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Liverpool 1-1 Blackburn - December 26, 2002 / Premier League 2002/2003

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Premier League 2002/2003 - Journée 20

Anfield - Liverpool - England

December 26, 2002

43 075

Liverpool

1 - 1

Blackburn

John Arne Riise

17'

77'

Andy Cole

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17' - Goal John Arne Riise17

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52' - Substitution Nils-Eric Johanssonis substituted by Egil Ostenstad

59' - Substitution Emile Heskeyis substituted by Milan Baros59

65' - Substitution Vladimir Smiceris substituted by Igor Biscan65

77' - Goal Andy Cole

83' - Substitution Djimi Traoréis substituted by El-Hadji Diouf83

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Liverpool

1 - 1

Blackburn

Liverpool Blackburn

Team line-ups

Liverpool

Kirkland

Chris Kirkland

England

B.date02/05/1981

Age21 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Hyypiä

Sami Hyypiä

Finland

B.date07/10/1973

Age29 years

H1m96

positionCentral defender

Carragher

Jamie Carragher

England

B.date28/01/1978

Age24 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Henchoz

Stéphane Henchoz

Switzerland

B.date07/03/1974

Age28 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Traoré83

Djimi Traoré

Mali

B.date01/03/1980

Age22 years

H1m90

positionLeft full-back

Riise17

John Arne Riise

Norway

B.date24/09/1980

Age22 years

H1m88

positionLeft full-back

Smicer65

Vladimir Smicer

Czech Republic

B.date24/05/1973

Age29 years

H1m80

positionLeft Midfielder

Murphy

Danny Murphy

England

B.date18/03/1977

Age25 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

Gerrard

Steven Gerrard

England

B.date30/05/1980

Age22 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

Heskey59

Emile Heskey

England

B.date11/01/1978

Age24 years

H1m88

positionStriker

Owen

Michael Owen

England

B.date14/12/1979

Age23 years

H1m73

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Chris Kirkland		21	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sami Hyypiä		29	186	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jamie Carragher		24	247	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stéphane Henchoz		28	160	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Djimi Traoré	83	22	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Arne Riise	17	22	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Vladimir Smicer	65	29	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Danny Murphy		25	178	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Gerrard		22	168	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Emile Heskey	59	24	151	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michael Owen		23	234	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

145

Blackburn

Friedel

Brad Friedel

United States

B.date18/05/1971

Age31 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Flitcroft

Garry Flitcroft

England

B.date06/11/1972

Age30 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Short

Craig Short

England

B.date25/06/1968

Age34 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Taylor

Martin Taylor

England

B.date09/11/1979

Age23 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

Neill

Lucas Neill

Australia

B.date09/03/1978

Age24 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

Johansson52

Nils-Eric Johansson

Sweden

B.date13/01/1980

Age22 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

Duff

Damien Duff

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/03/1979

Age23 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Thompson

David Thompson

England

B.date12/09/1977

Age25 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Tugay

Kerimoglu Tugay

Turkey

B.date24/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Cole77

Andy Cole

England

B.date15/10/1971

Age31 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Yorke

Dwight Yorke

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date03/11/1971

Age31 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Brad Friedel		31	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Garry Flitcroft		30	142	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Craig Short		34	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Taylor		23	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lucas Neill		24	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nils-Eric Johansson	52	22	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Damien Duff		23	143	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Thompson		25	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kerimoglu Tugay		32	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Cole	77	31	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dwight Yorke		31	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Igor Biscan	65	24	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Milan Baros	59	21	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	El-Hadji Diouf	83	21	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Egil Ostenstad	52	30	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Emile Heskey

Milan Baros

OUT

Vladimir Smicer

Salif Diao

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

David Thompson

David Dunn

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Gérard Houllier

211

Success rate in this team:

53 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Houllier vs Blackburn

3 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 2002

Houllier vs Souness

1 victory

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 2002

Manager

Age

Match num

Graeme Souness

143

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Souness vs Liverpool

0 victory

3 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on December 26, 2002

Souness vs Houllier

0 victory

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on December 26, 2002

Referee

Neale Barry

8 victories	8 draws	1 loss	Liverpool17 matches	General total	Blackburn17 matches	6 victories	8 draws	3 losses
0 victory	2 draws	1 loss	Liverpool3 matches	Season total	Blackburn3 matches	0 victory	2 draws	1 loss
Latest figure on February 01, 2005					Latest figure on April 09, 2005

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Key figures

Emile Heskey played his game number 10 vs Blackburn in Premier League

Blackburn keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a loss running (since 17/12/2002).

