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Leicester 3-1 WBA - December 02, 1972 / Division 1 1972/1973

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Division 1 1972/1973 - Round 20

Filbert Street - Leicester - England

December 02, 1972

Leicester

3 - 1

WBA

Frank Worthington

Bobby Gould

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0' - Goal Frank Worthington photo Frank Worthington

0' - Goal Frank Worthington0

0' - Goal Bobby Gould

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46' - Substitution Jon Sammelsis substituted by David Tomlin46

46' - Substitution Len Cantellois substituted by Hugh MacLean

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Leicester

3 - 1

WBA

Leicester WBA

Team line-ups

Leicester

Shilton

Peter Shilton

England

B.date18/09/1949

Age23 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Cross

Graham Cross

England

B.date15/11/1943

Age29 years

positionDefender

Woollett

Alan Woollett

England

B.date04/03/1947

Age25 years

positionDefender

Rofe

Dennis Rofe

England

B.date01/06/1950

Age22 years

positionDefender

Manley

Malcolm Manley

Scotland

B.date01/12/1949

Age23 years

positionCentral defender

Farrington

John Farrington

England

B.date19/06/1947

Age25 years

positionDefender

Whitworth

Stephen Whitworth

England

B.date20/03/1952

Age20 years

positionRight full-back

Sammels46

Jon Sammels

England

B.date23/07/1945

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Birchenall

Alan Birchenall

England

B.date22/08/1945

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Worthington000

Frank Worthington

England

B.date23/11/1948

Age24 years

positionForward

Glover

Leonard Glover

England

B.date31/01/1944

Age28 years

positionLeft Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Shilton		23	179	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Graham Cross		29	360	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Woollett		25	101	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dennis Rofe		22	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Malcolm Manley		23	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Farrington		25	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen Whitworth		20	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jon Sammels	46	27	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Birchenall		27	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Worthington		24	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Leonard Glover		28	126	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

102

WBA

Latchford

Peter Latchford

England

B.date27/09/1952

Age20 years

positionGoalkeeper

Ally Brown

Scotland

B.date12/04/1951

Age21 years

positionDefender

Merrick

Alan Merrick

United States

B.date20/06/1950

Age22 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Robertson

Ally Robertson

Scotland

B.date09/09/1952

Age20 years

positionCentral defender

Nisbet

Gordon Nisbet

England

B.date18/09/1951

Age21 years

positionRight full-back

Wilson

Ray Wilson

Scotland

B.date08/04/1947

Age25 years

positionLeft full-back

Cantello46

Len Cantello

England

B.date11/09/1951

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Hartford

Asa Hartford

Scotland

B.date24/10/1950

Age22 years

positionMidfield

Wile

John Wile

England

B.date09/03/1947

Age25 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Tony Brown

England

B.date03/10/1945

Age27 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Gould0

Bobby Gould

England

B.date12/06/1946

Age26 years

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Latchford		20	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Brown		21	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Merrick		22	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Robertson		20	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gordon Nisbet		21	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ray Wilson		25	143	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Len Cantello	46	21	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Asa Hartford		22	168	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Wile		25	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Brown		27	327	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bobby Gould		26	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

22.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

102

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		David Tomlin	46	19	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Hugh MacLean	46	20	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Malcolm Manley

John Sjoberg

OUT

Peter Shilton

Mark Wallington

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

John Wile

Hugh MacLean

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Jimmy Bloomfield

Success rate in this team:

28 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

25 %

Bloomfield vs WBA

2 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 02, 1972

Bloomfield vs Howe

2 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 02, 1972

Manager

Age

Match num

Don Howe

Success rate in this team:

27 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

27 %

Howe vs Leicester

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 02, 1972

Howe vs Bloomfield

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 02, 1972

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Key figures

WBA keeps its 7 matches with at least one goal conceded away from home running (since 30/09/1972).

Leicester keeps its 3 matches with only one goal conceded at most running (since 11/11/1972).

No West Bromwich Albion manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Don Howe has reached 48% of losses .

