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Coventry 1-3 Liverpool - March 22, 1989 / Division 1 1988/1989

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Division 1 1988/1989 - Round 25

Highfield Road - Coventry - England

March 22, 1989

23 807

Coventry

1 - 3

Liverpool

Gary Bannister

11'

John Barnes

28'

John Aldridge

56'

Ronnie Whelan

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0' - Goal Gary Bannister0

11' - Goal John Barnes

28' - Goal John Aldridge

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46' - Substitution David Phillipsis substituted by Keith Thompson photo Keith Houchen

46' - Substitution David Smithis substituted by Keith Houchen46

56' - Goal Ronnie Whelan

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Coventry

1 - 3

Liverpool

Coventry Liverpool

Team line-ups

Coventry

Ogrizovic

Steve Ogrizovic

England

B.date12/09/1957

Age31 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Borrows

Brian Borrows

England

B.date20/12/1960

Age28 years

H1m78

positionSweeper

Kilcline

Brian Kilcline

England

B.date07/05/1962

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Peake

Trevor Peake

England

B.date10/02/1957

Age32 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Dobson

Tony Dobson

England

B.date05/02/1969

Age20 years

H1m86

positionLeft full-back

Phillips46

David Phillips

Wales

B.date29/07/1963

Age25 years

H1m78

positionRight Midfielder

Emerson

Dean Emerson

England

B.date27/12/1962

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Smith46

David Smith

England

B.date29/03/1968

Age20 years

H1m73

positionPlaymaker

Bannister0

Gary Bannister

England

B.date22/07/1960

Age28 years

H1m70

positionForward

Speedie

David Speedie

Scotland

B.date20/02/1960

Age29 years

H1m68

positionForward

Regis

Cyrille Regis

England

B.date09/02/1958

Age31 years

H1m83

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Steve Ogrizovic		31	197	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brian Borrows		28	145	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brian Kilcline		26	143	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Trevor Peake		32	201	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Dobson		20	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Phillips	46	25	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dean Emerson		26	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Smith	46	20	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gary Bannister		28	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Speedie		29	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cyrille Regis		31	163	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

105

Liverpool

Grobbelaar

Bruce Grobbelaar

Zimbabwe

B.date06/10/1957

Age31 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

Nicol

Steve Nicol

Scotland

B.date11/12/1961

Age27 years

H1m78

positionRight central defender

Ablett

Gary Ablett

England

B.date19/11/1965

Age23 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Staunton

Steve Staunton

Republic of Ireland

B.date19/01/1969

Age20 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

Gillespie

Gary Gillespie

Scotland

B.date05/07/1960

Age28 years

H1m88

positionDefender

McMahon

Steve McMahon

England

B.date20/08/1961

Age27 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

Houghton

Ray Houghton

Republic of Ireland

B.date09/01/1962

Age27 years

H1m70

positionCentre Midfield

Whelan56

Ronnie Whelan

Republic of Ireland

B.date25/09/1961

Age27 years

H1m75

positionLeft Midfielder

Barnes11

John Barnes

England

B.date07/11/1963

Age25 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Aldridge28

John Aldridge

Republic of Ireland

B.date18/09/1958

Age30 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Beardsley

Peter Beardsley

England

B.date18/01/1961

Age28 years

H1m73

positionSecond striker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Bruce Grobbelaar		31	422	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Nicol		27	248	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Ablett		23	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Staunton		20	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Gillespie		28	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve McMahon		27	161	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Houghton		27	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ronnie Whelan	56	27	359	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Barnes	11	25	79	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Aldridge	28	30	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Beardsley		28	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

160

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Keith Thompson	46	23	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Keith Houchen	46	28	54	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

Dean Emerson

Lloyd McGrath

OUT

Cyrille Regis

Dave Bennett

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

John Sillett

137

Success rate in this team:

42 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Sillett vs Liverpool

1 victory

2 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on March 22, 1989

Sillett vs Dalglish

1 victory

2 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on March 22, 1989

Manager

Age

Match num

Kenny Dalglish

210

Success rate in this team:

60 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

60 %

Dalglish vs Coventry

7 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on March 22, 1989

Dalglish vs Sillett

5 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on March 22, 1989

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Key figures

Liverpool keeps its 5 matches with only one goal conceded at most running (since 01/03/1989).

Liverpool keeps its 14 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 26/12/1988). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 04/05/1987-24/10/1987 time period (16 matches).

No Coventry manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before John Sillett has done less than 32% of losses in Premier League.

