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Tottenham 2-2 Man United - January 20, 1962 / Division 1 1961/1962

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Division 1 1961/1962 - Round 27

White Hart Lane - London - England

January 20, 1962

55 225

Tottenham

2 - 2

Man United

Jimmy Greaves

45'

Jimmy Greaves

77'

35'

Bobby Charlton

65'

Nobby Stiles

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35' - Goal Bobby Charlton

45' - Goal Jimmy Greaves45

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65' - Goal Nobby Stiles

77' - Goal Jimmy Greaves77

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Tottenham

2 - 2

Man United

Tottenham Man United

Team line-ups

Tottenham

Brown

Bill Brown

Scotland

B.date08/10/1931

Age30 years

positionGoalkeeper

Norman

Maurice Norman

England

B.date08/05/1934

Age27 years

positionCentral defender

Baker

Peter Baker

England

B.date10/12/1931

Age30 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Henry

Ron Henry

England

B.date17/08/1934

Age27 years

positionLeft full-back

Mackay

Dave Mackay

Scotland

B.date14/11/1934

Age27 years

H1m72

positionLeft Midfielder

Blanchflower

Danny Blanchflower

Northern Ireland

B.date10/02/1926

Age35 years

positionMidfield

Marchi

Tony Marchi

England

B.date21/01/1933

Age28 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Dyson

Terry Dyson

England

B.date29/11/1934

Age27 years

positionForward

Greaves7745

Jimmy Greaves

England

B.date20/02/1940

Age21 years

H1m73

positionStriker

Jones

Cliff Jones

Wales

B.date07/02/1935

Age26 years

H1m68

positionLeft Winger

Allen

Les Allen

England

B.date04/09/1937

Age24 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Bill Brown		30	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Maurice Norman		27	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Baker		30	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ron Henry		27	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dave Mackay		27	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Danny Blanchflower		35	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Marchi		28	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Terry Dyson		27	79	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jimmy Greaves	7745	21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cliff Jones		26	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Les Allen		24	71	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

Man United

Gaskell

David Gaskell

England

B.date05/10/1940

Age21 years

positionGoalkeeper

Foulkes

Bill Foulkes

England

B.date05/01/1932

Age30 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Brennan

Shay Brennan

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/05/1937

Age24 years

positionRight full-back

Dunne

Tony Dunne

Republic of Ireland

B.date24/07/1941

Age20 years

positionLeft full-back

Stiles65

Nobby Stiles

England

B.date18/05/1942

Age19 years

H1m68

positionDefensive Midfielder

Giles

Johnny Giles

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/11/1940

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Lawton

Norbert Lawton

England

B.date25/03/1940

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Nicholson

Jimmy Nicholson

Northern Ireland

B.date27/02/1943

Age18 years

positionMidfield

Charlton35

Bobby Charlton

England

B.date11/10/1937

Age24 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

Setters

Maurice Setters

England

B.date16/12/1936

Age25 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Chisnall

Phil Chisnall

England

B.date27/10/1942

Age19 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	David Gaskell		21	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Bill Foulkes		30	261	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Shay Brennan		24	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Dunne		20	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nobby Stiles	65	19	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Johnny Giles		21	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Norbert Lawton		21	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jimmy Nicholson		18	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bobby Charlton	35	24	192	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Maurice Setters		25	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Phil Chisnall		19	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

22 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Terry Dyson

Terry Medwin

OUT

Peter Baker

Melvyn Hopkins

OUT

Tony Marchi

Eddie Clayton

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Nobby Stiles

Albert Quixall

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Billy Nicholson

162

Success rate in this team:

55 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

55 %

Nicholson vs Man United

3 victories

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on January 20, 1962

Nicholson vs Busby

3 victories

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on January 20, 1962

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Matt Busby

739

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Busby vs Tottenham

11 victories

6 draws

7 losses

Latest figure on January 20, 1962

Busby vs Nicholson

3 victories

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on January 20, 1962

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Key figures

Bobby Charlton played his game number 10 vs Tottenham in his professional career with

No Tottenham manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Billy Nicholson has done less than 20% of draws .

