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Arsenal 1-0 S Wednesday - April 27, 1985 / Division 1 1984/1985

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Division 1 1984/1985 - Round 39

Highbury - London - England

April 27, 1985

Arsenal

1 - 0

S Wednesday

Paul Mariner

90'

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46' - Substitution Stewart Robsonis substituted by Ian Allinson46

90' - Goal Paul Mariner90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

1 - 0

S Wednesday

Arsenal S Wednesday

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Lukic

John Lukic

England

B.date11/12/1960

Age24 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

O'Leary

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Caton

Tommy Caton

England

B.date06/10/1962

Age22 years

positionCentral defender

Anderson

Viv Anderson

England

B.date29/07/1956

Age28 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Sansom

Kenny Sansom

England

B.date26/09/1958

Age26 years

H1m68

positionLeft full-back

Robson46

Stewart Robson

England

B.date06/11/1964

Age20 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Talbot

Brian Talbot

England

B.date21/07/1953

Age31 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Williams

Steve Williams

England

B.date12/07/1958

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Rix

Graham Rix

England

B.date23/10/1957

Age27 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Nicholas

Charly Nicholas

Scotland

B.date30/12/1961

Age23 years

H1m78

positionStriker

Mariner90

Paul Mariner

England

B.date22/05/1953

Age31 years

H1m83

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	John Lukic		24	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary		26	444	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tommy Caton		22	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Viv Anderson		28	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Sansom		26	243	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stewart Robson	46	20	146	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Talbot		31	324	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve Williams		26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Rix		27	380	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Charly Nicholas		23	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Mariner	90	31	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

167

S Wednesday

Hodge

Martin Hodge

England

B.date04/02/1959

Age26 years

positionGoalkeeper

Shirtliff

Peter Shirtliff

England

B.date06/04/1961

Age24 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Morris

Chris Morris

Republic of Ireland

B.date24/12/1963

Age21 years

positionDefender

Smith

Mark Smith

England

B.date21/03/1960

Age25 years

positionDefender

Michael

Lyons Michael

England

B.date12/12/1951

Age33 years

positionDefender

Worthington

Nigel Worthington

Northern Ireland

B.date04/11/1961

Age23 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Blair

Andy Blair

Scotland

B.date18/12/1959

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Shelton

Gary Shelton

England

B.date21/03/1958

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Marwood

Brian Marwood

England

B.date05/02/1960

Age25 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Varadi

Imre Varadi

England

B.date08/07/1959

Age25 years

H1m75

positionForward

Chapman

Lee Chapman

England

B.date05/12/1959

Age25 years

H1m88

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Martin Hodge	26	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Shirtliff	24	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Morris	21	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Smith	25	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lyons Michael	33	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nigel Worthington	23	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Andy Blair	25	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary Shelton	27	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Marwood	25	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Imre Varadi	25	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Lee Chapman	25	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Ian Allinson	46	27	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

David O'Leary

Tony Adams

OUT

Paul Mariner

Ian Allinson

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Imre Varadi

Simon Stainrod

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Don Howe

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

35 %

Howe vs S Wednesday

3 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 27, 1985

Howe vs Wilkinson

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1985

Manager

Age

Match num

Howard Wilkinson

101

Success rate in this team:

53 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Wilkinson vs Arsenal

2 victories

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 27, 1985

Wilkinson vs Howe

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1985

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Key figures

No Sheffield Wednesday manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Howard Wilkinson has done less than 19% of losses .

S Wednesday keeps its 5 matches with only one goal conceded at most running (since 09/04/1985).

Arsenal keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 17/04/1985).

