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Arsenal 0-1 Derby County - March 31, 1973 / Division 1 1972/1973

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Division 1 1972/1973 - Round 36

Highbury - London - England

March 31, 1973

Arsenal

0 - 1

Derby County

Steve Powell

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0' - Goal Steve Powell

46' - Substitution Frank McLintockis substituted by Sammy Nelson46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

0 - 1

Derby County

Arsenal Derby County

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Wilson

Bob Wilson

Scotland

B.date30/10/1941

Age31 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

McLintock45+1

Frank McLintock

Scotland

B.date28/12/1939

Age33 years

positionRight central defender

Simpson

Peter Simpson

England

B.date13/01/1945

Age28 years

positionCentral defender

Rice

Pat Rice

Northern Ireland

B.date17/03/1949

Age24 years

positionRight full-back

McNab

Robert McNab

England

B.date20/07/1943

Age29 years

positionLeft full-back

Storey

Peter Storey

England

B.date07/09/1945

Age27 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

Kelly

Eddie Kelly

Scotland

B.date07/02/1951

Age22 years

positionMidfield

Kennedy

Ray Kennedy

England

B.date28/07/1951

Age21 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Armstrong

George Armstrong

England

B.date09/08/1944

Age28 years

positionRight Winger

George

Charles George

England

B.date10/10/1950

Age22 years

positionForward

Ball

Alan Ball

England

B.date12/05/1945

Age27 years

H1m68

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Bob Wilson		31	217	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank McLintock	45+1	33	347	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Simpson		28	284	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pat Rice		24	162	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Robert McNab		29	256	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Peter Storey		27	318	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Eddie Kelly		22	108	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Kennedy		21	137	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	George Armstrong		28	397	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Charles George		22	117	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Ball		27	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

219

Derby County

Boulton

Colin Boulton

England

B.date12/09/1945

Age27 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Parry

Tony Parry

England

B.date08/09/1945

Age27 years

positionCentral defender

McFarland

Roy McFarland

England

B.date05/04/1948

Age24 years

positionCentral defender

Nish

David Nish

England

B.date26/09/1947

Age25 years

positionDefender

Powell0

Steve Powell

England

B.date20/09/1955

Age17 years

positionDefender

Todd

Colin Todd

England

B.date12/12/1948

Age24 years

positionCentral defender

Webster

Ron Webster

England

B.date21/06/1943

Age29 years

positionRight full-back

McGovern

John McGovern

Scotland

B.date28/10/1949

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Davies

Roger Davies

England

B.date25/10/1950

Age22 years

H1m91

positionForward

Hector

Kevin Hector

England

B.date02/11/1944

Age28 years

positionForward

O'Hare

John O'Hare

Scotland

B.date24/09/1946

Age26 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Colin Boulton	27	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Parry	27	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Roy McFarland	24	169	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Nish	25	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Powell	17	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Todd	24	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ron Webster	29	150	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John McGovern	23	161	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Roger Davies	22	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kevin Hector	28	186	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John O'Hare	26	178	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

106

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Sammy Nelson	45+1	23	54	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

Tony Parry

Alan Durban

OUT

Roger Davies

Archie Gemmill

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Bertie Mee

390

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Mee vs Derby County

4 victories

2 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on March 31, 1973

Mee vs Clough

4 victories

2 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on March 31, 1973

Manager

Age

Match num

Brian Clough

300

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Clough vs Arsenal

5 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on March 31, 1973

Clough vs Mee

5 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on March 31, 1973

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Key figures

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Bertie Mee has done less than 0.92 goals conceded per game .

Arsenal keeps its 4 matches with only one goal conceded at most in Premier League running (since 10/03/1973).

End of streak for Arsenal after 11 matches with at least one goal scored at home (since 02/12/1972). It was the best streak for the club since 09/01/1971-14/08/1971 (14 matches).

