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Everton 1-0 Derby County - March 15, 1997 / Premier League 1996/1997

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Premier League 1996/1997 - Round 29

Goodison Park - Liverpool - England

March 15, 1997

32 140

Everton

1 - 0

Derby County

Dave Watson

79'

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46' - Substitution Michael Branchis substituted by Graham Stuart46

79' - Goal Dave Watson79

80' - Substitution Claus Thomsenis substituted by Marc Hottiger80

85' - Substitution Lee Carsleyis substituted by Paul Simpson

89' - Substitution Paul McGrathis substituted by Matt Carbon

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Everton

1 - 0

Derby County

Everton Derby County

Team line-ups

Everton

Southall

Neville Southall

Wales

B.date16/09/1958

Age38 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

Thomsen80

Claus Thomsen

Denmark

B.date31/05/1970

Age26 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

Watson79

Dave Watson

England

B.date20/11/1961

Age35 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Unsworth

David Unsworth

England

B.date16/10/1973

Age23 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

Short

Craig Short

England

B.date25/06/1968

Age28 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Phelan

Terry Phelan

Republic of Ireland

B.date16/03/1967

Age29 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Barrett

Earl Barrett

England

B.date28/04/1967

Age29 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Parkinson

Joe Parkinson

England

B.date11/06/1971

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Barmby

Nick Barmby

England

B.date11/02/1974

Age23 years

H1m68

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Branch46

Michael Branch

England

B.date18/10/1978

Age18 years

positionLeft Winger

Ferguson

Duncan Ferguson

Scotland

B.date27/12/1971

Age25 years

H1m93

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Neville Southall		38	730	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Claus Thomsen	80	26	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dave Watson	79	35	457	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Unsworth		23	129	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Craig Short		28	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Terry Phelan		29	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Earl Barrett		29	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Joe Parkinson		25	104	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nick Barmby		23	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michael Branch	46	18	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Duncan Ferguson		25	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

152

Derby County

Taylor

Martin Taylor

England

B.date09/12/1966

Age30 years

positionGoalkeeper

McGrath89

Paul McGrath

Republic of Ireland

B.date04/12/1959

Age37 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Rowett

Gary Rowett

England

B.date06/03/1974

Age23 years

H1m83

positionRight central defender

Dailly

Christian Dailly

Scotland

B.date23/10/1973

Age23 years

H1m82

positionVersatile Defender

Laursen

Jacob Laursen

Denmark

B.date06/10/1971

Age25 years

H1m83

positionRight central defender

C. Powell

Chris Powell

England

B.date08/09/1969

Age27 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Carsley85

Lee Carsley

Republic of Ireland

B.date28/02/1974

Age23 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

Asanovic

Aljosa Asanovic

Croatia

B.date14/12/1965

Age31 years

H1m86

positionCentre Midfield

D. Powell

Darryl Powell

Jamaica

B.date15/11/1971

Age25 years

H1m83

positionMidfield

Trollope

Paul Trollope

Wales

B.date03/06/1972

Age24 years

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Ward

Ashley Ward

England

B.date24/11/1970

Age26 years

H1m85

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Martin Taylor		30	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul McGrath	89	37	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Rowett		23	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Christian Dailly		23	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jacob Laursen		25	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Powell		27	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Lee Carsley	85	23	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Aljosa Asanovic		31	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Darryl Powell		25	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Trollope		24	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ashley Ward		26	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Marc Hottiger	80	29	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Graham Stuart	46	26	137	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Matt Carbon	89	21	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Paul Simpson	85	30	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Michael Branch

Gary Speed

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paul McGrath

Igor Stimac

OUT

Gary Rowett

Ron Willems

OUT

Jacob Laursen

Sean Flynn

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Joe Royle

117

Success rate in this team:

40 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Royle vs Derby County

7 victories

3 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on March 15, 1997

Royle vs Smith

3 victories

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on March 15, 1997

Manager

Age

Match num

Jim Smith

Success rate in this team:

37 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Smith vs Everton

4 victories

5 draws

11 losses

Latest figure on March 15, 1997

Smith vs Royle

4 victories

3 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on March 15, 1997

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Key figures

Everton keeps its 8 consecutive wins vs Derby County running (since 15/05/1989). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 22/08/1978 (7 matches)

No Everton manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Joe Royle has reached 39% of clean sheets in Premier League.

Derby County keeps its 3 consecutive losses away from home running (since 22/02/1997).

