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Middlesbrough 0-2 Manchester City - December 27, 1977 / Division 1 1977/1978

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Division 1 1977/1978 - Round 22

Ayresome Park - Middlesbrough - England

December 27, 1977

0 - 2

Manchester City

Asa Hartford

Gary Owen

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0' - Goal Asa Hartford photo Gary Owen

0' - Goal Gary Owen

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46' - Substitution Billy Ashcroftis substituted by William Woof46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Middlesbrough

0 - 2

Manchester City

Middlesbrough Manchester City

Team line-ups

Middlesbrough

Cuff

Patrick Cuff

England

B.date19/03/1952

Age25 years

positionGoalkeeper

Ashcroft46

Billy Ashcroft

England

B.date01/10/1952

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

Ramage

Alan Ramage

Brazil

B.date29/11/1957

Age20 years

positionDefender

Bailey

Ian Bailey

England

B.date20/10/1956

Age21 years

positionDefender

McAndrew

Anthony McAndrew

Scotland

B.date11/04/1956

Age21 years

positionDefender

Craggs

John Craggs

England

B.date31/10/1948

Age29 years

positionRight full-back

Souness

Graeme Souness

Scotland

B.date06/05/1953

Age24 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Hedley

Graeme Hedley

England

B.date01/03/1957

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Armstrong

David Armstrong

England

B.date26/12/1954

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Hickton

John Hickton

England

B.date24/09/1944

Age33 years

positionForward

Cummins

Stan Cummins

England

B.date06/12/1958

Age19 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Patrick Cuff		25	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Ashcroft	46	25	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Ramage		20	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Bailey		21	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony McAndrew		21	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Craggs		29	144	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graeme Souness		24	130	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graeme Hedley		20	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Armstrong		23	150	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Hickton		33	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stan Cummins		19	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Manchester City

Corrigan

Joe Corrigan

England

B.date18/11/1948

Age29 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Clements

Kenny Clements

England

B.date09/04/1955

Age22 years

positionDefender

Watson

David Watson

England

B.date05/10/1946

Age31 years

positionDefender

Booth

Tommy Booth

England

B.date09/11/1949

Age28 years

positionCentral defender

Donachie

Willie Donachie

Scotland

B.date05/10/1951

Age26 years

H1m75

positionDefender

Hartford0

Asa Hartford

Scotland

B.date24/10/1950

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Owen0

Gary Owen

England

B.date07/07/1958

Age19 years

positionMidfield

Bell

Colin Bell

England

B.date26/02/1946

Age31 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Barnes

Peter Barnes

England

B.date10/06/1957

Age20 years

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Kidd

Brian Kidd

England

B.date29/05/1949

Age28 years

positionForward

Palmer

Roger Palmer

England

B.date30/01/1959

Age18 years

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Joe Corrigan	29	306	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Clements	22	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Watson	31	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tommy Booth	28	321	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Willie Donachie	26	296	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Asa Hartford	27	132	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary Owen	19	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Colin Bell	31	401	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Peter Barnes	20	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Brian Kidd	28	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Roger Palmer	18	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

166

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		William Woof	46	21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

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

Roger Palmer

Dennis Tueart

OUT

Colin Bell

Paul Power

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

John Neal

Success rate in this team:

27 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Neal vs Manchester City

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 27, 1977

Neal vs Book

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 27, 1977

Manager

Age

Match num

Tony Book

186

Success rate in this team:

46 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

45 %

Book vs Middlesbrough

5 victories

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on December 27, 1977

Book vs Neal

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 27, 1977

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Comments

Key figures

Middlesbrough keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a win vs Manchester City running (since 21/01/1976). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 24/01/1953-15/01/1972 time period (10 matches).

