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Arsenal 4-1 Bristol City - March 18, 1978 / Division 1 1977/1978

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0' - Goal David Price photo Alan Sunderland

0' - Goal Alan Sunderland photo Frank Stapleton

0' - Goal Frank Stapleton photo Frank Stapleton

0' - Goal Frank Stapleton0

0' - Goal Trevor Tainton

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46' - Substitution Alan Sunderlandis substituted by Graham Rix46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

4 - 1

Bristol City

Arsenal Bristol City

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Jennings

Pat Jennings

Northern Ireland

B.date12/06/1945

Age32 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Young

Willie Young

Scotland

B.date25/11/1951

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

O'Leary

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age19 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Nelson

Sammy Nelson

Northern Ireland

B.date01/04/1949

Age28 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

Age22 years

positionCentre Midfield

Hudson

Alan Hudson

England

B.date21/06/1951

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Brady

Liam Brady

Republic of Ireland

B.date13/02/1956

Age22 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Sunderland046

Alan Sunderland

England

B.date01/07/1953

Age24 years

positionStriker

Stapleton00

Frank Stapleton

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/07/1956

Age21 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Macdonald

Malcolm Macdonald

England

B.date07/01/1950

Age28 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Pat Jennings		32	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Willie Young		26	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary		19	111	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sammy Nelson		28	214	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pat Rice		29	389	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Price		22	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Hudson		26	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Liam Brady		22	187	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Sunderland	46	24	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Stapleton		21	118	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Malcolm Macdonald		28	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

120

Bristol City

Shaw

John Shaw

England

B.date04/02/1954

Age24 years

positionGoalkeeper

Merrick

Geoff Merrick

England

B.date29/04/1951

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Hunter

Norman Hunter

England

B.date29/10/1943

Age34 years

positionCentral defender

Rodgers

David Rodgers

England

B.date28/02/1952

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Mann

Jimmy Mann

England

B.date15/12/1952

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Tainton0

Trevor Tainton

England

B.date08/06/1948

Age29 years

H1m73

positionMidfield

Gow

Gerry Gow

Scotland

B.date29/05/1952

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Sweeney

Gerry Sweeney

Scotland

B.date10/07/1945

Age32 years

positionMidfield

Whitehead

Clive Whitehead

England

B.date24/11/1955

Age22 years

positionMidfield

Ritchie

Tom Ritchie

Scotland

B.date02/01/1952

Age26 years

positionForward

Royle

Joe Royle

England

B.date08/04/1949

Age28 years

H1m85

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	John Shaw	24	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Geoff Merrick	26	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Norman Hunter	34	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Rodgers	26	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jimmy Mann	25	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trevor Tainton	29	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gerry Gow	25	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gerry Sweeney	32	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Clive Whitehead	22	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tom Ritchie	26	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Joe Royle	28	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Graham Rix	46	20	48	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

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Terry Neill

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Neill vs Bristol City

5 victories

3 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on March 18, 1978

Neill vs Dicks

5 victories

3 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on March 18, 1978

Manager

Age

Match num

Alan Dicks

509

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

34 %

Dicks vs Arsenal

2 victories

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 18, 1978

Dicks vs Neill

6 victories

3 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on March 18, 1978

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Comments

Key figures

Arsenal keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a draw vs Bristol City running (since 21/08/1976). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 25/03/1911 (3 matches)

Arsenal keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 04/03/1978).

It's the first time Frank Stapleton scores at least 2 goals during the same game vs in his professional career with

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VArsenal 2-1 Wolverhampton28/01/1978

LArsenal 0-1 Aston Villa04/02/1978

DArsenal 0-0 Liverpool14/02/1978

VArsenal 4-1 Walsall18/02/1978

DArsenal 0-0 Norwich City28/02/1978

VArsenal 3-0 Manchester City04/03/1978

Overall

DArsenal 0-0 Liverpool14/02/1978

VArsenal 4-1 Walsall18/02/1978

DWest Ham 2-2 Arsenal25/02/1978

DArsenal 0-0 Norwich City28/02/1978

VArsenal 3-0 Manchester City04/03/1978

VWrexham 2-3 Arsenal11/03/1978

Current form

Away

LWrexham 3-0 Bristol City09/01/1978

LAston Villa 1-0 Bristol City28/01/1978

DManchester United 1-1 Bristol City08/02/1978

VWest Ham 1-2 Bristol City11/02/1978

DQueens Park Rangers 2-2 Bristol City25/02/1978

VLeeds United 0-2 Bristol City04/03/1978

Overall

DManchester United 1-1 Bristol City08/02/1978

VWest Ham 1-2 Bristol City11/02/1978

DBristol City 2-2 Manchester City17/02/1978

DQueens Park Rangers 2-2 Bristol City25/02/1978

VLeeds United 0-2 Bristol City04/03/1978

LBristol City 0-1 Everton11/03/1978

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	4	7
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

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

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

31	Number of games (Competition total)	32
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	17
15	Victories (Competition total)	9
9	Victories (Home / Away)	2
8	Draws (Competition total)	11
5	Draws (Home / Away)	7
8	Losses (Competition total)	12
2	Losses (Home / Away)	8

Goals

41	Goals scored (Competition total)	39
24	Goals scored (Home / Away)	10
26	Goals conceded (Competition total)	39
9	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	18
1.32	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.22
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.59
0.84	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.22
0.56	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.06

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	13
7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	3
11	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
9	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	13
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	10
14	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	16
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
3-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (6 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

Frank Stapleton	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	10 goals	Tom Ritchie
Frank Stapleton	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Gerry Gow
Liam Brady	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Peter Cormack
Liam Brady	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Malcolm Macdonald	2 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Tom Ritchie

Historical head to head

Home

11 matches

5 v

3 d

3 l

17 gf

12 ga

Away

12 matches

7 v

2 d

3 l

19 gf

9 ga

Total

23 matches

12 v

5 d

6 l

36 gf

21 ga

Historical head to head

Home

12 matches

3 v

2 d

7 l

9 gf

19 ga

Away

11 matches

3 v

3 d

5 l

12 gf

17 ga

Total

23 matches

6 v

5 d

12 l

21 gf

36 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	September 26, 1903
Home	3 - 0	November 28, 1914

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	September 07, 1907
Away	4 - 0	September 07, 1907

Latest head to head

October 22, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Bristol City

0 - 2

Arsenal

January 22, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Bristol City

2 - 0

Arsenal

August 21, 1976 - Division 1 1976/1977

Arsenal

0 - 1

Bristol City logo Bristol City

April 03, 1915 - Division 2 1914/1915

Bristol City

1 - 1

Arsenal

November 28, 1914 - Division 2 1914/1915

Arsenal

3 - 0

Bristol City logo Bristol City

Best historical scorers against Bristol City

	Malcolm Macdonald	1 goal	1977 - 1977
	Graham Rix	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/08/1976. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

	Peter Cormack	2 goals	1977 - 1977
	Paul Cheesley	1 goal	1976 - 1976

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/08/1976. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Bristol City

Pat Rice	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Malcolm Macdonald	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Sammy Nelson	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Peter Simpson	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Liam Brady	2 matches	1977 - 1977
Jimmy Rimmer	2 matches	1976 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/08/1976. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Geoff Merrick	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Gary Collier	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Trevor Tainton	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Clive Whitehead	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Gerry Sweeney	3 matches	1976 - 1977
Jimmy Mann	2 matches	1976 - 1977