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Arsenal 2-2 Middlesbrough - February 28, 1981 / Division 1 1980/1981

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Division 1 1980/1981 - Round 32

Highbury - London - England

February 28, 1981

2 - 2

Middlesbrough

(penalty) John Hollins

Frank Stapleton

David Armstrong

David Shearer

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0' - Goal John Hollins photo Frank Stapleton

0' - Goal Frank Stapleton0

0' - Goal David Armstrong photo David Shearer

0' - Goal David Shearer

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46' - Substitution Alan Sunderlandis substituted by Brian McDermott46

46' - Substitution Billy Ashcroftis substituted by John Craggs

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

2 - 2

Middlesbrough

Arsenal Middlesbrough

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Jennings

Pat Jennings

Northern Ireland

B.date12/06/1945

Age35 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

O'Leary

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age22 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Gatting

Steve Gatting

England

B.date29/05/1959

Age21 years

positionLeft central defender

Devine

John Devine

Republic of Ireland

B.date11/11/1958

Age22 years

positionDefender

Walford

Steve Walford

England

B.date05/01/1958

Age23 years

positionCentral defender

Hollins0

John Hollins

England

B.date16/07/1946

Age34 years

positionCentral defender

Sansom

Kenny Sansom

England

B.date26/09/1958

Age22 years

H1m68

positionLeft full-back

Talbot

Brian Talbot

England

B.date21/07/1953

Age27 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Rix

Graham Rix

England

B.date23/10/1957

Age23 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Sunderland46

Alan Sunderland

England

B.date01/07/1953

Age27 years

positionStriker

Stapleton0

Frank Stapleton

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/07/1956

Age24 years

H1m83

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Pat Jennings		35	201	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary		22	253	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Gatting		21	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Devine		22	79	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Walford		23	98	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Hollins		34	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Sansom		22	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Talbot		27	131	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Rix		23	217	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Sunderland	46	27	173	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Stapleton		24	291	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

148

Middlesbrough

Platt

Jim Platt

Northern Ireland

B.date26/01/1952

Age29 years

positionGoalkeeper

Ashcroft46

Billy Ashcroft

England

B.date01/10/1952

Age28 years

positionCentral defender

McAndrew

Anthony McAndrew

Scotland

B.date11/04/1956

Age24 years

positionDefender

Bailey

Ian Bailey

England

B.date20/10/1956

Age24 years

positionDefender

Nattrass

Irving Nattrass

England

B.date12/12/1952

Age28 years

positionRight full-back

Proctor

Mark Proctor

England

B.date30/01/1961

Age20 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Armstrong0

David Armstrong

England

B.date26/12/1954

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Johnston

Craig Johnston

England

B.date25/06/1960

Age20 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Jankovic

Bosko Jankovic

Serbia

B.date22/05/1951

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Shearer0

David Shearer

Scotland

B.date16/10/1958

Age22 years

positionForward

Cochrane

Terry Cochrane

Northern Ireland

B.date23/01/1953

Age28 years

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Platt		29	219	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Ashcroft	46	28	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony McAndrew		24	198	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Bailey		24	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Irving Nattrass		28	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark Proctor		20	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Armstrong		26	284	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Craig Johnston		20	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bosko Jankovic		29	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Shearer		22	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Terry Cochrane		28	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

117

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Brian McDermott	46	19	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		John Craggs	46	32	272	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Steve Walford

Willie Young

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

David Shearer

David Hodgson

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Terry Neill

273

Success rate in this team:

44 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Neill vs Middlesbrough

8 victories

3 draws

13 losses

Latest figure on February 28, 1981

Neill vs Neal

4 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on February 28, 1981

Manager

Age

Match num

John Neal

181

Success rate in this team:

36 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Neal vs Arsenal

2 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on February 28, 1981

Neal vs Neill

2 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on February 28, 1981

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Comments

Key figures

Arsenal keeps its 3 matches with at least 2 goals scored at home running (since 31/01/1981).

Arsenal keeps its 17 matches with at least one goal scored at home running (since 19/08/1980). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 04/03/1978-27/01/1979 time period (26 matches).

Terry Neill has registered 200 participation in Premier League since the 08/07/1976 as the manager of Arsenal next after this match..

