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Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea - January 31, 1999 / Premier League 1998/1999

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Premier League 1998/1999 - Round 23

Highbury - London - England

January 31, 1999

38 121

Arsenal

1 - 0

Chelsea

Dennis Bergkamp

32'

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32' - Goal Dennis Bergkamp32

38' - Substitution Michael Duberryis substituted by Bjarne Goldbaek

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67' - Substitution Nicolas Anelkais substituted by Nelson Vivas67

74' - Substitution Gianfranco Zolais substituted by Mikael Forssell

75' - Substitution Marc Overmarsis substituted by Kaba Diawara75

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

1 - 0

Chelsea

Arsenal Chelsea

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Seaman

David Seaman

England

B.date19/09/1963

Age35 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Garde

Rémi Garde

France

B.date03/04/1966

Age32 years

H1m76

positionSweeper

Adams

Tony Adams

England

B.date10/10/1966

Age32 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Keown

Martin Keown

England

B.date24/07/1966

Age32 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Winterburn

Nigel Winterburn

England

B.date11/12/1963

Age35 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Dixon

Lee Dixon

England

B.date17/03/1964

Age34 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Parlour

Ray Parlour

England

B.date07/03/1973

Age25 years

H1m78

positionRight central midfielder

Petit

Emmanuel Petit

France

B.date22/09/1970

Age28 years

H1m85

positionLeft central midfielder

Overmars75

Marc Overmars

Netherlands

B.date29/03/1973

Age25 years

H1m73

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Anelka67

Nicolas Anelka

France

B.date14/03/1979

Age19 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

Bergkamp32

Dennis Bergkamp

Netherlands

B.date10/05/1969

Age29 years

H1m85

positionSecond striker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	David Seaman		35	401	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Rémi Garde		32	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Adams		32	569	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Keown		32	273	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nigel Winterburn		35	530	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lee Dixon		34	494	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Parlour		25	248	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Emmanuel Petit		28	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Marc Overmars	75	25	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nicolas Anelka	67	19	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dennis Bergkamp	32	29	138	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

29.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

264

Chelsea

de Goeij

Ed de Goeij

Netherlands

B.date20/12/1966

Age32 years

H1m97

positionGoalkeeper

Leboeuf

Frank Leboeuf

France

B.date22/01/1968

Age31 years

H1m84

positionSweeper

Duberry38

Michael Duberry

England

B.date14/10/1975

Age23 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Desailly

Marcel Desailly

France

B.date07/09/1968

Age30 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Petrescu

Dan Petrescu

Romania

B.date22/12/1967

Age31 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Le Saux

Graeme Le Saux

England

B.date17/10/1968

Age30 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Babayaro

Celestine Babayaro

Nigeria

B.date29/08/1978

Age20 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Wise

Dennis Wise

England

B.date15/12/1966

Age32 years

H1m68

positionCentre Midfield

Di Matteo

Roberto Di Matteo

Italy

B.date29/05/1970

Age28 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Zola74

Gianfranco Zola

Italy

B.date05/07/1966

Age32 years

H1m68

positionSecond striker

Vialli

Gianluca Vialli

Italy

B.date09/07/1964

Age34 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ed de Goeij		32	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Frank Leboeuf		31	111	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Duberry	38	23	108	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marcel Desailly		30	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dan Petrescu		31	141	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Graeme Le Saux		30	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Celestine Babayaro		20	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dennis Wise		32	312	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roberto Di Matteo		28	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gianfranco Zola	74	32	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gianluca Vialli		34	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

29.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

114

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Nelson Vivas	67	29	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Kaba Diawara	75	23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Bjarne Goldbaek	38	30	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Mikael Forssell	74	17	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Martin Keown

Matthew Upson

OUT

David Seaman

Alex Manninger

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Celestine Babayaro

John Terry

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

124

Success rate in this team:

52 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

46 %

Wenger vs Chelsea

5 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 31, 1999

Wenger vs Vialli

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 31, 1999

Manager

Age

Match num

Gianluca Vialli

Success rate in this team:

55 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

55 %

Vialli vs Arsenal

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 31, 1999

Vialli vs Wenger

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 31, 1999

Referee

Graham Poll

18 victories	12 draws	14 losses	Arsenal44 matches	General total	Chelsea48 matches	23 victories	15 draws	10 losses
2 victories	1 draw	0 loss	Arsenal3 matches	Season total	Chelsea3 matches	1 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on May 13, 2007					Latest figure on May 09, 2007

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Key figures

No Arsenal manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Arsène Wenger has reached 49% of clean sheets in Premier League.

No Chelsea manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Gianluca Vialli has done less than 21% of losses .

