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Linfield 5-0 Crusaders - February 04, 2012 / Carling Premiership 2011/2012

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Carling Premiership 2011/2012 - Round 28

Windsor Park - Belfast - Northern Ireland

February 04, 2012

Linfield

5 - 0

Crusaders

Albert Watson

32'

Philip Lowry

38'

(penalty) Peter Thompson

52'

Daryl Fordyce

80'

Billy Joe Burns

83'

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32' - Goal Albert Watson32

38' - Goal Philip Lowry38

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51' - Red card Gareth McKeown

52' - Goal Peter Thompson52

65' - Substitution Matthew Hazleyis substituted by David Magowan photo Matthew Snoddy

65' - Substitution Ryan McCannis substituted by Matthew Snoddy photo David Gibson

65' - Substitution David Raineyis substituted by David Gibson

68' - Yellow card Colin Coates

77' - Substitution Philip Lowryis substituted by Neil Dougan photo Daryl Fordyce

77' - Substitution Mark McAllisteris substituted by Daryl Fordyce77

80' - Goal Daryl Fordyce80

83' - Goal Billy Joe Burns83

86' - Substitution Michael Gaultis substituted by Robert Garrett86

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Linfield

5 - 0

Crusaders

Linfield Crusaders

Team line-ups

Linfield

1 Blayney

Alan Blayney

Northern Ireland

B.date10/09/1981

Age30 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

12 Burns83

Billy Joe Burns

Northern Ireland

B.date28/04/1989

Age22 years

positionCentral defender

5 Murphy

William Murphy

Northern Ireland

B.date29/01/1974

Age38 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

23 Watson32

Albert Watson

Northern Ireland

B.date08/09/1985

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

21 Ervin

Jim Ervin

Northern Ireland

B.date05/06/1985

Age26 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

4 Gault86

Michael Gault

Northern Ireland

B.date15/04/1983

Age28 years

H1m83

positionMidfield

22 Mulgrew

Jamie Mulgrew

Northern Ireland

B.date05/06/1986

Age25 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

8 Lowry3877

Philip Lowry

Northern Ireland

B.date15/07/1989

Age22 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

25 McAllister77

Mark McAllister

Northern Ireland

B.date26/04/1988

Age23 years

H1m82

positionCentre forward

10 Carvill

Michael Carvill

Northern Ireland

B.date03/04/1988

Age23 years

H1m88

positionStriker

9 Thompson52

Peter Thompson

Northern Ireland

B.date02/05/1984

Age27 years

H1m81

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Alan Blayney		30	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Billy Joe Burns	83	22	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	William Murphy		38	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Albert Watson	32	26	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Jim Ervin		26	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Michael Gault	86	28	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Jamie Mulgrew		25	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Philip Lowry	3877	22	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	F	Mark McAllister	77	23	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Michael Carvill		23	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Peter Thompson	52	27	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Crusaders

1 O'Neill

Sean O'Neill

Northern Ireland

B.date11/04/1988

Age23 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

4 Leeman

Paul Leeman

Northern Ireland

B.date21/01/1978

Age34 years

H1m88

positionRight central defender

3 McBride

Steven McBride

Northern Ireland

B.date06/04/1983

Age28 years

positionCentral defender

2 McKeown51

Gareth McKeown

Northern Ireland

B.date14/07/1983

Age28 years

H1m77

positionRight central defender

6 Coates68

Colin Coates

Northern Ireland

B.date26/10/1985

Age26 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

22 Hazley65

Matthew Hazley

Northern Ireland

B.date30/12/1987

Age24 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

8 Morrow

Chris Morrow

Northern Ireland

B.date20/09/1985

Age26 years

positionCentre Midfield

7 McCann65

Ryan McCann

Northern Ireland

B.date15/09/1982

Age29 years

H1m75

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

14 Dallas

Stuart Dallas

Northern Ireland

B.date19/04/1991

Age20 years

H1m83

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

10 Rainey65

David Rainey

Northern Ireland

B.date06/04/1976

Age35 years

H1m68

positionForward

18 Owens

Jordan Owens

Northern Ireland

B.date09/07/1989

Age22 years

H1m88

positionCentre forward

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Sean O'Neill		23	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Paul Leeman		34	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Steven McBride		28	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Gareth McKeown	51	28	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Colin Coates	68	26	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Matthew Hazley	65	24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Chris Morrow		26	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Ryan McCann	65	29	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Stuart Dallas		20	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	David Rainey	65	35	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	F	Jordan Owens		22	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
28	D	Chris Casement		24
2	D	Steven Douglas		34
20	M	Robert Garrett	86	23	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Daryl Fordyce	8077	25	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	F	Neil Dougan	77	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
20	D	David Gibson	65	21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	David Magowan	65	28	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	Matthew Snoddy	65	18	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Aidan Watson		25