It's the first time Asa Hartford scores a goal vs in Premier League since the 11/04/1977 (with vs )

It's the first time Gary Owen scores 1 goal vs in Premier League

Read the next 7 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VMiddlesbrough 2-1 Leeds United22/10/1977

LMiddlesbrough 1-2 Everton02/11/1977

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Queens Park Rangers05/11/1977

DMiddlesbrough 0-0 Wolverhampton19/11/1977

LMiddlesbrough 0-1 Arsenal03/12/1977

VMiddlesbrough 1-0 Aston Villa17/12/1977

Overall

DMiddlesbrough 0-0 Wolverhampton19/11/1977

LBristol City 4-1 Middlesbrough26/11/1977

LMiddlesbrough 0-1 Arsenal03/12/1977

LEverton 3-0 Middlesbrough10/12/1977

VMiddlesbrough 1-0 Aston Villa17/12/1977

DLeicester 0-0 Middlesbrough26/12/1977

Current form

Away

LIpswich Town 1-0 Manchester City05/11/1977

VLuton Town 2-3 Manchester City09/11/1977

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Manchester City19/11/1977

VIpswich Town 1-2 Manchester City29/11/1977

LDerby County 2-1 Manchester City03/12/1977

LLeeds United 2-0 Manchester City17/12/1977

Overall

VManchester City 6-2 Chelsea26/11/1977

VIpswich Town 1-2 Manchester City29/11/1977

LDerby County 2-1 Manchester City03/12/1977

VManchester City 3-0 Birmingham City10/12/1977

LLeeds United 2-0 Manchester City17/12/1977

VManchester City 4-0 Newcastle United26/12/1977

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	2	0
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	3	6
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	3	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

21	Number of games (Competition total)	21
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
6	Victories (Competition total)	10
4	Victories (Home / Away)	2
7	Draws (Competition total)	4
4	Draws (Home / Away)	3
8	Losses (Competition total)	7
2	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

19	Goals scored (Competition total)	40
11	Goals scored (Home / Away)	11
28	Goals conceded (Competition total)	24
8	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	14
0.9	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.9
1.1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.1
1.33	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.14
0.8	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.4

Betting aid

9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	12
3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
7	Clean sheets (Competition total)	7
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
6	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
11	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	11
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
1-1 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (2 times)

Bookings

2	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 Mills	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	12 goals	Dennis Tueart
David Armstrong	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Dennis Tueart
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Dennis Tueart
Graeme Hedley	1 goal during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	7 goals during the last 5 matches	Dennis Tueart

Historical head to head

Home

40 matches

24 v

9 d

7 l

79 gf

32 ga

Away

40 matches

5 v

7 d

28 l

47 gf

97 ga

Total

80 matches

29 v

16 d

35 l

126 gf

129 ga

Historical head to head

Home

40 matches

28 v

7 d

5 l

97 gf

47 ga

Away

40 matches

7 v

9 d

24 l

32 gf

79 ga

Total

80 matches

35 v

16 d

29 l

129 gf

126 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	October 24, 1903
Home	6 - 0	October 24, 1903

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	March 07, 1936
Away	2 - 0	February 18, 1920

Latest head to head

April 11, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Manchester City

1 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

December 07, 1976 - Division 1 1976/1977

Middlesbrough

0 - 0

Manchester City logo Manchester City

January 21, 1976 - League Cup 1975/1976

Manchester City

4 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

January 13, 1976 - League Cup 1975/1976

Middlesbrough

1 - 0

Manchester City logo Manchester City

January 10, 1976 - Division 1 1975/1976

Middlesbrough

1 - 0

Manchester City logo Manchester City

Best historical scorers against Manchester City

David Mills	3 goals	1972 - 1975
Alan Foggon	2 goals	1974 - 1974
David Armstrong	1 goal	1976 - 1976
John Hickton	1 goal	1972 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Rodney Marsh	3 goals	1975 - 1975
Dennis Tueart	1 goal	1975 - 1975
Joe Royle	1 goal	1975 - 1975
Colin Bell	1 goal	1975 - 1975
Francis Lee	1 goal	1972 - 1972
Asa Hartford	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Manchester City

David Mills	8 matches	1972 - 1977
Willie Maddren	8 matches	1972 - 1977
John Craggs	8 matches	1972 - 1977
Stuart Boam	8 matches	1972 - 1977
Jim Platt	7 matches	1972 - 1976
Graeme Souness	6 matches	1974 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Willie Donachie	8 matches	1972 - 1977
Joe Corrigan	7 matches	1972 - 1977
Michael Doyle	7 matches	1972 - 1976
Alan Oakes	6 matches	1972 - 1976
Asa Hartford	5 matches	1974 - 1977
Tommy Booth	5 matches	1972 - 1977