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Arsenal 1-0 Coventry - October 31, 1981 / Division 1 1981/1982

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Division 1 1981/1982 - Round 12

Highbury - London - England

October 31, 1981

1 - 0

Coventry

(o.g) Danny Thomas

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0' - Own goal Danny Thomas0

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

1 - 0

Coventry

Arsenal Coventry

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Jennings

Pat Jennings

Northern Ireland

B.date12/06/1945

Age36 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Hollins

John Hollins

England

B.date16/07/1946

Age35 years

positionCentral defender

O'Leary

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age23 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Whyte

Christopher Whyte

England

B.date02/09/1961

Age20 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Sansom

Kenny Sansom

England

B.date26/09/1958

Age23 years

H1m68

positionLeft full-back

Nicholas

Peter Nicholas

Wales

B.date10/11/1959

Age21 years

positionDefensive Midfielder

McDermott

Brian McDermott

England

B.date08/04/1961

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Talbot

Brian Talbot

England

B.date21/07/1953

Age28 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Rix

Graham Rix

England

B.date23/10/1957

Age24 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Hawley

John Hawley

England

B.date08/05/1954

Age27 years

positionForward

Vaessen

Paul Vaessen

England

B.date16/10/1961

Age20 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Pat Jennings	36	228	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Hollins	35	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary	23	280	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Christopher Whyte	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Sansom	23	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Peter Nicholas	21	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian McDermott	20	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Talbot	28	158	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Rix	24	236	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Hawley	27	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Vaessen	20	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

107

Coventry

Blyth

Jim Blyth

Scotland

B.date02/02/1955

Age26 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Gillespie

Gary Gillespie

Scotland

B.date05/07/1960

Age21 years

H1m88

positionDefender

Jacobs

Stephen Jacobs

England

B.date05/07/1961

Age20 years

positionDefender

Roberts

Brian Roberts

England

B.date06/11/1955

Age25 years

H1m73

positionDefender

Dyson

Paul Dyson

England

B.date27/12/1959

Age21 years

positionDefender

Thomas0

Danny Thomas

England

B.date12/11/1961

Age19 years

positionMidfield

Hunt

Steve Hunt

England

B.date04/08/1956

Age25 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Gooding

Ray Gooding

England

B.date16/02/1959

Age22 years

positionMidfield

Kaiser

Ruud Kaiser

Netherlands

B.date26/12/1960

Age20 years

positionForward

Hateley

Mark Hateley

England

B.date07/11/1961

Age19 years

H1m91

positionStriker

Thompson

Garry Thompson

England

B.date07/10/1959

Age22 years

H1m85

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Blyth	26	132	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Gillespie	21	103	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen Jacobs	20	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brian Roberts	25	127	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Dyson	21	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Danny Thomas	19	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve Hunt	25	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Gooding	22	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ruud Kaiser	20	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mark Hateley	19	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Garry Thompson	22	92	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

21.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Christopher Whyte

Willie Young

OUT

John Hawley

Alan Sunderland

OUT

Paul Vaessen

Raphael Meade

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Terry Neill

300

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

Neill vs Coventry

9 victories

7 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on October 31, 1981

Neill vs Sexton

9 victories

4 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on October 31, 1981

Manager

Age

Match num

Dave Sexton

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Sexton vs Arsenal

10 victories

9 draws

15 losses

Latest figure on October 31, 1981

Sexton vs Neill

5 victories

4 draws

9 losses

Latest figure on October 31, 1981

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Key figures

David O'Leary played his game number 10 vs Coventry in Premier League

Coventry keeps its 6 matches with at least one goal conceded running (since 06/10/1981).

Arsenal keeps its 4 matches with at least one goal scored at home running (since 30/09/1981). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 19/08/1980-31/03/1981 time period (19 matches).

