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Norwich City 1-0 Birmingham City - May 07, 2005 / Premier League 2004/2005

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Premier League 2004/2005 - Round 37

Carrow Road - Norwich - England

May 07, 2005

25 477

1 - 0

Birmingham City

(penalty) Dean Ashton

45'

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19' - Substitution Stan Lazaridisis substituted by Stephen Clemence

31' - Red card Damien Johnson

45' - Goal Dean Ashton45

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46' - Substitution Walter Pandianiis substituted by Clinton Morrison

63' - Substitution Youssef Safriis substituted by Gary Holt63

72' - Substitution Adam Druryis substituted by Simon Charlton72

78' - Substitution Kenny Cunninghamis substituted by Robbie Blake

86' - Substitution Leon McKenzieis substituted by Matthias Svensson86

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Norwich City

1 - 0

Birmingham City

Norwich City Birmingham City

Team line-ups

Norwich City

1 Green

Robert Green

England

B.date18/01/1980

Age25 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

24 Shackell

Jason Shackell

England

B.date27/09/1983

Age21 years

H1m93

positionLeft central defender

5 Fleming

Craig Fleming

England

B.date06/10/1971

Age33 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

3 Drury72

Adam Drury

England

B.date29/08/1978

Age26 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

26 Helveg

Thomas Helveg

Denmark

B.date24/06/1971

Age33 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Safri63

Youssef Safri

Morocco

B.date03/01/1977

Age28 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

6 Huckerby

Darren Huckerby

England

B.date23/04/1976

Age29 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Midfielder

10 Bentley

David Bentley

England

B.date27/08/1984

Age20 years

H1m75

positionRight Midfielder

20 Francis

Damien Francis

Jamaica

B.date27/02/1979

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentre Midfield

14 McKenzie86

Leon McKenzie

England

B.date17/05/1978

Age26 years

H1m80

positionStriker

36 Ashton45

Dean Ashton

England

B.date24/11/1983

Age21 years

H1m85

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Robert Green		25	186	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Jason Shackell		21	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Craig Fleming		33	195	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Adam Drury	72	26	168	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	D	Thomas Helveg		33	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Youssef Safri	63	28	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Darren Huckerby		29	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	David Bentley		20	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Damien Francis		26	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Leon McKenzie	86	26	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
36	F	Dean Ashton	45	21	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.2 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 Cunningham78

Kenny Cunningham

Republic of Ireland

B.date28/06/1971

Age33 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

5 Upson

Matthew Upson

England

B.date18/04/1979

Age26 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

22 Johnson31

Damien Johnson

Northern Ireland

B.date18/11/1978

Age26 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

Pennant

Jermaine Pennant

England

B.date15/01/1983

Age22 years

H1m73

positionRight Midfielder

36 Nafti

Mehdi Nafti

Tunisia

B.date28/11/1978

Age26 years

H1m78

positionRight central midfielder

11 Lazaridis19

Stan Lazaridis

Australia

B.date16/08/1972

Age32 years

H1m76

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

9 Pandiani46

Walter Pandiani

Uruguay

B.date27/04/1976

Age29 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	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Kenny Cunningham	78	33	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Matthew Upson		26	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
29	D	Mario Melchiot		28	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Jamie Clapham		29	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Damien Johnson	31	26	117	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Jermaine Pennant		22	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
36	M	Mehdi Nafti		26	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Stan Lazaridis	19	32	142	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Walter Pandiani	46	29	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Emile Heskey		27	37	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

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
16	D	Simon Charlton	72	33	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Gary Holt	63	32	177	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Matthias Svensson	86	30	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
25	M	Stephen Clemence	19	27	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Clinton Morrison	46	25	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Robbie Blake	78	29	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jamie Clapham

Darren Anderton

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Nigel Worthington

217

Success rate in this team:

41 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Worthington vs Birmingham City

1 victory

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on May 07, 2005

Worthington vs Bruce

1 victory

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on May 07, 2005

Manager

Age

Match num

Steve Bruce

152

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Bruce vs Norwich City

4 victories

5 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on May 07, 2005

Bruce vs Worthington

2 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on May 07, 2005

Referee

Steve Bennett

3 victories	1 draw	2 losses	Norwich City6 matches	General total	Birmingham City24 matches	8 victories	4 draws	12 losses
1 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Norwich City2 matches	Season total	Birmingham City2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 22, 2007					Latest figure on March 06, 2010

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Key figures

Norwich City keeps its 7 consecutive matches without a draw at home running (since 05/02/2005). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 02/03/2003-15/11/2003 time period (17 matches).

No Birmingham City 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.

