West Ham in Numbers

First Division

Last 5DWDDL

6th

of 22 · First Division

46
Points: 17
Won: 12
Drawn: 13
Lost: +14
Goal diff

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28 Apr 1973 · First Division · 37,368

West Ham United

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Form going in WDWDD

1972/73 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	12	5	4	45	25	+20	1.38	WWDWL
Away Form	21	5	7	9	22	28	-6	0.81	DWWDD
Overall	42	17	12	13	67	53	+14	1.1	DWDDL

1.1

Points per game

DWDDL

Poor form

1.6 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Good

1.26 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Average

The story so far

West Ham United are 6th in the First Division in 1972/73, with 46 points from 42 games (17 wins, 12 draws, 13 defeats), an average of 1.1 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are D W D D L (5 points). At home they have 12 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats (1.38 points per game); away it is 5, 7 and 9 (0.81). They score 1.6 and concede 1.26 a game, keep a clean sheet in 24% of matches and fail to score in 26%. Both teams score in 60% of their games and 57% have more than 2.5 goals. Bryan Robson leads the scoring with 28 goals in 46 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	40%	57%	24%
Draws	29%	24%	33%
Losses	31%	19%	43%
Scored / Match	1.6	2.14	1.05
Conceded / Match	1.26	1.19	1.33
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.86	3.33	2.38
Clean Sheets %	24%	24%	24%
Failed to Score %	26%	10%	43%
Both Teams Scored %	60%	67%	52%
Over 2.5 %	57%	67%	48%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

0-112% (5)
0-010% (4)
1-110% (4)
2-110% (4)
2-210% (4)
3-110% (4)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

010% (4)
117% (7)
217% (7)
319% (8)
426% (11)
5+12% (5)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

12–5–4

Goals 45–2541 pts (1.95 per game)Clean sheets 5Failed to score 2

Away21 games

5–7–9

Goals 22–2822 pts (1.05 per game)Clean sheets 5Failed to score 9

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 4, lost both against 2.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Arsenal	1–228 Apr	0–129 Aug	1–3	0/6
Birmingham City	2–030 Sept	0–023 Apr	2–0	4/6
Chelsea	3–127 Jan	3–19 Sept	6–2	6/6
Coventry City	1–014 Aug	1–311 Nov	2–3	3/6
Crystal Palace	4–028 Oct	3–124 Mar	7–1	6/6
Derby County	1–218 Nov	1–121 Apr	2–3	1/6
Everton	2–031 Mar	2–125 Nov	4–1	6/6
Ipswich Town	0–12 Mar	1–17 Oct	1–2	1/6
Leeds United	1–114 Apr	0–19 Dec	1–2	1/6
Leicester City	5–219 Aug	1–230 Dec	6–4	3/6
Liverpool	0–16 Jan	2–326 Aug	2–4	0/6
Manchester City	2–117 Mar	3–421 Oct	5–5	3/6
Manchester United	2–22 Sept	2–220 Jan	4–4	2/6
Newcastle United	1–12 Dec	2–17 Apr	3–2	4/6
Norwich City	4–016 Sept	1–010 Feb	5–0	6/6
Sheffield United	3–114 Oct	0–010 Mar	3–1	4/6
Southampton	4–320 Apr	0–023 Dec	4–3	4/6
Stoke City	3–216 Dec	0–224 Feb	3–4	3/6
Tottenham Hotspur	2–226 Dec	0–123 Sept	2–3	1/6
West Bromwich Albion	2–117 Feb	0–012 Aug	2–1	4/6
Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–24 Nov	0–322 Aug	2–5	1/6

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

+14

Goal difference

Clean sheets

Failed to score

Both scored

Over 2.5

League Table

#	Team	P	W	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Arsenal	21	9	26	29	-3	24
2	Liverpool	21	8	27	23	+4	23
3	Ipswich Town	21	7	21	25	-4	21
4	Tottenham Hotspur	21	6	25	25	0	20
5	Leeds United	21	6	26	32	-6	19
6	Wolverhampton Wanderers	21	5	23	31	-8	18
7	West Ham United	21	5	22	28	-6	17
8	Chelsea	21	4	19	29	-10	16
9	Newcastle United	21	4	25	32	-7	15
10	Leicester City	21	3	17	28	-11	14
11	Sheffield United	21	4	23	41	-18	14
12	Everton	21	4	14	28	-14	14
13	Southampton	21	3	21	35	-14	13
14	Manchester City	21	3	21	40	-19	13
15	Birmingham City	21	4	14	32	-18	13
16	Derby County	21	4	13	36	-23	13
17	Manchester United	21	3	20	41	-21	12
18	Coventry City	21	4	13	31	-18	12
19	Crystal Palace	21	2	16	37	-21	9
20	Norwich City	21	4	14	44	-30	9
21	Stoke City	21	3	23	39	-16	8
22	West Bromwich Albion	21	1	13	38	-25	5

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Liverpool	42	72	42	2.71
2	Leeds United	42	71	45	2.76
3	West Ham United	42	67	53	2.86
4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	66	54	2.86
5	Stoke City	42	61	56	2.79
6	Newcastle United	42	60	51	2.64
7	Tottenham Hotspur	42	58	48	2.52
8	Arsenal	42	57	43	2.38
9	Manchester City	42	57	60	2.79
10	Derby County	42	56	54	2.62
11	Ipswich Town	42	55	45	2.38
12	Birmingham City	42	53	54	2.55
13	Sheffield United	42	51	59	2.62
14	Chelsea	42	49	51	2.38
15	Southampton	42	47	52	2.36
16	Manchester United	42	44	60	2.48
17	Everton	42	41	49	2.14
18	Crystal Palace	42	41	58	2.36
19	Leicester City	42	40	46	2.05
20	Coventry City	42	40	55	2.26
21	West Bromwich Albion	42	38	62	2.38
22	Norwich City	42	36	63	2.36

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	West Ham United	42	57%	38%	60%
2	Derby County	42	55%	26%	45%
3	Newcastle United	42	52%	24%	67%
4	Manchester City	42	52%	24%	64%
5	Sheffield United	42	52%	26%	55%
6	Leeds United	42	52%	31%	52%
7	Liverpool	42	48%	21%	62%
8	Tottenham Hotspur	42	48%	21%	62%
9	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	48%	24%	57%
10	Birmingham City	42	48%	26%	52%
11	Manchester United	42	48%	26%	50%
12	Ipswich Town	42	43%	14%	57%
13	Stoke City	42	43%	29%	48%
14	Chelsea	42	40%	26%	60%
15	Southampton	42	40%	21%	60%
16	West Bromwich Albion	42	40%	19%	50%
17	Arsenal	42	40%	24%	48%
18	Norwich City	42	40%	19%	48%
19	Coventry City	42	40%	14%	45%
20	Crystal Palace	42	38%	24%	40%
21	Everton	42	36%	19%	45%
22	Leicester City	42	29%	17%	50%