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Nottingham 2-4 Doncaster Rovers - December 26, 2008 / Championship 2008/2009

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Championship 2008/2009 - Round 25

Nottingham City Ground - Nottingham - England

December 26, 2008

26 501

Nottingham

2 - 4

Doncaster Rovers

(o.g) Sam Hird

68'

Assist by Chris Cohen (right foot) Joe Garner

85'

12'

Paul Heffernan (header) Assist by Martin Woods

33'

Martin Woods (left foot) Assist by Richie Wellens

45'

Richie Wellens (free kick)

65'

Paul Heffernan (header)

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12' - Goal Paul Heffernan

25' - Substitution Kelvin Wilsonis substituted by Arron Davies25

33' - Goal Martin Woods

45' - Goal Richie Wellens

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46' - Substitution Joel Lynchis substituted by Julian Bennett photo Nathan Tyson

46' - Substitution Paul Andersonis substituted by Nathan Tyson46

65' - Goal Paul Heffernan

68' - Own goal Sam Hird68

69' - Substitution James Chambersis substituted by Gareth Roberts photo Mark Wilson

69' - Substitution Brian Stockis substituted by Mark Wilson

75' - Substitution Lewis Guyis substituted by James Coppinger

85' - Goal Joe Garner85

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Nottingham

2 - 4

Doncaster Rovers

Nottingham Doncaster Rovers

Team line-ups

Nottingham

Camp

Lee Camp

Northern Ireland

B.date22/08/1984

Age24 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Wilson25

Kelvin Wilson

England

B.date03/09/1985

Age23 years

H1m86

positionLeft central defender

Lynch46

Joel Lynch

Wales

B.date03/10/1987

Age21 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

Moloney

Brendan Moloney

Republic of Ireland

B.date18/01/1989

Age19 years

H1m86

positionRight central defender

Morgan

Wes Morgan

Jamaica

B.date21/01/1984

Age24 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Perch

James Perch

England

B.date28/09/1985

Age23 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

Cohen

Chris Cohen

England

B.date05/03/1987

Age21 years

H1m78

positionLeft central midfielder

Anderson46

Paul Anderson

England

B.date23/07/1988

Age20 years

H1m71

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

McGugan

Lewis McGugan

England

B.date25/10/1988

Age20 years

H1m75

positionPlaymaker

Garner85

Joe Garner

England

B.date12/04/1988

Age20 years

H1m78

positionStriker

Earnshaw

Robert Earnshaw

Wales

B.date06/04/1981

Age27 years

H1m73

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Lee Camp		24	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kelvin Wilson	25	23	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joel Lynch	46	21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brendan Moloney		19	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Wes Morgan		24	255	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	James Perch		23	182	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Chris Cohen		21	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Anderson	46	20	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Lewis McGugan		20	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Joe Garner	85	20	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Robert Earnshaw		27	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

22 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Doncaster Rovers

Sullivan

Neil Sullivan

Scotland

B.date24/02/1970

Age38 years

H1m89

positionGoalkeeper

Chambers69

James Chambers

England

B.date20/11/1980

Age28 years

H1m78

positionCentral defender

Mills

Matthew Mills

England

B.date14/07/1986

Age22 years

H1m91

positionRight central defender

Hird68

Sam Hird

England

B.date07/09/1987

Age21 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

O'Connor

James O'Connor

England

B.date20/11/1984

Age24 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Stock69

Brian Stock

Wales

B.date24/12/1981

Age27 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Spicer

John Spicer

England

B.date13/09/1983

Age25 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Wellens45

Richie Wellens

England

B.date26/03/1980

Age28 years

H1m76

positionLeft central midfielder

Woods33

Martin Woods

Scotland

B.date01/01/1986

Age22 years

H1m75

positionLeft Midfielder

Guy75

Lewis Guy

England

B.date27/08/1985

Age23 years

H1m78

positionCentre forward

Heffernan6512

Paul Heffernan

Republic of Ireland

B.date29/12/1981

Age26 years

H1m78

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Neil Sullivan		38	98	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	James Chambers	69	28	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Matthew Mills		22	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sam Hird	68	21	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	James O'Connor		24	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Stock	69	27	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Spicer		25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Richie Wellens	45	28	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Martin Woods	33	22	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Lewis Guy	75	23	163	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Heffernan	6512	26	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Julian Bennett	46	24	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Arron Davies	25	24	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nathan Tyson	46	26	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Gareth Roberts	69	30	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark Wilson	69	29	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	James Coppinger	75	27	194	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

James Perch

Arron Davies

OUT

Lewis McGugan

Matt Thornhill

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Matthew Mills

Adam Lockwood

OUT

Martin Woods

Jos van Nieuwstadt

OUT

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Manager

Age

Match num

Sean O'Driscoll

134

Success rate in this team:

41 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

O'Driscoll vs Nottingham

4 victories

4 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 2008

Referee

Philip Dowd

1 victory	4 draws	4 losses	Nottingham9 matches	General total	Doncaster Rovers4 matches	2 victories	1 draw	1 loss
0 victory	1 draw	1 loss	Nottingham2 matches	Season total	Doncaster Rovers2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on May 08, 2010					Latest figure on December 26, 2008

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Key figures

It's the first time in his career that Sam Hird scores an own goal %comp with

The last time Doncaster Rovers has scored at least 4 goals in Championship, It was on the 19/04/1958 (vs )

End of streak for Doncaster Rovers after 12 consecutive matches without a win away from home (since 12/08/2008). It was the best streak for the club since 12/04/1997-07/02/1998 (19 matches).

