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WBA 1-0 Preston NE - August 25, 2003 / First Division 2003/2004

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First Division 2003/2004 - Round 4

The Hawthorns - West Bromwich - England

August 25, 2003

24 402

WBA

1 - 0

Preston NE

(penalty) Lee Hughes

45'

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40' - Red card Jonathan Gould

43' - Substitution Graham Alexanderis substituted by David Lucas

45' - Goal Lee Hughes45

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54' - Substitution Artim Sakiriis substituted by Joe Murphy54

59' - Substitution Danny Dichiois substituted by Rob Hulse59

72' - Substitution Claude Davisis substituted by Michael Jackson

77' - Substitution Joost Volmeris substituted by Scott Dobie77

84' - Substitution Brian O'Neilis substituted by David Healy

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

WBA

1 - 0

Preston NE

WBA Preston NE

Team line-ups

WBA

Hoult

Russell Hoult

England

B.date22/11/1972

Age30 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Volmer77

Joost Volmer

Netherlands

B.date07/03/1974

Age29 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

Gregan

Sean Gregan

England

B.date29/03/1974

Age29 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Clement

Neil Clement

England

B.date03/10/1978

Age24 years

H1m86

positionLeft central defender

Gaardsoe

Thomas Gaardsoe

Denmark

B.date23/11/1979

Age23 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

O'Connor

James O'Connor

Republic of Ireland

B.date01/09/1979

Age23 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

Haas

Bernt Haas

Switzerland

B.date08/04/1978

Age25 years

H1m85

positionRight full-back

Sakiri54

Artim Sakiri

North Macedonia

B.date23/09/1973

Age29 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Koumas

Jason Koumas

Wales

B.date25/09/1979

Age23 years

H1m76

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Dichio59

Danny Dichio

England

B.date19/10/1974

Age28 years

H1m88

positionStriker

Hughes45

Lee Hughes

England

B.date22/05/1976

Age27 years

H1m82

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Russell Hoult		30	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joost Volmer	77	29	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sean Gregan		29	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Neil Clement		24	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Thomas Gaardsoe		23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	James O'Connor		23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Bernt Haas		25	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Artim Sakiri	54	29	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jason Koumas		23	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Danny Dichio	59	28	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Lee Hughes	45	27	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Preston NE

Gould40

Jonathan Gould

Scotland

B.date18/07/1968

Age35 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

Davis72

Claude Davis

Jamaica

B.date06/03/1979

Age24 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Broomes

Marlon Broomes

England

B.date28/11/1977

Age25 years

H1m83

positionRight central defender

Lucketti

Chris Lucketti

England

B.date28/09/1971

Age31 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Alexander43

Graham Alexander

Scotland

B.date10/10/1971

Age31 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Lewis

Eddie Lewis

United States

B.date17/05/1974

Age29 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Keane

Michael Keane

Republic of Ireland

B.date29/12/1982

Age20 years

H1m91

positionLeft full-back

O'Neil84

Brian O'Neil

Scotland

B.date06/09/1972

Age30 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

McKenna

Paul McKenna

England

B.date20/10/1977

Age25 years

H1m69

positionCentre Midfield

Cresswell

Richard Cresswell

England

B.date20/09/1977

Age25 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Fuller

Ricardo Fuller

Jamaica

B.date31/10/1979

Age23 years

H1m91

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jonathan Gould	40	35	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Claude Davis	72	24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marlon Broomes		25	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Lucketti		31	97	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Graham Alexander	43	31	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eddie Lewis		29	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Keane		20	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian O'Neil	84	30	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul McKenna		25	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Richard Cresswell		25	98	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ricardo Fuller		23	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Joe Murphy	54	22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Scott Dobie	77	24	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Rob Hulse	59	23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
G	David Lucas	43	25	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Jackson	72	29	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Healy	84	24	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Artim Sakiri

Andy Johnson

OUT

Danny Dichio

Rob Hulse

OUT

Jason Koumas

Adam Chambers

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Claude Davis

Michael Jackson

OUT

Marlon Broomes

Rob Edwards

OUT

Brian O'Neil

Dickson Etuhu

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Gary Megson

163

Success rate in this team:

42 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Megson vs Preston NE

5 victories

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on August 25, 2003

Megson vs Brown

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on August 25, 2003

Manager

Age

Match num

Craig Brown

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Brown vs WBA

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 25, 2003

Brown vs Megson

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 25, 2003

Referee

Alan Kaye

1 victory	0 draw	2 losses	WBA3 matches	General total	Preston NE7 matches	2 victories	2 draws	3 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	WBA1 match	Season total	Preston NE2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 21, 2004					Latest figure on December 18, 2004

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Key figures

Preston NE keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a win running (since 04/05/2003).

