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Middlesbrough 3-0 Manchester City - August 21, 1979 / Division 1 1979/1980

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Division 1 1979/1980 - Round 2

Ayresome Park - Middlesbrough - England

August 21, 1979

Middlesbrough

3 - 0

Manchester City

Craig Johnston

Micky Burns

75'

Stan Cummins

90'

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0' - Goal Craig Johnston0

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46' - Substitution Kazimierz Deynais substituted by Colin Viljoen

75' - Goal Micky Burns photo Stan Cummins

75' - Substitution Micky Burnsis substituted by Stan Cummins75

90' - Goal Stan Cummins90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Middlesbrough

3 - 0

Manchester City

Middlesbrough Manchester City

Team line-ups

Middlesbrough

Platt

Jim Platt

Northern Ireland

B.date26/01/1952

Age27 years

positionGoalkeeper

Ashcroft

Billy Ashcroft

England

B.date01/10/1952

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Bailey

Ian Bailey

England

B.date20/10/1956

Age22 years

positionDefender

McAndrew

Anthony McAndrew

Scotland

B.date11/04/1956

Age23 years

positionDefender

Craggs

John Craggs

England

B.date31/10/1948

Age30 years

positionRight full-back

Armstrong

David Armstrong

England

B.date26/12/1954

Age24 years

positionMidfield

Johnston0

Craig Johnston

England

B.date25/06/1960

Age19 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Proctor

Mark Proctor

England

B.date30/01/1961

Age18 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Jankovic

Bosko Jankovic

Serbia

B.date22/05/1951

Age28 years

positionMidfield

Burns7575

Micky Burns

England

B.date21/12/1946

Age32 years

positionForward

Hodgson

David Hodgson

England

B.date06/08/1960

Age19 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Platt		27	155	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Ashcroft		26	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Bailey		22	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony McAndrew		23	134	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Craggs		30	207	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Armstrong		24	215	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Craig Johnston		19	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark Proctor		18	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bosko Jankovic		28	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Micky Burns	7575	32	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Hodgson		19	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Manchester City

Corrigan

Joe Corrigan

England

B.date18/11/1948

Age30 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Ranson

Ray Ranson

England

B.date12/06/1960

Age19 years

H1m75

positionDefender

Caton

Tommy Caton

England

B.date06/10/1962

Age16 years

positionCentral defender

Booth

Tommy Booth

England

B.date09/11/1949

Age29 years

positionCentral defender

Stepanović

Dragoslav Stepanović

Serbia

B.date30/08/1948

Age30 years

H1m83

positionDefender

Power

Paul Power

England

B.date30/10/1953

Age25 years

positionLeft full-back

Deyna46

Kazimierz Deyna

Poland

B.date23/10/1947

Age31 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Henry

Tony Henry

England

B.date26/11/1957

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Silkman

Barry Silkman

England

B.date29/06/1952

Age27 years

positionMidfield

MacKenzie

Steve MacKenzie

England

B.date23/11/1961

Age17 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Robinson

Michael Robinson

Republic of Ireland

B.date12/07/1958

Age21 years

H1m82

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Joe Corrigan		30	382	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ray Ranson		19	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tommy Caton		16	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tommy Booth		29	371	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dragoslav Stepanović		30	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Power		25	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kazimierz Deyna	46	31	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Henry		21	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Barry Silkman		27	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve MacKenzie		17	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michael Robinson		21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Stan Cummins	9075	20	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Colin Viljoen	46	31	26	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

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

John Neal

Success rate in this team:

33 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Neal vs Manchester City

2 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on August 21, 1979

Neal vs Allison

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on August 21, 1979

Manager

Age

Match num

Malcom Allison

Success rate in this team:

40 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Allison vs Middlesbrough

2 victories

1 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on August 21, 1979

Allison vs Neal

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on August 21, 1979

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Comments

Key figures

Middlesbrough keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 05/05/1979).

The last time Manchester City has ended with the score 0-3 away from home, It was on the 04/03/1978 (vs )

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before John Neal has done less than 1.22 goals scored per game .

