This page offers all the statistics of the match and the pre-match of

WBA 1-0 Birmingham City - November 04, 1978 / Division 1 1978/1979

. All the information you will find here have been collected manually from the most official sources. However, if you found any mistake or any missing information, please contact us.

Division 1 1978/1979 - Round 13

The Hawthorns - West Bromwich - England

November 04, 1978

WBA

1 - 0

Birmingham City

John Trewick

logo West Bromwich Albion WBA

0' - Goal John Trewick0

logo West Bromwich Albion WBA

46' - Substitution Joe Gallagheris substituted by Kevin Dillon

logo Birmingham City BC

Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

WBA

1 - 0

Birmingham City

WBA Birmingham City

Team line-ups

WBA

Godden

Tony Godden

England

B.date02/08/1955

Age23 years

positionGoalkeeper

Robertson

Ally Robertson

Scotland

B.date09/09/1952

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Ally Brown

Scotland

B.date12/04/1951

Age27 years

positionDefender

Batson

Brendon Batson

England

B.date06/02/1953

Age25 years

positionRight full-back

Robson

Bryan Robson

England

B.date11/01/1957

Age21 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Cantello

Len Cantello

England

B.date11/09/1951

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Trewick0

John Trewick

England

B.date03/06/1957

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Tony Brown

England

B.date03/10/1945

Age33 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Wile

John Wile

England

B.date09/03/1947

Age31 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Cunningham

Laurie Cunningham

England

B.date08/03/1956

Age22 years

H1m80

positionLeft Winger

Regis

Cyrille Regis

England

B.date09/02/1958

Age20 years

H1m83

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Tony Godden	23	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Robertson	26	187	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Brown	27	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brendon Batson	25	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bryan Robson	21	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Len Cantello	27	188	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Trewick	21	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Brown	33	444	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Wile	31	210	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Laurie Cunningham	22	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cyrille Regis	20	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

131

Birmingham City

Freeman

Neil Freeman

England

B.date16/02/1955

Age23 years

positionGoalkeeper

Gallagher46

Joe Gallagher

England

B.date11/01/1955

Age23 years

positionCentral defender

Page

Malcolm Page

Wales

B.date05/02/1947

Age31 years

positionDefender

Calderwood

Jimmy Calderwood

Scotland

B.date28/02/1955

Age23 years

positionDefender

Dennis

Mark Dennis

England

B.date02/05/1961

Age17 years

positionDefender

Tarantini

Alberto Tarantini

Argentina

B.date03/12/1955

Age22 years

H1m79

positionCentral defender

Emmanuel

Gary Emmanuel

Wales

B.date01/02/1954

Age24 years

positionMidfield

Towers

Tony Towers

England

B.date13/04/1952

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Barrowclough

Stewart Barrowclough

England

B.date29/10/1951

Age27 years

positionRight Winger

Givens

Don Givens

Republic of Ireland

B.date09/08/1949

Age29 years

positionStriker

Buckley

Alan Buckley

England

B.date20/04/1951

Age27 years

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Neil Freeman		23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joe Gallagher	46	23	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Malcolm Page		31	166	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jimmy Calderwood		23	126	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Dennis		17	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alberto Tarantini		22	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary Emmanuel		24	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Towers		26	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stewart Barrowclough		27	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Don Givens		29	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Buckley		27	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Kevin Dillon	46	18	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

John Trewick

Derek Statham

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Alberto Tarantini

Garry Pendrey

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Atkinson

Success rate in this team:

51 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

44 %

Atkinson vs Birmingham City

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on November 04, 1978

Atkinson vs Smith

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on November 04, 1978

Manager

Age

Match num

Jim Smith

Success rate in this team:

0 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

31 %

Smith vs WBA

0 victory

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on November 04, 1978

Smith vs Atkinson

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 04, 1978

Videos

Comments

Key figures

WBA keeps its 6 matches with only one goal conceded at most at home running (since 23/09/1978).

No West Bromwich Albion manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Ron Atkinson has reached 51% of wins .

WBA keeps its 3 consecutive wins at home running (since 21/10/1978).

