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Norwich City 1-0 Chelsea - April 14, 1973 / Division 1 1972/1973

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Division 1 1972/1973 - Journée 38

Carrow Road - Norwich - England

April 14, 1973

1 - 0

Chelsea

David Cross

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0' - Goal David Cross0

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46' - Substitution Colin Suggettis substituted by Paul Cheesley46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Norwich City

1 - 0

Chelsea

Norwich City Chelsea

Team line-ups

Norwich City

Keelan

Kevin Keelan

England

B.date05/01/1941

Age32 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Suggett46

Colin Suggett

England

B.date30/12/1948

Age24 years

positionDefender

Black

Alan Black

Scotland

B.date04/06/1943

Age29 years

positionDefender

Stringer

Dave Stringer

England

B.date15/10/1944

Age28 years

positionCentral defender

Forbes

Duncan Forbes

Scotland

B.date19/06/1941

Age31 years

positionCentral defender

Payne

Clive Payne

England

B.date02/03/1950

Age23 years

positionRight full-back

Livermore

Doug Livermore

England

B.date27/12/1947

Age25 years

H1m74

positionMidfield

Paddon

Graham Paddon

England

B.date24/08/1950

Age22 years

positionMidfield

Mellor

Ian Mellor

England

B.date19/02/1950

Age23 years

positionLeft Winger

Hockey

Trevor Hockey

Wales

B.date01/05/1943

Age29 years

positionForward

Cross0

David Cross

England

B.date08/12/1950

Age22 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Kevin Keelan		32	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Suggett	46	24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Black		29	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dave Stringer		28	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Duncan Forbes		31	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Clive Payne		23	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Doug Livermore		25	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Paddon		22	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ian Mellor		23	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Trevor Hockey		29	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Cross		22	44	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

Chelsea

Bonetti

Peter Bonetti

England

B.date27/09/1941

Age31 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Hinton

Marvin Hinton

England

B.date02/02/1940

Age33 years

positionDefender

Harris

Ron Harris

England

B.date13/11/1944

Age28 years

positionDefender

Hollins

John Hollins

England

B.date16/07/1946

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Droy

Michael Droy

England

B.date07/05/1951

Age21 years

positionCentral defender

McCreadie

Eddie McCreadie

Scotland

B.date15/04/1940

Age32 years

positionDefender

Boyle

John Boyle

Scotland

B.date25/12/1946

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Baldwin

Tommy Baldwin

England

B.date10/06/1945

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Britton

Ian Britton

Scotland

B.date19/05/1954

Age18 years

positionMidfield

Osgood

Peter Osgood

England

B.date20/02/1947

Age26 years

H1m85

positionStriker

Brolly

Mike Brolly

Scotland

B.date06/10/1954

Age18 years

H1m73

positionWinger

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Bonetti	31	534	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marvin Hinton	33	322	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ron Harris	28	501	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Hollins	26	468	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Droy	21	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eddie McCreadie	32	364	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Boyle	26	264	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tommy Baldwin	27	207	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ian Britton	18	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Osgood	26	343	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mike Brolly	18	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26 years

Average number of matches played for the team

276

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Paul Cheesley	46	19	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Doug Livermore

Terry Anderson

OUT

Clive Payne

Geoff Butler

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Michael Droy

John Dempsey

OUT

Tommy Baldwin

Tommy Ord

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Saunders

187

Success rate in this team:

38 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Saunders vs Chelsea

3 victories

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 14, 1973

Saunders vs Sexton

3 victories

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 14, 1973

Manager

Age

Match num

Dave Sexton

313

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

44 %

Sexton vs Norwich City

3 victories

0 draw

5 losses

Latest figure on April 14, 1973

Sexton vs Saunders

2 victories

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on April 14, 1973

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Key figures

Norwich City keeps its 3 consecutive wins vs Chelsea running (since 13/12/1972). It's a record streak. The first of history

Chelsea keeps its 4 consecutive losses running (since 31/03/1973). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 16/04/1966-30/04/1966 time period (5 matches).

