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Middlesbrough 2-3 Arsenal - September 30, 1978 / Division 1 1978/1979

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Division 1 1978/1979 - Round 8

Ayresome Park - Middlesbrough - England

September 30, 1978

2 - 3

Arsenal

Billy Ashcroft

David Mills

David O'Leary

David Price

45+45'

Steve Walford

logo Middlesbrough MID

0' - Goal Billy Ashcroft photo David Mills

0' - Goal David Mills0

0' - Goal David O'Leary photo David Price

0' - Goal David Price

90' - Goal Steve Walford

logo Middlesbrough MID

46' - Substitution Billy Ashcroftis substituted by David Hodgson46

46' - Substitution John Devineis substituted by Steve Walford

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Middlesbrough

2 - 3

Arsenal

Middlesbrough Arsenal

Team line-ups

Middlesbrough

Stewart

James Stewart

Scotland

B.date09/03/1954

Age24 years

positionGoalkeeper

Ashcroft046

Billy Ashcroft

England

B.date01/10/1952

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

Ramage

Alan Ramage

Brazil

B.date29/11/1957

Age20 years

positionDefender

McAndrew

Anthony McAndrew

Scotland

B.date11/04/1956

Age22 years

positionDefender

Boam

Stuart Boam

England

B.date28/01/1948

Age30 years

H1m88

positionDefender

Johnson

Peter Johnson

England

B.date05/10/1958

Age19 years

positionDefender

Craggs

John Craggs

England

B.date31/10/1948

Age29 years

positionRight full-back

Armstrong

David Armstrong

England

B.date26/12/1954

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Cummins

Stan Cummins

England

B.date06/12/1958

Age19 years

positionForward

Mahoney

John Mahoney

Wales

B.date20/09/1946

Age32 years

positionForward

Mills0

David Mills

England

B.date06/12/1951

Age26 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	James Stewart		24	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Ashcroft	46	25	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Ramage		20	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony McAndrew		22	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stuart Boam		30	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Johnson		19	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Craggs		29	172	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Armstrong		23	179	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stan Cummins		19	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Mahoney		32	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Mills		26	168	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

Arsenal

Jennings

Pat Jennings

Northern Ireland

B.date12/06/1945

Age33 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Devine46

John Devine

Republic of Ireland

B.date11/11/1958

Age19 years

positionDefender

O'Leary0

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age20 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Young

Willie Young

Scotland

B.date25/11/1951

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Nelson

Sammy Nelson

Northern Ireland

B.date01/04/1949

Age29 years

positionLeft full-back

Rice

Pat Rice

Northern Ireland

B.date17/03/1949

Age29 years

positionRight full-back

Price0

David Price

England

B.date23/06/1955

Age23 years

positionCentre Midfield

Brady

Liam Brady

Republic of Ireland

B.date13/02/1956

Age22 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Rix

Graham Rix

England

B.date23/10/1957

Age20 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Stapleton

Frank Stapleton

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/07/1956

Age22 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Sunderland

Alan Sunderland

England

B.date01/07/1953

Age25 years

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Pat Jennings		33	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Devine	46	19	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary		20	132	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Willie Young		26	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sammy Nelson		29	236	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pat Rice		29	407	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Price		23	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Liam Brady		22	207	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Rix		20	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Stapleton		22	141	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Sunderland		25	39	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

132

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		David Hodgson	46	18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Steve Walford	9046	20	14	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:

28 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

35 %

Neal vs Arsenal

0 victory

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on September 30, 1978

Neal vs Neill

0 victory

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on September 30, 1978

Manager

Age

Match num

Terry Neill

117

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Neill vs Middlesbrough

7 victories

1 draw

11 losses

Latest figure on September 30, 1978

Neill vs Neal

3 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 30, 1978

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Key figures

Arsenal keeps its 10 matches with at least one goal conceded away from home running (since 11/04/1978). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 18/10/1975-18/02/1976 time period (11 matches).

