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Leicester 1-0 Coventry - April 24, 1999 / Premier League 1998/1999

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Premier League 1998/1999 - Round 35

Filbert Street - Leicester - England

April 24, 1999

20 224

Leicester

1 - 0

Coventry

Ian Marshall

45'

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45' - Goal Ian Marshall45

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46' - Substitution Paul Telferis substituted by Marcus Hall

60' - Substitution John Aloisiis substituted by Stefano Gioacchini

69' - Substitution Tony Cotteeis substituted by Stuart Campbell69

74' - Substitution Philippe Clémentis substituted by Trond-Egil Soltvedt

87' - Substitution Ian Marshallis substituted by Graham Fenton87

89' - Substitution Neil Lennonis substituted by Arnar Gunnlaugsson89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Leicester

1 - 0

Coventry

Leicester Coventry

Team line-ups

Leicester

Keller

Kasey Keller

United States

B.date29/11/1969

Age29 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Sinclair

Frank Sinclair

Jamaica

B.date03/12/1971

Age27 years

H1m73

positionRight central defender

Elliott

Matt Elliott

Scotland

B.date01/11/1968

Age30 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Kaamark

Pontus Kaamark

Sweden

B.date05/04/1969

Age30 years

positionRight full-back

Impey

Andy Impey

England

B.date30/09/1971

Age27 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

Guppy

Steve Guppy

England

B.date29/03/1969

Age30 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

Lennon89

Neil Lennon

Northern Ireland

B.date25/06/1971

Age27 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

Savage

Robbie Savage

Wales

B.date18/10/1974

Age24 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

Marshall4587

Ian Marshall

England

B.date20/03/1966

Age33 years

H1m86

positionForward

Cottee69

Tony Cottee

England

B.date11/07/1965

Age33 years

H1m70

positionStriker

Heskey

Emile Heskey

England

B.date11/01/1978

Age21 years

H1m88

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Kasey Keller		29	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank Sinclair		27	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Matt Elliott		30	103	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pontus Kaamark		30	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andy Impey		27	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Guppy		30	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Neil Lennon	89	27	131	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Robbie Savage		24	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ian Marshall	4587	33	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tony Cottee	69	33	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Emile Heskey		21	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Coventry

Hedman

Magnus Hedman

Sweden

B.date19/03/1973

Age26 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Clément74

Philippe Clément

Belgium

B.date22/03/1974

Age25 years

H1m91

positionLeft central defender

Breen

Gary Breen

Republic of Ireland

B.date12/12/1973

Age25 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Shaw

Richard Shaw

England

B.date11/09/1968

Age30 years

H1m76

positionCentral defender

Williams

Paul Williams

England

B.date26/03/1971

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Quinn

Barry Quinn

Republic of Ireland

B.date09/05/1979

Age19 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Telfer46

Paul Telfer

Scotland

B.date21/10/1971

Age27 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Burrows

David Burrows

England

B.date25/10/1968

Age30 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Huckerby

Darren Huckerby

England

B.date23/04/1976

Age23 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Midfielder

Boateng

George Boateng

Netherlands

B.date05/09/1975

Age23 years

H1m82

positionMidfield

Aloisi60

John Aloisi

Australia

B.date05/02/1976

Age23 years

H1m84

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Magnus Hedman		26	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Philippe Clément	74	25	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Breen		25	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Richard Shaw		30	146	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Williams		28	124	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Barry Quinn		19	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Telfer	46	27	153	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Burrows		30	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Darren Huckerby		23	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	George Boateng		23	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Aloisi	60	23	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Stuart Campbell	69	21	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Arnar Gunnlaugsson	89	26	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Graham Fenton	87	24	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Marcus Hall	46	23	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trond-Egil Soltvedt	74	32	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stefano Gioacchini	60	22	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Emile Heskey

Arnar Gunnlaugsson

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Philippe Clément

Gary McAllister

OUT

Barry Quinn

Noel Whelan

OUT

Paul Telfer

Trond-Egil Soltvedt

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Martin O'Neill

167

Success rate in this team:

38 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

O'Neill vs Coventry

3 victories

3 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on April 24, 1999

O'Neill vs Strachan

2 victories

3 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 24, 1999

Manager

Age

Match num

Gordon Strachan

119

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

34 %

Strachan vs Leicester

2 victories

3 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 24, 1999

Strachan vs O'Neill

2 victories

3 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 24, 1999

Referee

Graham Barber

8 victories	8 draws	3 losses	Leicester19 matches	General total	Coventry12 matches	3 victories	3 draws	6 losses
2 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Leicester3 matches	Season total	Coventry2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on November 22, 2003					Latest figure on March 15, 2003

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Key figures

No Coventry manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Martin O'Neill has reached 34% of clean sheets in Premier League.

Leicester keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a loss vs Coventry in Premier League running (since 08/03/1997). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 12/03/1977 (3 matches)

Coventry keeps its 7 consecutive matches without a draw away from home running (since 13/02/1999).