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DArsenal 2-2 Newcastle United27/01/1973

VArsenal 2-0 Bradford03/02/1973

VArsenal 1-0 Leicester17/02/1973

VArsenal 3-2 Sheffield United03/03/1973

VArsenal 2-1 Chelsea20/03/1973

VArsenal 1-0 Crystal Palace26/03/1973

Overall

VArsenal 3-2 Sheffield United03/03/1973

VIpswich Town 1-2 Arsenal10/03/1973

DChelsea 2-2 Arsenal17/03/1973

VArsenal 2-1 Chelsea20/03/1973

VManchester City 1-2 Arsenal24/03/1973

VArsenal 1-0 Crystal Palace26/03/1973

Current form

Away

VTottenham 3-5 Derby County07/02/1973

LBirmingham City 2-0 Derby County10/02/1973

LNewcastle United 2-0 Derby County28/02/1973

LSpartak Trnava 1-0 Derby County07/03/1973

DLeicester 0-0 Derby County10/03/1973

LSheffield United 3-1 Derby County24/03/1973

Overall

LDerby County 2-3 Leeds United03/03/1973

LSpartak Trnava 1-0 Derby County07/03/1973

DLeicester 0-0 Derby County10/03/1973

LDerby County 0-1 Leeds United17/03/1973

VDerby County 2-0 Spartak Trnava21/03/1973

LSheffield United 3-1 Derby County24/03/1973

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	5	3
Unbeaten streak	11	6
Drawless streak	5	3
Scoring streak	11	6
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	5	1
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

36	Number of games (Competition total)	35
19	Number of games (Home / Away)	18
22	Victories (Competition total)	14
14	Victories (Home / Away)	2
8	Draws (Competition total)	7
4	Draws (Home / Away)	5
6	Losses (Competition total)	14
1	Losses (Home / Away)	11

Goals

51	Goals scored (Competition total)	43
30	Goals scored (Home / Away)	10
32	Goals conceded (Competition total)	51
12	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	35
1.42	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.23
1.58	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.56
0.89	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.46
0.63	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.94

Betting aid

14	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	20
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	9
16	Clean sheets (Competition total)	9
11	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	11
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	10
16	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	17
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
1-0 (6 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (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

John Radford	13 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	12 goals	Alan Hinton
Alan Ball	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Kevin Hector
Alan Ball	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Alan Ball	7 goals during the last 12 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Roger Davies

Historical head to head

Home

32 matches

17 v

7 d

8 l

61 gf

38 ga

Away

33 matches

7 v

7 d

19 l

40 gf

70 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Total

66 matches

25 v

14 d

27 l

102 gf

108 ga

Historical head to head

Home

33 matches

19 v

7 d

7 l

70 gf

40 ga

Away

32 matches

8 v

7 d

17 l

38 gf

61 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Total

66 matches

27 v

14 d

25 l

108 gf

102 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	November 08, 1969
Home	4 - 0	November 08, 1969

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	November 25, 1972
Away	3 - 1	August 29, 1928

Latest head to head

November 25, 1972 - Division 1 1972/1973

Derby County

5 - 0

Arsenal

March 13, 1972 - FA Cup 1971/1972

Arsenal

1 - 0

Derby County logo Derby County

February 29, 1972 - FA Cup 1971/1972

Arsenal

0 - 0

Derby County logo Derby County

February 26, 1972 - FA Cup 1971/1972

Derby County

2 - 2

Arsenal

February 12, 1972 - Division 1 1971/1972

Arsenal

2 - 0

Derby County logo Derby County

Best historical scorers against Derby County

Charles George	5 goals	1969 - 1972
Jon Sammels	2 goals	1969 - 1969
John Radford	2 goals	1970 - 1970
Ray Bowden	1 goal	1934 - 1934
George Armstrong	1 goal	1969 - 1969
John Roberts	1 goal	1970 - 1970

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 22/12/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Kevin Hector	3 goals	1970 - 1972
Alan Hinton	3 goals	1971 - 1972
John O'Hare	2 goals	1970 - 1971
Roy McFarland	2 goals	1971 - 1972
Dave Mackay	1 goal	1970 - 1970
Alan Durban	1 goal	1972 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 22/12/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Derby County

Charles George	9 matches	1969 - 1972
George Armstrong	9 matches	1969 - 1972
Bob Wilson	9 matches	1970 - 1972
Frank McLintock	9 matches	1970 - 1972
Pat Rice	8 matches	1970 - 1972
Peter Simpson	8 matches	1969 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 22/12/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Alan Hinton	10 matches	1969 - 1972
Ron Webster	10 matches	1969 - 1972
Kevin Hector	10 matches	1969 - 1972
Roy McFarland	10 matches	1969 - 1972
John O'Hare	9 matches	1969 - 1972
Archie Gemmill	8 matches	1970 - 1972