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Motherwell 0-3 Falkirk - December 22, 2007 / Premier League 2007/2008

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Premier League 2007/2008 - Round 18

Fir Park - Motherwell - Scotland

December 22, 2007

5 241

Motherwell

0 - 3

Falkirk

49'

Michael Higdon

60'

Michael Higdon

65'

Patrick Cregg

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49' - Goal Michael Higdon

60' - Goal Michael Higdon

65' - Substitution Phil O'Donnellis substituted by Darren Smith65

65' - Goal Patrick Cregg

67' - Substitution David Clarksonis substituted by Jamie Murphy67

76' - Substitution Graham Barrettis substituted by Carl Finnigan

83' - Substitution Pedro Moutinhois substituted by Russell Latapy

84' - Substitution Stephen Hughesis substituted by Keith Lasley84

90' - Substitution Steven Thomsonis substituted by Chris Mitchell

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Motherwell

0 - 3

Falkirk

Motherwell Falkirk

Team line-ups

Motherwell

Smith

Graeme Smith

Scotland

B.date08/06/1983

Age24 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Craigan

Stephen Craigan

Northern Ireland

B.date29/10/1976

Age31 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Quinn

Paul Quinn

Scotland

B.date21/07/1985

Age22 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Reynolds

Mark Reynolds

Scotland

B.date07/05/1987

Age20 years

H1m80

positionLeft central defender

Paterson

Jim Paterson

Scotland

B.date25/09/1979

Age28 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

O'Donnell65

Phil O'Donnell

Scotland

B.date25/03/1972

Age35 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Hughes84

Stephen Hughes

Scotland

B.date14/11/1982

Age25 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

McGarry

Steve McGarry

Scotland

B.date28/09/1979

Age28 years

H1m75

positionOffensive Midfielder

Clarkson67

David Clarkson

Scotland

B.date10/09/1985

Age22 years

H1m78

positionStriker

McCormack

Ross McCormack

Scotland

B.date18/08/1986

Age21 years

H1m75

positionStriker

Porter

Chris Porter

England

B.date12/12/1983

Age24 years

H1m85

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Graeme Smith		24	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen Craigan		31	167	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Quinn		22	115	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Reynolds		20	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jim Paterson		28	111	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Phil O'Donnell	65	35	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stephen Hughes	84	25	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve McGarry		28	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Clarkson	67	22	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ross McCormack		21	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Chris Porter		24	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Falkirk

Krul

Tim Krul

Netherlands

B.date03/04/1988

Age19 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Holden

Dean Holden

Northern Ireland

B.date15/09/1979

Age28 years

H1m85

positionVersatile Defender

Barr

Darren Barr

Scotland

B.date17/03/1985

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Scobbie

Thomas Scobbie

Scotland

B.date31/03/1988

Age19 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

Ross

Jack Ross

Scotland

B.date05/06/1976

Age31 years

H1m85

positionRight full-back

Cregg65

Patrick Cregg

Republic of Ireland

B.date21/02/1986

Age21 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

Thomson90

Steven Thomson

Scotland

B.date23/01/1978

Age29 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Barrett76

Graham Barrett

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/10/1981

Age26 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

Arfield

Scott Arfield

Canada

B.date01/11/1988

Age19 years

H1m78

positionLeft Midfielder

Moutinho83

Pedro Moutinho

Portugal

B.date09/09/1979

Age28 years

H1m86

positionCentre forward

Higdon4960

Michael Higdon

England

B.date02/09/1983

Age24 years

H1m86

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Tim Krul		19	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dean Holden		28	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Darren Barr		22	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Thomas Scobbie		19	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jack Ross		31	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Patrick Cregg	65	21	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Thomson	90	29	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Barrett	76	26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Scott Arfield		19	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Pedro Moutinho	83	28	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michael Higdon	4960	24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Keith Lasley	84	28	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jamie Murphy	67	18	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Darren Smith	65	19	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Chris Mitchell	90	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Russell Latapy	83	39	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Carl Finnigan	76	21	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

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

Darren Barr

Gerard Aafjes

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Mark McGhee

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

McGhee vs Falkirk

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

McGhee vs Hughes

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

Manager

Age

Match num

John Hughes

207

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Hughes vs Motherwell

2 victories

2 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

Hughes vs McGhee

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

Referee

Douglas McDonald

6 victories	10 draws	15 losses	Motherwell31 matches	General total	Falkirk18 matches	8 victories	2 draws	8 losses
1 victory	1 draw	2 losses	Motherwell4 matches	Season total	Falkirk3 matches	1 victory	0 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on November 13, 2010					Latest figure on May 08, 2010

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Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Motherwell after 5 consecutive wins (since 10/11/2007). It was the best streak for the club since 09/11/2004-11/12/2004 (6 matches).

End of streak for Motherwell after 6 consecutive matches without a loss (since 03/11/2007). It was the best streak for the club since 21/08/2004-03/10/2004 (8 matches).

