 17, 1981

Brown vs Neal

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 17, 1981

Manager

Age

Match num

John Neal

185

Success rate in this team:

36 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Neal vs Norwich City

4 victories

3 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on March 17, 1981

Neal vs Brown

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 17, 1981

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Key figures

Middlesbrough keeps its 9 consecutive matches without a win away from home in Premier League running (since 12/11/1980). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 29/12/1976-11/04/1977 time period (10 matches).

John Neal has registered 50 sharing points since the 01/07/1977 as the manager of Middlesbrough next after this match..

Norwich City keeps its 11 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 03/01/1981). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 26/03/1980-23/08/1980 time period (12 matches).

Read the next 5 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNorwich City 2-0 Coventry20/12/1980

DNorwich City 2-2 Tottenham27/12/1980

VNorwich City 1-0 Cambridge United03/01/1981

LNorwich City 0-1 Liverpool17/01/1981

LNorwich City 0-2 West Bromwich Albion14/02/1981

VNorwich City 3-1 Brighton & Hove28/02/1981

Overall

LLeeds United 1-0 Norwich City31/01/1981

LSouthampton 2-1 Norwich City07/02/1981

LNorwich City 0-2 West Bromwich Albion14/02/1981

LBirmingham City 4-0 Norwich City20/02/1981

VNorwich City 3-1 Brighton & Hove28/02/1981

LWolverhampton 3-0 Norwich City14/03/1981

Current form

Away

LWolverhampton 3-0 Middlesbrough10/01/1981

LManchester City 3-2 Middlesbrough17/01/1981

LIpswich Town 1-0 Middlesbrough17/02/1981

DArsenal 2-2 Middlesbrough28/02/1981

LNottingham Forest 1-0 Middlesbrough03/03/1981

LWolverhampton 3-1 Middlesbrough10/03/1981

Overall

LIpswich Town 1-0 Middlesbrough17/02/1981

VMiddlesbrough 3-1 Stoke City21/02/1981

DArsenal 2-2 Middlesbrough28/02/1981

LNottingham Forest 1-0 Middlesbrough03/03/1981

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Wolverhampton07/03/1981

LWolverhampton 3-1 Middlesbrough10/03/1981

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	4	10
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	3	9

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	2	1
Winless streak	6	4
Drawless streak	2	1
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	6	7

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

33	Number of games (Competition total)	32
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	16
8	Victories (Competition total)	13
6	Victories (Home / Away)	2
6	Draws (Competition total)	5
6	Draws (Home / Away)	1
19	Losses (Competition total)	14
4	Losses (Home / Away)	13

Goals

35	Goals scored (Competition total)	45
26	Goals scored (Home / Away)	13
64	Goals conceded (Competition total)	44
21	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	33
1.06	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.41
1.63	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.81
1.94	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.38
1.31	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.06

Betting aid

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

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Justin Fashanu	14 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	10 goals	Craig Johnston
Justin Fashanu	12 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Craig Johnston
Kevin Bond	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Bosko Jankovic
Kevin Bond	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Justin Fashanu	1 goal during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 3 matches	Bosko Jankovic

Historical head to head

Home

17 matches

9 v

4 d

4 l

29 gf

20 ga

Away

17 matches

3 v

3 d

11 l

9 gf

32 ga

Total

34 matches

12 v

7 d

15 l

38 gf

52 ga

Historical head to head

Home

17 matches

11 v

3 d

3 l

32 gf

9 ga

Away

17 matches

4 v

4 d

9 l

20 gf

29 ga

Total

34 matches

15 v

7 d

12 l

52 gf

38 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	March 04, 1961
Home	4 - 1	March 04, 1961

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	October 04, 1980
Away	2 - 0	August 14, 1968

Latest head to head

October 04, 1980 - Division 1 1980/1981

Middlesbrough

6 - 1

Norwich City logo Norwich City

February 27, 1980 - Division 1 1979/1980

Norwich City

0 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

September 08, 1979 - Division 1 1979/1980

Middlesbrough

1 - 0

Norwich City logo Norwich City

February 24, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Norwich City

1 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

October 14, 1978 - Division 1 1978/1979

Middlesbrough

2 - 0

Norwich City logo Norwich City

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

John Ryan	2 goals	1977 - 1977
Billy Steele	1 goal	1976 - 1976
Roger Gibbins	1 goal	1977 - 1977
Colin Suggett	1 goal	1977 - 1977
Justin Fashanu	1 goal	1980 - 1980
Martin Peters	1 goal	1979 - 1979

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/11/1975. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Norwich City

Graeme Souness	3 goals	1975 - 1977
David Armstrong	2 goals	1977 - 1980
Bosko Jankovic	2 goals	1980 - 1980
Craig Johnston	2 goals	1979 - 1980
David Mills	1 goal	1978 - 1978
Stan Cummins	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/11/1975. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Tony Powell	10 matches	1975 - 1980
Martin Peters	8 matches	1975 - 1980
Kevin Keelan	8 matches	1975 - 1979
Jimmy Neighbour	7 matches	1976 - 1979
Kevin Bond	6 matches	1977 - 1980
John Ryan	6 matches	1977 - 1979

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/11/1975. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Norwich City

David Armstrong	11 matches	1975 - 1980
John Craggs	11 matches	1975 - 1980
Anthony McAndrew	10 matches	1976 - 1980
Stuart Boam	7 matches	1975 - 1979
David Mills	7 matches	1975 - 1978
Jim Platt	7 matches	1975 - 1980