West Ham in Numbers

First Division

Last 5DLLLW

14th

of 22 · First Division

36
Points: 12
Won: 12
Drawn: 18
Lost: -4
Goal diff

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1 May 1972 · First Division · 18,479

West Ham United

1 – 0

Southampton

Robson

Form going in WDLLL

1971/72 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	10	6	5	31	19	+12	1.24	WDWLW
Away Form	21	2	6	13	16	32	-16	0.48	DLDLL
Overall	42	12	12	18	47	51	-4	0.86	DLLLW

0.86

Points per game

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Poor form

1.12 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Poor

1.21 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Average

The story so far

West Ham United are 14th in the First Division in 1971/72, with 36 points from 42 games (12 wins, 12 draws, 18 defeats), an average of 0.86 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are D L L L W (3 points). At home they have 10 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats (1.24 points per game); away it is 2, 6 and 13 (0.48). They score 1.12 and concede 1.21 a game, keep a clean sheet in 33% of matches and fail to score in 40%. Both teams score in 38% of their games and 43% have more than 2.5 goals. Clyde Best leads the scoring with 23 goals in 56 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	29%	48%	10%
Draws	29%	29%	29%
Losses	43%	24%	62%
Scored / Match	1.12	1.48	0.76
Conceded / Match	1.21	0.9	1.52
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.33	2.38	2.29
Clean Sheets %	33%	43%	24%
Failed to Score %	40%	29%	52%
Both Teams Scored %	38%	38%	38%
Over 2.5 %	43%	43%	43%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

0-117% (7)
0-012% (5)
0-210% (4)
1-010% (4)
1-17% (3)
1-27% (3)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

012% (5)
126% (11)
219% (8)
321% (9)
412% (5)
5+10% (4)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

10–6–5

Goals 31–1936 pts (1.71 per game)Clean sheets 9Failed to score 6

Away21 games

2–6–13

Goals 16–3212 pts (0.57 per game)Clean sheets 5Failed to score 11

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 1, lost both against 3.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Arsenal	0–04 Dec	1–222 Apr	1–2	1/6
Chelsea	2–111 Sept	1–325 Mar	3–4	3/6
Coventry City	4–030 Aug	1–121 Mar	5–1	4/6
Crystal Palace	1–119 Feb	3–030 Oct	4–1	4/6
Derby County	3–322 Jan	0–218 Aug	3–5	1/6
Everton	1–028 Aug	1–28 Jan	2–2	3/6
Huddersfield Town	3–04 Mar	0–113 Nov	3–1	3/6
Ipswich Town	0–023 Aug	0–129 Jan	0–1	1/6
Leeds United	2–231 Mar	0–02 Oct	2–2	2/6
Leicester City	1–19 Oct	0–211 Mar	1–3	1/6
Liverpool	0–215 Apr	0–127 Nov	0–3	0/6
Manchester City	0–220 Nov	1–38 Apr	1–5	0/6
Manchester United	3–01 Jan	2–418 Sept	5–4	3/6
Newcastle United	0–118 Dec	2–24 Sept	2–3	1/6
Nottingham Forest	4–218 Mar	0–121 Aug	4–3	3/6
Sheffield United	1–26 Nov	0–329 Feb	1–5	0/6
Southampton	1–01 May	3–311 Dec	4–3	4/6
Stoke City	2–125 Sept	0–04 Apr	2–1	4/6
Tottenham Hotspur	2–01 Apr	1–027 Dec	3–0	6/6
West Bromwich Albion	0–114 Aug	0–016 Oct	0–1	1/6
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–023 Oct	0–112 Feb	1–1	3/6

Agg = combined score over both games, Pts = points won against that club. Dates are under each score; dashed boxes show the date of games still to be played.

The season in numbers

league matches

Played

Goals scored

Goals conceded

-4

Goal difference

Clean sheets

Failed to score

Both scored

Over 2.5

League Table

#	Team	P	W	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Derby County	21	8	26	23	+3	22
2	Manchester City	21	7	29	30	-1	22
3	Liverpool	21	7	16	14	+2	20
4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	21	8	30	34	-4	20
5	Manchester United	21	6	30	35	-5	20
6	Arsenal	21	7	22	27	-5	20
7	Leeds United	21	7	19	21	-2	19
8	Sheffield United	21	7	22	34	-12	18
9	Chelsea	21	6	17	29	-12	17
10	West Bromwich Albion	21	6	20	31	-11	16
11	Tottenham Hotspur	21	3	18	29	-11	16
12	Ipswich Town	21	4	20	34	-14	16
13	Leicester City	21	4	23	35	-12	15
14	Newcastle United	21	5	19	34	-15	15
15	Stoke City	21	4	13	31	-18	13
16	Crystal Palace	21	4	13	34	-21	13
17	Everton	21	1	9	31	-22	11
18	West Ham United	21	2	16	32	-16	10
19	Huddersfield Town	21	2	15	37	-22	10
20	Southampton	21	4	21	52	-31	10
21	Nottingham Forest	21	2	22	52	-30	9
22	Coventry City	21	2	17	44	-27	9

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Manchester City	42	77	45	2.9
2	Leeds United	42	73	31	2.48
3	Derby County	42	69	33	2.43
4	Manchester United	42	69	61	3.1
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	65	57	2.9
6	Liverpool	42	64	30	2.24
7	Tottenham Hotspur	42	63	42	2.5
8	Sheffield United	42	61	60	2.88
9	Arsenal	42	58	40	2.33
10	Chelsea	42	58	49	2.55
11	Southampton	42	52	80	3.14
12	Newcastle United	42	49	52	2.4
13	West Ham United	42	47	51	2.33
14	Nottingham Forest	42	47	81	3.05
15	Coventry City	42	44	67	2.64
16	West Bromwich Albion	42	42	54	2.29
17	Leicester City	42	41	46	2.07
18	Ipswich Town	42	39	53	2.19
19	Stoke City	42	39	56	2.26
20	Crystal Palace	42	39	65	2.48
21	Everton	42	37	48	2.02
22	Huddersfield Town	42	27	59	2.05

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Manchester City	42	62%	33%	55%
2	Southampton	42	60%	43%	55%
3	Manchester United	42	60%	45%	52%
4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	57%	36%	64%
5	Nottingham Forest	42	55%	38%	60%
6	Sheffield United	42	55%	36%	50%
7	Chelsea	42	50%	26%	45%
8	Derby County	42	48%	24%	33%
9	Arsenal	42	45%	14%	38%
10	Leeds United	42	45%	21%	33%
11	Crystal Palace	42	43%	24%	50%
12	West Ham United	42	43%	21%	38%
13	Newcastle United	42	43%	26%	36%
14	Coventry City	42	40%	36%	57%
15	Ipswich Town	42	40%	19%	48%
16	Stoke City	42	40%	24%	45%
17	Huddersfield Town	42	40%	19%	40%
18	Tottenham Hotspur	42	38%	26%	45%
19	Leicester City	42	36%	12%	43%
20	West Bromwich Albion	42	36%	21%	43%
21	Liverpool	42	36%	29%	29%
22	Everton	42	33%	17%	40%