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Chelsea 1-0 S Wednesday - August 28, 1968 / Division 1 1968/1969

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Division 1 1968/1969 - Round 6

Stamford Bridge - London - England

August 28, 1968

Chelsea

1 - 0

S Wednesday

Robert Tambling

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0' - Goal Robert Tambling0

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Chelsea

1 - 0

S Wednesday

Chelsea S Wednesday

Team line-ups

Chelsea

Bonetti

Peter Bonetti

England

B.date27/09/1941

Age26 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

McCreadie

Eddie McCreadie

Scotland

B.date15/04/1940

Age28 years

positionDefender

Hollins

John Hollins

England

B.date16/07/1946

Age22 years

positionCentral defender

Webb

David Webb

England

B.date09/04/1946

Age22 years

positionDefender

Harris

Ron Harris

England

B.date13/11/1944

Age23 years

positionDefender

Boyle

John Boyle

Scotland

B.date25/12/1946

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Baldwin

Tommy Baldwin

England

B.date10/06/1945

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Birchenall

Alan Birchenall

England

B.date22/08/1945

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Cooke

Charlie Cooke

Scotland

B.date14/10/1942

Age25 years

positionLeft Winger

Tambling0

Robert Tambling

England

B.date18/09/1941

Age26 years

positionStriker

Osgood

Peter Osgood

England

B.date20/02/1947

Age21 years

H1m85

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Bonetti	26	324	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eddie McCreadie	28	217	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Hollins	22	207	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Webb	22	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ron Harris	23	253	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Boyle	21	141	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tommy Baldwin	23	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Birchenall	23	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Charlie Cooke	25	95	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Robert Tambling	26	274	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Osgood	21	114	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

160

S Wednesday

Springett

Peter Springett

England

B.date08/05/1946

Age22 years

positionGoalkeeper

Smith

Wilf Smith

England

B.date03/09/1946

Age21 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Mobley

Vic Mobley

England

B.date11/10/1943

Age24 years

positionDefender

Megson

Don Megson

England

B.date12/06/1936

Age32 years

positionLeft full-back

Ellis

Sam Ellis

England

B.date12/09/1946

Age21 years

positionMidfield

McCalliog

Jim McCalliog

Scotland

B.date23/09/1946

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Eustace

Peter Eustace

England

B.date31/07/1944

Age24 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Warboys

Alan Warboys

England

B.date18/04/1949

Age19 years

positionForward

Fantham

John Fantham

England

B.date06/02/1939

Age29 years

positionForward

Ford

David Ford

England

B.date02/03/1945

Age23 years

positionRight Winger

Whitham

Jack Whitham

England

B.date08/12/1946

Age21 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Springett	22	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Wilf Smith	21	141	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Vic Mobley	24	152	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Don Megson	32	341	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sam Ellis	21	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jim McCalliog	21	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Peter Eustace	24	145	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Warboys	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Fantham	29	289	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Ford	23	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jack Whitham	21	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

130

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Charlie Cooke

Peter Houseman

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Dave Sexton

Success rate in this team:

52 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

36 %

Sexton vs S Wednesday

3 victories

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on August 28, 1968

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Key figures

No Sheffield Wednesday manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Alan Brown has done less than 1.44 goals scored per game .

End of streak for S Wednesday after 5 consecutive matches without a loss (since 10/08/1968).

S Wednesday keeps its 6 matches with only one goal conceded at most running (since 10/08/1968).