End of streak for Norwich City after 9 matches with at least one goal conceded at home in Premier League (since 02/12/1972). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 28/10/1972 (4 matches)

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LNorwich City 1-2 Leeds United20/01/1973

LNorwich City 0-1 West Ham10/02/1973

LNorwich City 0-1 Newcastle United24/02/1973

DNorwich City 1-1 Coventry07/03/1973

DNorwich City 1-1 Leicester17/03/1973

LNorwich City 1-2 Birmingham City31/03/1973

Overall

LTottenham 3-0 Norwich City10/03/1973

DNorwich City 1-1 Leicester17/03/1973

LLiverpool 3-1 Norwich City24/03/1973

LNorwich City 1-2 Birmingham City31/03/1973

DEverton 2-2 Norwich City03/04/1973

LManchester United 1-0 Norwich City07/04/1973

Current form

Away

VSheffield Wednesday 1-2 Chelsea24/02/1973

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Chelsea10/03/1973

LArsenal 2-1 Chelsea20/03/1973

DNewcastle United 1-1 Chelsea24/03/1973

VManchester City 0-1 Chelsea27/03/1973

LCrystal Palace 2-0 Chelsea31/03/1973

Overall

LArsenal 2-1 Chelsea20/03/1973

DNewcastle United 1-1 Chelsea24/03/1973

VManchester City 0-1 Chelsea27/03/1973

LCrystal Palace 2-0 Chelsea31/03/1973

LChelsea 0-1 Tottenham03/04/1973

LChelsea 1-3 Stoke City07/04/1973

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	7	16
Drawless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	3	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	7	16

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	3
Winless streak	1	3
Drawless streak	2	4
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	1	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

37	Number of games (Competition total)	37
19	Number of games (Home / Away)	19
8	Victories (Competition total)	10
5	Victories (Home / Away)	4
10	Draws (Competition total)	14
9	Draws (Home / Away)	8
19	Losses (Competition total)	13
5	Losses (Home / Away)	7

Goals

32	Goals scored (Competition total)	44
19	Goals scored (Home / Away)	19
57	Goals conceded (Competition total)	48
18	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	27
0.86	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.19
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
1.54	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.3
0.95	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.42

Betting aid

15	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
6	Clean sheets (Competition total)	7
5	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
14	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	9
5	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
19	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	24
11	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	13
1-1 (7 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (6 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

David Cross	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	11 goals	Chris Garland
Graham Paddon	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	Peter Osgood
David Cross	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Tommy Ord

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

2 v

1 d

1 l

6 gf

3 ga

Away

5 matches

1 v

0 d

4 l

4 gf

9 ga

Total

9 matches

3 v

1 d

5 l

10 gf

12 ga

Historical head to head

Home

5 matches

4 v

0 d

1 l

9 gf

4 ga

Away

4 matches

1 v

1 d

2 l

3 gf

6 ga

Total

9 matches

5 v

1 d

3 l

12 gf

10 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	April 06, 1963
Home	4 - 1	April 06, 1963

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	December 09, 1972
Away	1 - 0	November 17, 1971

Latest head to head

January 03, 1973 - League Cup 1972/1973

Norwich City

1 - 0

Chelsea

December 13, 1972 - League Cup 1972/1973

Chelsea

0 - 2

Norwich City logo Norwich City

December 09, 1972 - Division 1 1972/1973

Chelsea

3 - 1

Norwich City logo Norwich City

November 17, 1971 - League Cup 1971/1972

Norwich City

0 - 1

Chelsea

February 17, 1968 - FA Cup 1967/1968

Chelsea

1 - 0

Norwich City logo Norwich City

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Jimmy Bone	2 goals	1972 - 1972
David Cross	1 goal	1972 - 1972
Steve Govier	1 goal	1973 - 1973

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/02/1968. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Norwich City

Ian Hutchinson	2 goals	1972 - 1972
Peter Osgood	1 goal	1971 - 1971
Bill Garner	1 goal	1972 - 1972
Charlie Cooke	1 goal	1968 - 1968

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/02/1968. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Dave Stringer	5 matches	1968 - 1973
Kevin Keelan	5 matches	1968 - 1973
Geoff Butler	4 matches	1971 - 1973
Max Briggs	4 matches	1971 - 1973
Graham Paddon	4 matches	1971 - 1973
Alan Black	4 matches	1968 - 1973

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/02/1968. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Norwich City

Ron Harris	5 matches	1968 - 1973
John Hollins	5 matches	1968 - 1973
Peter Osgood	5 matches	1968 - 1973
David Webb	4 matches	1971 - 1973
Alan Hudson	4 matches	1971 - 1973
Peter Bonetti	3 matches	1968 - 1973