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Chelsea 0-0 Arsenal - March 27, 1978 / Division 1 1977/1978

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Division 1 1977/1978 - Round 35

Stamford Bridge - London - England

March 27, 1978

Chelsea

0 - 0

Arsenal

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Chelsea

0 - 0

Arsenal

Chelsea Arsenal

Team line-ups

Chelsea

Bonetti

Peter Bonetti

England

B.date27/09/1941

Age36 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Wicks

Steve Wicks

England

B.date03/10/1956

Age21 years

positionCentral defender

Locke

Gary Locke

England

B.date12/07/1954

Age23 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Droy

Michael Droy

England

B.date07/05/1951

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Harris

Ron Harris

England

B.date13/11/1944

Age33 years

positionDefender

Swain

Kenny Swain

England

B.date28/01/1952

Age26 years

positionRight full-back

Hay

David Hay

Scotland

B.date29/01/1948

Age30 years

positionLeft Defensive Midfielder

Britton

Ian Britton

Scotland

B.date19/05/1954

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Lewington

Ray Lewington

England

B.date07/09/1956

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Langley

Tommy Langley

England

B.date08/02/1958

Age20 years

positionForward

Finnieston

Steve Finnieston

Scotland

B.date30/11/1954

Age23 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Bonetti	36	590	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Wicks	21	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Locke	23	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Droy	26	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ron Harris	33	622	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Swain	26	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Hay	30	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ian Britton	23	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Lewington	21	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tommy Langley	20	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Steve Finnieston	23	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

156

Arsenal

Jennings

Pat Jennings

Northern Ireland

B.date12/06/1945

Age32 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Young

Willie Young

Scotland

B.date25/11/1951

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

O'Leary

David O'Leary

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/05/1958

Age19 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Rice

Pat Rice

Northern Ireland

B.date17/03/1949

Age29 years

positionRight full-back

Nelson

Sammy Nelson

Northern Ireland

B.date01/04/1949

Age28 years

positionLeft full-back

Price

David Price

England

B.date23/06/1955

Age22 years

positionCentre Midfield

Hudson

Alan Hudson

England

B.date21/06/1951

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Rix

Graham Rix

England

B.date23/10/1957

Age20 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Brady

Liam Brady

Republic of Ireland

B.date13/02/1956

Age22 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Stapleton

Frank Stapleton

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/07/1956

Age21 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Macdonald

Malcolm Macdonald

England

B.date07/01/1950

Age28 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Pat Jennings	32	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Willie Young	26	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David O'Leary	19	114	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pat Rice	29	392	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sammy Nelson	28	217	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Price	22	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Hudson	26	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Rix	20	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Liam Brady	22	190	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Stapleton	21	121	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Malcolm Macdonald	28	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

125

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Peter Bonetti

John Phillips

OUT

Tommy Langley

Clive Walker

OUT

Michael Droy

Bill Garner

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Graham Rix

Alan Sunderland

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ken Shellito

Success rate in this team:

28 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

28 %

Shellito vs Arsenal

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 27, 1978

Shellito vs Neill

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 27, 1978

Manager

Age

Match num

Terry Neill

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Neill vs Chelsea

3 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 27, 1978

Neill vs Shellito

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 27, 1978

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Key figures

No Chelsea manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Ken Shellito has done less than 1.15 goals scored per game in Premier League.

Ken Shellito has registered 50 goal(s) since the 01/07/1977 as the manager of Chelsea next after this match..

End of streak for Arsenal after 5 matches with at least one goal scored away from home (since 07/02/1978).

Read the next 7 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VChelsea 5-3 Ipswich Town21/01/1978

