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Middlesbrough 0-5 Chelsea - October 18, 2008 / Premier League 2008/2009

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Premier League 2008/2009 - Round 8

Riverside Stadium - Middlesbrough - England

October 18, 2008

29 221

0 - 5

Chelsea

14'

Salomon Kalou (right foot)

51'

Juliano Belletti (right foot)

54'

Salomon Kalou (right foot)

63'

Frank Lampard (header)

67'

Florent Malouda

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14' - Goal Salomon Kalou

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51' - Goal Juliano Belletti

54' - Substitution Jonathan Groundsis substituted by John Johnson54

54' - Goal Salomon Kalou

63' - Goal Frank Lampard

65' - Substitution Mohamed Shawkyis substituted by Didier Digard photo Afonso Alves

65' - Substitution Adam Johnsonis substituted by Afonso Alves65

65' - Substitution Wayne Bridgeis substituted by Paulo Ferreira

67' - Goal Florent Malouda

73' - Substitution Frank Lampardis substituted by Deco

79' - Substitution Nicolas Anelkais substituted by Scott Sinclair

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Middlesbrough

0 - 5

Chelsea

Middlesbrough Chelsea

Team line-ups

Middlesbrough

Turnbull

Ross Turnbull

England

B.date04/01/1985

Age23 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Riggott

Chris Riggott

England

B.date01/09/1980

Age28 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Wheater

David Wheater

England

B.date14/02/1987

Age21 years

H1m96

positionLeft central defender

Grounds54

Jonathan Grounds

England

B.date02/02/1988

Age20 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

Taylor

Andrew Taylor

England

B.date01/08/1986

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Shawky65

Mohamed Shawky

Egypt

B.date05/10/1981

Age27 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

O'Neil

Gary O'Neil

England

B.date18/05/1983

Age25 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Johnson65

Adam Johnson

England

B.date14/07/1987

Age21 years

H1m75

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Downing

Stewart Downing

England

B.date22/07/1984

Age24 years

H1m81

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Mido

Egypt

B.date23/02/1983

Age25 years

H1m90

positionStriker

Aliadière

Jérémie Aliadière

France

B.date30/03/1983

Age25 years

H1m81

positionCentre forward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ross Turnbull		23	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Riggott		28	126	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Wheater		21	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jonathan Grounds	54	20	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andrew Taylor		22	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mohamed Shawky	65	27	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary O'Neil		25	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Adam Johnson	65	21	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stewart Downing		24	200	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mido		25	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jérémie Aliadière		25	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Chelsea

Cudicini

Carlo Cudicini

Italy

B.date06/09/1973

Age35 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Terry

John Terry

England

B.date07/12/1980

Age27 years

H1m87

positionLeft central defender

Alex

Brazil

B.date17/06/1982

Age26 years

H1m88

positionRight central defender

Bridge65

Wayne Bridge

England

B.date05/08/1980

Age28 years

H1m79

positionLeft full-back

Belletti51

Juliano Belletti

Brazil

B.date20/06/1976

Age32 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

Bosingwa

José Bosingwa

Portugal

B.date24/08/1982

Age26 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Obi Mikel

John Obi Mikel

Nigeria

B.date22/04/1987

Age21 years

H1m88

positionDefensive Midfielder

Lampard6373

Frank Lampard

England

B.date20/06/1978

Age30 years

H1m84

positionCentre Midfield

Anelka79

Nicolas Anelka

France

B.date14/03/1979

Age29 years

H1m85

positionStriker

Malouda67

Florent Malouda

France

B.date13/06/1980

Age28 years

H1m81

positionLeft Winger

Kalou1454

Salomon Kalou

Ivory Coast

B.date05/08/1985

Age23 years

H1m84

positionLeft Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Carlo Cudicini		35	213	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Terry		27	365	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alex		26	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Wayne Bridge	65	28	134	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Juliano Belletti	51	32	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	José Bosingwa		26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Obi Mikel		21	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Frank Lampard	6373	30	380	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nicolas Anelka	79	29	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Florent Malouda	67	28	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Salomon Kalou	1454	23	115	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

135

			Age	Match num	Note
D	John Johnson	54	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Didier Digard	65	22	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Afonso Alves	77	27	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Paulo Ferreira	65	29	143	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Deco	73	31	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Scott Sinclair	79	19	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Andrew Taylor

Justin Hoyte

OUT

Adam Johnson

Afonso Alves

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Carlo Cudicini

Petr Cech

OUT

Wayne Bridge

Ashley Cole

OUT

Juliano Belletti

Branislav Ivanovic

OUT

Alex

Joe Cole

OUT

Salomon Kalou

Michael Ballack

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Gareth Southgate

102

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

30 %

Southgate vs Chelsea

1 victory

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on October 18, 2008

Southgate vs Scolari

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on October 18, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Luiz Felipe Scolari

Success rate in this team:

73 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Scolari vs Middlesbrough

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 18, 2008

Scolari vs Southgate

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 18, 2008

Referee

Philip Dowd

6 victories	7 draws	7 losses	Middlesbrough20 matches	General total	Chelsea41 matches	26 victories	7 draws	8 losses
0 victory	1 draw	1 loss	Middlesbrough2 matches	Season total	Chelsea5 matches	3 victories	2 draws	0 loss
Latest figure on January 24, 2015					Latest figure on January 01, 2015

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Key figures

Stewart Downing played his game number 200 in his professional career with

It's the first time Juliano Belletti scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

Chelsea keeps its 29 consecutive matches without a loss in Premier League running (since 23/12/2007). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 23/10/2004-29/10/2005 time period (40 matches).

