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WBA 2-1 Nottingham - March 21, 1981 / Division 1 1980/1981

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Division 1 1980/1981 - Round 35

The Hawthorns - West Bromwich - England

March 21, 1981

WBA

2 - 1

Nottingham

John Deehan

(o.g) Brynley Gunn

Gary Mills

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0' - Goal John Deehan photo Brynley Gunn

0' - Own goal Brynley Gunn0

0' - Goal Gary Mills

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46' - Substitution Colin Walshis substituted by Raimondo Ponte

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

WBA

2 - 1

Nottingham

WBA Nottingham

Team line-ups

WBA

Godden

Tony Godden

England

B.date02/08/1955

Age25 years

positionGoalkeeper

Bennett

Martyn Bennett

England

B.date04/08/1961

Age19 years

positionDefender

Statham

Derek Statham

England

B.date24/03/1959

Age21 years

positionDefender

Batson

Brendon Batson

England

B.date06/02/1953

Age28 years

positionRight full-back

Moses

Remi Moses

England

B.date14/11/1960

Age20 years

positionDefensive Midfielder

Robson

Bryan Robson

England

B.date11/01/1957

Age24 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Wile

John Wile

England

B.date09/03/1947

Age34 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Barnes

Peter Barnes

England

B.date10/06/1957

Age23 years

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Mills

David Mills

England

B.date06/12/1951

Age29 years

positionForward

Regis

Cyrille Regis

England

B.date09/02/1958

Age23 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Deehan0

John Deehan

England

B.date06/08/1957

Age23 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Tony Godden	25	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martyn Bennett	19	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Derek Statham	21	144	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brendon Batson	28	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Remi Moses	20	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bryan Robson	24	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Wile	34	321	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Peter Barnes	23	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Mills	29	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cyrille Regis	23	138	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Deehan	23	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

119

Nottingham

Smelt

Lee Smelt

England

B.date13/03/1958

Age23 years

positionGoalkeeper

Needham

David Needham

England

B.date21/05/1949

Age31 years

positionCentral defender

Burns

Kenny Burns

Scotland

B.date23/09/1953

Age27 years

positionCentral defender

Gunn0

Brynley Gunn

England

B.date21/08/1958

Age22 years

positionLeft central defender

Frank Gray

Scotland

B.date27/10/1954

Age26 years

positionLeft full-back

Mills0

Gary Mills

England

B.date11/11/1961

Age19 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Stuart Gray

England

B.date19/04/1960

Age20 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Walsh46

Colin Walsh

Scotland

B.date22/07/1962

Age18 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Francis

Trevor Francis

England

B.date19/04/1954

Age26 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Robertson

John Robertson

Scotland

B.date20/01/1953

Age28 years

positionLeft Winger

Wallace

Ian Wallace

Scotland

B.date23/05/1956

Age24 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Lee Smelt		23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Needham		31	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Burns		27	162	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brynley Gunn		22	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank Gray		26	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Mills		19	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stuart Gray		20	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Colin Walsh	46	18	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trevor Francis		26	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John Robertson		28	223	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ian Wallace		24	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Raimondo Ponte	46	25	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Brendon Batson

Ally Brown

OUT

David Mills

Ally Robertson

OUT

Cyrille Regis

Gary Owen

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Lee Smelt

Peter Shilton

OUT

Trevor Francis

Raimondo Ponte

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Atkinson

176

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

42 %

Atkinson vs Nottingham

2 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on March 21, 1981

Atkinson vs Clough

2 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on March 21, 1981

Manager

Age

Match num

Brian Clough

353

Success rate in this team:

49 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Clough vs WBA

9 victories

5 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on March 21, 1981

Clough vs Atkinson

4 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on March 21, 1981

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Comments

Key figures

It's the first time John Deehan scores 1 goal vs Nottingham Forest in his professional career with West Bromwich Albion

No Nottingham Forest manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Brian Clough has done less than 22% of losses .

