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WBA 4-0 Chelsea - April 27, 1972 / Division 1 1971/1972

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Division 1 1971/1972 - Round 34

The Hawthorns - West Bromwich - England

April 27, 1972

WBA

4 - 0

Chelsea

Ally Brown

Len Cantello

Tony Brown

Bobby Gould

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0' - Goal Ally Brown photo Len Cantello

0' - Goal Len Cantello photo Tony Brown

0' - Goal Tony Brown photo Bobby Gould

0' - Goal Bobby Gould0

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Team line-ups

WBA

Osborne

John Osborne

England

B.date01/12/1940

Age31 years

positionGoalkeeper

Ally Brown0

Ally Brown

Scotland

B.date12/04/1951

Age21 years

positionDefender

Merrick

Alan Merrick

United States

B.date20/06/1950

Age21 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Robertson

Ally Robertson

Scotland

B.date09/09/1952

Age19 years

positionCentral defender

Suggett

Colin Suggett

England

B.date30/12/1948

Age23 years

positionDefender

Nisbet

Gordon Nisbet

England

B.date18/09/1951

Age20 years

positionRight full-back

Cantello0

Len Cantello

England

B.date11/09/1951

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Wile

John Wile

England

B.date09/03/1947

Age25 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Tony Brown0

Tony Brown

England

B.date03/10/1945

Age26 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

Hope

Bobby Hope

Scotland

B.date28/09/1943

Age28 years

positionLeft Winger

Gould0

Bobby Gould

England

B.date12/06/1946

Age25 years

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	John Osborne	31	156	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Brown	21	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alan Merrick	21	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ally Robertson	19	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Suggett	23	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gordon Nisbet	20	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Len Cantello	20	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Wile	25	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Brown	26	304	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bobby Hope	28	339	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bobby Gould	25	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

110

Chelsea

Bonetti

Peter Bonetti

England

B.date27/09/1941

Age30 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Hollins

John Hollins

England

B.date16/07/1946

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

Webb

David Webb

England

B.date09/04/1946

Age26 years

positionDefender

Harris

Ron Harris

England

B.date13/11/1944

Age27 years

positionDefender

Dempsey

John Dempsey

Republic of Ireland

B.date15/03/1946

Age26 years

positionDefender

Mulligan

Paddy Mulligan

Republic of Ireland

B.date17/03/1945

Age27 years

positionRight full-back

Baldwin

Tommy Baldwin

England

B.date10/06/1945

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Kember

Steve Kember

England

B.date08/12/1948

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Hudson

Alan Hudson

England

B.date21/06/1951

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Cooke

Charlie Cooke

Scotland

B.date14/10/1942

Age29 years

positionRight Winger

Houseman

Peter Houseman

England

B.date24/12/1945

Age26 years

positionForward

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Bonetti	30	509	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Hollins	25	417	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Webb	26	221	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ron Harris	27	452	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Dempsey	26	147	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paddy Mulligan	27	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tommy Baldwin	26	196	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve Kember	23	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alan Hudson	20	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Charlie Cooke	29	267	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Houseman	26	257	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

245

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Len Cantello

Asa Hartford

OUT

Alan Merrick

Ray Wilson

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

John Dempsey

Michael Droy

OUT

Peter Houseman

Chris Garland

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Don Howe

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

29 %

Howe vs Chelsea

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1972

Howe vs Sexton

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1972

Manager

Age

Match num

Dave Sexton

262

Success rate in this team:

49 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

45 %

Sexton vs WBA

5 victories

1 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on April 27, 1972

Sexton vs Howe

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1972

Videos

Comments

Key figures

It's the first time Bobby Gould scores 1 goal vs in his professional career with

End of streak for Chelsea after 3 consecutive matches without a loss (since 18/04/1972).

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Don Howe has done less than 29% of wins .

