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Nottingham 1-0 Liverpool - September 29, 1979 / Division 1 1979/1980

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Division 1 1979/1980 - Round 8

Nottingham City Ground - Nottingham - England

September 29, 1979

Nottingham

1 - 0

Liverpool

Garry Birtles

45'

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45' - Goal Garry Birtles45

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83' - Substitution Alan Hansenis substituted by Colin Irwin

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Nottingham

1 - 0

Liverpool

Nottingham Liverpool

Team line-ups

Nottingham

Shilton

Peter Shilton

England

B.date18/09/1949

Age30 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Burns

Kenny Burns

Scotland

B.date23/09/1953

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Lloyd

Larry Lloyd

England

B.date06/10/1948

Age30 years

positionCentral defender

Gray

Frank Gray

Scotland

B.date27/10/1954

Age24 years

positionLeft full-back

Anderson

Viv Anderson

England

B.date29/07/1956

Age23 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

O'Neill

Martin O'Neill

Northern Ireland

B.date01/03/1952

Age27 years

positionCentre Midfield

McGovern

John McGovern

Scotland

B.date28/10/1949

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Birtles45

Garry Birtles

England

B.date27/07/1956

Age23 years

H1m83

positionForward

Woodcock

Tony Woodcock

England

B.date06/12/1955

Age23 years

positionForward

O'Hare

John O'Hare

Scotland

B.date24/09/1946

Age33 years

positionForward

Robertson

John Robertson

Scotland

B.date20/01/1953

Age26 years

positionLeft Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Shilton		30	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Burns		26	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Larry Lloyd		30	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank Gray		24	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Viv Anderson		23	104	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Martin O'Neill		27	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John McGovern		29	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Garry Birtles	45	23	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tony Woodcock		23	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John O'Hare		33	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Robertson		26	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Liverpool

Ogrizovic

Steve Ogrizovic

England

B.date12/09/1957

Age22 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Hansen83

Alan Hansen

Scotland

B.date13/06/1955

Age24 years

H1m88

positionSweeper

Thompson

Phil Thompson

England

B.date21/01/1954

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

Neal

Phil Neal

England

B.date20/02/1951

Age28 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

A. Kennedy

Alan Kennedy

England

B.date31/08/1954

Age25 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Souness

Graeme Souness

Scotland

B.date06/05/1953

Age26 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Case

Jimmy Case

England

B.date18/05/1954

Age25 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Ray Kennedy

England

B.date28/07/1951

Age28 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

McDermott

Terry McDermott

England

B.date08/12/1951

Age27 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Dalglish

Kenny Dalglish

Scotland

B.date04/03/1951

Age28 years

H1m78

positionRight Winger

Fairclough

David Fairclough

England

B.date05/01/1957

Age22 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Steve Ogrizovic		22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Hansen	83	24	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Thompson		25	311	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Neal		28	273	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Kennedy		25	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graeme Souness		26	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jimmy Case		25	193	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Kennedy		28	258	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Terry McDermott		27	177	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kenny Dalglish		28	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Fairclough		22	107	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

151

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Colin Irwin	83	22	8	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

Steve Ogrizovic

Ray Clemence

OUT

Alan Hansen

Steve Heighway

OUT

Ray Kennedy

Colin Irwin

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Brian Clough

250

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Clough vs Liverpool

8 victories

8 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on September 29, 1979

Clough vs Paisley

3 victories

6 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on September 29, 1979

Manager

Age

Match num

Robert Paisley

302

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

Paisley vs Nottingham

1 victory

5 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on September 29, 1979

Paisley vs Clough

1 victory

6 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on September 29, 1979

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Key figures

No Nottingham Forest manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Brian Clough has done less than 0.86 goals conceded per game .

No Nottingham Forest manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Brian Clough has reached 42% of clean sheets .

No Nottingham Forest manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Brian Clough has reached 1.67 goals scored per game .