It's the first time in his career that Brynley Gunn scores an own goal %comp

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VWest Bromwich Albion 3-1 Manchester United27/12/1980

VWest Bromwich Albion 3-0 Grimsby Town03/01/1981

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Brighton & Hove17/01/1981

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Liverpool07/02/1981

DWest Bromwich Albion 2-2 Birmingham City28/02/1981

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Crystal Palace07/03/1981

Overall

VWest Bromwich Albion 2-0 Liverpool07/02/1981

VNorwich City 0-2 West Bromwich Albion14/02/1981

DSouthampton 2-2 West Bromwich Albion21/02/1981

DWest Bromwich Albion 2-2 Birmingham City28/02/1981

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Crystal Palace07/03/1981

LManchester City 2-1 West Bromwich Albion14/03/1981

Current form

Away

LIpswich Town 2-0 Nottingham Forest10/01/1981

DManchester City 1-1 Nottingham Forest07/02/1981

VStoke City 1-2 Nottingham Forest18/02/1981

DLeicester 1-1 Nottingham Forest28/02/1981

LIpswich Town 1-0 Nottingham Forest10/03/1981

DManchester United 1-1 Nottingham Forest18/03/1981

Overall

DLeicester 1-1 Nottingham Forest28/02/1981

VNottingham Forest 1-0 Middlesbrough03/03/1981

DNottingham Forest 3-3 Ipswich Town07/03/1981

LIpswich Town 1-0 Nottingham Forest10/03/1981

VNottingham Forest 4-1 Brighton & Hove14/03/1981

DManchester United 1-1 Nottingham Forest18/03/1981

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	6	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	7	6
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Winless streak	3	1
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	11	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

33	Number of games (Competition total)	34
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	17
15	Victories (Competition total)	16
10	Victories (Home / Away)	3
11	Draws (Competition total)	10
4	Draws (Home / Away)	9
7	Losses (Competition total)	8
2	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

45	Goals scored (Competition total)	54
27	Goals scored (Home / Away)	14
32	Goals conceded (Competition total)	35
10	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	17
1.36	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.59
1.69	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.82
0.97	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.03
0.63	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

16	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	18
8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	3
14	Clean sheets (Competition total)	9
8	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
9	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	9
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	8
15	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	19
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
3-1 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (5 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

Cyrille Regis	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	10 goals	Ian Wallace
Cyrille Regis	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Ian Wallace
Gary Owen	4 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	4 penalties	John Robertson
Gary Owen	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Frank Gray
Bryan Robson	4 goals during the last 6 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 2 matches	Ian Wallace

Historical head to head

Home

49 matches

24 v

11 d

14 l

104 gf

74 ga

Away

49 matches

20 v

10 d

19 l

82 gf

81 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

1 ga

Total

99 matches

45 v

21 d

33 l

189 gf

156 ga

Historical head to head

Home

49 matches

19 v

10 d

20 l

81 gf

82 ga

Away

49 matches

14 v

11 d

24 l

74 gf

104 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

3 ga

Total

99 matches

33 v

21 d

45 l

156 gf

189 ga

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	April 16, 1900
Home	8 - 0	April 16, 1900

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	October 20, 1900
Away	6 - 1	October 20, 1900

Latest head to head

October 18, 1980 - Division 1 1980/1981

Nottingham

2 - 1

WBA

January 12, 1980 - Division 1 1979/1980

Nottingham

3 - 1

WBA

September 01, 1979 - Division 1 1979/1980

WBA

1 - 5

Nottingham

May 18, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

WBA

0 - 1

Nottingham

September 02, 1978 - Division 1 1978/1979

Nottingham

0 - 0

WBA

Best historical scorers against Nottingham

Tony Brown	9 goals	1964 - 1978
Clive Clark	9 goals	1961 - 1968
Jeff Astle	5 goals	1965 - 1971
Keith Smith	3 goals	1961 - 1962
Bobby Hope	2 goals	1966 - 1967
Derek Kevan	2 goals	1960 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against WBA

Ian Storey-Moore	8 goals	1966 - 1971
Colin Addison	8 goals	1961 - 1965
Joe Baker	4 goals	1966 - 1968
Garry Birtles	3 goals	1979 - 1979
Trevor Francis	2 goals	1979 - 1980
William Hennessey	2 goals	1967 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Nottingham

Tony Brown	22 matches	1964 - 1980
Clive Clark	17 matches	1961 - 1969
Bobby Hope	15 matches	1962 - 1971
Graham Williams	14 matches	1960 - 1969
John Wile	13 matches	1971 - 1980
Jeff Astle	13 matches	1965 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

Peter Hindley	18 matches	1964 - 1973
Bob McKinlay	17 matches	1960 - 1968
John Winfield	15 matches	1962 - 1973
Henry Newton	14 matches	1963 - 1970
Peter Grummitt	14 matches	1961 - 1968
Sammy Chapman	13 matches	1966 - 1973