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Middlesbrough 2-1 Birmingham City - March 24, 1979 / Division 1 1978/1979

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Division 1 1978/1979 - Round 34

Ayresome Park - Middlesbrough - England

March 24, 1979

2 - 1

Birmingham City

Billy Ashcroft

Micky Burns

Don Givens

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0' - Goal Billy Ashcroft photo Micky Burns

0' - Goal Micky Burns0

0' - Goal Don Givens

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46' - Substitution Micky Burnsis substituted by Bosko Jankovic46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Middlesbrough

2 - 1

Birmingham City

Middlesbrough Birmingham City

Team line-ups

Middlesbrough

Platt

Jim Platt

Northern Ireland

B.date26/01/1952

Age27 years

positionGoalkeeper

Johnson

Peter Johnson

England

B.date05/10/1958

Age20 years

positionDefender

McAndrew

Anthony McAndrew

Scotland

B.date11/04/1956

Age22 years

positionDefender

Boam

Stuart Boam

England

B.date28/01/1948

Age31 years

H1m88

positionDefender

Ashcroft0

Billy Ashcroft

England

B.date01/10/1952

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Craggs

John Craggs

England

B.date31/10/1948

Age30 years

positionRight full-back

Proctor

Mark Proctor

England

B.date30/01/1961

Age18 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Armstrong

David Armstrong

England

B.date26/12/1954

Age24 years

positionMidfield

Burns046

Micky Burns

England

B.date21/12/1946

Age32 years

positionForward

Hodgson

David Hodgson

England

B.date06/08/1960

Age18 years

positionForward

Mahoney

John Mahoney

Wales

B.date20/09/1946

Age32 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Platt		27	142	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Johnson		20	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony McAndrew		22	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stuart Boam		31	199	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Ashcroft		26	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Craggs		30	194	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark Proctor		18	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Armstrong		24	202	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Micky Burns	46	32	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Hodgson		18	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Mahoney		32	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Birmingham City

Freeman

Neil Freeman

England

B.date16/02/1955

Age24 years

positionGoalkeeper

Dennis

Mark Dennis

England

B.date02/05/1961

Age17 years

positionDefender

Howard

Pat Howard

England

B.date07/10/1947

Age31 years

positionCentral defender

Page

Malcolm Page

Wales

B.date05/02/1947

Age32 years

positionDefender

Gallagher

Joe Gallagher

England

B.date11/01/1955

Age24 years

positionCentral defender

Ainscow

Alan Ainscow

England

B.date15/07/1953

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Dillon

Kevin Dillon

England

B.date18/12/1959

Age19 years

positionMidfield

Towers

Tony Towers

England

B.date13/04/1952

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Barrowclough

Stewart Barrowclough

England

B.date29/10/1951

Age27 years

positionRight Winger

Buckley

Alan Buckley

England

B.date20/04/1951

Age27 years

positionStriker

Givens0

Don Givens

Republic of Ireland

B.date09/08/1949

Age29 years

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Neil Freeman	24	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Dennis	17	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pat Howard	31	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Malcolm Page	32	182	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Joe Gallagher	24	191	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Ainscow	25	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kevin Dillon	19	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Towers	26	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stewart Barrowclough	27	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Buckley	27	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Don Givens	29	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Bosko Jankovic	46	27	2	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

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mark Dennis

Jimmy Calderwood

OUT

Pat Howard

Alberto Tarantini

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

John Neal

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

35 %

Neal vs Birmingham City

3 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 24, 1979

Neal vs Smith

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 24, 1979

Manager

Age

Match num

Jim Smith

Success rate in this team:

13 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

30 %

Smith vs Middlesbrough

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 24, 1979

Smith vs Neal

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 24, 1979

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Comments

Key figures

Middlesbrough keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw vs Birmingham City running (since 10/09/1977). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 17/08/1974-16/10/1976 time period (6 matches).

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before John Neal has done less than 30% of wins .