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LEverton 1-3 Wimbledon FC28/12/1996

LEverton 0-2 Blackburn01/01/1997

VEverton 3-0 Swindon Town05/01/1997

LEverton 2-3 Bradford25/01/1997

VEverton 2-0 Nottingham Forest01/02/1997

LEverton 0-2 Arsenal01/03/1997

Overall

LNewcastle United 4-1 Everton29/01/1997

VEverton 2-0 Nottingham Forest01/02/1997

DCoventry 0-0 Everton22/02/1997

LEverton 0-2 Arsenal01/03/1997

DSouthampton 2-2 Everton05/03/1997

LLeeds United 1-0 Everton08/03/1997

Current form

Away

DWimbledon FC 1-1 Derby County11/01/1997

LChelsea 3-1 Derby County18/01/1997

VGillingham 0-2 Derby County21/01/1997

DLeeds United 0-0 Derby County29/01/1997

LLeicester 4-2 Derby County22/02/1997

LMiddlesbrough 6-1 Derby County05/03/1997

Overall

DDerby County 2-2 Sheffield Wednesday19/02/1997

LLeicester 4-2 Derby County22/02/1997

VDerby County 3-2 Coventry26/02/1997

VDerby County 3-2 Chelsea01/03/1997

LMiddlesbrough 6-1 Derby County05/03/1997

LDerby County 0-2 Middlesbrough09/03/1997

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	4
Drawless streak	6	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	2	2
Winless streak	3	2
Drawless streak	2	5
Scoring streak	2	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	2	6

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

29	Number of games (Competition total)	29
13	Number of games (Home / Away)	15
8	Victories (Competition total)	7
5	Victories (Home / Away)	1
9	Draws (Competition total)	11
2	Draws (Home / Away)	7
12	Losses (Competition total)	11
6	Losses (Home / Away)	7

Goals

36	Goals scored (Competition total)	31
19	Goals scored (Home / Away)	14
43	Goals conceded (Competition total)	44
16	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	29
1.24	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.07
1.46	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.93
1.48	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.52
1.23	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.93

Betting aid

14	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	12
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
8	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	9
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
16	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	17
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	11
2-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (4 times)

Bookings

40	Yellow cards (Competition total)	53
19	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	29
1	Red cards (Competition total)	2
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Gary Speed	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	Dean Sturridge
Gary Speed	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Dean Sturridge
David Unsworth	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	4 penalties	Aljosa Asanovic
David Unsworth	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Duncan Ferguson	5 goals during the last 11 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 4 matches	Dean Sturridge

Historical head to head

Home

62 matches

40 v

11 d

11 l

148 gf

58 ga

Away

61 matches

24 v

9 d

28 l

98 gf

107 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

3 ga

Total

124 matches

64 v

20 d

40 l

247 gf

168 ga

Historical head to head

Home

61 matches

28 v

9 d

24 l

107 gf

98 ga

Away

62 matches

11 v

11 d

40 l

58 gf

148 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

1 ga

Total

124 matches

40 v

20 d

64 l

168 gf

247 ga

Largest victory

Overall	11 - 2	January 18, 1890
Home	11 - 2	January 18, 1890

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	December 26, 1946
Away	3 - 0	January 01, 1934

Latest head to head

December 16, 1996 - Premier League 1996/1997

Derby County

0 - 1

Everton

January 07, 1995 - FA Cup 1994/1995

Everton

1 - 0

Derby County logo Derby County

May 08, 1991 - Division 1 1990/1991

Derby County

2 - 3

Everton

December 29, 1990 - Division 1 1990/1991

Everton

2 - 0

Derby County logo Derby County

April 16, 1990 - Division 1 1989/1990

Everton

2 - 1

Derby County logo Derby County

Best historical scorers against Derby County

Dixie Dean	19 goals	1926 - 1936
Albert Geldard	6 goals	1933 - 1938
Andy King	6 goals	1976 - 1979
Bob Latchford	5 goals	1974 - 1978
Jim Cunliffe	4 goals	1935 - 1936
Alex Stevenson	3 goals	1935 - 1936

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/11/1926. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Everton

Kevin Hector	6 goals	1968 - 1973
Alan Hinton	3 goals	1971 - 1973
John O'Hare	3 goals	1969 - 1971
Roger Davies	2 goals	1973 - 1979
Dean Saunders	2 goals	1989 - 1991
David Nish	2 goals	1973 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/11/1926. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Derby County

Dixie Dean	17 matches	1926 - 1936
Edward Sagar	17 matches	1930 - 1939
Roger Kenyon	15 matches	1968 - 1976
Lyons Michael	14 matches	1973 - 1979
William Cook	14 matches	1933 - 1939
Jock Thomson	14 matches	1931 - 1939

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/11/1926. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Everton

Kevin Hector	19 matches	1968 - 1977
Roy McFarland	18 matches	1968 - 1979
Ron Webster	15 matches	1968 - 1977
Colin Todd	14 matches	1971 - 1978
Archie Gemmill	14 matches	1970 - 1977
Colin Boulton	14 matches	1971 - 1977