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Birmingham City 1-1 Ipswich Town - April 03, 1979 / Division 1 1978/1979

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Division 1 1978/1979 - Round 21

St Andrew's Stadium - Birmingham - England

April 03, 1979

Birmingham City

1 - 1

Ipswich Town

Joe Gallagher

Arnold Mühren

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0' - Goal Joe Gallagher0

0' - Goal Arnold Mühren

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46' - Substitution Clive Woodsis substituted by David Geddis

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Birmingham City

1 - 1

Ipswich Town

Birmingham City Ipswich Town

Team line-ups

Birmingham City

Freeman

Neil Freeman

England

B.date16/02/1955

Age24 years

positionGoalkeeper

Dennis

Mark Dennis

England

B.date02/05/1961

Age17 years

positionDefender

Tarantini

Alberto Tarantini

Argentina

B.date03/12/1955

Age23 years

H1m79

positionCentral defender

Page

Malcolm Page

Wales

B.date05/02/1947

Age32 years

positionDefender

Calderwood

Jimmy Calderwood

Scotland

B.date28/02/1955

Age24 years

positionDefender

Gallagher0

Joe Gallagher

England

B.date11/01/1955

Age24 years

positionCentral defender

Ainscow

Alan Ainscow

England

B.date15/07/1953

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Dillon

Kevin Dillon

England

B.date18/12/1959

Age19 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

Buckley

Alan Buckley

England

B.date20/04/1951

Age27 years

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Neil Freeman	24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Dennis	17	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alberto Tarantini	23	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Malcolm Page	32	185	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jimmy Calderwood	24	136	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joe Gallagher	24	194	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Ainscow	25	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kevin Dillon	19	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Towers	26	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stewart Barrowclough	27	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Buckley	27	19	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

Ipswich Town

Cooper

Paul Cooper

England

B.date21/12/1953

Age25 years

positionGoalkeeper

Butcher

Terry Butcher

England

B.date28/12/1958

Age20 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

Thijssen

Frans Thijssen

Netherlands

B.date23/01/1952

Age27 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Mills

Mick Mills

England

B.date04/01/1949

Age30 years

H1m71

positionCentral defender

Beattie

Kevin Beattie

England

B.date18/12/1953

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

Wark

John Wark

Scotland

B.date04/08/1957

Age21 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Burley

George Burley

Scotland

B.date03/06/1956

Age22 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

Woods46

Clive Woods

England

B.date18/12/1947

Age31 years

positionMidfield

Mühren0

Arnold Mühren

Netherlands

B.date02/06/1951

Age27 years

H1m78

positionPlaymaker

Mariner

Paul Mariner

England

B.date22/05/1953

Age25 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Brazil

Alan Brazil

Scotland

B.date15/06/1959

Age19 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Paul Cooper		25	169	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Terry Butcher		20	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frans Thijssen		27	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mick Mills		30	461	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kevin Beattie		25	232	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Wark		21	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	George Burley		22	213	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Clive Woods	46	31	312	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Arnold Mühren		27	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Mariner		25	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Brazil		19	18	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

152

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		David Geddis	46	21	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Alan Buckley

Don Givens

OUT

Jimmy Calderwood

Kevan Broadhurst

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paul Mariner

David Geddis

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Jim Smith

Success rate in this team:

23 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

33 %

Smith vs Ipswich Town

0 victory

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on April 03, 1979

Smith vs Robson

0 victory

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on April 03, 1979

Manager

Age

Match num

Bobby Robson

521

Success rate in this team:

40 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Robson vs Birmingham City

10 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on April 03, 1979

Robson vs Smith

0 victory

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on April 03, 1979

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Key figures

Birmingham City keeps its 4 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 24/03/1979).

End of streak for Birmingham City after 3 consecutive matches without a draw (since 24/03/1979). It was the best streak for the club since 02/12/1978-06/03/1979 (12 matches).

No Birmingham City manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Jim Smith has done less than 0.89 goals scored per game .