It's the first time Don Givens scores a goal vs Middlesbrough in Premier League since the 20/11/1976 (with vs )

Read the next 12 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Bolton Wanderers26/12/1978

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Crystal Palace09/01/1979

LMiddlesbrough 1-3 Nottingham Forest03/02/1979

LMiddlesbrough 1-2 Everton06/03/1979

VMiddlesbrough 2-0 Aston Villa10/03/1979

VMiddlesbrough 3-1 Derby County13/03/1979

Overall

LNorwich City 1-0 Middlesbrough24/02/1979

VWolverhampton 1-3 Middlesbrough03/03/1979

LMiddlesbrough 1-2 Everton06/03/1979

VMiddlesbrough 2-0 Aston Villa10/03/1979

VMiddlesbrough 3-1 Derby County13/03/1979

DBristol City 1-1 Middlesbrough17/03/1979

Current form

Away

LNottingham Forest 1-0 Birmingham City16/12/1978

LWolverhampton 2-1 Birmingham City26/12/1978

LArsenal 3-1 Birmingham City30/12/1978

LChelsea 2-1 Birmingham City03/02/1979

LLiverpool 1-0 Birmingham City13/02/1979

LAston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City03/03/1979

Overall

LBirmingham City 0-1 Leeds United10/02/1979

LLiverpool 1-0 Birmingham City13/02/1979

VBirmingham City 1-0 Tottenham24/02/1979

LAston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City03/03/1979

VBirmingham City 3-1 Queens Park Rangers06/03/1979

DBirmingham City 0-0 Coventry10/03/1979

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	2	3
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	4	0
Scoring streak	8	5
Conceding streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	13	0
Unbeaten streak	0	2
Winless streak	17	1
Drawless streak	13	0
Goalless streak	2	1
Conceding streak	15	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

30	Number of games (Competition total)	29
14	Number of games (Home / Away)	15
9	Victories (Competition total)	4
6	Victories (Home / Away)	0
7	Draws (Competition total)	5
3	Draws (Home / Away)	1
14	Losses (Competition total)	20
5	Losses (Home / Away)	14

Goals

42	Goals scored (Competition total)	25
24	Goals scored (Home / Away)	7
41	Goals conceded (Competition total)	45
16	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	27
1.4	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.86
1.71	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.47
1.37	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.55
1.14	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.8

Betting aid

14	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
8	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	13
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	9
17	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	14
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
2-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (7 times)

Bookings

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

Key players

Micky Burns	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	6 goals	Alan Buckley
Micky Burns	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Trevor Francis
David Armstrong	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Trevor Francis
David Armstrong	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Trevor Francis
David Armstrong	3 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Alan Buckley

Historical head to head

Home

36 matches

13 v

13 d

10 l

48 gf

40 ga

Away

37 matches

7 v

10 d

20 l

41 gf

71 ga

Total

73 matches

20 v

23 d

30 l

89 gf

111 ga

Historical head to head

Home

37 matches

20 v

10 d

7 l

71 gf

41 ga

Away

36 matches

10 v

13 d

13 l

40 gf

48 ga

Total

73 matches

30 v

23 d

20 l

111 gf

89 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	February 08, 1930
Home	5 - 1	February 08, 1930

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	December 26, 1905
Away	5 - 2	April 08, 1955

Latest head to head

August 22, 1978 - Division 1 1978/1979

Birmingham City

1 - 3

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

February 04, 1978 - Division 1 1977/1978

Birmingham City

1 - 2

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

September 10, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Middlesbrough

1 - 2

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

March 22, 1977 - Division 1 1976/1977

Middlesbrough

2 - 2

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

October 16, 1976 - Division 1 1976/1977

Birmingham City

3 - 1

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

David Mills	4 goals	1975 - 1978
John Hickton	3 goals	1974 - 1975
Alan Foggon	3 goals	1974 - 1974
Billy Ashcroft	2 goals	1977 - 1978
Stuart Boam	1 goal	1977 - 1977
David Armstrong	1 goal	1978 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/08/1974. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Trevor Francis	5 goals	1976 - 1977
Joe Gallagher	2 goals	1976 - 1978
Kenny Burns	1 goal	1976 - 1976
Bob Hatton	1 goal	1976 - 1976
Keith Bertschin	1 goal	1978 - 1978
Howard Kendall	1 goal	1976 - 1976

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/08/1974. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

David Armstrong	9 matches	1974 - 1978
John Craggs	9 matches	1974 - 1978
David Mills	8 matches	1974 - 1978
Stuart Boam	8 matches	1974 - 1978
Jim Platt	7 matches	1974 - 1978
Willie Maddren	6 matches	1974 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/08/1974. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Garry Pendrey	7 matches	1974 - 1978
Trevor Francis	7 matches	1974 - 1978
Joe Gallagher	7 matches	1974 - 1978
Jimmy Calderwood	5 matches	1974 - 1978
Dave Latchford	5 matches	1974 - 1976
Gary Emmanuel	5 matches	1976 - 1978