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DWest Bromwich Albion 2-2 Norwich City09/09/1978

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Liverpool23/09/1978

VWest Bromwich Albion 3-1 Galatasaray27/09/1978

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Tottenham07/10/1978

VWest Bromwich Albion 7-1 Coventry21/10/1978

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Braga01/11/1978

Overall

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Tottenham07/10/1978

VLeeds United 1-3 West Bromwich Albion14/10/1978

VBraga 0-2 West Bromwich Albion18/10/1978

VWest Bromwich Albion 7-1 Coventry21/10/1978

DManchester City 2-2 West Bromwich Albion28/10/1978

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Braga01/11/1978

Current form

Away

LManchester United 1-0 Birmingham City19/08/1978

DBolton Wanderers 2-2 Birmingham City02/09/1978

LNorwich City 4-0 Birmingham City16/09/1978

LLeeds United 3-0 Birmingham City30/09/1978

LTottenham 1-0 Birmingham City14/10/1978

LCoventry 2-1 Birmingham City28/10/1978

Overall

DBirmingham City 1-1 Chelsea23/09/1978

LLeeds United 3-0 Birmingham City30/09/1978

LBirmingham City 1-2 Manchester City07/10/1978

LTottenham 1-0 Birmingham City14/10/1978

LBirmingham City 0-1 Aston Villa21/10/1978

LCoventry 2-1 Birmingham City28/10/1978

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	1
Unbeaten streak	2	5
Drawless streak	4	1
Scoring streak	2	5
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	4	5
Winless streak	8	16
Drawless streak	4	5
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	6	13

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

12	Number of games (Competition total)	12
6	Number of games (Home / Away)	6
6	Victories (Competition total)	0
3	Victories (Home / Away)	0
4	Draws (Competition total)	3
2	Draws (Home / Away)	1
2	Losses (Competition total)	9
1	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

27	Goals scored (Competition total)	7
16	Goals scored (Home / Away)	3
13	Goals conceded (Competition total)	24
6	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	13
2.25	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.58
2.67	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.5
1.08	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.17

Betting aid

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

Cyrille Regis	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Don Givens
Laurie Cunningham	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Trevor Francis
Cyrille Regis	9 goals during the last 12 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Don Givens

Historical head to head

Home

39 matches

17 v

13 d

9 l

57 gf

35 ga

Away

38 matches

18 v

9 d

11 l

55 gf

43 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

1 ga

Total

78 matches

36 v

22 d

20 l

114 gf

79 ga

Historical head to head

Home

38 matches

11 v

9 d

18 l

43 gf

55 ga

Away

39 matches

9 v

13 d

17 l

35 gf

57 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

2 ga

Total

78 matches

20 v

22 d

36 l

79 gf

114 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	April 18, 1960
Home	5 - 1	February 06, 1926

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	March 29, 1948
Away	2 - 0	September 16, 1964

Latest head to head

February 28, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Birmingham City

1 - 2

WBA

September 24, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

WBA

3 - 1

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

February 28, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

WBA

2 - 1

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

September 11, 1976 - Division 1 1976/1977

Birmingham City

0 - 1

WBA

April 28, 1973 - Division 1 1972/1973

Birmingham City

3 - 2

WBA

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Tony Brown	4 goals	1976 - 1978
Ken Foggo	3 goals	1963 - 1964
Alec Jackson	3 goals	1960 - 1963
Derek Kevan	2 goals	1960 - 1961
Ally Brown	2 goals	1977 - 1978
Bryan Robson	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/08/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against WBA

Bob Latchford	2 goals	1972 - 1973
Trevor Francis	2 goals	1977 - 1978
Harry Hooper	1 goal	1960 - 1960
Gordon Astall	1 goal	1960 - 1960
Kenny Burns	1 goal	1973 - 1973
John Connolly	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/08/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Stan Jones	9 matches	1960 - 1964
Don Howe	8 matches	1960 - 1963
Alec Jackson	8 matches	1960 - 1963
Tony Brown	7 matches	1964 - 1978
Clive Clark	7 matches	1961 - 1964
Graham Williams	7 matches	1960 - 1964

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/08/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

Malcolm Beard	8 matches	1961 - 1964
Mike Hellawell	8 matches	1961 - 1964
Trevor Smith	7 matches	1960 - 1963
William Hennessey	7 matches	1961 - 1964
Bertie Auld	6 matches	1961 - 1964
Kenneth Leek	6 matches	1962 - 1964