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Liverpool 2-0 Southampton - May 05, 1979 / Division 1 1978/1979

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Division 1 1978/1979 - Round 42

Anfield - Liverpool - England

May 05, 1979

Liverpool

2 - 0

Southampton

Phil Neal

16'

Phil Neal

80'

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16' - Goal Phil Neal16

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80' - Goal Phil Neal80

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Liverpool

2 - 0

Southampton

Liverpool Southampton

Team line-ups

Liverpool

Clemence

Ray Clemence

England

B.date05/08/1948

Age30 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Hansen

Alan Hansen

Scotland

B.date13/06/1955

Age23 years

H1m88

positionSweeper

Thompson

Phil Thompson

England

B.date21/01/1954

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

Neal8016

Phil Neal

England

B.date20/02/1951

Age28 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

A. Kennedy

Alan Kennedy

England

B.date31/08/1954

Age24 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Souness

Graeme Souness

Scotland

B.date06/05/1953

Age25 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Case

Jimmy Case

England

B.date18/05/1954

Age24 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Ray Kennedy

England

B.date28/07/1951

Age27 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

McDermott

Terry McDermott

England

B.date08/12/1951

Age27 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Dalglish

Kenny Dalglish

Scotland

B.date04/03/1951

Age28 years

H1m78

positionRight Winger

Johnson

David Johnson

England

B.date23/10/1951

Age27 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ray Clemence		30	541	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Hansen		23	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Thompson		25	296	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Neal	8016	28	258	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Kennedy		24	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graeme Souness		25	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jimmy Case		24	178	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Kennedy		27	247	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Terry McDermott		27	162	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kenny Dalglish		28	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Johnson		27	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

187

Southampton

Wells

Peter Wells

England

B.date13/08/1956

Age22 years

positionGoalkeeper

Holmes

Nick Holmes

England

B.date11/11/1954

Age24 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Waldron

Malcolm Waldron

England

B.date06/09/1956

Age22 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Nicholl

Chris Nicholl

Northern Ireland

B.date12/10/1946

Age32 years

positionCentral defender

Peach

David Peach

England

B.date21/01/1951

Age28 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Andruszewski

Manny Andruszewski

England

B.date04/10/1955

Age23 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Baker

Graham Baker

England

B.date03/12/1958

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Hebberd

Trevor Hebberd

England

B.date19/06/1958

Age20 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Hayes

Austin Hayes

Republic of Ireland

B.date15/07/1958

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Ball

Alan Ball

England

B.date12/05/1945

Age33 years

H1m68

positionRight Winger

Boyer

Philip Boyer

England

B.date25/01/1949

Age30 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Wells	22	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nick Holmes	24	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Malcolm Waldron	22	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Nicholl	32	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Peach	28	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Manny Andruszewski	23	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Baker	20	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trevor Hebberd	20	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Austin Hayes	20	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Ball	33	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Philip Boyer	30	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.9 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

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Austin Hayes

Steve Williams

OUT

Chris Nicholl

Oshor Williams

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Robert Paisley

287

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

Paisley vs Southampton

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on May 05, 1979

Paisley vs McMenemy

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on May 05, 1979

Manager

Age

Match num

Lawrie McMenemy

290

Success rate in this team:

41 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

McMenemy vs Liverpool

0 victory

1 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on May 05, 1979

McMenemy vs Paisley

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on May 05, 1979

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Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Southampton after 4 matches with only one goal conceded at most (since 24/04/1979).

Southampton keeps its 3 matches without scoring any goal away from home running (since 21/04/1979).

No Liverpool manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Robert Paisley has reached 50% of clean sheets .

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VLiverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton20/03/1979

