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Chelsea 1-1 Birmingham City - April 09, 2005 / Premier League 2004/2005

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Premier League 2004/2005 - Round 32

Stamford Bridge - London - England

April 09, 2005

42 031

Chelsea

1 - 1

Birmingham City

Didier Drogba

82'

65'

Walter Pandiani

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46' - Substitution Aleksey Smertinis substituted by Eidur Gudjohnsen photo Didier Drogba

46' - Substitution Mateja Kezmanis substituted by Didier Drogba46

60' - Substitution Darren Carteris substituted by Stan Lazaridis

65' - Goal Walter Pandiani

69' - Substitution Glen Johnsonis substituted by Jiri Jarosik69

80' - Substitution Jermaine Pennantis substituted by Julian Gray

82' - Goal Didier Drogba82

87' - Substitution Walter Pandianiis substituted by Clinton Morrison

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Chelsea

1 - 1

Birmingham City

Chelsea Birmingham City

Team line-ups

Chelsea

1 Cech

Petr Cech

Czech Republic

B.date20/05/1982

Age22 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Huth

Robert Huth

Germany

B.date18/08/1984

Age20 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

26 Terry

John Terry

England

B.date07/12/1980

Age24 years

H1m87

positionLeft central defender

2 Johnson69

Glen Johnson

England

B.date23/08/1984

Age20 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

13 Gallas

William Gallas

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age27 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

5 Smertin46

Aleksey Smertin

Russia

B.date01/05/1975

Age29 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

11 Duff

Damien Duff

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/03/1979

Age26 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

30 Tiago

Tiago

Portugal

B.date02/05/1981

Age23 years

H1m83

positionLeft central midfielder

8 Lampard

Frank Lampard

England

B.date20/06/1978

Age26 years

H1m84

positionCentre Midfield

10 Cole

Joe Cole

England

B.date08/11/1981

Age23 years

H1m76

positionPlaymaker

9 Kezman46

Mateja Kezman

Serbia

B.date12/04/1979

Age25 years

H1m82

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Petr Cech		22	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	Robert Huth		20	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	D	John Terry		24	215	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Glen Johnson	69	20	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	William Gallas		27	173	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Aleksey Smertin	46	29	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Damien Duff		26	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	M	Tiago		23	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Frank Lampard		26	208	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Joe Cole		23	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Mateja Kezman	46	25	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Birmingham City

1 Taylor

Maik Taylor

Northern Ireland

B.date04/09/1971

Age33 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

4 Cunningham

Kenny Cunningham

Republic of Ireland

B.date28/06/1971

Age33 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

5 Upson

Matthew Upson

England

B.date18/04/1979

Age25 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

29 Melchiot

Mario Melchiot

Netherlands

B.date04/11/1976

Age28 years

H1m88

positionRight full-back

3 Clapham

Jamie Clapham

England

B.date07/12/1975

Age29 years

H1m76

positionLeft full-back

24 Carter60

Darren Carter

England

B.date18/12/1983

Age21 years

H1m88

positionCentre Midfield

Pennant80

Jermaine Pennant

England

B.date15/01/1983

Age22 years

H1m73

positionRight Midfielder

22 Johnson

Damien Johnson

Northern Ireland

B.date18/11/1978

Age26 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

36 Nafti

Mehdi Nafti

Tunisia

B.date28/11/1978

Age26 years

H1m78

positionRight central midfielder

9 Pandiani6587

Walter Pandiani

Uruguay

B.date27/04/1976

Age28 years

H1m84

positionStriker

16 Heskey

Emile Heskey

England

B.date11/01/1978

Age27 years

H1m88

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Maik Taylor		33	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Kenny Cunningham		33	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Matthew Upson		25	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
29	D	Mario Melchiot		28	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Jamie Clapham		29	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	M	Darren Carter	60	21	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Jermaine Pennant	80	22	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Damien Johnson		26	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
36	M	Mehdi Nafti		26	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Walter Pandiani	6587	28	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Emile Heskey		27	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
27	D	Jiri Jarosik	69	27	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Eidur Gudjohnsen	46	26	216	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Didier Drogba	8246	27	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
21	M	Julian Gray	80	25	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Stan Lazaridis	60	32	137	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Clinton Morrison	87	25	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mateja Kezman

Didier Drogba

OUT

Robert Huth

Ricardo Carvalho

OUT

Aleksey Smertin

Claude Makélélé

OUT

Tiago

Eidur Gudjohnsen

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mehdi Nafti

Stan Lazaridis

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

José Mourinho

Success rate in this team:

76 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

69 %

Mourinho vs Birmingham City

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 09, 2005

Mourinho vs Bruce

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 09, 2005

Manager

Age

Match num

Steve Bruce

147

Success rate in this team:

35 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Bruce vs Chelsea

1 victory

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on April 09, 2005

Bruce vs Mourinho

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 09, 2005

Referee

Christopher Foy

20 victories	7 draws	4 losses	Chelsea31 matches	General total	Birmingham City25 matches	10 victories	7 draws	8 losses
1 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Chelsea2 matches	Season total	Birmingham City2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on December 13, 2014					Latest figure on December 26, 2014

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Key figures

No Chelsea manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Steve Bruce has done less than 1.26 goals conceded per game in Premier League.