Read the next 3 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DMiddlesbrough 2-2 Manchester United27/03/1979

VMiddlesbrough 1-0 Tottenham31/03/1979

VMiddlesbrough 1-0 Leeds United10/04/1979

VMiddlesbrough 2-0 Manchester City17/04/1979

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 West Bromwich Albion28/04/1979

LMiddlesbrough 0-1 Liverpool11/05/1979

Overall

LChelsea 2-1 Middlesbrough21/04/1979

LManchester City 1-0 Middlesbrough24/04/1979

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 West Bromwich Albion28/04/1979

VDerby County 0-3 Middlesbrough05/05/1979

LMiddlesbrough 0-1 Liverpool11/05/1979

VTottenham 1-3 Middlesbrough18/08/1979

Current form

Away

DWolverhampton 1-1 Manchester City27/03/1979

LIpswich Town 2-1 Manchester City31/03/1979

LWest Bromwich Albion 4-0 Manchester City04/04/1979

LMiddlesbrough 2-0 Manchester City17/04/1979

LSouthampton 1-0 Manchester City28/04/1979

LNottingham Forest 3-1 Manchester City09/05/1979

Overall

LSouthampton 1-0 Manchester City28/04/1979

VManchester City 3-1 Birmingham City01/05/1979

VManchester City 2-0 Bristol City05/05/1979

LNottingham Forest 3-1 Manchester City09/05/1979

LManchester City 2-3 Aston Villa15/05/1979

DManchester City 0-0 Crystal Palace18/08/1979

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	2	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	5	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	8	3
Drawless streak	5	0
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	8	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
1	Victories (Competition total)	0
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

3	Goals scored (Competition total)	0
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
3	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

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

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

	David Armstrong	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)		-
	David Armstrong	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player		-

Historical head to head

Home

42 matches

25 v

9 d

8 l

81 gf

34 ga

Away

42 matches

5 v

8 d

29 l

49 gf

100 ga

Total

84 matches

30 v

17 d

37 l

130 gf

134 ga

Historical head to head

Home

42 matches

29 v

8 d

5 l

100 gf

49 ga

Away

42 matches

8 v

9 d

25 l

34 gf

81 ga

Total

84 matches

37 v

17 d

30 l

134 gf

130 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	October 24, 1903
Home	6 - 0	October 24, 1903

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	March 07, 1936
Away	2 - 0	December 27, 1977

Latest head to head

April 24, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Manchester City

1 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

April 17, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Middlesbrough

2 - 0

Manchester City logo Manchester City

March 25, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Manchester City

2 - 2

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

December 27, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Middlesbrough

0 - 2

Manchester City logo Manchester City

April 11, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Manchester City

1 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

Best historical scorers against Manchester City

David Mills	3 goals	1972 - 1975
Alan Foggon	2 goals	1974 - 1974
Stan Cummins	1 goal	1978 - 1978
David Armstrong	1 goal	1976 - 1976
John Hickton	1 goal	1972 - 1972
Mark Proctor	1 goal	1979 - 1979

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Rodney Marsh	3 goals	1975 - 1975
Mick Channon	2 goals	1978 - 1978
Asa Hartford	2 goals	1977 - 1977
Gary Owen	1 goal	1977 - 1977
Kazimierz Deyna	1 goal	1979 - 1979
Dennis Tueart	1 goal	1975 - 1975

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Manchester City

John Craggs	12 matches	1972 - 1979
Stuart Boam	11 matches	1972 - 1979
Jim Platt	10 matches	1972 - 1979
David Armstrong	10 matches	1974 - 1979
David Mills	9 matches	1972 - 1978
Willie Maddren	8 matches	1972 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Willie Donachie	11 matches	1972 - 1979
Joe Corrigan	11 matches	1972 - 1979
Colin Bell	8 matches	1972 - 1979
David Watson	8 matches	1975 - 1979
Tommy Booth	7 matches	1972 - 1978
Asa Hartford	7 matches	1974 - 1979