Read the next 7 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LBirmingham City 0-2 Burnley06/01/1979

LBirmingham City 0-1 Leeds United10/02/1979

VBirmingham City 1-0 Tottenham24/02/1979

VBirmingham City 3-1 Queens Park Rangers06/03/1979

DBirmingham City 0-0 Coventry10/03/1979

VBirmingham City 1-0 Norwich City27/03/1979

Overall

LAston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City03/03/1979

VBirmingham City 3-1 Queens Park Rangers06/03/1979

DBirmingham City 0-0 Coventry10/03/1979

LMiddlesbrough 2-1 Birmingham City24/03/1979

VBirmingham City 1-0 Norwich City27/03/1979

LBristol City 2-1 Birmingham City31/03/1979

Current form

Away

VLeyton Orient 0-2 Ipswich Town30/01/1979

LBristol City 3-1 Ipswich Town03/02/1979

VEverton 0-1 Ipswich Town24/02/1979

VDerby County 0-1 Ipswich Town28/02/1979

LFC Barcelona 1-0 Ipswich Town21/03/1979

LLiverpool 2-0 Ipswich Town24/03/1979

Overall

LIpswich Town 0-1 Liverpool10/03/1979

DIpswich Town 1-1 Coventry13/03/1979

VIpswich Town 2-0 Arsenal17/03/1979

LFC Barcelona 1-0 Ipswich Town21/03/1979

LLiverpool 2-0 Ipswich Town24/03/1979

VIpswich Town 2-1 Manchester City31/03/1979

Running streaks

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

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	10	4
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	2	0
Conceding streak	2	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

32	Number of games (Competition total)	32
15	Number of games (Home / Away)	14
5	Victories (Competition total)	13
5	Victories (Home / Away)	5
5	Draws (Competition total)	6
4	Draws (Home / Away)	2
22	Losses (Competition total)	13
6	Losses (Home / Away)	7

Goals

28	Goals scored (Competition total)	41
19	Goals scored (Home / Away)	14
49	Goals conceded (Competition total)	39
18	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	20
0.88	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.28
1.27	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
1.53	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.22
1.2	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.43

Betting aid

17	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
4	Clean sheets (Competition total)	7
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
13	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	11
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	5
16	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	16
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
1-1 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-1 (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

Don Givens	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	12 goals	Paul Mariner
Alan Buckley	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	6 goals	Paul Mariner
Trevor Francis	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	John Wark
Joe Gallagher	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Alan Brazil

Historical head to head

Home

15 matches

7 v

3 d

5 l

23 gf

16 ga

Away

15 matches

4 v

0 d

11 l

23 gf

34 ga

Total

30 matches

11 v

3 d

16 l

46 gf

50 ga

Historical head to head

Home

15 matches

11 v

0 d

4 l

34 gf

23 ga

Away

15 matches

5 v

3 d

7 l

16 gf

23 ga

Total

30 matches

16 v

3 d

11 l

50 gf

46 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	November 17, 1962
Home	4 - 0	September 08, 1954

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 2	October 15, 1977
Away	3 - 0	September 29, 1973

Latest head to head

April 11, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Birmingham City

0 - 0

Ipswich Town logo Ipswich Town

October 15, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Ipswich Town

5 - 2

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

April 11, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Ipswich Town

1 - 0

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

December 07, 1976 - Division 1 1976/1977

Birmingham City

2 - 4

Ipswich Town logo Ipswich Town

April 13, 1976 - Division 1 1975/1976

Birmingham City

3 - 0

Ipswich Town logo Ipswich Town

Best historical scorers against Ipswich Town

Kenneth Leek	4 goals	1962 - 1962
Bob Hatton	4 goals	1972 - 1975
Trevor Francis	3 goals	1976 - 1977
Kenny Burns	2 goals	1975 - 1976
Jimmy Harris	2 goals	1962 - 1962
Jimmy Singer	1 goal	1961 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Trevor Whymark	5 goals	1972 - 1977
Mick Lambert	4 goals	1973 - 1975
Ted Phillips	3 goals	1961 - 1962
Bryan Hamilton	3 goals	1972 - 1975
Clive Woods	2 goals	1975 - 1977
Bobby Blackwood	2 goals	1964 - 1964

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Ipswich Town

Garry Pendrey	10 matches	1972 - 1978
Trevor Francis	9 matches	1972 - 1978
Malcolm Page	8 matches	1972 - 1978
Kenny Burns	8 matches	1973 - 1977
Bob Hatton	8 matches	1972 - 1975
Dave Latchford	7 matches	1972 - 1976

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/09/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Mick Mills	13 matches	1972 - 1978
Allan Hunter	11 matches	1972 - 1977
Trevor Whymark	11 matches	1972 - 1977
Mick Lambert	8 matches	1972 - 1978
Clive Woods	8 matches	1973 - 1978
Kevin Beattie	7 matches	1972 - 1978