Read the next 19 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LCoventry 0-2 Derby County17/12/1988

VCoventry 5-0 Sheffield Wednesday02/01/1989

VCoventry 2-1 Wimbledon FC21/01/1989

LCoventry 1-2 Newcastle United11/02/1989

VCoventry 1-0 Arsenal21/02/1989

DCoventry 1-1 Tottenham18/03/1989

Overall

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Coventry04/02/1989

LCoventry 1-2 Newcastle United11/02/1989

VCoventry 1-0 Arsenal21/02/1989

LMillwall 1-0 Coventry25/02/1989

DWest Ham 1-1 Coventry11/03/1989

DCoventry 1-1 Tottenham18/03/1989

Current form

Away

VCarlisle United 0-3 Liverpool07/01/1989

DSheffield Wednesday 2-2 Liverpool14/01/1989

VMillwall 0-2 Liverpool29/01/1989

DNewcastle United 2-2 Liverpool04/02/1989

VHull City 2-3 Liverpool18/02/1989

VMiddlesbrough 0-4 Liverpool11/03/1989

Overall

DNewcastle United 2-2 Liverpool04/02/1989

VHull City 2-3 Liverpool18/02/1989

VLiverpool 2-0 Charlton01/03/1989

VMiddlesbrough 0-4 Liverpool11/03/1989

VLiverpool 5-0 Luton Town14/03/1989

VLiverpool 4-0 Brentford18/03/1989

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	2	2
Winless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	5	2
Conceding streak	1	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	2	5
Unbeaten streak	6	11
Drawless streak	2	5
Scoring streak	11	13
Invincibility streak	1	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

28	Number of games (Competition total)	26
14	Number of games (Home / Away)	13
11	Victories (Competition total)	12
7	Victories (Home / Away)	6
9	Draws (Competition total)	9
3	Draws (Home / Away)	4
8	Losses (Competition total)	5
4	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

36	Goals scored (Competition total)	41
21	Goals scored (Home / Away)	22
28	Goals conceded (Competition total)	20
13	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	13
1.29	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.58
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.69
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.77
0.93	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

12	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	10
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	12
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	5
7	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	3
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
14	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	12
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
1-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (2 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

David Speedie	12 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	14 goals	John Aldridge
David Speedie	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	8 goals	John Aldridge
Brian Kilcline	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	John Aldridge
Brian Kilcline	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Jan Mölby
Gary Bannister	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	8 goals during the last 6 matches	John Aldridge

Historical head to head

Home

24 matches

6 v

10 d

8 l

17 gf

23 ga

Away

26 matches

0 v

4 d

22 l

13 gf

65 ga

Total

50 matches

6 v

14 d

30 l

30 gf

88 ga

Historical head to head

Home

26 matches

22 v

4 d

0 l

65 gf

13 ga

Away

24 matches

8 v

10 d

6 l

23 gf

17 ga

Total

50 matches

30 v

14 d

6 l

88 gf

30 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	December 10, 1983
Home	4 - 0	December 10, 1983

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	April 12, 1986
Away	4 - 1	August 29, 1987

Latest head to head

October 22, 1988 - Division 1 1988/1989

Liverpool

0 - 0

Coventry

January 01, 1988 - Division 1 1987/1988

Liverpool

4 - 0

Coventry

August 29, 1987 - Division 1 1987/1988

Coventry

1 - 4

Liverpool

May 02, 1987 - Division 1 1986/1987

Coventry

1 - 0

Liverpool

November 29, 1986 - Division 1 1986/1987

Liverpool

2 - 0

Coventry

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Terry Gibson	3 goals	1983 - 1983
John O'Rourke	2 goals	1970 - 1971
Ernie Hunt	2 goals	1970 - 1972
Ferguson Michael	2 goals	1976 - 1978
Brian Alderson	2 goals	1973 - 1975
Nicholas Platnauer	1 goal	1983 - 1983

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/12/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Coventry

Ian Rush	11 goals	1982 - 1986
Kevin Keegan	5 goals	1972 - 1976
Jan Mölby	5 goals	1986 - 1986
John Toshack	5 goals	1972 - 1976
David Johnson	5 goals	1976 - 1980
Kenny Dalglish	4 goals	1977 - 1982

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/12/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Mick Coop	24 matches	1967 - 1980
Tommy Hutchison	15 matches	1972 - 1980
Billy Glazier	15 matches	1967 - 1974
Willie Carr	14 matches	1967 - 1975
Chris Cattlin	11 matches	1968 - 1975
Dennis Mortimer	11 matches	1970 - 1975

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/12/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Coventry

Emelyn Hughes	28 matches	1967 - 1979
Phil Neal	24 matches	1975 - 1985
Ray Clemence	24 matches	1970 - 1980
Ian Callaghan	23 matches	1967 - 1978
Alan Hansen	22 matches	1977 - 1988
Phil Thompson	20 matches	1972 - 1982