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Chelsea 3-1 West Ham - December 21, 1996 / Premier League 1996/1997

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Premier League 1996/1997 - Round 18

Stamford Bridge - London - England

December 21, 1996

28 315

Chelsea

3 - 1

West Ham

Mark Hughes

Gianfranco Zola

10'

Mark Hughes

35'

11'

Hugo Porfirio

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6' - Goal Mark Hughes6

10' - Goal Gianfranco Zola10

11' - Goal Hugo Porfirio

35' - Goal Mark Hughes35

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46' - Substitution Keith Rowlandis substituted by Florin Raducioiu

58' - Substitution Neil Clementis substituted by Andy Myers58

78' - Substitution John Moncuris substituted by Danny Williamson

83' - Substitution Craig Burleyis substituted by Frank Sinclair83

83' - Substitution Ian Bishopis substituted by Frank Lampard

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Chelsea

3 - 1

West Ham

Chelsea West Ham

Team line-ups

Chelsea

Grodas

Frode Grodas

Norway

B.date24/10/1964

Age32 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Clement58

Neil Clement

England

B.date03/10/1978

Age18 years

H1m86

positionLeft central defender

Duberry

Michael Duberry

England

B.date14/10/1975

Age21 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Clarke

Steve Clarke

Scotland

B.date29/08/1963

Age33 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Petrescu

Dan Petrescu

Romania

B.date22/12/1967

Age28 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Burley83

Craig Burley

Scotland

B.date24/09/1971

Age25 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Newton

Eddie Newton

England

B.date13/12/1971

Age25 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Di Matteo

Roberto Di Matteo

Italy

B.date29/05/1970

Age26 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Gullit

Ruud Gullit

Netherlands

B.date01/09/1962

Age34 years

H1m86

positionOffensive Midfielder

Hughes356

Mark Hughes

Wales

B.date01/11/1963

Age33 years

H1m75

positionStriker

Zola10

Gianfranco Zola

Italy

B.date05/07/1966

Age30 years

H1m68

positionSecond striker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Frode Grodas		32	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Neil Clement	58	18	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Duberry		21	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Clarke		33	292	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dan Petrescu		28	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Craig Burley	83	25	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Eddie Newton		25	157	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roberto Di Matteo		26	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ruud Gullit		34	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mark Hughes	356	33	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gianfranco Zola	10	30	6	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

West Ham

Miklosko

Ludek Miklosko

Czech Republic

B.date09/12/1961

Age35 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Rieper

Marc Rieper

Denmark

B.date05/06/1968

Age28 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Bilic

Slaven Bilic

Croatia

B.date11/09/1968

Age28 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Rowland46

Keith Rowland

Northern Ireland

B.date01/09/1971

Age25 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Bowen

Mark Bowen

Wales

B.date07/12/1963

Age33 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Dicks

Julian Dicks

England

B.date08/08/1968

Age28 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

Bishop83

Ian Bishop

England

B.date29/05/1965

Age31 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

Hughes

Michael Hughes

Northern Ireland

B.date02/08/1971

Age25 years

H1m70

positionCentre Midfield

Moncur78

John Moncur

England

B.date22/09/1966

Age30 years

H1m70

positionOffensive Midfielder

Newell

Mike Newell

England

B.date27/01/1965

Age31 years

H1m86

positionStriker

Porfirio11

Hugo Porfirio

Portugal

B.date28/09/1973

Age23 years

H1m70

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ludek Miklosko		35	201	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marc Rieper		28	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Slaven Bilic		28	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Keith Rowland	46	25	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Bowen		33	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Julian Dicks		28	174	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ian Bishop	83	31	183	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael Hughes		25	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Moncur	78	30	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mike Newell		31	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Hugo Porfirio	11	23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Frank Sinclair	83	25	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Andy Myers	58	23	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Frank Lampard	83	18	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Danny Williamson	78	23	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Florin Raducioiu	46	26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Neil Clement

Frank Sinclair

OUT

Roberto Di Matteo

Dennis Wise

OUT

Dan Petrescu

Scott Minto

OUT

Mark Hughes

Andy Myers

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mike Newell

Ilie Dumitrescu

OUT

Keith Rowland

Iain Dowie

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ruud Gullit

Success rate in this team:

38 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Gullit vs West Ham

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 21, 1996

Gullit vs Redknapp

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 21, 1996

Manager

Age

Match num

Harry Redknapp

115

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Redknapp vs Chelsea

4 victories

0 draw

5 losses

Latest figure on December 21, 1996

Redknapp vs Gullit

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 21, 1996

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Key figures

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Harry Redknapp has done less than 1.28 goals conceded per game in Premier League.

Chelsea keeps its 16 matches with at least one goal conceded running (since 15/09/1996). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 24/02/1991-31/08/1991 time period (19 matches).