David Clarkson played his game number 10 vs in his professional career

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DMotherwell 1-1 Glasgow Rangers29/09/2007

VMotherwell 2-1 Hibernian20/10/2007

LMotherwell 1-2 Glasgow Rangers31/10/2007

DMotherwell 1-1 St. Mirren03/11/2007

VMotherwell 3-0 Gretna FC01/12/2007

VMotherwell 3-0 Aberdeen15/12/2007

Overall

DMotherwell 1-1 St. Mirren03/11/2007

VInverness 0-3 Motherwell10/11/2007

VKilmarnock 0-1 Motherwell24/11/2007

VMotherwell 3-0 Gretna FC01/12/2007

VHeart of Midlothian 1-2 Motherwell08/12/2007

VMotherwell 3-0 Aberdeen15/12/2007

Current form

Away

LInverness 4-2 Falkirk29/09/2007

LHeart of Midlothian 4-2 Falkirk06/10/2007

DAberdeen 1-1 Falkirk28/10/2007

VSt. Mirren 1-5 Falkirk01/12/2007

LCeltic Glasgow 4-0 Falkirk11/12/2007

DHibernian 1-1 Falkirk15/12/2007

Overall

VFalkirk 2-0 Gretna FC03/11/2007

LFalkirk 1-3 Glasgow Rangers24/11/2007

VSt. Mirren 1-5 Falkirk01/12/2007

VFalkirk 3-0 Dundee United08/12/2007

LCeltic Glasgow 4-0 Falkirk11/12/2007

DHibernian 1-1 Falkirk15/12/2007

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	5
Unbeaten streak	3	6
Drawless streak	2	5
Scoring streak	6	7
Invincibility streak	2	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Winless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	9	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

101	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	208
3	FBDB index ranking (National)	9

Results

17	Number of games (Competition total)	17
8	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
10	Victories (Competition total)	5
4	Victories (Home / Away)	2
2	Draws (Competition total)	4
2	Draws (Home / Away)	2
5	Losses (Competition total)	8
2	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

24	Goals scored (Competition total)	27
13	Goals scored (Home / Away)	17
16	Goals conceded (Competition total)	34
8	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	24
1.41	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.59
1.63	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.89
0.94	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.67

Betting aid

10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	9
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	4
2	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	3
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
8	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	10
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
2-1 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-4 (2 times)

Bookings

31	Yellow cards (Competition total)	22
15	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	13
0	Red cards (Competition total)	4
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Chris Porter	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	Pedro Moutinho
Ross McCormack	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Graham Barrett
Ross McCormack	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Ross McCormack	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Ross McCormack	2 goals during the last match	The fittest player	5 goals during the last 9 matches	Graham Barrett

Historical head to head

Home

79 matches

46 v

15 d

18 l

174 gf

111 ga

Away

80 matches

30 v

18 d

32 l

116 gf

121 ga

Total

159 matches

76 v

33 d

50 l

290 gf

232 ga

Historical head to head

Home

80 matches

32 v

18 d

30 l

121 gf

116 ga

Away

79 matches

18 v

15 d

46 l

111 gf

174 ga

Total

159 matches

50 v

33 d

76 l

232 gf

290 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	October 27, 1928
Home	5 - 0	September 17, 2005

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	December 02, 1905
Away	5 - 1	September 14, 1907

Latest head to head

September 22, 2007 - Premier League 2007/2008

Falkirk

1 - 0

Motherwell logo Motherwell

April 28, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Motherwell

3 - 3

Falkirk

February 10, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Falkirk

1 - 2

Motherwell logo Motherwell

November 25, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Motherwell

4 - 2

Falkirk

August 26, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Falkirk

0 - 1

Motherwell logo Motherwell

Best historical scorers against Falkirk

Scott McDonald	7 goals	2005 - 2007
Richie Foran	5 goals	2005 - 2006
Darren Smith	2 goals	2007 - 2007
Jim Hamilton	2 goals	2005 - 2005
David Clarkson	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Shaun Fagan	1 goal	2005 - 2005

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/2005. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Motherwell

Patrick Cregg	3 goals	2006 - 2007
Russell Latapy	2 goals	2006 - 2007
Alan Gow	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Thomas Scobbie	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Anthony Stokes	1 goal	2006 - 2006

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/2005. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Falkirk

David Clarkson	9 matches	2005 - 2007
Brian Kerr	8 matches	2005 - 2007
Stephen Craigan	8 matches	2005 - 2007
Scott McDonald	8 matches	2005 - 2007
Jim Paterson	7 matches	2006 - 2007
Graeme Smith	7 matches	2005 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/2005. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Motherwell

Kenny Milne	9 matches	2005 - 2007
Alan Gow	8 matches	2005 - 2007
Russell Latapy	8 matches	2005 - 2007
Steven Thomson	7 matches	2005 - 2007
Patrick Cregg	6 matches	2006 - 2007
Jack Ross	6 matches	2005 - 2007