VLiverpool 2-0 Ipswich Town24/03/1979

LLiverpool 0-1 Manchester United04/04/1979

VLiverpool 3-0 Arsenal07/04/1979

VLiverpool 2-0 Manchester United14/04/1979

VLiverpool 1-0 Bristol City21/04/1979

Overall

VLiverpool 2-0 Manchester United14/04/1979

LAston Villa 3-1 Liverpool16/04/1979

VLiverpool 1-0 Bristol City21/04/1979

DSouthampton 1-1 Liverpool24/04/1979

DNottingham Forest 0-0 Liverpool28/04/1979

VBolton Wanderers 1-4 Liverpool01/05/1979

Current form

Away

LBolton Wanderers 2-0 Southampton24/03/1979

DTottenham 0-0 Southampton28/03/1979

DBirmingham City 2-2 Southampton07/04/1979

VChelsea 1-2 Southampton14/04/1979

LCoventry 4-0 Southampton21/04/1979

LNottingham Forest 1-0 Southampton02/05/1979

Overall

DSouthampton 3-3 Tottenham16/04/1979

LCoventry 4-0 Southampton21/04/1979

DSouthampton 1-1 Liverpool24/04/1979

VSouthampton 1-0 Manchester City28/04/1979

DSouthampton 1-1 Manchester United30/04/1979

LNottingham Forest 1-0 Southampton02/05/1979

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	1
Unbeaten streak	3	4
Drawless streak	6	1
Scoring streak	3	1
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	3	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	2	1
Winless streak	2	2
Drawless streak	3	1
Goalless streak	2	1
Conceding streak	4	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

38	Number of games (Competition total)	40
19	Number of games (Home / Away)	19
26	Victories (Competition total)	12
17	Victories (Home / Away)	3
8	Draws (Competition total)	16
2	Draws (Home / Away)	6
4	Losses (Competition total)	12
0	Losses (Home / Away)	10

Goals

76	Goals scored (Competition total)	47
46	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
16	Goals conceded (Competition total)	50
4	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	30
2	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.18
2.42	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.63
0.42	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.25
0.21	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.58

Betting aid

15	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	18
7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
24	Clean sheets (Competition total)	13
15	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
7	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	12
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	10
11	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	20
4	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
2-0 (6 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-0 (3 times)

Bookings

17	Yellow cards (Competition total)	3
9	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	2
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Kenny Dalglish	20 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Nick Holmes
Kenny Dalglish	14 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Nick Holmes
Terry McDermott	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	5 penalties	David Peach
Terry McDermott	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	2 penalties	David Peach
Ray Kennedy	2 goals during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Philip Boyer

Historical head to head

Home

15 matches

13 v

0 d

2 l

24 gf

7 ga

Away

12 matches

3 v

3 d

6 l

7 gf

14 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Total

28 matches

17 v

3 d

8 l

32 gf

21 ga

Historical head to head

Home

12 matches

6 v

3 d

3 l

14 gf

7 ga

Away

15 matches

2 v

0 d

13 l

7 gf

24 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Total

28 matches

8 v

3 d

17 l

21 gf

32 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	October 25, 1969
Home	4 - 1	October 25, 1969

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	August 24, 1960
Away	2 - 1	November 16, 1960

Latest head to head

April 24, 1979 - Division 1 1978/1979

Southampton

1 - 1

Liverpool

August 14, 1976 - Charity Shield 1976

Liverpool

1 - 0

Southampton logo Southampton

February 26, 1974 - Division 1 1973/1974

Liverpool

1 - 0

Southampton logo Southampton

October 13, 1973 - Division 1 1973/1974

Southampton

1 - 0

Liverpool

March 10, 1973 - Division 1 1972/1973

Liverpool

3 - 2

Southampton logo Southampton

Best historical scorers against Southampton

Chris Lawler	3 goals	1967 - 1972
John Toshack	3 goals	1971 - 1976
Kevin Keegan	2 goals	1973 - 1973
Roger Hunt	2 goals	1969 - 1969
Ian Callaghan	2 goals	1966 - 1968
Emelyn Hughes	2 goals	1969 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/1966. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Mick Channon	4 goals	1969 - 1973
Ron Davies	3 goals	1966 - 1968
Terry Paine	1 goal	1968 - 1968
Paul Gilchrist	1 goal	1973 - 1973
Martin Chivers	1 goal	1967 - 1967
Nick Holmes	1 goal	1979 - 1979

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/1966. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Southampton

Chris Lawler	18 matches	1966 - 1974
Emelyn Hughes	17 matches	1967 - 1976
Ian Callaghan	16 matches	1966 - 1976
Tommy Smith	15 matches	1966 - 1974
Ray Clemence	13 matches	1970 - 1979
Alec Lindsay	11 matches	1969 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/09/1966. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Terry Paine	16 matches	1966 - 1974
Mick Channon	14 matches	1968 - 1976
Eric Martin	13 matches	1968 - 1974
Hugh Fisher	12 matches	1967 - 1976
Ron Davies	11 matches	1966 - 1972
Jimmy Gabriel	11 matches	1967 - 1972