It's the first time David O'Leary scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

It's the first time David Price scores 1 goal vs in his professional career with

Read the next 15 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DMiddlesbrough 0-0 Everton22/04/1978

LMiddlesbrough 1-2 West Ham25/04/1978

LMiddlesbrough 1-2 Coventry19/08/1978

DMiddlesbrough 0-0 Peterborough United30/08/1978

DMiddlesbrough 0-0 Ipswich Town02/09/1978

LMiddlesbrough 0-2 Queens Park Rangers16/09/1978

Overall

DMiddlesbrough 0-0 Peterborough United30/08/1978

DMiddlesbrough 0-0 Ipswich Town02/09/1978

LPeterborough United 1-0 Middlesbrough06/09/1978

LEverton 2-0 Middlesbrough09/09/1978

LMiddlesbrough 0-2 Queens Park Rangers16/09/1978

DNottingham Forest 2-2 Middlesbrough23/09/1978

Current form

Away

LDerby County 3-0 Arsenal09/05/1978

DManchester City 1-1 Arsenal22/08/1978

LEverton 1-0 Arsenal26/08/1978

LRotherham United 3-1 Arsenal29/08/1978

LNottingham Forest 2-1 Arsenal09/09/1978

VVfB Leipzig 1-4 Arsenal27/09/1978

Overall

VArsenal 5-1 Queens Park Rangers02/09/1978

LNottingham Forest 2-1 Arsenal09/09/1978

VArsenal 3-0 VfB Leipzig13/09/1978

VArsenal 1-0 Bolton Wanderers16/09/1978

DArsenal 1-1 Manchester United23/09/1978

VVfB Leipzig 1-4 Arsenal27/09/1978

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	7	7
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	3	0
Conceding streak	1	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	4
Drawless streak	4	1
Scoring streak	3	7
Conceding streak	9	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

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

Goals

7	Goals scored (Competition total)	11
1	Goals scored (Home / Away)	2
11	Goals conceded (Competition total)	8
4	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	4
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.57
0.33	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.67
1.57	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.14
1.33	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.33

Betting aid

4	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
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
4	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	5
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	2
1-2 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (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

David Armstrong	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Liam Brady
William Woof	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Liam Brady
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Liam Brady
David Armstrong	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 4 matches	Frank Stapleton

Historical head to head

Home

42 matches

18 v

13 d

11 l

62 gf

50 ga

Away

40 matches

5 v

9 d

26 l

41 gf

103 ga

Total

82 matches

23 v

22 d

37 l

103 gf

153 ga

Historical head to head

Home

40 matches

26 v

9 d

5 l

103 gf

41 ga

Away

42 matches

11 v

13 d

18 l

50 gf

62 ga

Total

82 matches

37 v

22 d

23 l

153 gf

103 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	February 26, 1977
Home	4 - 1	February 26, 1977

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	April 19, 1935
Away	3 - 0	November 03, 1951

Latest head to head

April 29, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Arsenal

1 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

December 03, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Middlesbrough

0 - 1

Arsenal

May 07, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Arsenal

1 - 1

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

February 26, 1977 - FA Cup 1976/1977

Middlesbrough

4 - 1

Arsenal

February 15, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Middlesbrough

3 - 0

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

David Mills	2 goals	1975 - 1977
David Armstrong	1 goal	1977 - 1977
Graeme Souness	1 goal	1977 - 1977
Peter Brine	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/04/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Ted Drake	5 goals	1935 - 1935
Frank Stapleton	3 goals	1975 - 1978
Tim Rogers	2 goals	1935 - 1935
John Radford	1 goal	1976 - 1976
Alan Ball	1 goal	1974 - 1974
Alexander Cropley	1 goal	1975 - 1975

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/04/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

John Craggs	8 matches	1974 - 1978
David Armstrong	8 matches	1974 - 1978
David Mills	7 matches	1975 - 1978
Stuart Boam	7 matches	1974 - 1978
Willie Maddren	6 matches	1974 - 1977
Graeme Souness	6 matches	1974 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/04/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Pat Rice	8 matches	1974 - 1977
Sammy Nelson	7 matches	1975 - 1978
Jimmy Rimmer	7 matches	1974 - 1977
Liam Brady	6 matches	1974 - 1977
Frank Stapleton	6 matches	1975 - 1978
Malcolm Macdonald	5 matches	1977 - 1978