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1st Division

Highbury | Saturday 2 December 1978 at 15:00 UK local time

Arsenal 1 - 0 Liverpool
Half time 1–0

Starting Lineup (Average age 26.72)

1
Ray Clemence
2
Phil Neal
3
Alan Kennedy
4
Phil Thompson
5
Ray Kennedy
6
Alan Hansen
7
Kenny Dalglish (c)
8
Jimmy Case
9
Steve Heighway
10
Terry McDermott
11
Graeme Souness

Substitutes

12
David Johnson

Opposition Lineup (Average age 25.01)

Pat Jennings
Pat Rice
Sammy Nelson
David Price
David O'Leary
Willie Young
Liam Brady
Alan Sunderland
Frank Stapleton
Steve Gatting
Graham Rix

Notes

  • Daily Post reported on the only goal of the game that looked like initially to be an own goal by Ray Kennedy: "Clemence got a hand to a low shot from Stapleton, an angled drive from well out, but was unable to hold it. Ray Kennedy was on hand to kick clear but what look like Kennedy's first goal for Arsenal since he left to join Liverpool, turned out to be correctly credited to Price. The players told me afterwards that as Kennedy kicked, Price threw himself bodily across the line of flight and deflected the ball into the roof of the net."

Other details

Manager: Bob Paisley
Opposition manager: Terry Neill
Referee: Reynolds THC
Attendance: 51,902
Half-time score: 1 - 0
Game number: 3422
League game number: 2968
Liverpool league position: 1st
Arsenal league position: 5th
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Liverpool
Arsenal
30'
David Price (0–1)
HT 0–1
Phil Thompson David Johnson
85'
Full time 0–1

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