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WBA 1-0 Liverpool - December 27, 1971 / Division 1 1971/1972

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Division 1 1971/1972 - Round 23

The Hawthorns - West Bromwich - England

December 27, 1971

WBA

1 - 0

Liverpool

Tony Brown

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

WBA

1 - 0

Liverpool

WBA Liverpool

Team line-ups

WBA

Smith

Graham Smith

England

B.date02/11/1947

Age24 years

positionGoalkeeper

Robertson

Ally Robertson

Scotland

B.date09/09/1952

Age19 years

positionCentral defender

Suggett

Colin Suggett

England

B.date30/12/1948

Age22 years

positionDefender

Nisbet

Gordon Nisbet

England

B.date18/09/1951

Age20 years

positionRight full-back

Wilson

Ray Wilson

Scotland

B.date08/04/1947

Age24 years

positionLeft full-back

Cantello

Len Cantello

England

B.date11/09/1951

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Hartford

Asa Hartford

Scotland

B.date24/10/1950

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Wile

John Wile

England

B.date09/03/1947

Age24 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Brown0

Tony Brown

England

B.date03/10/1945

Age26 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Gould

Bobby Gould

England

B.date12/06/1946

Age25 years

positionStriker

McVitie

George McVitie

England

B.date07/09/1948

Age23 years

positionWinger

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Graham Smith	24	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Robertson	19	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Suggett	22	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gordon Nisbet	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ray Wilson	24	104	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Len Cantello	20	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Asa Hartford	21	126	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Wile	24	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Brown	26	287	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bobby Gould	25	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	George McVitie	23	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

22.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Liverpool

Clemence

Ray Clemence

England

B.date05/08/1948

Age23 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Lindsay

Alec Lindsay

England

B.date27/02/1948

Age23 years

positionDefender

Ross

Ian Ross

Scotland

B.date26/11/1947

Age24 years

positionCentral defender

Smith

Tommy Smith

England

B.date05/04/1945

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Hughes

Emelyn Hughes

England

B.date28/08/1947

Age24 years

positionCentral defender

Lawler

Chris Lawler

England

B.date20/10/1943

Age28 years

positionRight full-back

Hall

Brian Hall

Scotland

B.date22/11/1946

Age25 years

positionMidfield

Callaghan

Ian Callaghan

England

B.date10/04/1942

Age29 years

positionRight Midfielder

Heighway

Steve Heighway

Republic of Ireland

B.date25/11/1947

Age24 years

positionLeft Winger

Keegan

Kevin Keegan

England

B.date14/02/1951

Age20 years

H1m70

positionStriker

Whitham

Jack Whitham

England

B.date08/12/1946

Age25 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Ray Clemence	23	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alec Lindsay	23	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Ross	24	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tommy Smith	26	377	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Emelyn Hughes	24	258	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Lawler	28	418	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Hall	25	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ian Callaghan	29	468	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Steve Heighway	24	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kevin Keegan	20	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jack Whitham	25	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

177

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Bobby Gould

Jeff Astle

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Don Howe

Success rate in this team:

17 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

17 %

Howe vs Liverpool

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 27, 1971

Howe vs Shankly

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 27, 1971

Manager

Age

Match num

Bill Shankly

636

Success rate in this team:

51 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Shankly vs WBA

5 victories

10 draws

8 losses

Latest figure on December 27, 1971

Shankly vs Howe

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 27, 1971

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Comments

Key figures

WBA keeps its 8 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 06/11/1971). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 01/11/1969-10/01/1970 time period (13 matches).

End of streak for WBA after 3 matches without scoring any goal (since 04/12/1971).

Bill Shankly has registered 200 success in Premier League since the 01/12/1959 as the manager of next after this match..

