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West Ham 2-1 Blackburn - January 29, 2003 / Premier League 2002/2003

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Premier League 2002/2003 - Round 25

Boleyn Ground - London - England

January 29, 2003

34 743

West Ham

2 - 1

Blackburn

(penalty) Paolo Di Canio

58'

Jermain Defoe

89'

38'

Dwight Yorke

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38' - Goal Dwight Yorke

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58' - Goal Paolo Di Canio58

59' - Substitution Les Ferdinandis substituted by Frédéric Kanouté59

70' - Substitution Keith Gillespieis substituted by Nils-Eric Johansson

84' - Substitution Nigel Winterburnis substituted by Jermain Defoe84

84' - Substitution Dwight Yorkeis substituted by Egil Ostenstad

88' - Substitution Paolo Di Caniois substituted by Trevor Sinclair88

89' - Goal Jermain Defoe89

90' - Substitution James McEveleyis substituted by Matt Jansen

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

West Ham

2 - 1

Blackburn

West Ham Blackburn

Team line-ups

West Ham

James

David James

England

B.date01/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Repka

Tomas Repka

Czech Republic

B.date02/01/1974

Age29 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

Pearce

Ian Pearce

England

B.date07/05/1974

Age28 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Winterburn84

Nigel Winterburn

England

B.date11/12/1963

Age39 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Johnson

Glen Johnson

England

B.date23/08/1984

Age18 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

Carrick

Michael Carrick

England

B.date28/07/1981

Age21 years

H1m82

positionDefensive Midfielder

Lomas

Steve Lomas

Northern Ireland

B.date18/01/1974

Age29 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

Bowyer

Lee Bowyer

England

B.date03/01/1977

Age26 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Cole

Joe Cole

England

B.date08/11/1981

Age21 years

H1m76

positionPlaymaker

Ferdinand59

Les Ferdinand

England

B.date08/12/1966

Age36 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Di Canio5888

Paolo Di Canio

Italy

B.date09/07/1968

Age34 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Forward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	David James		32	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tomas Repka		29	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Pearce		28	127	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nigel Winterburn	84	39	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Glen Johnson		18	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael Carrick		21	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve Lomas		29	181	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Lee Bowyer		26	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Joe Cole		21	138	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Les Ferdinand	59	36	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paolo Di Canio	5888	34	136	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Blackburn

Friedel

Brad Friedel

United States

B.date18/05/1971

Age31 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Neill

Lucas Neill

Australia

B.date09/03/1978

Age24 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

Flitcroft

Garry Flitcroft

England

B.date06/11/1972

Age30 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Todd

Andy Todd

England

B.date21/09/1974

Age28 years

H1m78

positionCentral defender

Taylor

Martin Taylor

England

B.date09/11/1979

Age23 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

McEveley90

James McEveley

Scotland

B.date02/11/1985

Age17 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

Tugay

Kerimoglu Tugay

Turkey

B.date24/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Thompson

David Thompson

England

B.date12/09/1977

Age25 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Gillespie70

Keith Gillespie

Northern Ireland

B.date18/02/1975

Age27 years

H1m77

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Yorke3884

Dwight Yorke

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date03/11/1971

Age31 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

Cole

Andy Cole

England

B.date15/10/1971

Age31 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Brad Friedel		31	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lucas Neill		24	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Garry Flitcroft		30	150	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andy Todd		28	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Taylor		23	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	James McEveley	90	17	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kerimoglu Tugay		32	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Thompson		25	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Keith Gillespie	70	27	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dwight Yorke	3884	31	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Cole		31	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Trevor Sinclair	88	29	193	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jermain Defoe	8984	20	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Frédéric Kanouté	59	25	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Nils-Eric Johansson	70	23	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Egil Ostenstad	84	31	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Matt Jansen	90	25	79	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Tomas Repka

Gary Breen

OUT

Les Ferdinand

Jermain Defoe

OUT

Nigel Winterburn

Scott Minto

OUT

Glen Johnson

Edouard Cissé

OUT

Paolo Di Canio

Trevor Sinclair

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Garry Flitcroft

David Dunn

OUT

James McEveley

Matt Jansen

OUT

Keith Gillespie

Jonathan Douglas

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Glenn Roeder

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

31 %

Roeder vs Blackburn

2 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 29, 2003

Roeder vs Souness

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 29, 2003

Manager

Age

Match num

Graeme Souness

152

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Souness vs West Ham

4 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on January 29, 2003

Souness vs Roeder

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 29, 2003

Referee

Alan Wiley

12 victories	7 draws	11 losses	West Ham30 matches	General total	Blackburn35 matches	7 victories	12 draws	16 losses
2 victories	1 draw	1 loss	West Ham4 matches	Season total	Blackburn4 matches	1 victory	2 draws	1 loss
Latest figure on April 24, 2010					Latest figure on February 28, 2010

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Key figures

Dwight Yorke scored 9 goals vs West Ham in his professional career

End of streak for West Ham after 3 consecutive losses (since 19/01/2003).