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LLeicester 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday06/02/1999

DLeicester 1-1 Sunderland17/02/1999

LLeicester 1-2 Leeds United01/03/1999

DLeicester 1-1 Charlton13/03/1999

DLeicester 2-2 Aston Villa06/04/1999

DLeicester 0-0 West Ham10/04/1999

Overall

LLeicester 0-1 Tottenham21/03/1999

VTottenham 0-2 Leicester03/04/1999

DLeicester 2-2 Aston Villa06/04/1999

DLeicester 0-0 West Ham10/04/1999

DChelsea 2-2 Leicester18/04/1999

VLiverpool 0-1 Leicester21/04/1999

Current form

Away

LEverton 2-1 Coventry13/02/1999

LNewcastle United 4-1 Coventry17/02/1999

VAston Villa 1-4 Coventry27/02/1999

LArsenal 2-0 Coventry20/03/1999

VSheffield Wednesday 1-2 Coventry03/04/1999

LEverton 2-0 Coventry11/04/1999

Overall

DCoventry 1-1 Blackburn13/03/1999

LArsenal 2-0 Coventry20/03/1999

VSheffield Wednesday 1-2 Coventry03/04/1999

VCoventry 1-0 Southampton05/04/1999

LEverton 2-0 Coventry11/04/1999

LCoventry 1-2 Middlesbrough17/04/1999

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	3	0
Unbeaten streak	3	5
Winless streak	8	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	2
Goalless streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	1	2
Drawless streak	6	5
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	6	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

33	Number of games (Competition total)	34
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	17
10	Victories (Competition total)	10
5	Victories (Home / Away)	3
13	Draws (Competition total)	7
6	Draws (Home / Away)	2
10	Losses (Competition total)	17
5	Losses (Home / Away)	12

Goals

35	Goals scored (Competition total)	35
21	Goals scored (Home / Away)	13
41	Goals conceded (Competition total)	47
23	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	29
1.06	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.03
1.31	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.76
1.24	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.38
1.44	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.71

Betting aid

10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
12	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
10	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	12
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	9
15	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	18
10	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
1-1 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-2 (7 times)

Bookings

48	Yellow cards (Competition total)	68
19	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	35
1	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Tony Cottee	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	9 goals	Noel Whelan
Emile Heskey	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Noel Whelan
Matt Elliott	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Matt Elliott	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Ian Marshall	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 4 matches	Gary McAllister

Historical head to head

Home

32 matches

14 v

10 d

8 l

45 gf

34 ga

Away

33 matches

12 v

7 d

14 l

48 gf

48 ga

Total

65 matches

26 v

17 d

22 l

93 gf

82 ga

Historical head to head

Home

33 matches

14 v

7 d

12 l

48 gf

48 ga

Away

32 matches

8 v

10 d

14 l

34 gf

45 ga

Total

65 matches

22 v

17 d

26 l

82 gf

93 ga

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 1	December 01, 1964
Home	5 - 1	December 23, 1984

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	January 23, 1999
Away	3 - 0	January 23, 1999

Latest head to head

January 23, 1999 - FA Cup 1998/1999

Leicester

0 - 3

Coventry

November 28, 1998 - Premier League 1998/1999

Coventry

1 - 1

Leicester

April 04, 1998 - Premier League 1997/1998

Leicester

1 - 1

Coventry

November 29, 1997 - Premier League 1997/1998

Coventry

0 - 2

Leicester

March 08, 1997 - Premier League 1996/1997

Coventry

0 - 0

Leicester

Best historical scorers against Coventry

Gary Lineker	5 goals	1980 - 1984
Frank Worthington	5 goals	1973 - 1977
Iwan Roberts	3 goals	1994 - 1995
Keith Weller	2 goals	1973 - 1976
Leonard Glover	2 goals	1972 - 1973
Alan Smith	2 goals	1984 - 1986

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/04/1968. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Leicester

Thomas English	4 goals	1980 - 1981
Ferguson Michael	3 goals	1975 - 1977
Dion Dublin	3 goals	1994 - 1996
David Cross	2 goals	1975 - 1975
Sean Flynn	2 goals	1995 - 1995
Cyrille Regis	2 goals	1985 - 1986

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/04/1968. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Coventry

Stephen Whitworth	14 matches	1971 - 1978
Keith Weller	14 matches	1971 - 1978
Mark Wallington	12 matches	1975 - 1984
Dennis Rofe	12 matches	1972 - 1978
Jon Sammels	11 matches	1971 - 1977
Peter Shilton	11 matches	1967 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/12/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Leicester

Mick Coop	13 matches	1967 - 1980
Steve Ogrizovic	12 matches	1984 - 1998
Tommy Hutchison	11 matches	1973 - 1978
Billy Glazier	10 matches	1967 - 1973
Dave Bennett	8 matches	1983 - 1987
Chris Cattlin	8 matches	1968 - 1976