West Ham in Numbers

First Division

Last 5WWLWL

20th

of 22 · First Division

32
Points: 12
Won: 8
Drawn: 22
Lost: -17
Goal diff

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29 Apr 1978 · First Division · 37,448

West Ham United

0 – 2

Liverpool

Form going in WWWLW

1977/78 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	8	6	7	31	28	+3	1.05	WWWWL
Away Form	21	4	2	15	21	41	-20	0.48	LLWLW
Overall	42	12	8	22	52	69	-17	0.76	WWLWL

0.76

Points per game

WWLWL

Poor form

1.24 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Average

1.64 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Poor

The story so far

West Ham United are 20th in the First Division in 1977/78, with 32 points from 42 games (12 wins, 8 draws, 22 defeats), an average of 0.76 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are W W L W L (6 points). At home they have 8 wins, 6 draws and 7 defeats (1.05 points per game); away it is 4, 2 and 15 (0.48). They score 1.24 and concede 1.64 a game, keep a clean sheet in 14% of matches and fail to score in 33%. Both teams score in 55% of their games and 64% have more than 2.5 goals. Bryan Robson leads the scoring with 11 goals in 41 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	29%	38%	19%
Draws	19%	29%	10%
Losses	52%	33%	71%
Scored / Match	1.24	1.48	1
Conceded / Match	1.64	1.33	1.95
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.88	2.81	2.95
Clean Sheets %	14%	24%	5%
Failed to Score %	33%	24%	43%
Both Teams Scored %	55%	57%	52%
Over 2.5 %	64%	62%	67%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

0-114% (6)
1-212% (5)
2-212% (5)
0-210% (4)
2-110% (4)
0-37% (3)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

02% (1)
119% (8)
214% (6)
333% (14)
417% (7)
5+14% (6)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

8–6–7

Goals 31–2830 pts (1.43 per game)Clean sheets 5Failed to score 5

Away21 games

4–2–15

Goals 21–4114 pts (0.67 per game)Clean sheets 1Failed to score 9

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 2, lost both against 3.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Arsenal	2–225 Feb	0–31 Oct	2–5	1/6
Aston Villa	2–222 Oct	1–418 Mar	3–6	1/6
Birmingham City	1–026 Dec	0–328 Mar	1–3	3/6
Bristol City	1–211 Feb	2–317 Sept	3–5	0/6
Chelsea	3–125 Mar	1–227 Dec	4–3	3/6
Coventry City	2–11 Apr	0–15 Nov	2–2	3/6
Derby County	3–015 Apr	1–219 Nov	4–2	3/6
Everton	1–124 Sept	1–218 Feb	2–3	1/6
Ipswich Town	3–024 Mar	2–029 Oct	5–0	6/6
Leeds United	0–126 Nov	2–18 Apr	2–2	3/6
Leicester City	3–231 Dec	0–124 Aug	3–3	3/6
Liverpool	0–229 Apr	0–23 Dec	0–4	0/6
Manchester City	0–127 Aug	2–314 Jan	2–4	0/6
Manchester United	2–110 Dec	0–322 Apr	2–4	3/6
Middlesbrough	0–23 Oct	2–125 Apr	2–3	3/6
Newcastle United	1–021 Jan	3–23 Sept	4–2	6/6
Norwich City	1–320 Aug	2–22 Jan	3–5	1/6
Nottingham Forest	0–08 Oct	0–24 Mar	0–2	1/6
Queens Park Rangers	2–210 Sept	0–114 Mar	2–3	1/6
West Bromwich Albion	3–312 Nov	0–117 Dec	3–4	1/6
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–211 Mar	2–215 Oct	3–4	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

-17

Goal difference

Clean sheets

Failed to score

Both scored

Over 2.5

League Table

#	Team	P	W	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Nottingham Forest	21	15	37	8	+29	36
2	Liverpool	21	15	37	11	+26	34
3	Arsenal	21	14	38	12	+26	33
4	Everton	21	14	47	22	+25	32
5	Manchester City	21	14	46	21	+25	32
6	Coventry City	21	13	48	23	+25	31
7	West Bromwich Albion	21	13	35	18	+17	31
8	Leeds United	21	12	39	21	+18	28
9	Norwich City	21	10	28	20	+8	28
10	Derby County	21	10	37	24	+13	27
11	Aston Villa	21	11	33	18	+15	26
12	Ipswich Town	21	10	32	24	+8	25
13	Chelsea	21	7	28	20	+8	25
14	Bristol City	21	9	37	26	+11	24
15	Manchester United	21	9	32	23	+9	24
16	Middlesbrough	21	8	25	19	+6	24
17	Queens Park Rangers	21	8	27	26	+1	24
18	West Ham United	21	8	31	28	+3	22
19	Wolverhampton Wanderers	21	7	30	27	+3	22
20	Birmingham City	21	8	32	30	+2	21
21	Leicester City	21	4	16	32	-16	15
22	Newcastle United	21	4	26	37	-11	14

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Everton	42	76	45	2.88
2	Coventry City	42	75	62	3.26
3	Manchester City	42	74	51	2.98
4	Nottingham Forest	42	69	24	2.21
5	Manchester United	42	67	63	3.1
6	Liverpool	42	65	34	2.36
7	Leeds United	42	63	53	2.76
8	West Bromwich Albion	42	62	53	2.74
9	Arsenal	42	60	37	2.31
10	Aston Villa	42	57	42	2.36
11	Birmingham City	42	55	60	2.74
12	Derby County	42	54	59	2.69
13	Norwich City	42	52	66	2.81
14	West Ham United	42	52	69	2.88
15	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	51	64	2.74
16	Bristol City	42	49	53	2.43
17	Ipswich Town	42	47	61	2.57
18	Queens Park Rangers	42	47	64	2.64
19	Chelsea	42	46	69	2.74
20	Middlesbrough	42	42	54	2.29
21	Newcastle United	42	42	78	2.86
22	Leicester City	42	26	70	2.29

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Manchester United	42	71%	43%	69%
2	Coventry City	42	64%	36%	74%
3	West Ham United	42	64%	31%	55%
4	Norwich City	42	62%	33%	57%
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	60%	40%	62%
6	Manchester City	42	60%	43%	57%
7	West Bromwich Albion	42	60%	36%	52%
8	Derby County	42	57%	33%	60%
9	Birmingham City	42	55%	26%	55%
10	Queens Park Rangers	42	52%	29%	57%
11	Leeds United	42	52%	33%	55%
12	Newcastle United	42	52%	29%	48%
13	Everton	42	50%	33%	48%
14	Arsenal	42	48%	19%	48%
15	Chelsea	42	45%	31%	48%
16	Ipswich Town	42	43%	24%	48%
17	Bristol City	42	40%	29%	50%
18	Middlesbrough	42	40%	21%	48%
19	Aston Villa	42	40%	17%	43%
20	Leicester City	42	40%	24%	36%
21	Liverpool	42	38%	24%	38%
22	Nottingham Forest	42	38%	24%	33%