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West Ham 3-1 Chelsea - March 25, 1978 / Division 1 1977/1978

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Division 1 1977/1978 - Round 34

Boleyn Ground - London - England

March 25, 1978

West Ham

3 - 1

Chelsea

David Cross

79'

Bill Green

88'

Pat Holland

89'

10'

Bill Garner

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10' - Goal Bill Garner

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46' - Substitution Bill Garneris substituted by Tommy Langley

79' - Goal David Cross79

88' - Goal Bill Green88

89' - Goal Pat Holland89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

West Ham

3 - 1

Chelsea

West Ham Chelsea

Team line-ups

West Ham

Ferguson

Bobby Ferguson

Scotland

B.date01/03/1945

Age33 years

positionGoalkeeper

Green88

Bill Green

England

B.date22/12/1950

Age27 years

positionCentral defender

Bonds

Billy Bonds

England

B.date17/09/1946

Age31 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Taylor

Tommy Taylor

England

B.date26/09/1951

Age26 years

positionDefender

Lampard

Frank Lampard

England

B.date20/09/1948

Age29 years

positionLeft full-back

Curbishley

Alan Curbishley

England

B.date08/11/1957

Age20 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Pike

Geoff Pike

England

B.date28/09/1956

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Brooking

Trevor Brooking

England

B.date02/10/1948

Age29 years

H1m84

positionCentre Midfield

Holland89

Pat Holland

England

B.date13/09/1950

Age27 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Cross79

David Cross

England

B.date08/12/1950

Age27 years

positionForward

Robson

Bryan Robson

England

B.date11/11/1945

Age32 years

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Bobby Ferguson		33	240	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Bill Green	88	27	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Bonds		31	425	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tommy Taylor		26	328	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank Lampard		29	386	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Curbishley		20	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Geoff Pike		21	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trevor Brooking		29	387	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Pat Holland	89	27	163	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Cross	79	27	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bryan Robson		32	194	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

206

Chelsea

Phillips

John Phillips

Wales

B.date07/07/1951

Age26 years

positionGoalkeeper

Harris

Ron Harris

England

B.date13/11/1944

Age33 years

positionDefender

Wicks

Steve Wicks

England

B.date03/10/1956

Age21 years

positionCentral defender

Locke

Gary Locke

England

B.date12/07/1954

Age23 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Swain

Kenny Swain

England

B.date28/01/1952

Age26 years

positionRight full-back

Hay

David Hay

Scotland

B.date29/01/1948

Age30 years

positionLeft Defensive Midfielder

Britton

Ian Britton

Scotland

B.date19/05/1954

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Lewington

Ray Lewington

England

B.date07/09/1956

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Garner1046

Bill Garner

England

B.date14/12/1947

Age30 years

positionStriker

Walker

Clive Walker

England

B.date26/05/1957

Age20 years

positionForward

Finnieston

Steve Finnieston

Scotland

B.date30/11/1954

Age23 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	John Phillips		26	124	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ron Harris		33	621	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Wicks		21	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Locke		23	118	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Swain		26	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Hay		30	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ian Britton		23	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Lewington		21	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bill Garner	1046	30	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Clive Walker		20	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Steve Finnieston		23	22	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

108

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Tommy Langley	46	20	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Bryan Robson

Derek Hales

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

John Phillips

Peter Bonetti

OUT

Bill Garner

Tommy Langley

OUT

Clive Walker

Michael Droy

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

John Lyall

197

Success rate in this team:

31 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

31 %

Lyall vs Chelsea

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 25, 1978

Lyall vs Shellito

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 25, 1978

Manager

Age

Match num

Ken Shellito

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

29 %

Shellito vs West Ham

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 25, 1978

Shellito vs Lyall

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 25, 1978

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Comments

Key figures

Ron Harris played his game number 500 in Premier League

It's the first time Pat Holland scores 1 goal vs Chelsea in Premier League

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Ken Shellito has done less than 27% of wins in Premier League.