Read the next 23 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LNottingham Forest 0-1 Cardiff City25/10/2008

DNottingham Forest 1-1 Birmingham City08/11/2008

LNottingham Forest 1-2 Norwich City22/11/2008

VNottingham Forest 1-0 Barnsley29/11/2008

LNottingham Forest 0-1 Sheffield United09/12/2008

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Blackpool13/12/2008

Overall

DDoncaster Rovers 0-0 Nottingham Forest25/11/2008

VNottingham Forest 1-0 Barnsley29/11/2008

DCoventry 2-2 Nottingham Forest06/12/2008

LNottingham Forest 0-1 Sheffield United09/12/2008

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Blackpool13/12/2008

VSouthampton 0-2 Nottingham Forest20/12/2008

Current form

Away

LNorwich City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers25/10/2008

LSheffield Wednesday 1-0 Doncaster Rovers08/11/2008

DBurnley 0-0 Doncaster Rovers22/11/2008

DWatford 1-1 Doncaster Rovers29/11/2008

LPreston North End 1-0 Doncaster Rovers09/12/2008

LCrystal Palace 2-1 Doncaster Rovers13/12/2008

Overall

DDoncaster Rovers 0-0 Nottingham Forest25/11/2008

DWatford 1-1 Doncaster Rovers29/11/2008

VDoncaster Rovers 1-0 Plymouth06/12/2008

LPreston North End 1-0 Doncaster Rovers09/12/2008

LCrystal Palace 2-1 Doncaster Rovers13/12/2008

LDoncaster Rovers 0-1 Wolverhampton20/12/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	2	3
Winless streak	12	3
Drawless streak	2	4
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	3	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

24	Number of games (Competition total)	24
12	Number of games (Home / Away)	12
4	Victories (Competition total)	4
2	Victories (Home / Away)	1
9	Draws (Competition total)	6
5	Draws (Home / Away)	2
11	Losses (Competition total)	14
5	Losses (Home / Away)	9

Goals

21	Goals scored (Competition total)	11
8	Goals scored (Home / Away)	7
32	Goals conceded (Competition total)	28
12	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	20
0.88	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.46
0.67	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.58
1.33	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.17
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.67

Betting aid

10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	5
3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	5
6	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
9	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	13
6	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	5
13	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	7
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
0-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (3 times)

Bookings

32	Yellow cards (Competition total)	32
14	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	18
3	Red cards (Competition total)	1
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Joe Garner	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Brian Stock
Robert Earnshaw	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Brian Stock
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Brian Stock
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	2 penalties	Brian Stock
Chris Cohen	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Matthew Mills
Robert Earnshaw	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	2 assists	James Coppinger
Joe Garner	4 goals, 1 assist during the last 8 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 4 matches	Brian Stock

Historical head to head

Home

13 matches

8 v

4 d

1 l

33 gf

14 ga

Away

17 matches

9 v

3 d

5 l

27 gf

13 ga

Total

30 matches

17 v

7 d

6 l

60 gf

27 ga

Historical head to head

Home

17 matches

5 v

3 d

9 l

13 gf

27 ga

Away

13 matches

1 v

4 d

8 l

14 gf

33 ga

Total

30 matches

6 v

7 d

17 l

27 gf

60 ga

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	August 11, 1997
Home	5 - 0	September 17, 1955

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	January 07, 1956
Away	1 - 0	March 06, 2007

Latest head to head

November 25, 2008 - Championship 2008/2009

Doncaster Rovers

0 - 0

Nottingham

March 28, 2008 - League One 2007/2008

Doncaster Rovers

1 - 0

Nottingham

October 20, 2007 - League One 2007/2008

Nottingham

0 - 0

Doncaster Rovers logo Doncaster Rovers

March 06, 2007 - League One 2006/2007

Nottingham

0 - 1

Doncaster Rovers logo Doncaster Rovers

December 23, 2006 - League One 2006/2007

Doncaster Rovers

1 - 0

Nottingham

Best historical scorers against Doncaster Rovers

Pierre van Hooijdonk	3 goals	1997 - 1997
Jon-Olav Hjelde	2 goals	1997 - 1997
Dean Saunders	2 goals	1997 - 1997
Gareth Taylor	1 goal	2005 - 2005
Kris Commons	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Steve Guinan	1 goal	1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 11/08/1997. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Nottingham

Theo Streete	1 goal	2006 - 2006
James Coppinger	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Gareth Roberts	1 goal	2008 - 2008
Brian Stock	1 goal	2007 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 11/08/1997. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Doncaster Rovers

Nathan Tyson	7 matches	2005 - 2008
Ian Breckin	6 matches	2005 - 2008
Wes Morgan	6 matches	2004 - 2008
Kris Commons	6 matches	2004 - 2007
James Perch	6 matches	2004 - 2008
Sammy Clingan	4 matches	2006 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 11/08/1997. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Nottingham

James Coppinger	8 matches	2004 - 2008
Paul Green	6 matches	2004 - 2008
Lewis Guy	5 matches	2005 - 2008
Brian Stock	5 matches	2006 - 2008
Neil Sullivan	4 matches	2007 - 2008
Adam Lockwood	4 matches	2006 - 2008