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Blackpool 4-0 Coventry - December 22, 2007 / Championship 2007/2008

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Championship 2007/2008 - Round 23

Bloomfield Road - Blackpool - England

December 22, 2007

8 690

Blackpool

4 - 0

Coventry

(penalty) Wes Hoolahan

28'

Assist by Shaun Barker (right foot) Michael Flynn

65'

Assist by David Fox (header) Kaspars Gorkss

72'

(right foot) Scott Vernon

88'

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28' - Goal Wes Hoolahan28

31' - Red card Kevin Kyle

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46' - Substitution Gary Taylor-Fletcheris substituted by David Fox46

65' - Goal Michael Flynn65

69' - Substitution Michael Hughesis substituted by Stephen Hughes

72' - Goal Kaspars Gorkss72

74' - Substitution Michael Flynnis substituted by Andy Welsh74

76' - Substitution Michael Mifsudis substituted by Isaac Osbourne photo Dele Adebola

76' - Substitution Leon Bestis substituted by Dele Adebola

83' - Substitution Andy Morrellis substituted by Scott Vernon83

88' - Goal Scott Vernon88

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Blackpool

4 - 0

Coventry

Blackpool Coventry

Team line-ups

Blackpool

Rachubka

Paul Rachubka

England

B.date21/05/1981

Age26 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Evatt

Ian Evatt

England

B.date19/11/1981

Age26 years

H1m91

positionLeft central defender

Barker

Shaun Barker

England

B.date19/09/1982

Age25 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Gorkss72

Kaspars Gorkss

Latvia

B.date06/11/1981

Age26 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Crainey

Stephen Crainey

Scotland

B.date22/06/1981

Age26 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Flynn6574

Michael Flynn

Wales

B.date17/10/1980

Age27 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Jorgensen

Claus Bech Jorgensen

Faroe Islands

B.date20/04/1976

Age31 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Hoolahan28

Wes Hoolahan

Republic of Ireland

B.date20/05/1982

Age25 years

H1m68

positionPlaymaker

Morrell83

Andy Morrell

England

B.date28/09/1974

Age33 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Taylor-Fletcher46

Gary Taylor-Fletcher

England

B.date04/06/1981

Age26 years

H1m83

positionRight Winger

Burgess

Ben Burgess

Republic of Ireland

B.date09/11/1981

Age26 years

H1m91

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Paul Rachubka		26	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ian Evatt		26	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Shaun Barker		25	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kaspars Gorkss	72	26	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen Crainey		26	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael Flynn	6574	27	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Claus Bech Jorgensen		31	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Wes Hoolahan	28	25	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Morrell	83	33	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gary Taylor-Fletcher	46	26	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ben Burgess		26	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Coventry

Konstantopoulos

Dimitrios Konstantopoulos

Greece

B.date29/11/1978

Age29 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Ward

Elliott Ward

England

B.date19/01/1985

Age22 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

Turner

Ben Turner

England

B.date21/01/1988

Age19 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

Borrowdale

Gary Borrowdale

England

B.date16/07/1985

Age22 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

McNamee

David McNamee

Scotland

B.date10/10/1980

Age27 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

Hughes69

Michael Hughes

Northern Ireland

B.date02/08/1971

Age36 years

H1m70

positionCentre Midfield

Doyle

Michael Doyle

Republic of Ireland

B.date08/07/1981

Age26 years

H1m78

positionLeft central midfielder

Tabb

Jay Tabb

Republic of Ireland

B.date21/02/1984

Age23 years

H1m70

positionLeft central midfielder

Mifsud76

Michael Mifsud

Malta

B.date17/04/1981

Age26 years

H1m64

positionStriker

Best76

Leon Best

Republic of Ireland

B.date19/09/1986

Age21 years

H1m85

positionStriker

Kyle31

Kevin Kyle

Scotland

B.date07/06/1981

Age26 years

H1m91

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dimitrios Konstantopoulos		29	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Elliott Ward		22	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ben Turner		19	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Borrowdale		22	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David McNamee		27	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael Hughes	69	36	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michael Doyle		26	211	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jay Tabb		23	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michael Mifsud	76	26	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Leon Best	76	21	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kevin Kyle	31	26	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Andy Welsh	74	24	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Fox	46	24	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Scott Vernon	8883	24	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Isaac Osbourne	76	21	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stephen Hughes	69	31	124	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dele Adebola	76	32	173	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Andy Morrell

Bartosz Slusarski

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Kevin Kyle

Leon McKenzie

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Simon Grayson

114

Success rate in this team:

41 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Grayson vs Coventry

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

Grayson vs Dowie

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

Manager

Age

Match num

Iain Dowie

Success rate in this team:

41 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Dowie vs Blackpool

1 victory

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

Dowie vs Grayson

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 22, 2007

Referee

Anthony Taylor

3 victories	4 draws	5 losses	Blackpool12 matches	General total	Coventry7 matches	2 victories	1 draw	4 losses
1 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Blackpool2 matches	Season total	Coventry2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on December 29, 2013					Latest figure on November 04, 2023

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Key figures

It's the first time Michael Flynn scores 1 goal vs Coventry in his professional career with Blackpool

Blackpool keeps its 15 consecutive matches without a draw vs Coventry in Championship running (since 29/11/1919). It's a record streak. The first of history

Blackpool keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a draw at home running (since 10/11/2007).

