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Arsenal 2-1 Everton - March 23, 2003 / Premier League 2002/2003

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Premier League 2002/2003 - Round 31

Highbury - London - England

March 23, 2003

38 042

Arsenal

2 - 1

Everton

Assist by Thierry Henry (header) Pascal Cygan

Assist by Dennis BergkampPatrick Vieira

64'

56'

Wayne RooneyAssist by Kevin Campbell

logo Arsenal ARS

8' - Goal Pascal Cygan8

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56' - Goal Wayne Rooney

64' - Goal Patrick Vieira64

68' - Substitution Robert Pirèsis substituted by Ray Parlour68

73' - Substitution Tie Liis substituted by Scot Gemmill photo Tie Li

73' - Yellow card Tie Li

79' - Substitution Steve Watsonis substituted by Duncan Ferguson

86' - Substitution Dennis Bergkampis substituted by Kolo Touré86

89' - Yellow card Lauren photo Thierry Henry

89' - Yellow card Thierry Henry89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

2 - 1

Everton

Arsenal Everton

Team line-ups

Arsenal

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Bergkamp86

Dennis Bergkamp

Netherlands

B.date10/05/1969

Age33 years

H1m85

positionSecond striker

14Henry89

Thierry Henry

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age25 years

H1m88

positionStriker

8Ljungberg

Freddie Ljungberg

Sweden

B.date16/04/1977

Age25 years

H1m76

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

19Silva

Gilberto Silva

Brazil

B.date07/10/1976

Age26 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

4Vieira64

Patrick Vieira

France

B.date23/06/1976

Age26 years

H1m92

positionDefensive Midfielder

7Pirès68

Robert Pirès

France

B.date29/10/1973

Age29 years

H1m80

positionRight Midfielder

van Bronckhorst

Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Netherlands

B.date05/02/1975

Age28 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

18Cygan8

Pascal Cygan

France

B.date29/04/1974

Age28 years

H1m91

positionLeft central defender

23Campbell

Sol Campbell

England

B.date18/09/1974

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

12Lauren89

Lauren

Cameroon

B.date19/01/1977

Age26 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Taylor

Stuart Taylor

England

B.date28/11/1980

Age22 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
	G	Stuart Taylor		22	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Pascal Cygan	8	28	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Sol Campbell		28	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Lauren	89	26	111	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	Giovanni van Bronckhorst		28	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Gilberto Silva		26	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Patrick Vieira	64	26	314	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Robert Pirès	68	29	130	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Freddie Ljungberg		25	175	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Dennis Bergkamp	86	33	307	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Thierry Henry	89	25	195	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

134

Everton

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Rooney56

Wayne Rooney

England

B.date24/10/1985

Age17 years

H1m76

positionStriker

9Campbell

Kevin Campbell

England

B.date04/02/1970

Age33 years

H1m86

positionStriker

Pembridge

Mark Pembridge

Wales

B.date29/11/1970

Age32 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

12Li7373

Tie Li

China

B.date18/09/1977

Age25 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

Gravesen

Thomas Gravesen

Denmark

B.date11/03/1976

Age27 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

2Watson79

Steve Watson

England

B.date01/04/1974

Age28 years

H1m83

positionRight central defender

Unsworth

David Unsworth

England

B.date16/10/1973

Age29 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

4Stubbs

Alan Stubbs

England

B.date06/10/1971

Age31 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

5Weir

David Weir

Scotland

B.date10/05/1970

Age32 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

20Yobo

Joseph Yobo

Nigeria

B.date06/09/1980

Age22 years

H1m82

positionRight central defender

1Wright

Richard Wright

England

B.date05/11/1977

Age25 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Richard Wright		25	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	M	Steve Watson	79	28	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Alan Stubbs		31	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	David Unsworth		29	312	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Joseph Yobo		22	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	David Weir		32	167	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Tie Li	7373	25	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Thomas Gravesen		27	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Mark Pembridge		32	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F	Wayne Rooney	56	17	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Kevin Campbell		33	132	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
28	D		Kolo Touré	86	22	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Ray Parlour	68	30	419	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Scot Gemmill	73	32	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F		Duncan Ferguson	79	31	173	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Sylvain Wiltord

OUT

Dennis Bergkamp

Kolo Touré

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Wayne Rooney

Tomasz Radzinski

OUT

Kevin Campbell

Brian McBride

OUT

Joseph Yobo

Gary Naysmith

OUT

Tie Li

Tony Hibbert

OUT

Mark Pembridge

Scot Gemmill

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

371

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Wenger vs Everton

11 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 23, 2003

Wenger vs Moyes

4 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 23, 2003

Manager

Age

Match num

David Moyes

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Moyes vs Arsenal

1 victory

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on March 23, 2003

Moyes vs Wenger

1 victory

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on March 23, 2003

Referee

Alan Wiley

32 victories	9 draws	8 losses	Arsenal49 matches	General total	Everton40 matches	14 victories	13 draws	13 losses
2 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Arsenal3 matches	Season total	Everton3 matches	1 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on March 06, 2010					Latest figure on March 20, 2010

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Key figures

It's the first time Pascal Cygan scores 1 goal in Premier League

No Arsenal manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Arsène Wenger has reached 57% of wins .