VChelsea 6-2 Burnley31/01/1978

DChelsea 2-2 Manchester United11/02/1978

LChelsea 1-2 Leyton Orient27/02/1978

VChelsea 3-1 Liverpool04/03/1978

DChelsea 2-2 Newcastle United18/03/1978

Overall

LChelsea 1-2 Leyton Orient27/02/1978

VChelsea 3-1 Liverpool04/03/1978

DDerby County 1-1 Chelsea11/03/1978

DChelsea 2-2 Newcastle United18/03/1978

LBristol City 3-0 Chelsea21/03/1978

LWest Ham 3-1 Chelsea25/03/1978

Current form

Away

LNottingham Forest 2-0 Arsenal21/01/1978

LLiverpool 2-1 Arsenal07/02/1978

DLeicester 1-1 Arsenal11/02/1978

DWest Ham 2-2 Arsenal25/02/1978

VWrexham 2-3 Arsenal11/03/1978

DBirmingham City 1-1 Arsenal21/03/1978

Overall

DArsenal 0-0 Norwich City28/02/1978

VArsenal 3-0 Manchester City04/03/1978

VWrexham 2-3 Arsenal11/03/1978

VArsenal 4-1 Bristol City18/03/1978

DBirmingham City 1-1 Arsenal21/03/1978

VArsenal 4-0 West Bromwich Albion25/03/1978

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	2
Unbeaten streak	2	0
Winless streak	1	4
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	10	1
Conceding streak	11	7

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	4	10
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	5	5
Conceding streak	6	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

33	Number of games (Competition total)	34
17	Number of games (Home / Away)	16
9	Victories (Competition total)	17
6	Victories (Home / Away)	6
11	Draws (Competition total)	9
8	Draws (Home / Away)	4
13	Losses (Competition total)	8
3	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

39	Goals scored (Competition total)	50
24	Goals scored (Home / Away)	18
54	Goals conceded (Competition total)	28
18	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	18
1.18	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.47
1.41	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.13
1.64	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.82
1.06	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.13

Betting aid

16	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
8	Clean sheets (Competition total)	12
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
12	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	8
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	5
17	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	16
10	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	9
0-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (3 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

Tommy Langley	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	12 goals	Malcolm Macdonald
Tommy Langley	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	6 goals	Malcolm Macdonald
Kenny Swain	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	4 penalties	Liam Brady
Kenny Swain	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	2 penalties	Liam Brady
Bill Garner	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	3 goals during the last match	Malcolm Macdonald

Historical head to head

Home

53 matches

19 v

15 d

19 l

69 gf

72 ga

Away

54 matches

15 v

16 d

23 l

68 gf

80 ga

Total

107 matches

34 v

31 d

42 l

137 gf

152 ga

Historical head to head

Home

54 matches

23 v

16 d

15 l

80 gf

68 ga

Away

53 matches

19 v

15 d

19 l

72 gf

69 ga

Total

107 matches

42 v

31 d

34 l

152 gf

137 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	January 17, 1970
Home	3 - 0	September 27, 1969

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	November 29, 1930
Away	5 - 1	November 29, 1930

Latest head to head

December 26, 1977 - Division 1 1977/1978

Arsenal

3 - 0

Chelsea

October 26, 1976 - League Cup 1976/1977

Arsenal

2 - 1

Chelsea

December 26, 1974 - Division 1 1974/1975

Arsenal

1 - 2

Chelsea

September 14, 1974 - Division 1 1974/1975

Chelsea

0 - 0

Arsenal

April 13, 1974 - Division 1 1973/1974

Chelsea

1 - 3

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Robert Tambling	10 goals	1960 - 1967
Jimmy Greaves	4 goals	1958 - 1960
Peter Osgood	4 goals	1966 - 1973
Alan Birchenall	4 goals	1967 - 1969
Barry Bridges	4 goals	1961 - 1965
George Graham	3 goals	1965 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/11/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Ray Kennedy	9 goals	1971 - 1974
Ted Drake	5 goals	1934 - 1935
John Radford	4 goals	1965 - 1974
Alan Ball	3 goals	1973 - 1974
David Court	2 goals	1964 - 1969
Joe Baker	2 goals	1964 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/11/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Peter Bonetti	25 matches	1960 - 1977
Ron Harris	24 matches	1962 - 1977
John Hollins	21 matches	1964 - 1974
Peter Osgood	17 matches	1966 - 1973
Eddie McCreadie	17 matches	1963 - 1973
Peter Houseman	16 matches	1964 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 24/11/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

George Armstrong	22 matches	1964 - 1976
Peter Simpson	22 matches	1964 - 1977
Peter Storey	20 matches	1966 - 1974
Frank McLintock	18 matches	1965 - 1973
John Radford	16 matches	1965 - 1974
Robert McNab	16 matches	1967 - 1974