It's the first time Dean Ashton scores 1 goal vs in his professional career with

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNorwich City 3-2 West Bromwich Albion05/02/2005

LNorwich City 2-3 Manchester City28/02/2005

LNorwich City 1-3 Chelsea05/03/2005

VNorwich City 2-0 Manchester United09/04/2005

VNorwich City 2-1 Newcastle United20/04/2005

VNorwich City 1-0 Charlton23/04/2005

Overall

LArsenal 4-1 Norwich City02/04/2005

VNorwich City 2-0 Manchester United09/04/2005

DCrystal Palace 3-3 Norwich City16/04/2005

VNorwich City 2-1 Newcastle United20/04/2005

VNorwich City 1-0 Charlton23/04/2005

LSouthampton 4-3 Norwich City30/04/2005

Current form

Away

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

DChelsea 1-1 Birmingham City09/04/2005

LManchester City 3-0 Birmingham City20/04/2005

DEverton 1-1 Birmingham City23/04/2005

Overall

DBirmingham City 1-1 Tottenham02/04/2005

DChelsea 1-1 Birmingham City09/04/2005

DBirmingham City 0-0 Portsmouth16/04/2005

LManchester City 3-0 Birmingham City20/04/2005

DEverton 1-1 Birmingham City23/04/2005

VBirmingham City 2-1 Blackburn30/04/2005

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	3	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	6	3
Scoring streak	8	6
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Winless streak	9	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	13	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

36	Number of games (Competition total)	36
18	Number of games (Home / Away)	18
6	Victories (Competition total)	10
6	Victories (Home / Away)	3
12	Draws (Competition total)	12
5	Draws (Home / Away)	6
18	Losses (Competition total)	14
7	Losses (Home / Away)	9

Goals

41	Goals scored (Competition total)	38
28	Goals scored (Home / Away)	16
71	Goals conceded (Competition total)	44
32	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	30
1.14	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.06
1.56	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.89
1.97	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.22
1.78	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.67

Betting aid

21	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	14
11	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	9
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
13	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	12
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
21	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	18
13	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	10
1-1 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (4 times)

Bookings

34	Yellow cards (Competition total)	54
17	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	31
2	Red cards (Competition total)	2
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Damien Francis	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	9 goals	Emile Heskey
Damien Francis	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Emile Heskey
Darren Huckerby	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Walter Pandiani
Darren Huckerby	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Darren Huckerby	4 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Robbie Savage
Darren Huckerby	4 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Darren Anderton
Leon McKenzie	5 goals during the last 9 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 2 matches	Emile Heskey

Historical head to head

Home

27 matches

12 v

11 d

4 l

50 gf

28 ga

Away

27 matches

5 v

7 d

15 l

27 gf

48 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

1 gf

1 ga

Total

55 matches

17 v

19 d

19 l

78 gf

77 ga

Historical head to head

Home

27 matches

15 v

7 d

5 l

48 gf

27 ga

Away

27 matches

4 v

11 d

12 l

28 gf

50 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

1 gf

1 ga

Total

55 matches

19 v

19 d

17 l

77 gf

78 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	April 15, 1970
Home	6 - 0	April 15, 1970

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	December 08, 2001
Away	1 - 0	March 15, 2002

Latest head to head

November 27, 2004 - Premier League 2004/2005

Birmingham City

1 - 1

Norwich City logo Norwich City

May 12, 2002 - Barrages Premier League 2002

Birmingham City

1 - 1

Norwich City logo Norwich City

March 15, 2002 - First Division 2001/2002

Norwich City

0 - 1

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

December 08, 2001 - First Division 2001/2002

Birmingham City

4 - 0

Norwich City logo Norwich City

February 03, 2001 - First Division 2000/2001

Birmingham City

2 - 1

Norwich City logo Norwich City

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Keith Bertschin	4 goals	1982 - 1983
Kevin Reeves	3 goals	1977 - 1978
Philip Boyer	3 goals	1974 - 1976
Dave Stringer	2 goals	1973 - 1974
John Deehan	2 goals	1983 - 1983
Martin O'Neill	2 goals	1982 - 1982

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/11/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Norwich City

Tommy Mooney	3 goals	2001 - 2001
Kenny Burns	3 goals	1974 - 1977
Bob Hatton	2 goals	1972 - 1974
Tony Evans	2 goals	1981 - 1981
Bob Latchford	2 goals	1973 - 1973
Trevor Francis	2 goals	1976 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/11/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Tony Powell	9 matches	1975 - 1980
Kevin Keelan	9 matches	1972 - 1977
Martin Peters	8 matches	1975 - 1979
Graham Paddon	7 matches	1972 - 1981
Colin Sullivan	7 matches	1975 - 1978
Colin Suggett	6 matches	1973 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/11/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Norwich City

Joe Gallagher	10 matches	1974 - 1981
Garry Pendrey	9 matches	1972 - 1979
Dave Latchford	8 matches	1972 - 1977
Trevor Francis	8 matches	1973 - 1978
Malcolm Page	7 matches	1973 - 1979
Howard Kendall	6 matches	1974 - 1977