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-0 Nottingham Forest04/03/1972

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Crystal Palace11/03/1972

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Huddersfield Town25/03/1972

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Derby County05/04/1972

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Tottenham08/04/1972

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Leeds United22/04/1972

Overall

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Huddersfield Town25/03/1972

LLiverpool 2-0 West Bromwich Albion01/04/1972

DWest Bromwich Albion 0-0 Derby County05/04/1972

DWest Bromwich Albion 1-1 Tottenham08/04/1972

VWolverhampton 0-1 West Bromwich Albion15/04/1972

LWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Leeds United22/04/1972

Current form

Away

LNottingham Forest 2-1 Chelsea14/03/1972

LManchester City 1-0 Chelsea18/03/1972

VIpswich Town 1-2 Chelsea01/04/1972

VWolverhampton 0-2 Chelsea12/04/1972

LTottenham 3-0 Chelsea15/04/1972

DSouthampton 2-2 Chelsea18/04/1972

Overall

VChelsea 2-1 Crystal Palace08/04/1972

VWolverhampton 0-2 Chelsea12/04/1972

LTottenham 3-0 Chelsea15/04/1972

DSouthampton 2-2 Chelsea18/04/1972

DChelsea 3-3 Newcastle United22/04/1972

VChelsea 2-0 Stoke City24/04/1972

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	5	1
Drawless streak	1	2
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	2	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	3
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	1	3
Conceding streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

39	Number of games (Competition total)	40
20	Number of games (Home / Away)	19
11	Victories (Competition total)	18
5	Victories (Home / Away)	6
10	Draws (Competition total)	12
7	Draws (Home / Away)	5
18	Losses (Competition total)	10
8	Losses (Home / Away)	8

Goals

35	Goals scored (Competition total)	58
18	Goals scored (Home / Away)	17
49	Goals conceded (Competition total)	43
23	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	23
0.9	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.45
0.9	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.89
1.26	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.08
1.15	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.21

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	20
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
12	Clean sheets (Competition total)	15
5	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	5
15	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	10
8	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	8
16	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	19
9	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
1-1 (4 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	16 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	19 goals	Peter Osgood
Tony Brown	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	7 goals	Peter Osgood
Tony Brown	1 goal during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	4 goals during the last 3 matches	Tommy Baldwin

Historical head to head

Home

47 matches

20 v

12 d

15 l

82 gf

53 ga

Away

47 matches

13 v

15 d

19 l

67 gf

88 ga

Total

94 matches

33 v

27 d

34 l

149 gf

141 ga

Historical head to head

Home

47 matches

19 v

15 d

13 l

88 gf

67 ga

Away

47 matches

15 v

12 d

20 l

53 gf

82 ga

Total

94 matches

34 v

27 d

33 l

141 gf

149 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	April 14, 1962
Home	4 - 0	April 14, 1962

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	December 03, 1960
Away	4 - 0	February 11, 1953

Latest head to head

September 01, 1971 - Division 1 1971/1972

Chelsea

1 - 0

WBA

January 30, 1971 - Division 1 1970/1971

Chelsea

4 - 1

WBA

November 28, 1970 - Division 1 1970/1971

WBA

2 - 2

Chelsea

March 30, 1970 - Division 1 1969/1970

WBA

3 - 1

Chelsea

October 18, 1969 - Division 1 1969/1970

Chelsea

2 - 0

WBA

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Jeff Astle	7 goals	1966 - 1971
Derek Kevan	4 goals	1961 - 1962
Tony Brown	4 goals	1968 - 1970
Keith Smith	2 goals	1961 - 1962
Dennis Clarke	2 goals	1967 - 1967
Doug Fraser	1 goal	1965 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 11/09/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against WBA

Jimmy Greaves	8 goals	1957 - 1960
Robert Tambling	7 goals	1961 - 1968
Barry Bridges	5 goals	1961 - 1965
Ian Hutchinson	3 goals	1969 - 1971
Ron Tindall	3 goals	1957 - 1960
John Hollins	3 goals	1971 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 11/09/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Bobby Hope	17 matches	1961 - 1971
Tony Brown	15 matches	1964 - 1971
Jeff Astle	15 matches	1964 - 1971
John Kaye	14 matches	1964 - 1971
Doug Fraser	13 matches	1963 - 1970
Graham Williams	13 matches	1960 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 11/09/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs WBA

Peter Bonetti	20 matches	1960 - 1971
Ron Harris	16 matches	1964 - 1971
John Hollins	15 matches	1964 - 1971
Robert Tambling	13 matches	1960 - 1970
Eddie McCreadie	11 matches	1963 - 1971
John Mortimore	11 matches	1957 - 1965