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Liverpool 2-0 Middlesbrough - January 02, 1978 / Division 1 1977/1978

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Division 1 1977/1978 - Round 24

Anfield - Liverpool - England

January 02, 1978

Liverpool

2 - 0

Middlesbrough

David Johnson

39'

Steve Heighway

80'

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10' - Substitution Terry McDermottis substituted by Kevin Kewley10

39' - Goal David Johnson39

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80' - Goal Steve Heighway80

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Liverpool

2 - 0

Middlesbrough

Liverpool Middlesbrough

Team line-ups

Liverpool

Clemence

Ray Clemence

England

B.date05/08/1948

Age29 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Thompson

Phil Thompson

England

B.date21/01/1954

Age23 years

positionCentral defender

Hughes

Emelyn Hughes

England

B.date28/08/1947

Age30 years

positionCentral defender

Neal

Phil Neal

England

B.date20/02/1951

Age26 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Jones

Joey Jones

Wales

B.date04/03/1955

Age22 years

positionLeft full-back

Kennedy

Ray Kennedy

England

B.date28/07/1951

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Callaghan

Ian Callaghan

England

B.date10/04/1942

Age35 years

positionRight Midfielder

McDermott10

Terry McDermott

England

B.date08/12/1951

Age26 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Heighway80

Steve Heighway

Republic of Ireland

B.date25/11/1947

Age30 years

positionLeft Winger

Johnson39

David Johnson

England

B.date23/10/1951

Age26 years

positionForward

Dalglish

Kenny Dalglish

Scotland

B.date04/03/1951

Age26 years

H1m78

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ray Clemence		29	464	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Thompson		23	223	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Emelyn Hughes		30	608	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Neal		26	178	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joey Jones		22	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Kennedy		26	170	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ian Callaghan		35	803	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Terry McDermott	10	26	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Steve Heighway	80	30	398	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Johnson	39	26	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kenny Dalglish		26	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

283

Middlesbrough

Platt

Jim Platt

Northern Ireland

B.date26/01/1952

Age25 years

positionGoalkeeper

Boam

Stuart Boam

England

B.date28/01/1948

Age29 years

H1m88

positionDefender

Ramage

Alan Ramage

Brazil

B.date29/11/1957

Age20 years

positionDefender

Ashcroft

Billy Ashcroft

England

B.date01/10/1952

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

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

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

Age31 years

positionForward

Mills

David Mills

England

B.date06/12/1951

Age26 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Platt	25	129	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stuart Boam	29	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Ramage	20	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Ashcroft	25	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Bailey	21	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony McAndrew	21	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Craggs	29	146	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Armstrong	23	152	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stan Cummins	19	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Mahoney	31	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Mills	26	145	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

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Kevin Kewley	10	22	1	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

David Johnson

David Fairclough

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

John Mahoney

John Hickton

OUT

Jim Platt

Patrick Cuff

OUT

Stuart Boam

Graeme Souness

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Robert Paisley

207

Success rate in this team:

54 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

54 %

Paisley vs Middlesbrough

5 victories

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on January 02, 1978

Paisley vs Neal

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 02, 1978

Manager

Age

Match num

John Neal

Success rate in this team:

25 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Neal vs Liverpool

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 02, 1978

Neal vs Paisley

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 02, 1978

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Key figures

No Liverpool manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Robert Paisley has done less than 0.75 goals conceded per game .

Liverpool keeps its 5 consecutive wins at home running (since 03/12/1977).

Liverpool keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a draw at home running (since 03/12/1977).

Read the next 16 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DLiverpool 1-1 Bristol City19/11/1977

DLiverpool 2-2 Coventry29/11/1977

VLiverpool 2-0 West Ham03/12/1977

VLiverpool 6-0 Hamburger SV06/12/1977

VLiverpool 1-0 Queens Park Rangers17/12/1977

VLiverpool 1-0 Wolverhampton27/12/1977

Overall

LNorwich City 2-1 Liverpool10/12/1977

VLiverpool 1-0 Queens Park Rangers17/12/1977

VCoventry 0-2 Liverpool20/12/1977

DNottingham Forest 1-1 Liverpool26/12/1977

VLiverpool 1-0 Wolverhampton27/12/1977

VNewcastle United 0-2 Liverpool31/12/1977

Current form

Away

DEverton 2-2 Middlesbrough25/10/1977

LNottingham Forest 4-0 Middlesbrough29/10/1977

VAston Villa 0-1 Middlesbrough12/11/1977

LBristol City 4-1 Middlesbrough26/11/1977

LEverton 3-0 Middlesbrough10/12/1977

DLeicester 0-0 Middlesbrough26/12/1977

Overall

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

LMiddlesbrough 0-2 Manchester City27/12/1977

DMiddlesbrough 2-2 Norwich City31/12/1977

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	4	2
Unbeaten streak	6	5
Drawless streak	4	2
Scoring streak	8	12
Invincibility streak	4	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Winless streak	3	3
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	2	0
Conceding streak	0	2
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

23	Number of games (Competition total)	23
11	Number of games (Home / Away)	11
12	Victories (Competition total)	6
8	Victories (Home / Away)	2
6	Draws (Competition total)	8
2	Draws (Home / Away)	3
5	Losses (Competition total)	9
1	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

30	Goals scored (Competition total)	21
16	Goals scored (Home / Away)	8
16	Goals conceded (Competition total)	32
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	20
1.3	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.91
1.45	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.73
0.7	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.39
0.27	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.82

Betting aid

6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	10
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
13	Clean sheets (Competition total)	7
9	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
8	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	12
2	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
2-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-2 (2 times)

Bookings

9	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
1	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	2
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Kenny Dalglish	10 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	David Mills
Kenny Dalglish	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	David Mills
Phil Neal	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Phil Neal	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Kenny Dalglish	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	David Armstrong

Historical head to head

Home

49 matches

23 v

12 d

14 l

101 gf

56 ga

Away

48 matches

14 v

16 d

18 l

67 gf

88 ga

Total

97 matches

37 v

28 d

32 l

168 gf

144 ga

Historical head to head

Home

48 matches

18 v

16 d

14 l

88 gf

67 ga

Away

49 matches

14 v

12 d

23 l

56 gf

101 ga

Total

97 matches

32 v

28 d

37 l

144 gf

168 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 2	September 16, 1931
Home	7 - 2	September 16, 1931

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	August 31, 1929
Away	2 - 0	March 06, 1976

Latest head to head

August 20, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Middlesbrough

1 - 1

Liverpool

March 19, 1977 - FA Cup 1976/1977

Liverpool

2 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

March 12, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Middlesbrough

0 - 1

Liverpool

October 02, 1976 - Division 1 1976/1977

Liverpool

0 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

March 06, 1976 - Division 1 1975/1976

Liverpool

0 - 2

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Gordon Hodgson	4 goals	1934 - 1935
Sam English	3 goals	1933 - 1934
Bob Glassey	2 goals	1936 - 1936
Kevin Keegan	2 goals	1974 - 1977
Berry Nieuwenhuys	1 goal	1934 - 1934
David Fairclough	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

John Hickton	1 goal	1976 - 1976
David Armstrong	1 goal	1977 - 1977
Terry Cooper	1 goal	1976 - 1976
Alan Foggon	1 goal	1975 - 1975

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Ray Clemence	9 matches	1974 - 1977
Ray Kennedy	9 matches	1974 - 1977
Steve Heighway	8 matches	1974 - 1977
Ian Callaghan	8 matches	1974 - 1977
Emelyn Hughes	8 matches	1974 - 1977
Kevin Keegan	8 matches	1974 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

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