Read the next 9 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DArsenal 1-1 Sunderland12/09/1981

VArsenal 1-0 Birmingham City22/09/1981

DArsenal 0-0 Manchester United26/09/1981

VArsenal 1-0 Panathinaikos30/09/1981

VArsenal 1-0 Manchester City17/10/1981

VArsenal 2-0 Sheffield United27/10/1981

Overall

LSheffield United 1-0 Arsenal06/10/1981

LSwansea 2-0 Arsenal10/10/1981

VArsenal 1-0 Manchester City17/10/1981

LRC Genk 1-0 Arsenal21/10/1981

LIpswich Town 2-1 Arsenal24/10/1981

VArsenal 2-0 Sheffield United27/10/1981

Current form

Away

LStoke City 4-0 Coventry02/09/1981

LNotts County 2-1 Coventry05/09/1981

DBrighton & Hove 2-2 Coventry19/09/1981

DSunderland 0-0 Coventry03/10/1981

DEverton 1-1 Coventry06/10/1981

LNottingham Forest 2-1 Coventry17/10/1981

Overall

DSunderland 0-0 Coventry03/10/1981

DEverton 1-1 Coventry06/10/1981

DCoventry 1-1 Aston Villa10/10/1981

LNottingham Forest 2-1 Coventry17/10/1981

VCoventry 3-1 Swansea24/10/1981

LCoventry 0-1 Everton27/10/1981

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	1
Unbeaten streak	6	1
Drawless streak	3	8
Scoring streak	3	2
Invincibility streak	5	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	7	1
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	2	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	2	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

11	Number of games (Competition total)	11
5	Number of games (Home / Away)	5
3	Victories (Competition total)	4
2	Victories (Home / Away)	0
3	Draws (Competition total)	3
2	Draws (Home / Away)	2
5	Losses (Competition total)	4
1	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

7	Goals scored (Competition total)	19
3	Goals scored (Home / Away)	4
10	Goals conceded (Competition total)	17
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	10
0.64	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.73
0.6	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.8
0.91	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.55
0.4	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2

Betting aid

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

Alan Sunderland	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Garry Thompson
Brian Talbot	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Steve Hunt
Alan Sunderland	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 3 matches	Mark Hateley

Historical head to head

Home

16 matches

9 v

5 d

2 l

30 gf

13 ga

Away

16 matches

7 v

6 d

3 l

21 gf

20 ga

Total

32 matches

16 v

11 d

5 l

51 gf

33 ga

Historical head to head

Home

16 matches

3 v

6 d

7 l

20 gf

21 ga

Away

16 matches

2 v

5 d

9 l

13 gf

30 ga

Total

32 matches

5 v

11 d

16 l

33 gf

51 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	October 11, 1975
Home	5 - 0	October 11, 1975

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	November 23, 1974
Away	2 - 0	November 04, 1972

Latest head to head

January 31, 1981 - Division 1 1980/1981

Arsenal

2 - 2

Coventry

August 23, 1980 - Division 1 1980/1981

Coventry

3 - 1

Arsenal

May 03, 1980 - Division 1 1979/1980

Coventry

0 - 1

Arsenal

December 08, 1979 - Division 1 1979/1980

Arsenal

3 - 1

Coventry

April 03, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Arsenal

1 - 1

Coventry

Best historical scorers against Coventry

Frank Stapleton	9 goals	1976 - 1981
John Radford	5 goals	1968 - 1974
Brian Kidd	4 goals	1975 - 1975
George Graham	4 goals	1967 - 1972
Malcolm Macdonald	4 goals	1976 - 1977
Ray Kennedy	3 goals	1970 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Brian Alderson	3 goals	1972 - 1974
David Cross	2 goals	1973 - 1974
Alan Green	2 goals	1976 - 1977
Neil Martin	2 goals	1970 - 1970
Colin Stein	2 goals	1974 - 1974
Ernie Hunt	2 goals	1968 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Coventry

Pat Rice	23 matches	1970 - 1980
Peter Simpson	19 matches	1967 - 1977
Peter Storey	18 matches	1967 - 1977
George Armstrong	18 matches	1967 - 1977
Robert McNab	16 matches	1967 - 1975
John Radford	15 matches	1968 - 1976

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/09/1967. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Mick Coop	21 matches	1968 - 1980
Tommy Hutchison	14 matches	1972 - 1979
Billy Glazier	13 matches	1967 - 1974
Willie Carr	12 matches	1967 - 1974
Dennis Mortimer	10 matches	1970 - 1975
Chris Cattlin	9 matches	1968 - 1976