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WBA 2-2 Arsenal - December 15, 1979 / Division 1 1979/1980

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Division 1 1979/1980 - Journée 20

The Hawthorns - West Bromwich - England

December 15, 1979

2 - 2

Arsenal

Bryan Robson

John Trewick

Sammy Nelson

Frank Stapleton

logo West Bromwich Albion WBA

0' - Goal Bryan Robson photo John Trewick

0' - Goal John Trewick0

0' - Goal Sammy Nelson photo Frank Stapleton

0' - Goal Frank Stapleton

logo West Bromwich Albion WBA

logo Arsenal ARS

Team line-ups

WBA

Godden

Tony Godden

England

B.date02/08/1955

Age24 years

positionGoalkeeper

Pendrey

Garry Pendrey

England

B.date09/02/1949

Age30 years

positionDefender

Brown

Ally Brown

Scotland

B.date12/04/1951

Age28 years

positionDefender

Bennett

Martyn Bennett

England

B.date04/08/1961

Age18 years

positionDefender

Batson

Brendon Batson

England

B.date06/02/1953

Age26 years

positionRight full-back

Robson0

Bryan Robson

England

B.date11/01/1957

Age22 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Trewick0

John Trewick

England

B.date03/06/1957

Age22 years

positionMidfield

Wile

John Wile

England

B.date09/03/1947

Age32 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Barnes

Peter Barnes

England

B.date10/06/1957

Age22 years

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Regis

Cyrille Regis

England

B.date09/02/1958

Age21 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Mills

David Mills

England

B.date06/12/1951

Age28 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Tony Godden	24	120	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Garry Pendrey	30	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Brown	28	158	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martyn Bennett	18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brendon Batson	26	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bryan Robson	22	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Trewick	22	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Wile	32	265	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Peter Barnes	22	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cyrille Regis	21	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Mills	28	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Arsenal

Jennings

Pat Jennings

Northern Ireland

B.date12/06/1945

Age34 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Walford

Steve Walford

England

B.date05/01/1958

Age21 years

positionCentral defender

O'Leary

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age21 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Devine

John Devine

Republic of Ireland

B.date11/11/1958

Age21 years

positionDefender

Hollins

John Hollins

England

B.date16/07/1946

Age33 years

positionCentral defender

Nelson0

Sammy Nelson

Northern Ireland

B.date01/04/1949

Age30 years

positionLeft full-back

Talbot

Brian Talbot

England

B.date21/07/1953

Age26 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Brady

Liam Brady

Republic of Ireland

B.date13/02/1956

Age23 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Rix

Graham Rix

England

B.date23/10/1957

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Stapleton0

Frank Stapleton

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/07/1956

Age23 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Sunderland

Alan Sunderland

England

B.date01/07/1953

Age26 years

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Pat Jennings	34	143	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Walford	21	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary	21	207	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Devine	21	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Hollins	33	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sammy Nelson	30	306	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Talbot	26	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Liam Brady	23	276	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Rix	22	148	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Stapleton	23	221	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Sunderland	26	109	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

143

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Martyn Bennett

Ally Robertson

OUT

Bryan Robson

Gary Owen

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Sammy Nelson

Willie Young

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Atkinson

109

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

42 %

Atkinson vs Arsenal

1 victory

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on December 15, 1979

Atkinson vs Neill

1 victory

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on December 15, 1979

Manager

Age

Match num

Terry Neill

198

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Neill vs WBA

5 victories

3 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on December 15, 1979

Neill vs Atkinson

1 victory

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on December 15, 1979

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Key figures

WBA keeps its 4 matches with at least one goal conceded at home in Premier League running (since 27/10/1979). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 09/09/1978-21/10/1978 time period (4 matches).

Arsenal keeps its 3 matches with at least 2 goals scored running (since 08/12/1979).

Only back at the time of Jimmy Hagan head of West Bromwich Albion (01/07/1963-01/07/1967), you can see a manager go over Ron Atkinson with 1.58 goals scored per game in Premier League (1.83).