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Gary Megson has reached 50% of wins in Championship.

WBA keeps its 4 consecutive wins running (since 12/08/2003). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 16/03/2002-01/04/2002 time period (5 matches).

Read the next 9 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LWest Bromwich Albion 1-2 Everton12/04/2003

LWest Bromwich Albion 2-3 Tottenham21/04/2003

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-6 Liverpool26/04/2003

DWest Bromwich Albion 2-2 Newcastle United11/05/2003

VWest Bromwich Albion 4-0 Brentford12/08/2003

VWest Bromwich Albion 4-1 Burnley16/08/2003

Overall

DBlackburn 1-1 West Bromwich Albion03/05/2003

DWest Bromwich Albion 2-2 Newcastle United11/05/2003

LWalsall 4-1 West Bromwich Albion09/08/2003

VWest Bromwich Albion 4-0 Brentford12/08/2003

VWest Bromwich Albion 4-1 Burnley16/08/2003

VWatford 0-1 West Bromwich Albion23/08/2003

Current form

Away

LBurnley 2-0 Preston North End08/04/2003

VBrighton & Hove 0-2 Preston North End12/04/2003

LReading 5-1 Preston North End15/04/2003

LWimbledon FC 2-0 Preston North End21/04/2003

LNorwich City 2-0 Preston North End04/05/2003

DWigan 1-1 Preston North End16/08/2003

Overall

VPreston North End 1-0 Bradford26/04/2003

LNorwich City 2-0 Preston North End04/05/2003

LPreston North End 1-2 West Ham09/08/2003

DPreston North End 0-0 Notts County12/08/2003

DWigan 1-1 Preston North End16/08/2003

LPreston North End 0-2 Sunderland23/08/2003

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	3
Unbeaten streak	3	3
Drawless streak	2	4
Scoring streak	3	6
Conceding streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	4	5
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	4	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

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

Goals

6	Goals scored (Competition total)	2
4	Goals scored (Home / Away)	1
5	Goals conceded (Competition total)	5
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	1
2	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.67
4	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
1.67	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.67
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

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

Bookings

4	Yellow cards (Competition total)	6
2	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	4
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Lee Hughes	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Eddie Lewis
Lee Hughes	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Ricardo Fuller
Lee Hughes	3 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Ricardo Fuller

Historical head to head

Home

50 matches

25 v

12 d

13 l

84 gf

62 ga

Away

49 matches

13 v

13 d

23 l

55 gf

86 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

2 ga

Total

100 matches

39 v

25 d

36 l

142 gf

150 ga

Historical head to head

Home

49 matches

23 v

13 d

13 l

86 gf

55 ga

Away

50 matches

13 v

12 d

25 l

62 gf

84 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

3 ga

Total

100 matches

36 v

25 d

39 l

150 gf

142 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	January 02, 1960
Home	4 - 0	January 02, 1960

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	February 26, 1895
Away	5 - 0	December 26, 1888

Latest head to head

February 26, 2002 - First Division 2001/2002

Preston NE

1 - 0

WBA

September 18, 2001 - First Division 2001/2002

WBA

2 - 0

Preston NE

May 06, 2001 - First Division 2000/2001

Preston NE

2 - 1

WBA

November 25, 2000 - First Division 2000/2001

WBA

3 - 1

Preston NE

March 24, 1993 - Second Division 1992/1993

WBA

3 - 2

Preston NE

Best historical scorers against Preston NE

Derek Kevan	4 goals	1959 - 1960
Alec Jackson	3 goals	1960 - 1961
Scott Dobie	2 goals	2001 - 2001
Ronald Allen	1 goal	1960 - 1960
Frank Griffin	1 goal	1959 - 1959
Derek Hogg	1 goal	1960 - 1960

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against WBA

Derek Mayers	2 goals	1958 - 1959
Peter Thompson	2 goals	1960 - 1961
Gordon Milne	1 goal	1959 - 1959
Dickson Etuhu	1 goal	2002 - 2002
Alex Alston	1 goal	1960 - 1960
Thomas Thompson	1 goal	1959 - 1959

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Preston NE

Derek Kevan	6 matches	1958 - 1961
Don Howe	6 matches	1958 - 1961
Bobby Robson	5 matches	1959 - 1961
David Burnside	5 matches	1958 - 1961
Joe Kennedy	4 matches	1959 - 1961
Ray Potter	4 matches	1959 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

Derek Mayers	6 matches	1958 - 1961
Fred Else	5 matches	1958 - 1961
Joe Walton	5 matches	1958 - 1960
David Sneddon	4 matches	1959 - 1961
Frank O'Farrell	4 matches	1958 - 1961
Jim Smith	4 matches	1959 - 1960