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Arsenal 1-2 Blackburn - October 26, 2002 / Premier League 2002/2003

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Premier League 2002/2003 - Round 11

Highbury - London - England

October 26, 2002

38 064

Arsenal

1 - 2

Blackburn

Edu

45'

Edu (o.g)

51'

Dwight Yorke

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6' - Own goal Edu

45' - Goal Edu45

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51' - Goal Dwight Yorke

63' - Substitution Eduis substituted by Robert Pirès63

64' - Substitution Nwankwo Kanuis substituted by Dennis Bergkamp64

66' - Substitution Kerimoglu Tugayis substituted by Keith Gillespie

79' - Red card Garry Flitcroft

83' - Substitution Egil Ostenstadis substituted by Craig Short

85' - Substitution David Dunnis substituted by Matt Jansen

87' - Substitution Ashley Coleis substituted by Kolo Touré87

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

1 - 2

Blackburn

Arsenal Blackburn

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Seaman

David Seaman

England

B.date19/09/1963

Age39 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

18 Cygan

Pascal Cygan

France

B.date29/04/1974

Age28 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

23 Campbell

Sol Campbell

England

B.date18/09/1974

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Cole87

Ashley Cole

England

B.date20/12/1980

Age21 years

H1m76

positionLeft full-back

12 Lauren

Lauren

Cameroon

B.date19/01/1977

Age25 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

19 Silva

Gilberto Silva

Brazil

B.date07/10/1976

Age26 years

H1m85

positionLeft Defensive Midfielder

Edu45663

Edu

Brazil

B.date15/05/1978

Age24 years

H1m89

positionCentre Midfield

8 Ljungberg

Freddie Ljungberg

Sweden

B.date16/04/1977

Age25 years

H1m76

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Wiltord

Sylvain Wiltord

France

B.date10/05/1974

Age28 years

H1m73

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Kanu64

Nwankwo Kanu

Nigeria

B.date01/08/1976

Age26 years

H1m96

positionStriker

14 Henry

Thierry Henry

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age25 years

H1m88

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
	G	David Seaman		39	537	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Pascal Cygan		28	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Sol Campbell		28	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	Ashley Cole	87	21	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Lauren		25	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Gilberto Silva		26	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Edu	45663	24	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Freddie Ljungberg		25	158	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Sylvain Wiltord		28	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F	Nwankwo Kanu	64	26	160	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Thierry Henry		25	165	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

132

Blackburn

Friedel

Brad Friedel

United States

B.date18/05/1971

Age31 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Taylor

Martin Taylor

England

B.date09/11/1979

Age22 years

H1m94

positionRight central defender

Neill

Lucas Neill

Australia

B.date09/03/1978

Age24 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

Berg

Henning Berg

Norway

B.date01/09/1969

Age33 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Flitcroft79

Garry Flitcroft

England

B.date06/11/1972

Age29 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Johansson

Nils-Eric Johansson

Sweden

B.date13/01/1980

Age22 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

Dunn85

David Dunn

England

B.date27/12/1979

Age22 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Tugay66

Kerimoglu Tugay

Turkey

B.date24/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Thompson

David Thompson

England

B.date12/09/1977

Age25 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Ostenstad83

Egil Ostenstad

Norway

B.date02/01/1972

Age30 years

H1m83

positionForward

Yorke51

Dwight Yorke

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date03/11/1971

Age30 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Brad Friedel		31	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Taylor		22	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lucas Neill		24	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Henning Berg		33	247	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Garry Flitcroft	79	29	134	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nils-Eric Johansson		22	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Dunn	85	22	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kerimoglu Tugay	66	32	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Thompson		25	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Egil Ostenstad	83	30	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dwight Yorke	51	30	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
28	D	Kolo Touré	87	21	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Robert Pirès	63	28	98	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Dennis Bergkamp	64	33	283	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Craig Short	83	34	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Keith Gillespie	66	27	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Matt Jansen	85	25	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Edu

Patrick Vieira

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Kerimoglu Tugay

Keith Gillespie

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

338

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Wenger vs Blackburn

6 victories

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on October 26, 2002

Wenger vs Souness

4 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on October 26, 2002

Manager

Age

Match num

Graeme Souness

129

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

52 %

Souness vs Arsenal

4 victories

2 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on October 26, 2002

Souness vs Wenger

2 victories

1 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on October 26, 2002

Referee

Graham Barber

17 victories	6 draws	2 losses	Arsenal25 matches	General total	Blackburn10 matches	3 victories	2 draws	5 losses
1 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Arsenal2 matches	Season total	Blackburn2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on April 03, 2004					Latest figure on December 06, 2003

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Key figures

Arsenal keeps its 3 1-2 running (since 19/10/2002). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 30/01/1965-13/02/1965 time period (3 matches).