Read the next 8 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VArsenal 2-1 Everton22/11/1980

DArsenal 1-1 Wolverhampton06/12/1980

VArsenal 2-1 Manchester United20/12/1980

DArsenal 1-1 Ipswich Town27/12/1980

DArsenal 2-2 Coventry31/01/1981

VArsenal 2-0 Manchester City24/02/1981

Overall

VEverton 1-2 Arsenal10/01/1981

LTottenham 2-0 Arsenal17/01/1981

DArsenal 2-2 Coventry31/01/1981

DStoke City 1-1 Arsenal07/02/1981

LNottingham Forest 3-1 Arsenal21/02/1981

VArsenal 2-0 Manchester City24/02/1981

Current form

Away

LLeicester 1-0 Middlesbrough13/12/1980

LCoventry 1-0 Middlesbrough26/12/1980

VSwansea 0-5 Middlesbrough03/01/1981

LWolverhampton 3-0 Middlesbrough10/01/1981

LManchester City 3-2 Middlesbrough17/01/1981

LIpswich Town 1-0 Middlesbrough17/02/1981

Overall

VMiddlesbrough 1-0 West Bromwich Albion24/01/1981

VMiddlesbrough 2-0 Crystal Palace31/01/1981

VMiddlesbrough 1-0 Sunderland07/02/1981

VMiddlesbrough 2-1 Barnsley14/02/1981

LIpswich Town 1-0 Middlesbrough17/02/1981

VMiddlesbrough 3-1 Stoke City21/02/1981

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	29	1
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	16	4
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	3	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	3	0
Drawless streak	19	15
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	3	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

31	Number of games (Competition total)	30
15	Number of games (Home / Away)	14
12	Victories (Competition total)	13
9	Victories (Home / Away)	2
12	Draws (Competition total)	4
6	Draws (Home / Away)	0
7	Losses (Competition total)	13
0	Losses (Home / Away)	12

Goals

45	Goals scored (Competition total)	43
26	Goals scored (Home / Away)	11
37	Goals conceded (Competition total)	41
12	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	30
1.45	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.43
1.73	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.79
1.19	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.37
0.8	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.14

Betting aid

14	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
9	Clean sheets (Competition total)	9
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	8
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
20	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	14
9	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
2-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (4 times)

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Frank Stapleton	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	10 goals	Craig Johnston
Frank Stapleton	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Craig Johnston
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Bosko Jankovic
Brian Talbot	2 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last match	Bosko Jankovic

Historical head to head

Home

42 matches

27 v

10 d

5 l

105 gf

41 ga

Away

45 matches

12 v

13 d

20 l

54 gf

71 ga

Total

87 matches

39 v

23 d

25 l

159 gf

112 ga

Historical head to head

Home

45 matches

20 v

13 d

12 l

71 gf

54 ga

Away

42 matches

5 v

10 d

27 l

41 gf

105 ga

Total

87 matches

25 v

23 d

39 l

112 gf

159 ga

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	April 19, 1935
Home	8 - 0	April 19, 1935

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	May 19, 1980
Away	3 - 0	October 19, 1901

Latest head to head

September 20, 1980 - Division 1 1980/1981

Middlesbrough

2 - 1

Arsenal

May 19, 1980 - Division 1 1979/1980

Middlesbrough

5 - 0

Arsenal

September 15, 1979 - Division 1 1979/1980

Arsenal

2 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

February 10, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Arsenal

0 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

September 30, 1978 - Division 1 1978/1979

Middlesbrough

2 - 3

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Ted Drake	5 goals	1935 - 1935
Frank Stapleton	4 goals	1975 - 1979
Tim Rogers	2 goals	1935 - 1935
Alan Ball	1 goal	1974 - 1974
Alan Sunderland	1 goal	1979 - 1979
David Price	1 goal	1978 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/04/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

David Armstrong	4 goals	1977 - 1980
David Mills	3 goals	1975 - 1978
Mark Proctor	1 goal	1980 - 1980
Craig Johnston	1 goal	1980 - 1980
David Hodgson	1 goal	1980 - 1980
Peter Brine	1 goal	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/04/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Pat Rice	12 matches	1974 - 1980
Frank Stapleton	11 matches	1975 - 1980
Sammy Nelson	11 matches	1975 - 1980
Liam Brady	10 matches	1974 - 1980
David O'Leary	9 matches	1975 - 1980
Graham Rix	8 matches	1977 - 1980

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/04/1935. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

John Craggs	13 matches	1974 - 1980
David Armstrong	13 matches	1974 - 1980
Stuart Boam	9 matches	1974 - 1979
Anthony McAndrew	9 matches	1976 - 1980
David Mills	8 matches	1975 - 1978
Billy Ashcroft	6 matches	1977 - 1980