Read the next 4 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LArsenal 0-1 Manchester United23/02/1985

VArsenal 2-1 West Ham02/03/1985

VArsenal 2-0 Leicester16/03/1985

DArsenal 1-1 Ipswich Town19/03/1985

VArsenal 2-0 Norwich City06/04/1985

DArsenal 1-1 Nottingham Forest13/04/1985

Overall

LEverton 2-0 Arsenal23/03/1985

LStoke City 2-0 Arsenal30/03/1985

VArsenal 2-0 Norwich City06/04/1985

DArsenal 1-1 Nottingham Forest13/04/1985

VTottenham 0-2 Arsenal17/04/1985

LQueens Park Rangers 1-0 Arsenal20/04/1985

Current form

Away

LLeicester 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday09/03/1985

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday20/03/1985

DNorwich City 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday03/04/1985

LAston Villa 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday06/04/1985

VIpswich Town 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday13/04/1985

DSunderland 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday16/04/1985

Overall

DNorwich City 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday03/04/1985

LAston Villa 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday06/04/1985

VSheffield Wednesday 1-0 Manchester United09/04/1985

VIpswich Town 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday13/04/1985

DSunderland 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday16/04/1985

VSheffield Wednesday 3-1 Queens Park Rangers23/04/1985

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	5	0
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	5	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	2	4
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

38	Number of games (Competition total)	37
19	Number of games (Home / Away)	18
17	Victories (Competition total)	16
12	Victories (Home / Away)	5
8	Draws (Competition total)	14
5	Draws (Home / Away)	7
13	Losses (Competition total)	7
2	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

56	Goals scored (Competition total)	55
35	Goals scored (Home / Away)	18
44	Goals conceded (Competition total)	38
14	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	19
1.47	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.49
1.84	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
1.16	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.03
0.74	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.06

Betting aid

17	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	20
8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	9
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	10
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	6
10	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
20	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	24
11	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	9
1-1 (5 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-0 (4 times)

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Tony Woodcock	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	16 goals	Imre Varadi
Ian Allinson	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	6 goals	Imre Varadi
Tony Woodcock	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Mel Sterland
Tony Woodcock	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Charly Nicholas	2 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 3 matches	Brian Marwood

Historical head to head

Home

46 matches

22 v

14 d

10 l

86 gf

56 ga

Away

44 matches

15 v

12 d

17 l

70 gf

77 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

1 ga

Total

91 matches

38 v

26 d

27 l

158 gf

134 ga

Historical head to head

Home

44 matches

17 v

12 d

15 l

77 gf

70 ga

Away

46 matches

10 v

14 d

22 l

56 gf

86 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

2 ga

Total

91 matches

27 v

26 d

38 l

134 gf

158 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	March 01, 1969
Home	6 - 2	October 23, 1926

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	December 31, 1907
Away	5 - 2	March 29, 1913

Latest head to head

November 25, 1984 - Division 1 1984/1985

S Wednesday

2 - 1

Arsenal

January 18, 1983 - League Cup 1982/1983

Arsenal

1 - 0

S Wednesday

January 22, 1979 - FA Cup 1978/1979

S Wednesday

0 - 2

Arsenal

January 17, 1979 - FA Cup 1978/1979

Arsenal

3 - 3

S Wednesday

January 15, 1979 - FA Cup 1978/1979

S Wednesday

2 - 2

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against S Wednesday

John Radford	6 goals	1968 - 1969
Joe Baker	4 goals	1962 - 1965
Jon Sammels	4 goals	1965 - 1969
Alan Skirton	4 goals	1964 - 1965
Bobby Gould	4 goals	1968 - 1969
George Eastham	4 goals	1960 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/02/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

John Hickton	4 goals	1965 - 1965
John Fantham	3 goals	1959 - 1965
David Layne	3 goals	1962 - 1964
Keith Ellis	2 goals	1959 - 1960
John Quinn	2 goals	1960 - 1964
John Ritchie	2 goals	1967 - 1968

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/02/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs S Wednesday

George Armstrong	14 matches	1962 - 1969
Terry Neill	14 matches	1960 - 1969
George Eastham	12 matches	1960 - 1965
Peter Simpson	12 matches	1964 - 1969
David Court	11 matches	1963 - 1969
Alan Skirton	10 matches	1960 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 22/09/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Don Megson	18 matches	1959 - 1969
John Fantham	18 matches	1959 - 1969
Gerry Young	15 matches	1963 - 1969
Ron Springett	14 matches	1959 - 1967
Alan Finney	12 matches	1959 - 1965
Colin Dobson	10 matches	1961 - 1965