Keith Gillespie played his game number 10 vs in his professional career

Arsenal keeps its 4 matches with at least 2 goals conceded vs Blackburn running (since 20/10/2001). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 22/01/1966 (3 matches)

Read the next 20 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VArsenal 5-2 West Bromwich Albion27/08/2002

VArsenal 2-1 Manchester City10/09/2002

VArsenal 2-0 Borussia Dortmund17/09/2002

VArsenal 2-1 Bolton Wanderers21/09/2002

VArsenal 3-1 Sunderland06/10/2002

LArsenal 1-2 Auxerre22/10/2002

Overall

VPSV Eindhoven 0-4 Arsenal25/09/2002

VLeeds United 1-4 Arsenal28/09/2002

VAuxerre 0-1 Arsenal02/10/2002

VArsenal 3-1 Sunderland06/10/2002

LEverton 2-1 Arsenal19/10/2002

LArsenal 1-2 Auxerre22/10/2002

Current form

Away

LLiverpool 4-3 Blackburn08/05/2002

VBirmingham City 0-1 Blackburn24/08/2002

LMiddlesbrough 1-0 Blackburn31/08/2002

DManchester City 2-2 Blackburn15/09/2002

VWest Bromwich Albion 0-2 Blackburn30/09/2002

DCSKA Sofia 3-3 Blackburn03/10/2002

Overall

DBlackburn 1-1 CSKA Sofia19/09/2002

VBlackburn 1-0 Leeds United22/09/2002

VWest Bromwich Albion 0-2 Blackburn30/09/2002

DCSKA Sofia 3-3 Blackburn03/10/2002

LBlackburn 1-2 Tottenham06/10/2002

VBlackburn 5-2 Newcastle United19/10/2002

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	1	2
Drawless streak	18	10
Scoring streak	13	26
Conceding streak	3	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	3	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	3	8
Conceding streak	1	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

10	Number of games (Competition total)	10
5	Number of games (Home / Away)	4
7	Victories (Competition total)	4
5	Victories (Home / Away)	2
2	Draws (Competition total)	3
0	Draws (Home / Away)	1
1	Losses (Competition total)	3
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

25	Goals scored (Competition total)	16
14	Goals scored (Home / Away)	5
11	Goals conceded (Competition total)	12
5	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	3
2.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.6
2.8	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.25
1.1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.2
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.75

Betting aid

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

Bookings

18	Yellow cards (Competition total)	17
5	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	9
1	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Thierry Henry	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	David Dunn
Sylvain Wiltord	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Dwight Yorke
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	David Dunn
Thierry Henry	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)		-
Thierry Henry	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Nwankwo Kanu	5 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last match	David Dunn

Historical head to head

Home

48 matches

27 v

14 d

7 l

97 gf

42 ga

Away

46 matches

16 v

14 d

16 l

70 gf

86 ga

Total

94 matches

43 v

28 d

23 l

167 gf

128 ga

Historical head to head

Home

46 matches

16 v

14 d

16 l

86 gf

70 ga

Away

48 matches

7 v

14 d

27 l

42 gf

97 ga

Total

94 matches

23 v

28 d

43 l

128 gf

167 ga

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	February 25, 1933
Home	8 - 0	February 25, 1933

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	October 02, 1909
Away	3 - 1	December 13, 1997

Latest head to head

January 30, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

Blackburn

2 - 3

Arsenal

December 11, 2001 - League Cup 2001/2002

Blackburn

4 - 0

Arsenal

October 20, 2001 - Premier League 2001/2002

Arsenal

3 - 3

Blackburn

March 10, 2001 - FA Cup 2000/2001

Arsenal

3 - 0

Blackburn

April 06, 1999 - Premier League 1998/1999

Arsenal

1 - 0

Blackburn

Best historical scorers against Blackburn

Joe Baker	6 goals	1962 - 1965
Dennis Bergkamp	5 goals	1998 - 2002
Geoff Strong	4 goals	1960 - 1963
Melvyn Charles	4 goals	1960 - 1960
Ian Wright	3 goals	1996 - 1996
David Herd	3 goals	1959 - 1960

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/09/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Frederick Pickering	6 goals	1962 - 1963
Matt Jansen	5 goals	2001 - 2002
Kevin Gallacher	4 goals	1993 - 1998
Alan Shearer	3 goals	1992 - 1995
Bryan Douglas	2 goals	1962 - 1962
David Dunn	2 goals	2001 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/09/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Blackburn

David Seaman	14 matches	1992 - 2001
Nigel Winterburn	14 matches	1992 - 1999
Tony Adams	13 matches	1992 - 2001
Lee Dixon	13 matches	1992 - 2001
Martin Keown	12 matches	1993 - 2002
Billy McCullough	12 matches	1959 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/09/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Ronnie Clayton	14 matches	1959 - 1966
Tim Sherwood	12 matches	1992 - 1998
Jason Wilcox	12 matches	1992 - 1999
Stuart Ripley	11 matches	1992 - 1998
Bryan Douglas	10 matches	1959 - 1964
Henning Berg	10 matches	1993 - 2001