It's the first time Dennis Bergkamp scores a goal vs Chelsea in his professional career since the 18/02/1998 (with Arsenal vs Chelsea )

Read the next 18 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DArsenal 0-0 Tottenham14/11/1998

LArsenal 0-1 Lens25/11/1998

DArsenal 1-1 Middlesbrough29/11/1998

VArsenal 3-1 Leeds United20/12/1998

VArsenal 1-0 West Ham26/12/1998

DArsenal 0-0 Liverpool09/01/1999

Overall

VArsenal 1-0 West Ham26/12/1998

VCharlton 0-1 Arsenal28/12/1998

VPreston North End 2-4 Arsenal04/01/1999

DArsenal 0-0 Liverpool09/01/1999

VNottingham Forest 0-1 Arsenal16/01/1999

VWolverhampton 1-2 Arsenal24/01/1999

Current form

Away

DDerby County 2-2 Chelsea12/12/1998

DManchester United 1-1 Chelsea16/12/1998

VSouthampton 0-2 Chelsea26/12/1998

VOldham Athletic 0-2 Chelsea02/01/1999

VNewcastle United 0-1 Chelsea09/01/1999

DOxford United 1-1 Chelsea25/01/1999

Overall

VSouthampton 0-2 Chelsea26/12/1998

DChelsea 0-0 Manchester United29/12/1998

VOldham Athletic 0-2 Chelsea02/01/1999

VNewcastle United 0-1 Chelsea09/01/1999

VChelsea 2-1 Coventry16/01/1999

DOxford United 1-1 Chelsea25/01/1999

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	2
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	4	7
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	0	2
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	7	11
Winless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	6	4
Conceding streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

22	Number of games (Competition total)	22
11	Number of games (Home / Away)	11
10	Victories (Competition total)	11
6	Victories (Home / Away)	4
9	Draws (Competition total)	10
5	Draws (Home / Away)	6
3	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

23	Goals scored (Competition total)	34
15	Goals scored (Home / Away)	17
11	Goals conceded (Competition total)	18
4	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	12
1.05	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.55
1.36	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.55
0.5	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.82
0.36	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.09

Betting aid

6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	9
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
13	Clean sheets (Competition total)	9
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	4
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
7	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	13
4	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
0-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (3 times)

Bookings

42	Yellow cards (Competition total)	56
16	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	32
5	Red cards (Competition total)	3
2	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Nicolas Anelka	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	9 goals	Gianfranco Zola
Nicolas Anelka	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	Tore André Flo
Dennis Bergkamp	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Frank Leboeuf
Dennis Bergkamp	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Dennis Bergkamp	3 goals during the last 6 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 7 matches	Gustavo Poyet

Historical head to head

Home

70 matches

34 v

19 d

17 l

115 gf

89 ga

Away

70 matches

22 v

22 d

26 l

88 gf

87 ga

Total

140 matches

56 v

41 d

43 l

203 gf

176 ga

Historical head to head

Home

70 matches

26 v

22 d

22 l

87 gf

88 ga

Away

70 matches

17 v

19 d

34 l

89 gf

115 ga

Total

140 matches

43 v

41 d

56 l

176 gf

203 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	November 29, 1930
Home	4 - 1	September 15, 1990

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	November 11, 1998
Away	5 - 0	November 11, 1998

Latest head to head

November 11, 1998 - League Cup 1998/1999

Arsenal

0 - 5

Chelsea

September 09, 1998 - Premier League 1998/1999

Chelsea

0 - 0

Arsenal

February 18, 1998 - League Cup 1997/1998

Chelsea

3 - 1

Arsenal

February 08, 1998 - Premier League 1997/1998

Arsenal

2 - 0

Chelsea

January 28, 1998 - League Cup 1997/1998

Arsenal

2 - 1

Chelsea

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Ray Kennedy	9 goals	1971 - 1974
Ian Wright	8 goals	1991 - 1997
Ted Drake	5 goals	1934 - 1935
Lee Dixon	4 goals	1990 - 1995
John Radford	4 goals	1965 - 1974
Dennis Bergkamp	4 goals	1997 - 1998

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 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
Dennis Wise	4 goals	1992 - 1996
Barry Bridges	4 goals	1961 - 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 Chelsea

Peter Simpson	22 matches	1964 - 1977
George Armstrong	22 matches	1964 - 1976
Lee Dixon	21 matches	1988 - 1998
Tony Adams	20 matches	1986 - 1998
Peter Storey	20 matches	1966 - 1974
Nigel Winterburn	19 matches	1988 - 1998

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	27 matches	1960 - 1979
Ron Harris	26 matches	1962 - 1979
John Hollins	21 matches	1964 - 1974
Peter Osgood	18 matches	1966 - 1979
Eddie McCreadie	17 matches	1963 - 1973
Peter Houseman	16 matches	1964 - 1974