Mark Hughes scored 7 goals vs in his professional career

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LChelsea 1-3 Blackpool25/09/1996

DChelsea 1-1 Nottingham Forest28/09/1996

LChelsea 2-4 Wimbledon FC19/10/1996

VChelsea 3-1 Tottenham26/10/1996

DChelsea 1-1 Newcastle United23/11/1996

DChelsea 2-2 Everton07/12/1996

Overall

VManchester United 1-2 Chelsea02/11/1996

DBlackburn 1-1 Chelsea16/11/1996

DChelsea 1-1 Newcastle United23/11/1996

LLeeds United 2-0 Chelsea01/12/1996

DChelsea 2-2 Everton07/12/1996

LSunderland 3-0 Chelsea15/12/1996

Current form

Away

VNottingham Forest 0-2 West Ham21/09/1996

LEverton 2-1 West Ham12/10/1996

LTottenham 1-0 West Ham02/11/1996

DNewcastle United 1-1 West Ham16/11/1996

DSheffield Wednesday 0-0 West Ham30/11/1996

LStockport 2-1 West Ham18/12/1996

Overall

DWest Ham 1-1 Derby County23/11/1996

DWest Ham 1-1 Stockport27/11/1996

DSheffield Wednesday 0-0 West Ham30/11/1996

LWest Ham 0-2 Aston Villa04/12/1996

DWest Ham 2-2 Manchester United08/12/1996

LStockport 2-1 West Ham18/12/1996

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	3	0
Winless streak	2	5
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	23	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	7	15

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	5	8
Drawless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	1	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

17	Number of games (Competition total)	17
8	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
6	Victories (Competition total)	4
3	Victories (Home / Away)	1
7	Draws (Competition total)	6
4	Draws (Home / Away)	3
4	Losses (Competition total)	7
1	Losses (Home / Away)	4

Goals

25	Goals scored (Competition total)	15
13	Goals scored (Home / Away)	5
26	Goals conceded (Competition total)	22
10	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	10
1.47	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.88
1.63	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.63
1.53	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.29
1.25	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.25

Betting aid

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

Bookings

40	Yellow cards (Competition total)	27
18	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	13
0	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Gianluca Vialli	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Michael Hughes
Gianluca Vialli	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Michael Hughes
Gianluca Vialli	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Julian Dicks
Gianluca Vialli	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Gianluca Vialli	6 goals during the last 10 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Julian Dicks

Historical head to head

Home

33 matches

16 v

7 d

10 l

59 gf

53 ga

Away

35 matches

10 v

5 d

20 l

42 gf

68 ga

Total

68 matches

26 v

12 d

30 l

101 gf

121 ga

Historical head to head

Home

35 matches

20 v

5 d

10 l

68 gf

42 ga

Away

33 matches

10 v

7 d

16 l

53 gf

59 ga

Total

68 matches

30 v

12 d

26 l

121 gf

101 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	April 09, 1966
Home	6 - 2	April 09, 1966

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	March 29, 1986
Away	4 - 0	March 29, 1986

Latest head to head

February 17, 1996 - Premier League 1995/1996

Chelsea

1 - 2

West Ham

September 11, 1995 - Premier League 1995/1996

West Ham

1 - 3

Chelsea

February 25, 1995 - Premier League 1994/1995

West Ham

1 - 2

Chelsea

October 26, 1994 - League Cup 1994/1995

West Ham

1 - 0

Chelsea

October 02, 1994 - Premier League 1994/1995

Chelsea

1 - 2

West Ham

Best historical scorers against West Ham

Robert Tambling	9 goals	1959 - 1968
Peter Osgood	5 goals	1967 - 1972
Frank Blunstone	4 goals	1959 - 1963
Jimmy Greaves	4 goals	1958 - 1960
Bill Garner	3 goals	1973 - 1978
John Hollins	3 goals	1966 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Tony Cottee	7 goals	1985 - 1988
Geoff Hurst	6 goals	1964 - 1970
Martin Peters	6 goals	1964 - 1969
Clyde Best	5 goals	1971 - 1973
Billy Bonds	4 goals	1972 - 1974
John Sissons	3 goals	1965 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs West Ham

Peter Bonetti	25 matches	1960 - 1977
Ron Harris	25 matches	1963 - 1978
John Hollins	23 matches	1964 - 1975
Robert Tambling	18 matches	1959 - 1969
Peter Osgood	16 matches	1965 - 1973
Marvin Hinton	15 matches	1963 - 1975

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Bobby Moore	24 matches	1960 - 1973
Billy Bonds	19 matches	1967 - 1987
Geoff Hurst	17 matches	1961 - 1972
Trevor Brooking	14 matches	1968 - 1978
Martin Peters	14 matches	1963 - 1969
Frank Lampard	13 matches	1968 - 1978