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“Seven of the nine matches in Ligue 1 last weekend finished 1-0,” notes Liam Togher. “That’s 78% of the games. Has there ever been a more common instance of one specific scoreline in a single gameweek?”
This is a question that George Graham would love, and Chris Roe has done the hard yards to find an example that can beat the above though, alas, it doesn’t involve the Arsenal team of the late 1980s who made 1-0 scorelines famous.
“I’ve considered this from the point of view of rounds of matches (e.g each teams Nth match in the season). In this case, the most common 1-0 group in English league football is from the 14th round of Championship matches in the 2016-17 season (21 and 22 October 2016) when eight of the 12 matches ended with a 1-0 scoreline.
