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Coventry 2-1 Chelsea - August 15, 1998 / Premier League 1998/1999

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Premier League 1998/1999 - Round 1

Highfield Road - Coventry - England

August 15, 1998

23 042

Coventry

2 - 1

Chelsea

Darren Huckerby

10'

Dion Dublin

16'

37'

Gustavo Poyet

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10' - Goal Darren Huckerby10

16' - Goal Dion Dublin16

37' - Goal Gustavo Poyet

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69' - Substitution Gianluca Vialliis substituted by Tore André Flo

70' - Substitution Noel Whelanis substituted by Marcus Hall70

76' - Substitution Roberto Di Matteois substituted by Gianfranco Zola

88' - Substitution George Boatengis substituted by Paul Hall88

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Coventry

2 - 1

Chelsea

Coventry Chelsea

Team line-ups

Coventry

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Huckerby10

Darren Huckerby

England

B.date23/04/1976

Age22 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Midfielder

Dublin16

Dion Dublin

England

B.date22/04/1969

Age29 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Whelan70

Noel Whelan

England

B.date30/12/1974

Age23 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Boateng88

George Boateng

Netherlands

B.date05/09/1975

Age22 years

H1m82

positionMidfield

Soltvedt

Trond-Egil Soltvedt

Norway

B.date15/02/1967

Age31 years

H1m86

positionMidfield

Telfer

Paul Telfer

Scotland

B.date21/10/1971

Age26 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Burrows

David Burrows

England

B.date25/10/1968

Age29 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Shaw

Richard Shaw

England

B.date11/09/1968

Age29 years

H1m76

positionCentral defender

Williams

Paul Williams

England

B.date26/03/1971

Age27 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Nilsson

Roland Nilsson

Sweden

B.date27/11/1963

Age34 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Hedman

Magnus Hedman

Sweden

B.date19/03/1973

Age25 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Magnus Hedman		25	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Richard Shaw		29	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Williams		27	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Burrows		29	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Roland Nilsson		34	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Telfer		26	120	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	George Boateng	88	22	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trond-Egil Soltvedt		31	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Darren Huckerby	10	22	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Noel Whelan	70	23	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dion Dublin	16	29	160	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Chelsea

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Casiraghi

Pierluigi Casiraghi

Italy

B.date04/03/1969

Age29 years

H1m82

positionStriker

Vialli69

Gianluca Vialli

Italy

B.date09/07/1964

Age34 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Poyet37

Gustavo Poyet

Uruguay

B.date15/11/1967

Age30 years

H1m87

positionPlaymaker

Di Matteo76

Roberto Di Matteo

Italy

B.date29/05/1970

Age28 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Babayaro

Celestine Babayaro

Nigeria

B.date29/08/1978

Age19 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Wise

Dennis Wise

England

B.date15/12/1966

Age31 years

H1m68

positionCentre Midfield

Le Saux

Graeme Le Saux

England

B.date17/10/1968

Age29 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Leboeuf

Frank Leboeuf

France

B.date22/01/1968

Age30 years

H1m84

positionSweeper

Desailly

Marcel Desailly

France

B.date07/09/1968

Age29 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Ferrer

Albert Ferrer

Spain

B.date06/06/1970

Age28 years

H1m70

positionRight full-back

de Goeij

Ed de Goeij

Netherlands

B.date20/12/1966

Age31 years

H1m97

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ed de Goeij		31	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank Leboeuf		30	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marcel Desailly		29	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Graeme Le Saux		29	125	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Celestine Babayaro		19	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Albert Ferrer		28	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roberto Di Matteo	76	28	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dennis Wise		31	294	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gustavo Poyet	37	30	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gianluca Vialli	69	34	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Pierluigi Casiraghi		29	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Marcus Hall	70	22	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Paul Hall	88	26	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Tore André Flo	69	25	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Gianfranco Zola	76	32	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paul Williams

Gary Breen

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Marcel Desailly

Steve Clarke

OUT

Pierluigi Casiraghi

Tore André Flo

OUT

Graeme Le Saux

Dan Petrescu

OUT

Celestine Babayaro

Danny Granville

OUT

Albert Ferrer

Michael Duberry

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Gordon Strachan

Success rate in this team:

35 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

35 %

Strachan vs Chelsea

3 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 15, 1998

Strachan vs Vialli

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on August 15, 1998

Manager

Age

Match num

Gianluca Vialli

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

57 %

Vialli vs Coventry

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 15, 1998

Vialli vs Strachan

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 15, 1998

Referee

Graham Barber

3 victories	3 draws	6 losses	Coventry12 matches	General total	Chelsea23 matches	12 victories	3 draws	8 losses
1 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Coventry2 matches	Season total	Chelsea4 matches	1 victory	2 draws	1 loss
Latest figure on March 15, 2003					Latest figure on March 27, 2004

Videos

March 11, 2015

Comments

Key figures

Chelsea keeps its 26 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 10/01/1998). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 11/02/1933 (25 matches)

Dion Dublin scored 6 goals vs Chelsea in Premier League

Only back at the time of Terry Butcher head of Coventry (14/11/1990-06/01/1992), you can see a maanger go beneath Gordon Strachan with 1.29 goals conceded per game in Premier League (1.22).