Read the next 5 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VChelsea 1-0 Manchester City16/04/1968

VChelsea 2-1 Burnley22/04/1968

VChelsea 1-0 Sunderland27/04/1968

VChelsea 1-0 Wolverhampton29/04/1968

DChelsea 1-1 Nottingham Forest14/08/1968

VChelsea 3-1 West Bromwich Albion17/08/1968

Overall

LWolverhampton 3-0 Chelsea04/05/1968

VSheffield United 1-2 Chelsea11/05/1968

DChelsea 1-1 Nottingham Forest14/08/1968

VChelsea 3-1 West Bromwich Albion17/08/1968

LNewcastle United 3-2 Chelsea21/08/1968

VManchester United 0-4 Chelsea24/08/1968

Current form

Away

LEverton 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday15/04/1968

LManchester City 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday25/04/1968

LArsenal 3-2 Sheffield Wednesday30/04/1968

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday10/08/1968

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday20/08/1968

VTottenham 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday24/08/1968

Overall

LSheffield Wednesday 1-2 Arsenal04/05/1968

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday10/08/1968

DSheffield Wednesday 1-1 Newcastle United14/08/1968

VSheffield Wednesday 3-0 Coventry17/08/1968

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday20/08/1968

VTottenham 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday24/08/1968

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	15	1
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	7	5
Conceding streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	3	5
Drawless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

4	Number of games (Competition total)	5
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	3
2	Victories (Competition total)	2
1	Victories (Home / Away)	1
1	Draws (Competition total)	3
1	Draws (Home / Away)	2
1	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

10	Goals scored (Competition total)	6
4	Goals scored (Home / Away)	2
5	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	1
2.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.2
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.67
1.25	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.4
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.33

Betting aid

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

Robert Tambling	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	John Fantham
Robert Tambling	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Jim McCalliog
Tommy Baldwin	4 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Jim McCalliog

Historical head to head

Home

35 matches

13 v

12 d

10 l

42 gf

34 ga

Away

34 matches

3 v

12 d

19 l

42 gf

80 ga

Total

69 matches

16 v

24 d

29 l

84 gf

114 ga

Historical head to head

Home

34 matches

19 v

12 d

3 l

80 gf

42 ga

Away

35 matches

10 v

12 d

13 l

34 gf

42 ga

Total

69 matches

29 v

24 d

16 l

114 gf

84 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	August 19, 1950
Home	4 - 0	August 19, 1950

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	December 31, 1966
Away	4 - 0	December 05, 1959

Latest head to head

April 06, 1968 - Division 1 1967/1968

S Wednesday

2 - 2

Chelsea

March 12, 1968 - FA Cup 1967/1968

Chelsea

2 - 0

S Wednesday

March 09, 1968 - FA Cup 1967/1968

S Wednesday

2 - 2

Chelsea

November 11, 1967 - Division 1 1967/1968

Chelsea

3 - 0

S Wednesday

April 08, 1967 - FA Cup 1966/1967

Chelsea

1 - 0

S Wednesday

Best historical scorers against S Wednesday

Robert Tambling	7 goals	1961 - 1968
Tommy Baldwin	3 goals	1967 - 1968
Jimmy Greaves	3 goals	1958 - 1958
Terry Venables	3 goals	1963 - 1965
John Hollins	2 goals	1967 - 1968
Bert Murray	2 goals	1964 - 1964

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

John Fantham	7 goals	1961 - 1968
Alan Finney	4 goals	1961 - 1964
John Ritchie	4 goals	1966 - 1968
Tom McAnearney	2 goals	1961 - 1964
Jim McCalliog	2 goals	1966 - 1966
David Ford	2 goals	1966 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs S Wednesday

Ron Harris	15 matches	1962 - 1968
Peter Bonetti	14 matches	1961 - 1968
Robert Tambling	13 matches	1961 - 1968
John Hollins	12 matches	1964 - 1968
Eddie McCreadie	11 matches	1963 - 1968
Marvin Hinton	11 matches	1963 - 1968

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/10/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Don Megson	18 matches	1961 - 1968
Ron Springett	13 matches	1961 - 1967
John Fantham	13 matches	1961 - 1968
Gerry Young	12 matches	1963 - 1968
Vic Mobley	10 matches	1964 - 1968
Jim McCalliog	9 matches	1966 - 1968