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jim Ervin

Steven Douglas

OUT

Mark McAllister

Aaron Burns

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Chris Morrow

Declan Caddell

OUT

David Rainey

David McMaster

OUT

Paul Leeman

David Gibson

OUT

Steven McBride

David Magowan

OUT

Gareth McKeown

Ciaran Gargan

OUT

Stuart Dallas

Matthew Snoddy

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

David Jeffrey

707

Success rate in this team:

62 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

62 %

Jeffrey vs Crusaders

39 victories

10 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on February 04, 2012

Jeffrey vs Baxter

17 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on February 04, 2012

Manager

Age

Match num

Stephen Baxter

258

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Baxter vs Linfield

2 victories

2 draws

17 losses

Latest figure on February 04, 2012

Baxter vs Jeffrey

2 victories

2 draws

17 losses

Latest figure on February 04, 2012

Referee

Raymond Crangle

19 victories	11 draws	13 losses	Linfield43 matches	General total	Crusaders53 matches	35 victories	10 draws	8 losses
5 victories	0 draw	2 losses	Linfield7 matches	Season total	Crusaders5 matches	4 victories	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on February 10, 2024					Latest figure on October 21, 2023

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Key figures

The last time Crusaders has scored at least 0 goals away from home in NIFL Premiership, It was on the 20/12/2008 (vs )

Crusaders keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 28/01/2012).

Crusaders keeps its 8 consecutive matches without a loss running (since 26/12/2011). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 10/01/2011-26/03/2011 time period (15 matches).

Read the next 20 key stats

General ranking

1	Linfield	64 pts	28 rd
2	Portadown	60 pts	28 rd
3	Cliftonville	58 pts	28 rd
4	Coleraine	51 pts	27 rd
5	Crusaders	46 pts	28 rd

General ranking

3	Cliftonville	58 pts	28 rd
4	Coleraine	51 pts	27 rd
5	Crusaders	46 pts	28 rd
6	Glentoran	43 pts	27 rd
7	Donegal Celtic	32 pts	27 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VLinfield 1-0 Ballymena United03/12/2011

VLinfield 1-0 Glenavon17/12/2011

DLinfield 1-1 Lisburn Distillery20/12/2011

VLinfield 2-0 Glenavon31/12/2011

VLinfield 7-1 Ballyclare Comrades14/01/2012

VLinfield 3-0 Dungannon Swifts21/01/2012

Overall

LGlentoran 1-0 Linfield26/12/2011

VLinfield 2-0 Glenavon31/12/2011

VBallymena United 1-2 Linfield07/01/2012

VLinfield 7-1 Ballyclare Comrades14/01/2012

VLinfield 3-0 Dungannon Swifts21/01/2012

LColeraine 1-0 Linfield31/01/2012

Current form

Away

VPortadown 1-3 Crusaders03/12/2011

VBallymena United 0-1 Crusaders13/12/2011

LGlenavon 3-2 Crusaders20/12/2011

VPortadown 1-2 Crusaders02/01/2012

DDonegal Celtic 1-1 Crusaders06/01/2012

VDungannon Swifts 1-2 Crusaders31/01/2012

Overall

VPortadown 1-2 Crusaders02/01/2012

DDonegal Celtic 1-1 Crusaders06/01/2012

VCrusaders 3-0 Warrenpoint Town14/01/2012

DCrusaders 2-2 Ballymena United20/01/2012

VColeraine 0-1 Crusaders28/01/2012

VDungannon Swifts 1-2 Crusaders31/01/2012

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	13	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	3	6
Scoring streak	9	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	3	7
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	6	10
Conceding streak	4	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

1	General ranking (Competition total)	5
1	General ranking (Home / Away)	4
579	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	639
2	FBDB index ranking (National)	5

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

27	Number of games (Competition total)	27
13	Number of games (Home / Away)	14
20	Victories (Competition total)	13
11	Victories (Home / Away)	8
1	Draws (Competition total)	7
1	Draws (Home / Away)	3
6	Losses (Competition total)	7
1	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

54	Goals scored (Competition total)	47
26	Goals scored (Home / Away)	24
21	Goals conceded (Competition total)	34
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	15
2	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.74
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.71
0.78	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.26
0.23	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.07

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	17
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	9
12	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
10	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
5	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	4
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
10	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	18
2	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	9
1-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-1 (4 times)