Read the next 12 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DBlackpool 1-1 Crystal Palace20/10/2007

VBlackpool 1-0 Scunthorpe United10/11/2007

LBlackpool 1-3 Norwich City27/11/2007

VBlackpool 1-0 Queens Park Rangers01/12/2007

LBlackpool 0-1 Cardiff City11/12/2007

LBlackpool 2-3 Stoke City15/12/2007

Overall

DBlackpool 1-1 Crystal Palace20/10/2007

VBlackpool 1-0 Scunthorpe United10/11/2007

LBlackpool 1-3 Norwich City27/11/2007

VBlackpool 1-0 Queens Park Rangers01/12/2007

LBlackpool 0-1 Cardiff City11/12/2007

LBlackpool 2-3 Stoke City15/12/2007

Current form

Overall

VCoventry 1-0 Colchester United27/10/2007

LCoventry 1-2 West Ham30/10/2007

LCoventry 0-4 West Bromwich Albion12/11/2007

DCoventry 1-1 Scunthorpe United27/11/2007

LCoventry 0-1 Sheffield United01/12/2007

DCoventry 1-1 Southampton15/12/2007

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	2	2
Winless streak	2	2
Drawless streak	5	5
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	2	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	0	5
Scoring streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

22	Number of games (Competition total)	21
11	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
5	Victories (Competition total)	8
3	Victories (Home / Away)	5
8	Draws (Competition total)	5
5	Draws (Home / Away)	1
9	Losses (Competition total)	8
3	Losses (Home / Away)	4

Goals

24	Goals scored (Competition total)	26
13	Goals scored (Home / Away)	16
30	Goals conceded (Competition total)	31
14	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	14
1.09	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.24
1.18	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.6
1.36	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.48
1.27	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.4

Betting aid

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

Bookings

10	Yellow cards (Competition total)	21
10	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Ben Burgess	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Michael Mifsud
Ben Burgess	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Michael Doyle
Andy Welsh	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Kevin Kyle
Andy Welsh	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Shaun Barker	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 assist during the last match	Leon McKenzie

Historical head to head

Home

9 matches

8 v

0 d

1 l

21 gf

3 ga

Away

11 matches

4 v

1 d

6 l

12 gf

18 ga

Total

20 matches

12 v

1 d

7 l

33 gf

21 ga

Historical head to head

Home

11 matches

6 v

1 d

4 l

18 gf

12 ga

Away

9 matches

1 v

0 d

8 l

3 gf

21 ga

Total

20 matches

7 v

1 d

12 l

21 gf

33 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	October 20, 1923
Home	5 - 0	October 20, 1923

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	October 02, 2007
Away	1 - 0	March 10, 1923

Latest head to head

October 02, 2007 - Championship 2007/2008

Coventry

3 - 1

Blackpool

October 01, 1997 - League Cup 1997/1998

Coventry

3 - 1

Blackpool

September 16, 1997 - League Cup 1997/1998

Blackpool

1 - 0

Coventry

February 13, 1971 - Division 1 1970/1971

Coventry

2 - 0

Blackpool

December 12, 1970 - Division 1 1970/1971

Blackpool

1 - 0

Coventry

Best historical scorers against Coventry

David Linighan	2 goals	1997 - 1997
Andy Morrell	1 goal	2007 - 2007
John Craven	1 goal	1970 - 1970

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/12/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Blackpool

Gary McAllister	2 goals	1997 - 1997
Robbie Simpson	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Michael Mifsud	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Willie Carr	1 goal	1971 - 1971
Dion Dublin	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Michael Doyle	1 goal	2007 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/12/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Coventry

Andy Preece	2 matches	1997 - 1997
John Craven	2 matches	1970 - 1971
Tommy Hutchison	2 matches	1970 - 1971
Steve Banks	2 matches	1997 - 1997
Darren Bradshaw	2 matches	1997 - 1997
Lee Philpott	2 matches	1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/12/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Blackpool

Dave Clements	2 matches	1970 - 1971
Richard Shaw	2 matches	1997 - 1997
Paul Williams	2 matches	1997 - 1997
Dennis Mortimer	2 matches	1970 - 1971
Geoff Strong	2 matches	1970 - 1971
Gary Breen	2 matches	1997 - 1997