Andy Cole scored 10 goals vs Liverpool in his professional career

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VLiverpool 3-1 Southampton06/11/2002

DLiverpool 0-0 Sunderland17/11/2002

LLiverpool 1-2 Manchester United01/12/2002

DLiverpool 1-1 Ipswich Town04/12/2002

VLiverpool 1-0 Vitesse Arnhem12/12/2002

DLiverpool 0-0 Everton22/12/2002

Overall

DLiverpool 1-1 Ipswich Town04/12/2002

LCharlton 2-0 Liverpool07/12/2002

VLiverpool 1-0 Vitesse Arnhem12/12/2002

LSunderland 2-1 Liverpool15/12/2002

VAston Villa 3-4 Liverpool18/12/2002

DLiverpool 0-0 Everton22/12/2002

Current form

Away

LCeltic Glasgow 1-0 Blackburn31/10/2002

DSouthampton 1-1 Blackburn09/11/2002

LCharlton 3-1 Blackburn24/11/2002

DBolton Wanderers 1-1 Blackburn07/12/2002

LEverton 2-1 Blackburn14/12/2002

VWigan 0-2 Blackburn17/12/2002

Overall

VBlackburn 2-1 Fulham30/11/2002

VBlackburn 4-0 Rotherham United04/12/2002

DBolton Wanderers 1-1 Blackburn07/12/2002

LEverton 2-1 Blackburn14/12/2002

VWigan 0-2 Blackburn17/12/2002

VBlackburn 1-0 Manchester United22/12/2002

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	3	2
Winless streak	1	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	2	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Drawless streak	2	3
Scoring streak	5	7
Invincibility streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

19	Number of games (Competition total)	19
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
9	Victories (Competition total)	7
5	Victories (Home / Away)	3
5	Draws (Competition total)	6
4	Draws (Home / Away)	3
5	Losses (Competition total)	6
1	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

28	Goals scored (Competition total)	25
15	Goals scored (Home / Away)	11
19	Goals conceded (Competition total)	22
7	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	11
1.47	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.32
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.22
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.16
0.7	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.22

Betting aid

10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	9
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
9	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	4
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
8	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	11
4	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
2-2 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (2 times)

Bookings

23	Yellow cards (Competition total)	31
9	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	18
0	Red cards (Competition total)	3
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Michael Owen	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	David Dunn
Michael Owen	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Andy Cole
Michael Owen	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	David Dunn
Michael Owen	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Milan Baros	2 goals during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Garry Flitcroft

Historical head to head

Home

59 matches

36 v

13 d

10 l

124 gf

60 ga

Away

62 matches

14 v

22 d

26 l

86 gf

106 ga

Total

121 matches

50 v

35 d

36 l

210 gf

166 ga

Historical head to head

Home

62 matches

26 v

22 d

14 l

106 gf

86 ga

Away

59 matches

10 v

13 d

36 l

60 gf

124 ga

Total

121 matches

36 v

35 d

50 l

166 gf

210 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	October 28, 1933
Home	4 - 0	October 28, 1933

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	September 06, 1913
Away	2 - 0	January 05, 1907

Latest head to head

August 28, 2002 - Premier League 2002/2003

Blackburn

2 - 2

Liverpool

May 08, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

Liverpool

4 - 3

Blackburn

November 17, 2001 - Premier League 2001/2002

Blackburn

1 - 1

Liverpool

January 10, 2000 - FA Cup 1999/2000

Liverpool

0 - 1

Blackburn

April 24, 1999 - Premier League 1998/1999

Blackburn

1 - 3

Liverpool

Best historical scorers against Blackburn

Ian Rush	6 goals	1983 - 1994
Ian St-John	5 goals	1962 - 1966
Roger Hunt	5 goals	1963 - 1966
Berry Nieuwenhuys	4 goals	1933 - 1936
Jamie Redknapp	3 goals	1995 - 1999
Michael Owen	3 goals	1997 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 28/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Chris Sutton	5 goals	1994 - 1996
Andrew McEvoy	4 goals	1963 - 1964
Jason Wilcox	4 goals	1993 - 1996
Mike Harrison	3 goals	1963 - 1966
Matt Jansen	2 goals	2001 - 2002
Damien Duff	2 goals	1999 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 28/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Blackburn

Steve McManaman	15 matches	1991 - 1999
John Barnes	13 matches	1987 - 1997
David James	12 matches	1993 - 1998
Jamie Redknapp	11 matches	1992 - 1999
Robbie Fowler	10 matches	1994 - 2001
Ian Rush	9 matches	1983 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 28/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Colin Hendry	12 matches	1992 - 1998
Jason Wilcox	11 matches	1992 - 1999
Stuart Ripley	11 matches	1992 - 1998
Henning Berg	11 matches	1993 - 2002
Tim Sherwood	11 matches	1992 - 1998
Tim Flowers	9 matches	1994 - 1998