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VWest Ham 1-0 Newcastle United21/01/1978

DWest Ham 1-1 Queens Park Rangers28/01/1978

LWest Ham 1-2 Bristol City11/02/1978

DWest Ham 2-2 Arsenal25/02/1978

LWest Ham 1-2 Wolverhampton11/03/1978

VWest Ham 3-0 Ipswich Town24/03/1978

Overall

DWest Ham 2-2 Arsenal25/02/1978

LNottingham Forest 2-0 West Ham04/03/1978

LWest Ham 1-2 Wolverhampton11/03/1978

LQueens Park Rangers 1-0 West Ham14/03/1978

LAston Villa 4-1 West Ham18/03/1978

VWest Ham 3-0 Ipswich Town24/03/1978

Current form

Away

VBirmingham City 4-5 Chelsea31/12/1977

LCoventry 5-1 Chelsea14/01/1978

DLeyton Orient 0-0 Chelsea18/02/1978

LLeeds United 2-0 Chelsea25/02/1978

DDerby County 1-1 Chelsea11/03/1978

LBristol City 3-0 Chelsea21/03/1978

Overall

LLeeds United 2-0 Chelsea25/02/1978

LChelsea 1-2 Leyton Orient27/02/1978

VChelsea 3-1 Liverpool04/03/1978

DDerby County 1-1 Chelsea11/03/1978

DChelsea 2-2 Newcastle United18/03/1978

LBristol City 3-0 Chelsea21/03/1978

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Drawless streak	2	5
Scoring streak	10	2
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	5	3
Drawless streak	1	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	3	6

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

34	Number of games (Competition total)	32
17	Number of games (Home / Away)	15
7	Victories (Competition total)	9
5	Victories (Home / Away)	3
8	Draws (Competition total)	11
6	Draws (Home / Away)	3
19	Losses (Competition total)	12
6	Losses (Home / Away)	9

Goals

40	Goals scored (Competition total)	38
23	Goals scored (Home / Away)	14
57	Goals conceded (Competition total)	51
24	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	33
1.18	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.19
1.35	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.93
1.68	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.59
1.41	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.2

Betting aid

20	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
11	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	12
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	8
19	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	16
10	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
2-2 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-3 (3 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

Derek Hales	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	9 goals	Tommy Langley
David Cross	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Clive Walker
Bryan Robson	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Kenny Swain
Bryan Robson	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Ian Britton
David Cross	3 goals during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Kenny Swain

Historical head to head

Home

22 matches

14 v

3 d

5 l

44 gf

25 ga

Away

22 matches

6 v

6 d

10 l

38 gf

42 ga

Total

44 matches

20 v

9 d

15 l

82 gf

67 ga

Historical head to head

Home

22 matches

10 v

6 d

6 l

42 gf

38 ga

Away

22 matches

5 v

3 d

14 l

25 gf

44 ga

Total

44 matches

15 v

9 d

20 l

67 gf

82 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	March 02, 1974
Home	3 - 0	March 02, 1974

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	April 09, 1966
Away	3 - 1	January 10, 1931

Latest head to head

December 27, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Chelsea

2 - 1

West Ham

March 29, 1975 - Division 1 1974/1975

West Ham

0 - 1

Chelsea

December 21, 1974 - Division 1 1974/1975

Chelsea

1 - 1

West Ham

March 02, 1974 - Division 1 1973/1974

West Ham

3 - 0

Chelsea

December 26, 1973 - Division 1 1973/1974

Chelsea

2 - 4

West Ham

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Geoff Hurst	6 goals	1964 - 1970
Martin Peters	6 goals	1964 - 1969
John Dick	6 goals	1958 - 1961
Clyde Best	5 goals	1971 - 1973
Billy Bonds	4 goals	1972 - 1974
John Byrne	3 goals	1963 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against West Ham

Robert Tambling	9 goals	1959 - 1968
Peter Osgood	5 goals	1967 - 1972
Frank Blunstone	4 goals	1959 - 1963
Jimmy Greaves	4 goals	1958 - 1960
John Hollins	3 goals	1966 - 1972
Barry Bridges	3 goals	1959 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Bobby Moore	25 matches	1960 - 1973
Geoff Hurst	17 matches	1961 - 1972
Ken Brown	15 matches	1958 - 1966
Billy Bonds	15 matches	1967 - 1977
Martin Peters	14 matches	1963 - 1969
Trevor Brooking	13 matches	1968 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs West Ham

Peter Bonetti	25 matches	1960 - 1977
Ron Harris	24 matches	1963 - 1977
John Hollins	23 matches	1964 - 1975
Robert Tambling	18 matches	1959 - 1969
Peter Osgood	16 matches	1965 - 1973
Marvin Hinton	15 matches	1963 - 1975