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before José Mourinho has reached 1.92 goals scored per game .

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before José Mourinho has done less than 16% of draws .

Read the next 22 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VChelsea 2-0 Birmingham City30/01/2005

DChelsea 0-0 Manchester City06/02/2005

VChelsea 4-2 FC Barcelona08/03/2005

VChelsea 1-0 West Bromwich Albion15/03/2005

VChelsea 4-1 Crystal Palace19/03/2005

VChelsea 4-2 Bayern Munich06/04/2005

Overall

VNorwich City 1-3 Chelsea05/03/2005

VChelsea 4-2 FC Barcelona08/03/2005

VChelsea 1-0 West Bromwich Albion15/03/2005

VChelsea 4-1 Crystal Palace19/03/2005

VSouthampton 1-3 Chelsea02/04/2005

VChelsea 4-2 Bayern Munich06/04/2005

Current form

Away

LNewcastle United 2-1 Birmingham City01/01/2005

LCharlton 3-1 Birmingham City15/01/2005

LChelsea 2-0 Birmingham City30/01/2005

LManchester United 2-0 Birmingham City05/02/2005

LCrystal Palace 2-0 Birmingham City26/02/2005

LWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Birmingham City06/03/2005

Overall

LManchester United 2-0 Birmingham City05/02/2005

VBirmingham City 2-0 Liverpool12/02/2005

LCrystal Palace 2-0 Birmingham City26/02/2005

LWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Birmingham City06/03/2005

VBirmingham City 2-0 Aston Villa20/03/2005

DBirmingham City 1-1 Tottenham02/04/2005

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	4	7
Unbeaten streak	33	7
Drawless streak	4	10
Scoring streak	4	8
Conceding streak	2	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	6	0
Unbeaten streak	0	2
Winless streak	6	1
Drawless streak	9	0
Scoring streak	0	2
Goalless streak	4	0
Conceding streak	10	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

31	Number of games (Competition total)	31
15	Number of games (Home / Away)	15
25	Victories (Competition total)	9
12	Victories (Home / Away)	3
5	Draws (Competition total)	9
3	Draws (Home / Away)	4
1	Losses (Competition total)	13
0	Losses (Home / Away)	8

Goals

61	Goals scored (Competition total)	34
30	Goals scored (Home / Away)	14
11	Goals conceded (Competition total)	38
4	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	25
1.97	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.1
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.93
0.35	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.23
0.27	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.67

Betting aid

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

Bookings

39	Yellow cards (Competition total)	48
11	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	28
0	Red cards (Competition total)	2
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Eidur Gudjohnsen	10 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	Emile Heskey
Didier Drogba	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Robbie Savage
Frank Lampard	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Walter Pandiani
Frank Lampard	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Frank Lampard	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Robbie Savage
Frank Lampard	3 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Darren Anderton
Eidur Gudjohnsen	3 goals, 3 assists during the last 9 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Darren Carter

Historical head to head

Home

42 matches

22 v

11 d

9 l

72 gf

47 ga

Away

41 matches

16 v

11 d

14 l

67 gf

66 ga

Total

83 matches

38 v

22 d

23 l

139 gf

113 ga

Historical head to head

Home

41 matches

14 v

11 d

16 l

66 gf

67 ga

Away

42 matches

9 v

11 d

22 l

47 gf

72 ga

Total

83 matches

23 v

22 d

38 l

113 gf

139 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	November 21, 1964
Home	5 - 1	August 31, 1957

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	March 11, 1980
Away	4 - 0	February 14, 1953

Latest head to head

January 30, 2005 - FA Cup 2004/2005

Chelsea

2 - 0

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

August 21, 2004 - Premier League 2004/2005

Birmingham City

0 - 1

Chelsea

January 18, 2004 - Premier League 2003/2004

Chelsea

0 - 0

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

October 14, 2003 - Premier League 2003/2004

Birmingham City

0 - 0

Chelsea

February 08, 2003 - Premier League 2002/2003

Birmingham City

1 - 3

Chelsea

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Jimmy Greaves	8 goals	1957 - 1961
Robert Tambling	7 goals	1959 - 1965
Tommy Langley	4 goals	1975 - 1977
George Graham	4 goals	1964 - 1964
Eidur Gudjohnsen	3 goals	2002 - 2003
Barry Bridges	3 goals	1961 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Bob Hatton	3 goals	1973 - 1975
Johnny Gordon	3 goals	1959 - 1961
Harry Hooper	2 goals	1959 - 1959
Keith Bertschin	2 goals	1977 - 1979
Denis Thwaites	2 goals	1964 - 1964
Bertie Auld	2 goals	1963 - 1964

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Ron Harris	18 matches	1963 - 1979
Peter Bonetti	18 matches	1961 - 1979
John Hollins	13 matches	1964 - 1975
Robert Tambling	10 matches	1959 - 1968
Peter Brabrook	10 matches	1957 - 1962
Eddie McCreadie	10 matches	1963 - 1973

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Malcolm Page	10 matches	1968 - 1979
Ray Martin	10 matches	1964 - 1974
Malcolm Beard	10 matches	1961 - 1970
Johnny Schofield	9 matches	1959 - 1965
Garry Pendrey	9 matches	1972 - 1979
Mike Hellawell	8 matches	1959 - 1964