It's the first time Jimmy Greaves scores at least 2 goals during the same game vs Tottenham in Premier League with

Read the next 9 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DTottenham 1-1 Feyenoord Rotterdam15/11/1961

LTottenham 1-2 Leicester25/11/1961

VTottenham 3-1 Birmingham City09/12/1961

VTottenham 5-2 Blackpool16/12/1961

VTottenham 5-2 Chelsea30/12/1961

VTottenham 4-2 Birmingham City10/01/1962

Overall

LArsenal 2-1 Tottenham23/12/1961

VChelsea 0-2 Tottenham26/12/1961

VTottenham 5-2 Chelsea30/12/1961

DBirmingham City 3-3 Tottenham06/01/1962

VTottenham 4-2 Birmingham City10/01/1962

DCardiff City 1-1 Tottenham13/01/1962

Current form

Away

DAston Villa 1-1 Manchester United18/09/1961

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Manchester United07/10/1961

LArsenal 5-1 Manchester United21/10/1961

LSheffield Wednesday 3-1 Manchester United04/11/1961

LIpswich Town 4-1 Manchester United18/11/1961

LEverton 5-1 Manchester United02/12/1961

Overall

VManchester United 3-0 Fulham09/12/1961

LManchester United 1-2 West Ham16/12/1961

VManchester United 6-3 Nottingham Forest26/12/1961

VManchester United 2-1 Bolton Wanderers06/01/1962

LManchester United 0-1 Blackpool13/01/1962

VManchester United 2-0 Aston Villa15/01/1962

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	4	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	4	5
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	5	0
Scoring streak	43	10
Conceding streak	8	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	4	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	6	0
Drawless streak	4	9
Scoring streak	8	1
Conceding streak	38	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

25	Number of games (Competition total)	24
12	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
14	Victories (Competition total)	9
10	Victories (Home / Away)	2
4	Draws (Competition total)	4
1	Draws (Home / Away)	3
7	Losses (Competition total)	11
1	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

51	Goals scored (Competition total)	40
35	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
37	Goals conceded (Competition total)	49
18	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	25
2.04	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.67
2.92	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.2
1.48	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2.04
1.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.5

Betting aid

16	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
17	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	16
9	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	9
1-0 (2 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

Cliff Jones	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	9 goals	David Herd
Cliff Jones	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Dennis Viollet
Danny Blanchflower	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Albert Quixall
Danny Blanchflower	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Albert Quixall
Dave Mackay	4 goals during the last 6 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 3 matches	Bobby Charlton

Historical head to head

Home

27 matches

11 v

10 d

6 l

49 gf

32 ga

Away

28 matches

5 v

7 d

16 l

29 gf

49 ga

Total

55 matches

16 v

17 d

22 l

78 gf

81 ga

Historical head to head

Home

28 matches

16 v

7 d

5 l

49 gf

29 ga

Away

27 matches

6 v

10 d

11 l

32 gf

49 ga

Total

55 matches

22 v

17 d

16 l

81 gf

78 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	September 10, 1932
Home	6 - 1	September 10, 1932

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	January 22, 1910
Away	3 - 1	February 07, 1959

Latest head to head

September 09, 1961 - Division 1 1961/1962

Man United

1 - 0

Tottenham

January 14, 1961 - Division 1 1960/1961

Man United

2 - 0

Tottenham

September 03, 1960 - Division 1 1960/1961

Tottenham

4 - 1

Man United

January 23, 1960 - Division 1 1959/1960

Tottenham

2 - 1

Man United

September 12, 1959 - Division 1 1959/1960

Man United

1 - 5

Tottenham

Best historical scorers against Man United

Bobby Smith	5 goals	1957 - 1960
Les Allen	2 goals	1960 - 1960
Thomas Harmer	1 goal	1958 - 1958

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/11/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Tottenham

Dennis Viollet	2 goals	1959 - 1960
Colin Webster	2 goals	1958 - 1958
David Pegg	2 goals	1957 - 1957
Bobby Charlton	2 goals	1959 - 1959
Mark Pearson	1 goal	1961 - 1961
Albert Scanlon	1 goal	1959 - 1959

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/11/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Bobby Smith	5 matches	1957 - 1961
Danny Blanchflower	5 matches	1957 - 1961
Maurice Norman	5 matches	1957 - 1961
Ron Henry	4 matches	1958 - 1961
Les Allen	3 matches	1960 - 1961
Bill Brown	3 matches	1960 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/11/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Tottenham

Bill Foulkes	10 matches	1956 - 1961
Bobby Charlton	9 matches	1957 - 1961
Harry Gregg	8 matches	1958 - 1961
Albert Scanlon	6 matches	1957 - 1960
Dennis Viollet	6 matches	1957 - 1961
Albert Quixall	6 matches	1958 - 1961