It's the first time Pascal Cygan scores 1 goal in his professional career with Arsenal

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VArsenal 3-1 West Ham19/01/2003

VArsenal 2-1 Fulham01/02/2003

DArsenal 1-1 Ajax Amsterdam18/02/2003

VArsenal 2-0 Charlton02/03/2003

DArsenal 2-2 Chelsea08/03/2003

DArsenal 1-1 AS Roma11/03/2003

Overall

DAjax Amsterdam 0-0 Arsenal26/02/2003

VArsenal 2-0 Charlton02/03/2003

DArsenal 2-2 Chelsea08/03/2003

DArsenal 1-1 AS Roma11/03/2003

LBlackburn 2-0 Arsenal15/03/2003

LValencia CF 2-1 Arsenal19/03/2003

Current form

Away

DBirmingham City 1-1 Everton26/12/2002

LShrewsbury Town 2-1 Everton04/01/2003

LTottenham 4-3 Everton12/01/2003

VBolton Wanderers 1-2 Everton28/01/2003

LCharlton 2-1 Everton08/02/2003

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Everton01/03/2003

Overall

VBolton Wanderers 1-2 Everton28/01/2003

VEverton 2-0 Leeds United01/02/2003

LCharlton 2-1 Everton08/02/2003

VEverton 2-1 Southampton22/02/2003

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Everton01/03/2003

DEverton 0-0 West Ham15/03/2003

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	2
Unbeaten streak	15	0
Winless streak	2	4
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	10	1
Conceding streak	2	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	1	3
Winless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	6	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	6	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

30	Number of games (Competition total)	30
15	Number of games (Home / Away)	15
19	Victories (Competition total)	14
13	Victories (Home / Away)	5
6	Draws (Competition total)	8
1	Draws (Home / Away)	3
5	Losses (Competition total)	8
1	Losses (Home / Away)	7

Goals

64	Goals scored (Competition total)	38
35	Goals scored (Home / Away)	16
32	Goals conceded (Competition total)	34
13	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	21
2.13	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.27
2.33	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.07
1.07	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.13
0.87	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.4

Betting aid

19	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
8	Clean sheets (Competition total)	11
5	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	5
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
20	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	17
10	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
2-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-0 (4 times)

Bookings

45	Yellow cards (Competition total)	38
17	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	19
2	Red cards (Competition total)	5
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Thierry Henry	19 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	11 goals	Tomasz Radzinski
Thierry Henry	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Steve Watson
Thierry Henry	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	David Unsworth
Thierry Henry	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	David Unsworth
Thierry Henry	14 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Gary Naysmith
Thierry Henry	7 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Gary Naysmith
Thierry Henry	13 goals, 11 assists during the last 17 matches	The fittest player	6 goals during the last 11 matches	Tomasz Radzinski

Historical head to head

Home

86 matches

56 v

13 d

17 l

167 gf

86 ga

Away

88 matches

26 v

24 d

38 l

106 gf

128 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

4 gf

3 ga

Total

175 matches

83 v

37 d

55 l

277 gf

217 ga

Historical head to head

Home

88 matches

38 v

24 d

26 l

128 gf

106 ga

Away

86 matches

17 v

13 d

56 l

86 gf

167 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

3 gf

4 ga

Total

175 matches

55 v

37 d

83 l

217 gf

277 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	December 10, 1963
Home	6 - 0	December 10, 1963

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	November 09, 1985
Away	4 - 0	September 02, 1908

Latest head to head

October 19, 2002 - Premier League 2002/2003

Everton

2 - 1

Arsenal

May 11, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

Arsenal

4 - 3

Everton

February 10, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

Everton

0 - 1

Arsenal

April 21, 2001 - Premier League 2000/2001

Arsenal

4 - 1

Everton

November 18, 2000 - Premier League 2000/2001

Everton

2 - 0

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Everton

Ian Wright	12 goals	1991 - 1997
David Herd	8 goals	1958 - 1961
Joe Baker	6 goals	1963 - 1965
Frank Stapleton	6 goals	1975 - 1980
Alan Sunderland	5 goals	1982 - 1983
Geoff Strong	4 goals	1963 - 1963

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/03/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Dixie Dean	13 goals	1926 - 1937
Royston Vernon	9 goals	1960 - 1963
Adrian Heath	6 goals	1982 - 1988
Alex Young	5 goals	1961 - 1963
Alexander Troup	4 goals	1926 - 1928
Dave Watson	4 goals	1987 - 1995

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/03/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Everton

David O'Leary	35 matches	1975 - 1993
Lee Dixon	25 matches	1988 - 2002
Tony Adams	25 matches	1986 - 2001
Nigel Winterburn	25 matches	1988 - 2000
Pat Rice	23 matches	1969 - 1980
George Armstrong	23 matches	1962 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/03/1925. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Neville Southall	29 matches	1982 - 1997
Dave Watson	25 matches	1986 - 1999
Brian Labone	24 matches	1959 - 1970
Dixie Dean	21 matches	1925 - 1937
Gordon West	20 matches	1962 - 1973
Kevin Ratcliffe	19 matches	1981 - 1991