Read the next 7 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LLeicester 1-2 Everton09/09/1972

DLeicester 1-1 Wolverhampton23/09/1972

VLeicester 1-0 Southampton07/10/1972

LLeicester 1-2 Norwich City21/10/1972

DLeicester 2-2 Manchester United04/11/1972

LLeicester 0-1 Tottenham18/11/1972

Overall

LDerby County 2-1 Leicester14/10/1972

LLeicester 1-2 Norwich City21/10/1972

LStoke City 1-0 Leicester28/10/1972

DLeicester 2-2 Manchester United04/11/1972

DChelsea 1-1 Leicester11/11/1972

LLeicester 0-1 Tottenham18/11/1972

Current form

Away

LManchester City 2-1 West Bromwich Albion30/09/1972

LLiverpool 2-1 West Bromwich Albion10/10/1972

LChelsea 3-1 West Bromwich Albion14/10/1972

LSouthampton 2-1 West Bromwich Albion28/10/1972

DTottenham 1-1 West Bromwich Albion11/11/1972

LNorwich City 2-0 West Bromwich Albion18/11/1972

Overall

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Wolverhampton21/10/1972

LSouthampton 2-1 West Bromwich Albion28/10/1972

LWest Bromwich Albion 2-3 Newcastle United04/11/1972

DTottenham 1-1 West Bromwich Albion11/11/1972

LNorwich City 2-0 West Bromwich Albion18/11/1972

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-1 Stoke City25/11/1972

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	3	6
Drawless streak	1	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	3	6

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	6	0
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	6	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

18	Number of games (Competition total)	19
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
3	Victories (Competition total)	5
2	Victories (Home / Away)	1
6	Draws (Competition total)	5
4	Draws (Home / Away)	2
9	Losses (Competition total)	9
4	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

18	Goals scored (Competition total)	19
10	Goals scored (Home / Away)	7
26	Goals conceded (Competition total)	26
12	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	14
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.78
1.44	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.37
1.2	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.56

Betting aid

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

Keith Weller	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	Tony Brown
Keith Weller	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Tony Brown
Jon Sammels	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Jon Sammels	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Jon Sammels	2 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 3 matches	Tony Brown

Historical head to head

Home

34 matches

16 v

8 d

10 l

63 gf

44 ga

Away

32 matches

7 v

5 d

20 l

36 gf

75 ga

Total

66 matches

23 v

13 d

30 l

99 gf

119 ga

Historical head to head

Home

32 matches

20 v

5 d

7 l

75 gf

36 ga

Away

34 matches

10 v

8 d

16 l

44 gf

63 ga

Total

66 matches

30 v

13 d

23 l

119 gf

99 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	December 25, 1926
Home	5 - 0	December 25, 1926

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	March 13, 1965
Away	3 - 0	May 05, 1949

Latest head to head

February 12, 1972 - Division 1 1971/1972

Leicester

0 - 1

WBA

October 23, 1971 - Division 1 1971/1972

WBA

0 - 1

Leicester

November 05, 1969 - League Cup 1969/1970

WBA

2 - 1

Leicester

October 29, 1969 - League Cup 1969/1970

Leicester

0 - 0

WBA

March 29, 1969 - FA Cup 1968/1969

Leicester

1 - 0

WBA

Best historical scorers against WBA

Derek Dougan	3 goals	1965 - 1966
Graham Cross	3 goals	1962 - 1969
Jack Lornie	1 goal	1960 - 1960
Frank McLintock	1 goal	1964 - 1964
Billy Hodgson	1 goal	1964 - 1964
Allan Clarke	1 goal	1969 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 22/10/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Leicester

Jeff Astle	5 goals	1965 - 1968
Clive Clark	5 goals	1961 - 1968
Ken Foggo	3 goals	1963 - 1966
Tony Brown	2 goals	1968 - 1972
John Kaye	2 goals	1966 - 1966
Graham Williams	2 goals	1964 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 22/10/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

Graham Cross	17 matches	1962 - 1972
Richie Norman	15 matches	1960 - 1967
John Sjoberg	15 matches	1963 - 1972
Dave Gibson	14 matches	1962 - 1968
Peter Shilton	11 matches	1966 - 1972
Gordon Banks	11 matches	1960 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 22/10/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Leicester

Clive Clark	15 matches	1961 - 1968
Stan Jones	12 matches	1961 - 1966
Jeff Astle	11 matches	1964 - 1972
Tony Brown	11 matches	1964 - 1972
John Kaye	11 matches	1963 - 1968
Bobby Hope	11 matches	1961 - 1971