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Manchester United10/10/1979

VWest Bromwich Albion 4-0 Southampton20/10/1979

VWest Bromwich Albion 4-1 Coventry27/10/1979

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Norwich City30/10/1979

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-1 Norwich City10/11/1979

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Everton01/12/1979

Overall

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-1 Norwich City10/11/1979

LNorwich City 3-0 West Bromwich Albion13/11/1979

LLeeds United 1-0 West Bromwich Albion17/11/1979

DWolverhampton 0-0 West Bromwich Albion24/11/1979

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Everton01/12/1979

LStoke City 3-2 West Bromwich Albion08/12/1979

Current form

Away

VBristol City 0-1 Arsenal27/10/1979

DBrighton & Hove 0-0 Arsenal30/10/1979

DMagdeburg 2-2 Arsenal07/11/1979

LCrystal Palace 1-0 Arsenal10/11/1979

DNottingham Forest 1-1 Arsenal01/12/1979

LSwindon Town 4-3 Arsenal11/12/1979

Overall

VArsenal 2-0 Everton17/11/1979

DArsenal 0-0 Liverpool24/11/1979

DNottingham Forest 1-1 Arsenal01/12/1979

DArsenal 1-1 Swindon Town04/12/1979

VArsenal 3-1 Coventry08/12/1979

LSwindon Town 4-3 Arsenal11/12/1979

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	6	0
Winless streak	1	5
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	2	2
Conceding streak	2	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	5	1
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	2	4
Conceding streak	4	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

19	Number of games (Competition total)	19
9	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
5	Victories (Competition total)	7
5	Victories (Home / Away)	3
7	Draws (Competition total)	8
3	Draws (Home / Away)	4
7	Losses (Competition total)	4
1	Losses (Home / Away)	2

Goals

26	Goals scored (Competition total)	23
20	Goals scored (Home / Away)	11
24	Goals conceded (Competition total)	13
10	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	7
1.37	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.21
2.22	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.22
1.26	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.68
1.11	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.78

Betting aid

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

Bryan Robson	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Frank Stapleton
Bryan Robson	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	Alan Sunderland
Peter Barnes	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Liam Brady
Tony Brown	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Liam Brady
Cyrille Regis	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	4 goals during the last 4 matches	Frank Stapleton

Historical head to head

Home

49 matches

23 v

10 d

16 l

80 gf

61 ga

Away

48 matches

10 v

9 d

29 l

58 gf

102 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Total

98 matches

33 v

19 d

46 l

138 gf

164 ga

Historical head to head

Home

48 matches

29 v

9 d

10 l

102 gf

58 ga

Away

49 matches

16 v

10 d

23 l

61 gf

80 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Total

98 matches

46 v

19 d

33 l

164 gf

138 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	October 14, 1922
Home	7 - 0	October 14, 1922

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	March 25, 1978
Away	3 - 0	January 30, 1935

Latest head to head

April 14, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

WBA

1 - 1

Arsenal

December 26, 1978 - Division 1 1978/1979

Arsenal

1 - 2

WBA

March 25, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Arsenal

4 - 0

WBA

December 27, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

WBA

1 - 3

Arsenal

April 09, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

WBA

0 - 2

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Clive Clark	6 goals	1961 - 1967
Tony Brown	6 goals	1968 - 1979
Alec Jackson	4 goals	1960 - 1963
Bobby Hope	3 goals	1965 - 1966
Bobby Cram	3 goals	1966 - 1966
Jeff Astle	2 goals	1966 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/09/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against WBA

Malcolm Macdonald	6 goals	1977 - 1978
George Armstrong	5 goals	1966 - 1970
John Radford	4 goals	1966 - 1972
Joe Baker	4 goals	1963 - 1963
Geoff Strong	3 goals	1963 - 1963
Alan Skirton	3 goals	1961 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/09/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Tony Brown	18 matches	1964 - 1979
Jeff Astle	16 matches	1964 - 1973
Bobby Hope	16 matches	1960 - 1971
Graham Williams	15 matches	1960 - 1969
Clive Clark	15 matches	1961 - 1968
John Kaye	15 matches	1963 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/09/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

George Armstrong	17 matches	1964 - 1977
Frank McLintock	17 matches	1964 - 1973
John Radford	16 matches	1964 - 1973
Peter Storey	14 matches	1966 - 1972
Pat Rice	13 matches	1969 - 1979
Robert McNab	13 matches	1966 - 1973