Read the next 16 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DCoventry 1-1 Sheffield United07/03/1998

VCoventry 1-0 Derby County28/03/1998

LCoventry 1-2 Aston Villa11/04/1998

DCoventry 1-1 Liverpool19/04/1998

DCoventry 0-0 Wimbledon FC29/04/1998

VCoventry 2-0 Blackburn02/05/1998

Overall

DTottenham 1-1 Coventry13/04/1998

DCoventry 1-1 Liverpool19/04/1998

DLeeds United 3-3 Coventry25/04/1998

DCoventry 0-0 Wimbledon FC29/04/1998

VCoventry 2-0 Blackburn02/05/1998

DEverton 1-1 Coventry10/05/1998

Current form

Away

VReal Betis 1-2 Chelsea05/03/1998

LWest Ham 2-1 Chelsea14/03/1998

LVicenza 1-0 Chelsea02/04/1998

VDerby County 0-1 Chelsea05/04/1998

LLeeds United 3-1 Chelsea08/04/1998

LNewcastle United 3-1 Chelsea02/05/1998

Overall

VChelsea 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday19/04/1998

VChelsea 4-1 Liverpool25/04/1998

LChelsea 0-1 Blackburn29/04/1998

LNewcastle United 3-1 Chelsea02/05/1998

VChelsea 2-0 Bolton Wanderers10/05/1998

VChelsea 1-0 Stuttgart13/05/1998

Running streaks

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

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	2
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	2
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	10	25
Scoring streak	3	3
Conceding streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	0	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

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Goals

No statistics here yet

Betting aid

No statistics here yet

Bookings

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Key players

No statistics here yet

Historical head to head

Home

25 matches

10 v

6 d

9 l

38 gf

37 ga

Away

24 matches

4 v

6 d

14 l

26 gf

41 ga

Total

49 matches

14 v

12 d

23 l

64 gf

78 ga

Historical head to head

Home

24 matches

14 v

6 d

4 l

41 gf

26 ga

Away

25 matches

9 v

6 d

10 l

37 gf

38 ga

Total

49 matches

23 v

12 d

14 l

78 gf

64 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	January 14, 1978
Home	5 - 1	January 14, 1978

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	November 03, 1984
Away	3 - 0	February 28, 1970

Latest head to head

January 10, 1998 - Premier League 1997/1998

Chelsea

3 - 1

Coventry

August 09, 1997 - Premier League 1997/1998

Coventry

3 - 2

Chelsea

April 09, 1997 - Premier League 1996/1997

Coventry

3 - 1

Chelsea

August 24, 1996 - Premier League 1996/1997

Chelsea

2 - 0

Coventry

February 10, 1996 - Premier League 1995/1996

Coventry

1 - 0

Chelsea

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Dion Dublin	5 goals	1994 - 1997
Ian Wallace	4 goals	1977 - 1979
Mick Coop	3 goals	1974 - 1978
Ferguson Michael	3 goals	1978 - 1979
Peter Ndlovu	3 goals	1994 - 1995
David Cross	2 goals	1974 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Coventry

Peter Osgood	5 goals	1968 - 1973
Kerry Dixon	5 goals	1984 - 1990
Kevin Wilson	3 goals	1988 - 1989
John Spencer	3 goals	1993 - 1995
John Hollins	3 goals	1970 - 1973
Charlie Cooke	3 goals	1969 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Steve Ogrizovic	22 matches	1984 - 1997
Brian Borrows	18 matches	1985 - 1997
Billy Glazier	14 matches	1967 - 1974
Mick Coop	14 matches	1968 - 1979
Willie Carr	13 matches	1968 - 1974
Cyrille Regis	11 matches	1984 - 1991

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Coventry

Ron Harris	20 matches	1967 - 1979
Peter Bonetti	18 matches	1967 - 1979
Steve Clarke	18 matches	1987 - 1998
John Hollins	16 matches	1967 - 1974
Kerry Dixon	14 matches	1984 - 1992
David Webb	12 matches	1968 - 1974