Read the next 8 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-2 Manchester City02/10/1971

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 West Ham16/10/1971

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Leicester23/10/1971

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Stoke City06/11/1971

LWest Bromwich Albion 2-3 Wolverhampton27/11/1971

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-3 Newcastle United11/12/1971

Overall

LNottingham Forest 4-1 West Bromwich Albion13/11/1971

LTottenham 3-2 West Bromwich Albion20/11/1971

LWest Bromwich Albion 2-3 Wolverhampton27/11/1971

LLeeds United 3-0 West Bromwich Albion04/12/1971

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-3 Newcastle United11/12/1971

LArsenal 2-0 West Bromwich Albion18/12/1971

Current form

Away

LWest Ham 2-1 Liverpool27/10/1971

DSheffield United 1-1 Liverpool30/10/1971

LBayern Munich 3-1 Liverpool03/11/1971

LEverton 1-0 Liverpool13/11/1971

VCoventry 0-2 Liverpool20/11/1971

DIpswich Town 0-0 Liverpool04/12/1971

Overall

LEverton 1-0 Liverpool13/11/1971

VCoventry 0-2 Liverpool20/11/1971

VLiverpool 1-0 West Ham27/11/1971

DIpswich Town 0-0 Liverpool04/12/1971

VLiverpool 3-2 Derby County11/12/1971

DLiverpool 0-0 Tottenham18/12/1971

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	4	7
Winless streak	10	10
Drawless streak	4	7
Goalless streak	1	3
Conceding streak	4	9

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	2	5
Winless streak	1	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	2	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

22	Number of games (Competition total)	22
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	11
3	Victories (Competition total)	11
1	Victories (Home / Away)	3
5	Draws (Competition total)	6
2	Draws (Home / Away)	3
14	Losses (Competition total)	5
7	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

14	Goals scored (Competition total)	30
6	Goals scored (Home / Away)	9
32	Goals conceded (Competition total)	22
14	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	11
0.64	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.36
0.6	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.82
1.45	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
1.4	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

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

Tony Brown	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	5 goals	Emelyn Hughes
Tony Brown	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Kevin Keegan
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Tommy Smith
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Tommy Smith
Tony Brown	2 goals during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	5 goals during the last 5 matches	Jack Whitham

Historical head to head

Home

47 matches

20 v

14 d

13 l

78 gf

49 ga

Away

44 matches

9 v

16 d

19 l

45 gf

71 ga

Total

91 matches

29 v

30 d

32 l

123 gf

120 ga

Historical head to head

Home

44 matches

19 v

16 d

9 l

71 gf

45 ga

Away

47 matches

13 v

14 d

20 l

49 gf

78 ga

Total

91 matches

32 v

30 d

29 l

120 gf

123 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	February 01, 1936
Home	6 - 1	February 01, 1936

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	September 28, 1935
Away	3 - 0	March 27, 1926

Latest head to head

April 02, 1971 - Division 1 1970/1971

Liverpool

1 - 1

WBA

August 29, 1970 - Division 1 1970/1971

WBA

1 - 1

Liverpool

January 17, 1970 - Division 1 1969/1970

Liverpool

1 - 1

WBA

September 27, 1969 - Division 1 1969/1970

WBA

2 - 2

Liverpool

January 11, 1969 - Division 1 1968/1969

Liverpool

1 - 0

WBA

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Clive Clark	7 goals	1964 - 1968
Jeff Astle	7 goals	1964 - 1970
Tony Brown	6 goals	1965 - 1971
John Kaye	4 goals	1964 - 1966
Bobby Hope	1 goal	1965 - 1965
Keith Smith	1 goal	1963 - 1963

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/11/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against WBA

Roger Hunt	9 goals	1963 - 1969
Tony Hateley	3 goals	1967 - 1968
Gordon Hodgson	3 goals	1934 - 1935
Alun Evans	2 goals	1970 - 1971
Lance Carr	2 goals	1935 - 1935
Sam English	2 goals	1933 - 1934

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/11/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Bobby Hope	17 matches	1962 - 1971
John Kaye	17 matches	1964 - 1971
Tony Brown	17 matches	1963 - 1971
Clive Clark	16 matches	1962 - 1968
Doug Fraser	16 matches	1963 - 1970
Jeff Astle	14 matches	1964 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/11/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

Ian Callaghan	21 matches	1962 - 1971
Tommy Lawrence	20 matches	1962 - 1970
Peter Thompson	19 matches	1963 - 1971
Chris Lawler	19 matches	1963 - 1971
Roger Hunt	19 matches	1962 - 1969
Ian St-John	18 matches	1962 - 1970