Read the next 24 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VMiddlesbrough 2-0 Portsmouth03/05/2008

VMiddlesbrough 8-1 Manchester City11/05/2008

VMiddlesbrough 2-1 Tottenham16/08/2008

VMiddlesbrough 5-1 Yeovil26/08/2008

VMiddlesbrough 2-1 Stoke City30/08/2008

LMiddlesbrough 0-1 West Bromwich Albion27/09/2008

Overall

VMiddlesbrough 2-1 Stoke City30/08/2008

LPortsmouth 2-1 Middlesbrough13/09/2008

LSunderland 2-0 Middlesbrough20/09/2008

LManchester United 3-1 Middlesbrough23/09/2008

LMiddlesbrough 0-1 West Bromwich Albion27/09/2008

VWigan 0-1 Middlesbrough04/10/2008

Current form

Away

VNewcastle United 0-2 Chelsea05/05/2008

VWigan 0-1 Chelsea24/08/2008

VManchester City 1-3 Chelsea13/09/2008

VPortsmouth 0-4 Chelsea24/09/2008

VStoke City 0-2 Chelsea27/09/2008

DCFR Cluj-Napoca 0-0 Chelsea01/10/2008

Overall

VChelsea 4-0 Bordeaux16/09/2008

DChelsea 1-1 Manchester United21/09/2008

VPortsmouth 0-4 Chelsea24/09/2008

VStoke City 0-2 Chelsea27/09/2008

DCFR Cluj-Napoca 0-0 Chelsea01/10/2008

VChelsea 2-0 Aston Villa05/10/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	7	13
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	5	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	9	20
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	3	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

143	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	1
12	FBDB index ranking (National)	1

Results

7	Number of games (Competition total)	7
3	Number of games (Home / Away)	3
3	Victories (Competition total)	5
2	Victories (Home / Away)	3
0	Draws (Competition total)	2
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
4	Losses (Competition total)	0
1	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

7	Goals scored (Competition total)	14
4	Goals scored (Home / Away)	6
9	Goals conceded (Competition total)	3
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	1
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2
1.33	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2
1.29	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.43
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.33

Betting aid

4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	4
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
4	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3
2	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
2-1 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-0 (1 times)

Bookings

9	Yellow cards (Competition total)	8
4	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	4
0	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Mido	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Nicolas Anelka
Mido	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Nicolas Anelka
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Frank Lampard
Jérémie Aliadière	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	4 goals during the last 7 matches	Nicolas Anelka

Historical head to head

Home

52 matches

24 v

16 d

12 l

83 gf

56 ga

Away

54 matches

5 v

13 d

36 l

39 gf

102 ga

Neutral ground

5 matches

2 v

0 d

3 l

4 gf

6 ga

Total

111 matches

31 v

29 d

51 l

126 gf

164 ga

Historical head to head

Home

54 matches

36 v

13 d

5 l

102 gf

39 ga

Away

52 matches

12 v

16 d

24 l

56 gf

83 ga

Neutral ground

5 matches

3 v

0 d

2 l

6 gf

4 ga

Total

111 matches

51 v

29 d

31 l

164 gf

126 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 2	December 16, 1978
Home	7 - 2	December 16, 1978

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	February 04, 1996
Away	3 - 0	April 19, 1913

Latest head to head

March 30, 2008 - Premier League 2007/2008

Chelsea

1 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

October 20, 2007 - Premier League 2007/2008

Middlesbrough

0 - 2

Chelsea

February 10, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Chelsea

3 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

August 23, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Middlesbrough

2 - 1

Chelsea

February 11, 2006 - Premier League 2005/2006

Middlesbrough

3 - 0

Chelsea

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Micky Burns	4 goals	1978 - 1978
David Armstrong	2 goals	1978 - 1979
David Shearer	2 goals	1978 - 1978
Szilard Nemeth	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Tommy Wright	1 goal	1993 - 1993
Craig Hignett	1 goal	1995 - 1995

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Didier Drogba	6 goals	2004 - 2007
Roberto Di Matteo	3 goals	1996 - 1998
Gavin Peacock	3 goals	1996 - 1996
John Terry	2 goals	2002 - 2005
John Spencer	2 goals	1993 - 1996
Ian Hutchinson	2 goals	1970 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Mark Schwarzer	22 matches	1997 - 2008
Colin Cooper	15 matches	1988 - 2005
Robbie Mustoe	13 matches	1993 - 2002
George Boateng	11 matches	2002 - 2008
Steve Vickers	10 matches	1995 - 2001
Stewart Downing	10 matches	2002 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

John Terry	16 matches	2000 - 2008
Frank Lampard	14 matches	2001 - 2007
Gianfranco Zola	13 matches	1997 - 2002
Eidur Gudjohnsen	11 matches	2000 - 2006
Dennis Wise	11 matches	1992 - 2001
Marcel Desailly	11 matches	1998 - 2004