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S Wednesday 2-1 Manchester City - April 20, 1987 / Division 1 1986/1987

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Division 1 1986/1987 - Journée 38

Hillsborough - Sheffield - England

April 20, 1987

S Wednesday

2 - 1

Manchester City

(penalty) Brian Marwood

Lee Chapman

Imre Varadi

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0' - Goal Brian Marwood photo Lee Chapman

0' - Goal Lee Chapman0

0' - Goal Imre Varadi

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46' - Substitution David Hirstis substituted by Mark Chamberlain46

46' - Substitution Graham Bakeris substituted by Ian Brightwell

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

S Wednesday

2 - 1

Manchester City

S Wednesday Manchester City

Team line-ups

S Wednesday

Hodge

Martin Hodge

England

B.date04/02/1959

Age28 years

positionGoalkeeper

Smith

Mark Smith

England

B.date21/03/1960

Age27 years

positionDefender

May

Larry May

England

B.date26/12/1958

Age28 years

positionDefender

Madden

Lawrie Madden

England

B.date28/09/1955

Age31 years

positionLeft full-back

Sterland

Mel Sterland

England

B.date01/10/1961

Age25 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Worthington

Nigel Worthington

Northern Ireland

B.date04/11/1961

Age25 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Megson

Gary Megson

England

B.date02/05/1959

Age27 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

Marwood0

Brian Marwood

England

B.date05/02/1960

Age27 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Shelton

Gary Shelton

England

B.date21/03/1958

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Hirst46

David Hirst

England

B.date07/12/1967

Age19 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

Chapman0

Lee Chapman

England

B.date05/12/1959

Age27 years

H1m88

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Martin Hodge		28	121	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Smith		27	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Larry May		28	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lawrie Madden		31	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mel Sterland		25	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nigel Worthington		25	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary Megson		27	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Marwood		27	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary Shelton		29	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Hirst	46	19	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Lee Chapman		27	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Manchester City

Nixon

Eric Nixon

England

B.date04/10/1962

Age24 years

positionGoalkeeper

McCarthy

Mick McCarthy

Republic of Ireland

B.date07/02/1959

Age28 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Clements

Kenny Clements

England

B.date09/04/1955

Age32 years

positionDefender

Redmond

Steve Redmond

England

B.date02/11/1967

Age19 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Wilson

Clive Wilson

England

B.date13/11/1961

Age25 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

Baker46

Graham Baker

England

B.date03/12/1958

Age28 years

positionMidfield

McNab

Neil McNab

Scotland

B.date04/06/1957

Age29 years

positionMidfield

Stewart

Paul Stewart

England

B.date07/10/1964

Age22 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

White

David White

England

B.date30/10/1967

Age19 years

H1m91

positionRight Winger

Simpson

Paul Simpson

England

B.date26/07/1966

Age20 years

H1m70

positionLeft Winger

Varadi0

Imre Varadi

England

B.date08/07/1959

Age27 years

H1m75

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Eric Nixon		24	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mick McCarthy		28	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kenny Clements		32	191	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Redmond		19	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Clive Wilson		25	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Baker	46	28	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Neil McNab		29	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Stewart		22	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David White		19	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Simpson		20	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Imre Varadi		27	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Mark Chamberlain	46	25	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Ian Brightwell	46	19	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mark Smith

Glynn Snodin

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Graham Baker

Kevin Langley

OUT

Eric Nixon

Perry Suckling

OUT

Steve Redmond

Peter Barnes

OUT

David White

Andy May

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Howard Wilkinson

204

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

46 %

Wilkinson vs Manchester City

6 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 20, 1987

Wilkinson vs Frizzell

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 20, 1987

Manager

Age

Match num

Jimmy Frizzell

Success rate in this team:

21 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

30 %

Frizzell vs S Wednesday

3 victories

1 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on April 20, 1987

Frizzell vs Wilkinson

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 20, 1987

Videos

Comments

Key figures

End of streak for S Wednesday after 4 consecutive losses (since 28/03/1987). It was the best streak for the club since 29/03/1975-12/04/1975 (5 matches).

