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Arsenal 1-0 Sheffield United - January 31, 1976 / Division 1 1975/1976

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Division 1 1975/1976 - Round 27

Highbury - London - England

January 31, 1976

Arsenal

1 - 0

Sheffield United

Liam Brady

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0' - Goal Liam Brady0

46' - Substitution Sammy Nelsonis substituted by Wilf Rostron46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

1 - 0

Sheffield United

Arsenal Sheffield United

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Rimmer

Jimmy Rimmer

England

B.date10/02/1948

Age27 years

positionGoalkeeper

Powling

Richie Powling

England

B.date21/05/1956

Age19 years

positionDefender

Mancini

Terence Mancini

Republic of Ireland

B.date04/10/1942

Age33 years

positionDefender

Nelson45+1

Sammy Nelson

Northern Ireland

B.date01/04/1949

Age26 years

positionLeft full-back

Rice

Pat Rice

Northern Ireland

B.date17/03/1949

Age26 years

positionRight full-back

Ross

Trevor Ross

England

B.date16/01/1957

Age19 years

positionMidfield

Brady0

Liam Brady

Republic of Ireland

B.date13/02/1956

Age19 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Armstrong

George Armstrong

England

B.date09/08/1944

Age31 years

positionRight Winger

Ball

Alan Ball

England

B.date12/05/1945

Age30 years

H1m68

positionRight Winger

Stapleton

Frank Stapleton

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/07/1956

Age19 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Kidd

Brian Kidd

England

B.date29/05/1949

Age26 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jimmy Rimmer		27	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Richie Powling		19	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Terence Mancini		33	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sammy Nelson	45+1	26	117	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pat Rice		26	282	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Trevor Ross		19	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Liam Brady		19	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	George Armstrong		31	498	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Ball		30	183	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frank Stapleton		19	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Brian Kidd		26	79	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25 years

Average number of matches played for the team

130

Sheffield United

Brown

Jim Brown

Scotland

B.date11/05/1952

Age23 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Colquhoun

Edmond Colquhoun

Scotland

B.date29/03/1945

Age30 years

positionCentral defender

Garner

Paul Garner

England

B.date01/12/1955

Age20 years

positionDefender

Faulkner

Steve Faulkner

England

B.date18/12/1954

Age21 years

positionCentral defender

Franks

Colin Franks

England

B.date16/04/1951

Age24 years

positionDefender

Ludlam

Steven Ludlam

England

B.date18/10/1955

Age20 years

positionMidfield

Currie

Tony Currie

England

B.date01/01/1950

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Bradford

David Bradford

England

B.date22/02/1953

Age22 years

H1m65

positionOffensive Midfielder

McGeady

John McGeady

Scotland

B.date17/04/1958

Age17 years

positionForward

Guthrie

Chris Guthrie

England

B.date07/09/1953

Age22 years

positionForward

Woodward

Alan Woodward

England

B.date07/09/1946

Age29 years

positionWinger

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Brown	23	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Edmond Colquhoun	30	197	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Garner	20	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Faulkner	21	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Colin Franks	24	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Ludlam	20	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tony Currie	26	197	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Bradford	22	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	John McGeady	17	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Chris Guthrie	22	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alan Woodward	29	327	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Wilf Rostron	45+1	19	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Richie Powling

David O'Leary

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Bertie Mee

525

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

45 %

Mee vs Sheffield United

9 victories

4 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on January 31, 1976

Mee vs Sirrel

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 31, 1976

Manager

Age

Match num

Jimmy Sirrel

Success rate in this team:

0 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

34 %

Sirrel vs Arsenal

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 31, 1976

Sirrel vs Mee

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 31, 1976

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Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Arsenal after 3 consecutive matches without a win (since 03/01/1976).

Sheffield United keeps its 5 matches with only one goal conceded at most in Premier League running (since 26/12/1975).