It's the first time Dwight Yorke scores a goal vs in his professional career since the 01/01/2001 (with Blackburn vs )

Read the next 19 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DWest Ham 1-1 Manchester United17/11/2002

LWest Ham 0-1 Southampton02/12/2002

DWest Ham 1-1 Bolton Wanderers21/12/2002

DWest Ham 1-1 Fulham26/12/2002

VWest Ham 3-2 Nottingham Forest04/01/2003

DWest Ham 2-2 Newcastle United11/01/2003

Overall

DBlackburn 2-2 West Ham28/12/2002

VWest Ham 3-2 Nottingham Forest04/01/2003

DWest Ham 2-2 Newcastle United11/01/2003

LArsenal 3-1 West Ham19/01/2003

LCharlton 4-2 West Ham22/01/2003

LManchester United 6-0 West Ham26/01/2003

Current form

Away

LEverton 2-1 Blackburn14/12/2002

VWigan 0-2 Blackburn17/12/2002

DLiverpool 1-1 Blackburn26/12/2002

VAston Villa 1-4 Blackburn04/01/2003

DManchester United 1-1 Blackburn07/01/2003

DSunderland 0-0 Blackburn11/01/2003

Overall

VAston Villa 1-4 Blackburn04/01/2003

DManchester United 1-1 Blackburn07/01/2003

DSunderland 0-0 Blackburn11/01/2003

DBlackburn 1-1 Birmingham City18/01/2003

LBlackburn 1-3 Manchester United22/01/2003

DBlackburn 3-3 Sunderland25/01/2003

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	3
Unbeaten streak	4	0
Winless streak	1	4
Drawless streak	0	3
Scoring streak	4	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	10	17

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	2	1
Unbeaten streak	5	1
Winless streak	2	5
Scoring streak	0	3
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	0	3
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

24	Number of games (Competition total)	24
12	Number of games (Home / Away)	11
3	Victories (Competition total)	8
0	Victories (Home / Away)	3
8	Draws (Competition total)	10
6	Draws (Home / Away)	5
13	Losses (Competition total)	6
6	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

26	Goals scored (Competition total)	30
11	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
47	Goals conceded (Competition total)	26
18	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	12
1.08	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.25
0.92	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.09
1.96	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.08
1.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.09

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	10
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
5	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
14	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	14
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
0-1 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (3 times)

Bookings

37	Yellow cards (Competition total)	40
18	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	22
3	Red cards (Competition total)	4
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Paolo Di Canio	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	5 goals	Andy Cole
Joe Cole	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Andy Cole
Paolo Di Canio	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	David Dunn
Trevor Sinclair	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Jermain Defoe	3 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 4 matches	Damien Duff

Historical head to head

Home

46 matches

22 v

9 d

15 l

89 gf

80 ga

Away

46 matches

11 v

7 d

28 l

58 gf

103 ga

Total

92 matches

33 v

16 d

43 l

147 gf

183 ga

Historical head to head

Home

46 matches

28 v

7 d

11 l

103 gf

58 ga

Away

46 matches

15 v

9 d

22 l

80 gf

89 ga

Total

92 matches

43 v

16 d

33 l

183 gf

147 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	December 30, 1978
Home	4 - 0	December 30, 1978

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	October 14, 2001
Away	8 - 2	December 26, 1963

Latest head to head

December 28, 2002 - Premier League 2002/2003

Blackburn

2 - 2

West Ham

February 02, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

West Ham

2 - 0

Blackburn

October 14, 2001 - Premier League 2001/2002

Blackburn

7 - 1

West Ham

October 31, 2000 - League Cup 2000/2001

West Ham

2 - 0

Blackburn

February 27, 1999 - Premier League 1998/1999

West Ham

2 - 0

Blackburn

Best historical scorers against Blackburn

John Byrne	5 goals	1962 - 1963
John Dick	3 goals	1960 - 1961
Geoff Hurst	3 goals	1962 - 1966
Martin Peters	3 goals	1962 - 1965
John Hartson	3 goals	1998 - 1998
Julian Dicks	2 goals	1995 - 1995

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/10/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against West Ham

John Byrom	8 goals	1961 - 1965
Alan Shearer	7 goals	1995 - 1995
Andrew McEvoy	6 goals	1961 - 1966
Frederick Pickering	4 goals	1963 - 1963
Damien Duff	3 goals	1997 - 2002
Garry Flitcroft	3 goals	1998 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/10/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Blackburn

Steve Potts	11 matches	1993 - 2000
Bobby Moore	11 matches	1960 - 1966
Ken Brown	10 matches	1960 - 1966
John Moncur	10 matches	1995 - 2002
Geoff Hurst	9 matches	1961 - 1966
Ian Pearce	8 matches	1997 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/10/1960. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs West Ham

Tim Sherwood	13 matches	1993 - 1998
Ronnie Clayton	11 matches	1960 - 1965
Jeff Kenna	11 matches	1995 - 2000
Jason Wilcox	11 matches	1993 - 1999
Garry Flitcroft	11 matches	1996 - 2002
Stuart Ripley	10 matches	1993 - 1998