Manchester City keeps its 30 consecutive matches without a win away from home running (since 03/02/1986). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 31/03/1902 (28 matches)

It's the first time Imre Varadi scores 1 goal vs Sheffield Wednesday in his professional career with Manchester City

Read the next 8 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DSheffield Wednesday 1-1 West Ham U-2321/02/1987

LSheffield Wednesday 0-1 Watford28/02/1987

LSheffield Wednesday 1-3 Coventry14/03/1987

VSheffield Wednesday 1-0 Manchester United21/03/1987

LSheffield Wednesday 0-1 Tottenham07/04/1987

LSheffield Wednesday 2-3 Nottingham Forest14/04/1987

Overall

VSheffield Wednesday 1-0 Manchester United21/03/1987

VWest Ham 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday24/03/1987

LOxford United 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday28/03/1987

LSheffield Wednesday 0-1 Tottenham07/04/1987

LSheffield Wednesday 2-3 Nottingham Forest14/04/1987

LNorwich City 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday18/04/1987

Current form

Away

DWimbledon FC 0-0 Manchester City24/01/1987

DNorwich City 1-1 Manchester City14/02/1987

LQueens Park Rangers 1-0 Manchester City28/02/1987

LManchester United 2-0 Manchester City07/03/1987

LLeicester 4-0 Manchester City28/03/1987

DAston Villa 0-0 Manchester City04/04/1987

Overall

DManchester City 0-0 Newcastle United21/03/1987

LLeicester 4-0 Manchester City28/03/1987

DAston Villa 0-0 Manchester City04/04/1987

LManchester City 2-4 Southampton11/04/1987

DManchester City 1-1 Tottenham15/04/1987

LManchester City 1-2 Watford18/04/1987

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	2	4
Winless streak	2	4
Drawless streak	5	10
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	2	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	29	15
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	3
Goalless streak	4	0
Conceding streak	0	3
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

36	Number of games (Competition total)	37
18	Number of games (Home / Away)	18
10	Victories (Competition total)	6
7	Victories (Home / Away)	0
11	Draws (Competition total)	14
7	Draws (Home / Away)	8
15	Losses (Competition total)	17
4	Losses (Home / Away)	10

Goals

46	Goals scored (Competition total)	31
30	Goals scored (Home / Away)	7
53	Goals conceded (Competition total)	53
20	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	29
1.28	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.84
1.67	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.39
1.47	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.43
1.11	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.61

Betting aid

15	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
6	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
10	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	16
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	12
20	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	19
11	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
2-2 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-0 (4 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

Lee Chapman	16 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	5 goals	Imre Varadi
Lee Chapman	10 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Steve Redmond
Brian Marwood	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Neil McNab
Brian Marwood	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Lee Chapman	3 goals during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 2 matches	Neil McNab

Historical head to head

Home

42 matches

27 v

12 d

3 l

88 gf

40 ga

Away

43 matches

9 v

11 d

23 l

55 gf

92 ga

Total

85 matches

36 v

23 d

26 l

143 gf

132 ga

Historical head to head

Home

43 matches

23 v

11 d

9 l

92 gf

55 ga

Away

42 matches

3 v

12 d

27 l

40 gf

88 ga

Total

85 matches

26 v

23 d

36 l

132 gf

143 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	December 19, 1936
Home	5 - 1	December 19, 1936

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	March 20, 1915
Away	4 - 2	November 06, 1954

Latest head to head

December 26, 1986 - Division 1 1986/1987

Manchester City

1 - 0

S Wednesday

December 21, 1985 - Division 1 1985/1986

S Wednesday

3 - 2

Manchester City logo Manchester City

August 24, 1985 - Division 1 1985/1986

Manchester City

1 - 3

S Wednesday

May 07, 1984 - Division 2 1983/1984

S Wednesday

0 - 0

Manchester City logo Manchester City

December 10, 1983 - Division 2 1983/1984

Manchester City

1 - 2

S Wednesday

Best historical scorers against Manchester City

David Layne	3 goals	1963 - 1963
John Fantham	3 goals	1960 - 1967
Colin Dobson	3 goals	1962 - 1963
Garry Thompson	2 goals	1985 - 1985
Keith Ellis	2 goals	1960 - 1960
Peter Eustace	2 goals	1968 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/09/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against S Wednesday

Alex Harley	4 goals	1962 - 1963
Neil Young	3 goals	1969 - 1969
Ian Bowyer	2 goals	1970 - 1970
Tony Henry	2 goals	1979 - 1979
Paul Simpson	2 goals	1985 - 1986
Joe Hayes	1 goal	1962 - 1962

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/09/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Manchester City

Don Megson	12 matches	1960 - 1969
John Fantham	11 matches	1960 - 1969
Wilf Smith	8 matches	1966 - 1970
Gerry Young	8 matches	1966 - 1970
Peter Eustace	7 matches	1962 - 1969
Vic Mobley	7 matches	1966 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/09/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs S Wednesday

Alan Oakes	13 matches	1960 - 1970
Neil Young	11 matches	1962 - 1970
Glyn Pardoe	9 matches	1962 - 1970
Mike Summerbee	7 matches	1966 - 1970
Bobby Kennedy	7 matches	1962 - 1968
Tony Book	7 matches	1966 - 1970