Arsenal keeps its 3 consecutive wins vs Sheffield United in Premier League running (since 31/03/1975). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 09/09/1967 (2 matches)

Read the next 6 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LArsenal 0-1 Derby County08/11/1975

VArsenal 3-1 Manchester United22/11/1975

LArsenal 1-2 Leeds United06/12/1975

VArsenal 1-0 Burnley20/12/1975

VArsenal 2-0 Queens Park Rangers27/12/1975

DArsenal 0-0 Aston Villa10/01/1976

Overall

VArsenal 1-0 Burnley20/12/1975

LIpswich Town 2-0 Arsenal26/12/1975

VArsenal 2-0 Queens Park Rangers27/12/1975

LWolverhampton 3-0 Arsenal03/01/1976

DArsenal 0-0 Aston Villa10/01/1976

LLeicester 2-1 Arsenal17/01/1976

Current form

Away

LStoke City 2-1 Sheffield United22/11/1975

DIpswich Town 1-1 Sheffield United29/11/1975

LDerby County 3-2 Sheffield United20/12/1975

DNewcastle United 1-1 Sheffield United27/12/1975

LLeicester 3-0 Sheffield United03/01/1976

LCoventry 1-0 Sheffield United10/01/1976

Overall

LDerby County 3-2 Sheffield United20/12/1975

DSheffield United 1-1 Middlesbrough26/12/1975

DNewcastle United 1-1 Sheffield United27/12/1975

LLeicester 3-0 Sheffield United03/01/1976

LCoventry 1-0 Sheffield United10/01/1976

DSheffield United 0-0 Liverpool17/01/1976

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	3	0
Winless streak	1	3
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	3	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	12	19
Drawless streak	2	0
Goalless streak	2	3
Conceding streak	16	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

26	Number of games (Competition total)	26
13	Number of games (Home / Away)	13
7	Victories (Competition total)	1
6	Victories (Home / Away)	0
7	Draws (Competition total)	6
3	Draws (Home / Away)	2
12	Losses (Competition total)	19
4	Losses (Home / Away)	11

Goals

30	Goals scored (Competition total)	18
21	Goals scored (Home / Away)	8
33	Goals conceded (Competition total)	54
13	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	32
1.15	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.69
1.62	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.62
1.27	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2.08
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.46

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	12
7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
7	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
10	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	11
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	6
13	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	15
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
0-1 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-5 (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

Alan Ball	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	5 goals	Alan Woodward
Alan Ball	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Alan Woodward
Alan Ball	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Keith Eddy
Alan Ball	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Alan Ball	1 goal during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 5 matches	Alan Woodward

Historical head to head

Home

44 matches

25 v

9 d

10 l

99 gf

51 ga

Away

46 matches

9 v

11 d

26 l

62 gf

104 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Total

91 matches

35 v

20 d

36 l

162 gf

155 ga

Historical head to head

Home

46 matches

26 v

11 d

9 l

104 gf

62 ga

Away

44 matches

10 v

9 d

25 l

51 gf

99 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Total

91 matches

36 v

20 d

35 l

155 gf

162 ga

Largest victory

Overall	9 - 2	December 24, 1932
Home	9 - 2	December 24, 1932

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	September 04, 1973
Away	6 - 2	March 26, 1921

Latest head to head

August 19, 1975 - Division 1 1975/1976

Sheffield United

1 - 3

Arsenal

March 31, 1975 - Division 1 1974/1975

Arsenal

1 - 0

Sheffield United logo Sheffield United

December 28, 1974 - Division 1 1974/1975

Sheffield United

1 - 1

Arsenal

September 11, 1973 - Division 1 1973/1974

Arsenal

1 - 0

Sheffield United logo Sheffield United

September 04, 1973 - Division 1 1973/1974

Sheffield United

5 - 0

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against Sheffield United

Charles George	6 goals	1972 - 1974
George Graham	5 goals	1966 - 1972
Geoff Strong	4 goals	1961 - 1964
Joe Baker	4 goals	1963 - 1965
Frank McLintock	2 goals	1967 - 1967
John Barnwell	2 goals	1962 - 1963

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/12/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Leonard Allchurch	5 goals	1963 - 1964
Mick Jones	5 goals	1964 - 1967
Alan Birchenall	3 goals	1964 - 1967
Alan Woodward	3 goals	1971 - 1973
Jimmy Bone	2 goals	1973 - 1973
Gilbert Reece	2 goals	1965 - 1971

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/12/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sheffield United

George Armstrong	20 matches	1962 - 1975
John Radford	13 matches	1965 - 1973
Frank McLintock	13 matches	1964 - 1973
Pat Rice	13 matches	1968 - 1975
Peter Simpson	12 matches	1964 - 1975
Peter Storey	12 matches	1965 - 1975

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/12/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Alan Woodward	19 matches	1964 - 1975
Len Badger	19 matches	1964 - 1975
Alan Hodgkinson	13 matches	1961 - 1968
Tony Currie	11 matches	1971 - 1975
John Flynn	11 matches	1971 - 1975
Edmond Colquhoun	10 matches	1971 - 1975