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNottingham Forest 3-1 Manchester City09/05/1979

VNottingham Forest 1-0 Stoke City22/08/1979

VNottingham Forest 4-1 Coventry25/08/1979

VNottingham Forest 6-1 Blackburn05/09/1979

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Leeds United08/09/1979

VNottingham Forest 2-0 Osters IF19/09/1979

Overall

VNottingham Forest 6-1 Blackburn05/09/1979

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Leeds United08/09/1979

LNorwich City 3-1 Nottingham Forest15/09/1979

VNottingham Forest 2-0 Osters IF19/09/1979

DBristol City 1-1 Nottingham Forest22/09/1979

VMiddlesbrough 1-3 Nottingham Forest26/09/1979

Current form

Away

VBolton Wanderers 1-4 Liverpool01/05/1979

VMiddlesbrough 0-1 Liverpool11/05/1979

VLeeds United 0-3 Liverpool17/05/1979

DTranmere Rovers 0-0 Liverpool29/08/1979

LSouthampton 3-2 Liverpool01/09/1979

DLeeds United 1-1 Liverpool15/09/1979

Overall

VLiverpool 4-0 Tranmere Rovers04/09/1979

VLiverpool 4-0 Coventry08/09/1979

DLeeds United 1-1 Liverpool15/09/1979

VLiverpool 2-1 Dinamo Tbilissi19/09/1979

DLiverpool 0-0 Norwich City22/09/1979

VLiverpool 3-1 Chesterfield25/09/1979

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	17	3
Drawless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	1	4
Conceding streak	0	2
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	6
Winless streak	3	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	2	1
Conceding streak	2	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

7	Number of games (Competition total)	6
3	Number of games (Home / Away)	2
4	Victories (Competition total)	2
2	Victories (Home / Away)	0
2	Draws (Competition total)	3
1	Draws (Home / Away)	1
1	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

13	Goals scored (Competition total)	10
5	Goals scored (Home / Away)	3
6	Goals conceded (Competition total)	5
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	4
1.86	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.67
1.67	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.5
0.86	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.83
0.33	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2

Betting aid

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

Tony Woodcock	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	5 goals	David Johnson
John McGovern	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Terry McDermott
Gary Mills	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	5 goals during the last 5 matches	David Johnson

Historical head to head

Home

34 matches

13 v

9 d

12 l

45 gf

39 ga

Away

36 matches

8 v

6 d

22 l

32 gf

80 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

1 v

1 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Total

72 matches

22 v

16 d

34 l

78 gf

119 ga

Historical head to head

Home

36 matches

22 v

6 d

8 l

80 gf

32 ga

Away

34 matches

12 v

9 d

13 l

39 gf

45 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

0 v

1 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Total

72 matches

34 v

16 d

22 l

119 gf

78 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	October 01, 1908
Home	5 - 1	October 01, 1908

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	May 11, 1968
Away	4 - 1	September 18, 1909

Latest head to head

April 28, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Nottingham

0 - 0

Liverpool

December 09, 1978 - Division 1 1978/1979

Liverpool

2 - 0

Nottingham

September 27, 1978 - Coupe d’Europe des Clubs Champions 1978/1979

Liverpool

0 - 0

Nottingham

September 13, 1978 - Coupe d’Europe des Clubs Champions 1978/1979

Nottingham

2 - 0

Liverpool

May 04, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Liverpool

0 - 0

Nottingham

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Ian Storey-Moore	5 goals	1965 - 1971
Len Julians	3 goals	1962 - 1963
Joe Baker	2 goals	1966 - 1968
Barry Lyons	2 goals	1969 - 1969
Frank Wignall	1 goal	1963 - 1963
Trevor Hockey	1 goal	1962 - 1962

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/09/1962. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Nottingham

Roger Hunt	10 goals	1964 - 1968
Peter Thompson	4 goals	1964 - 1970
Tony Hateley	3 goals	1968 - 1968
Emelyn Hughes	3 goals	1967 - 1971
Tommy Smith	2 goals	1971 - 1971
Terry McDermott	2 goals	1978 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/09/1962. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

John Winfield	16 matches	1962 - 1971
Peter Hindley	16 matches	1964 - 1971
Ian Storey-Moore	14 matches	1965 - 1971
Bob McKinlay	13 matches	1962 - 1968
Henry Newton	13 matches	1964 - 1970
Peter Grummitt	13 matches	1962 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/09/1962. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Nottingham

Ian Callaghan	22 matches	1962 - 1978
Tommy Smith	17 matches	1965 - 1978
Ron Yeats	16 matches	1962 - 1971
Chris Lawler	16 matches	1964 - 1971
Ian St-John	16 matches	1962 - 1970
Peter Thompson	16 matches	1963 - 1971