Bookings

41	Yellow cards (Competition total)	51
21	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	21
2	Red cards (Competition total)	7
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	4

Key players

Mark McAllister	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Stuart Dallas
Aaron Burns	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Colin Coates
Mark McAllister	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Colin Coates
Mark McAllister	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	2 penalties	Colin Coates
Aaron Burns	3 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Matthew Hazley

Historical head to head

Home

82 matches

48 v

23 d

11 l

176 gf

49 ga

Away

81 matches

49 v

13 d

19 l

185 gf

100 ga

Neutral ground

5 matches

4 v

0 d

1 l

9 gf

4 ga

Total

168 matches

101 v

36 d

31 l

370 gf

153 ga

Historical head to head

Home

81 matches

19 v

13 d

49 l

100 gf

185 ga

Away

82 matches

11 v

23 d

48 l

49 gf

176 ga

Neutral ground

5 matches

1 v

0 d

4 l

4 gf

9 ga

Total

168 matches

31 v

36 d

101 l

153 gf

370 ga

Largest victory

Overall	9 - 0	January 06, 1962
Home	9 - 0	January 06, 1962

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	April 21, 1960
Away	2 - 0	December 26, 1984

Latest head to head

December 10, 2011 - Carling Premiership 2011/2012

Crusaders

0 - 1

Linfield

September 10, 2011 - Carling Premiership 2011/2012

Linfield

2 - 0

Crusaders

May 07, 2011 - Irish Cup 2010/2011

Linfield

2 - 1

Crusaders

April 01, 2011 - Carling Premiership 2010/2011

Crusaders

0 - 1

Linfield

January 04, 2011 - Carling Premiership 2010/2011

Linfield

3 - 1

Crusaders

Best historical scorers against Crusaders

Jim Ervin	1 goal	2011 - 2011
Mark McAllister	1 goal	2011 - 2011
Robert Garrett	1 goal	2011 - 2011

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 10/09/2011. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Linfield

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 10/09/2011. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Crusaders

Daryl Fordyce	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Alan Blayney	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Jim Ervin	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Mark McAllister	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Aaron Burns	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Albert Watson	2 matches	2011 - 2011

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 10/09/2011. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Linfield

Steven McBride	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Stuart Dallas	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Declan Caddell	2 matches	2011 - 2011
David Rainey	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Sean O'Neill	2 matches	2011 - 2011
Colin Coates	2 matches	2011 - 2011

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 10/09/2011. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Alan Dornan

11 matches

1 match

1986 - 1997

Gary McCartney

5 matches

1 match

1982 - 1997

Mark Dickson

4 matches

2 matches

2006 - 2009

Stephen Baxter

4 matches

2 matches

1987 - 1997

Ronnie McAteer

3 matches

2 matches

1970 - 1976

Ryan McCann

2 matches

17 matches

2004 - 2012

Total : 9 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/09/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Ryan McCann

2 matches

17 matches

2004 - 2012

Mark Dickson

4 matches

2 matches

2006 - 2009

Chris Morgan

1 match

2 matches

1997 - 2000

Paul Kirk

2 matches

1976 - 1978

Gavin Arthur

1 match

2 matches

1997 - 2000

Stephen Baxter

4 matches

2 matches

1987 - 1997

Total : 9 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/09/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

February 04, 2012

Ballymena United

0 1

Cliftonville

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February 28, 2012

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Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Linfield	64	28	21	1	6	59	21	+38
2	Portadown	60	28	19	3	6	59	29	+30
3	Cliftonville	58	28	18	4	6	66	45	+21
4	Coleraine	51	27	14	9	4	47	24	+23
5	Crusaders	46	28	13	7	8	47	39	+8
6	Glentoran	43	27	12	7	8	57	36	+21
7	Donegal Celtic	32	27	9	5	13	33	53	-20
8	Ballymena United	26	28	7	5	16	41	60	-19
9	Lisburn Distillery	23	28	6	5	17	38	63	-25
+210	Glenavon	21	28	5	6	17	36	52	-16
-111	Dungannon Swifts	20	27	4	8	15	25	51	-26
-112	Carrick Rangers	20	28	4	8	16	31	66	-35

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Linfield 5-0 Crusaders - February 04, 2012 / Carling Premiership 2011/2012

Linfield

5 - 0

Crusaders

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Jeffrey vs Crusaders

Jeffrey vs Baxter

Manager

Baxter vs Linfield

Baxter vs Jeffrey

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Crusaders

Best historical scorers against Linfield

Players with most games played vs Crusaders

Players with most games played vs Linfield

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking