"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."
"We can find so much more heading into Europe, and specifically to the 2012-13 Turkish Super Lig. In the 29th round of matches (played between the 12th and 15th April 2013) there were nine matches, and eight of these ended with a 1-0 scoreline (88.89%). The only one that got away ended with a 1-1 draw! A near-miss of 1-0 perfection."
"In my dataset I could find a total of 12 gameweeks from the various European leagues with higher than 78% being 1-0, with 10 of them being from Scottish leagues where four of the five matches ended 1-0. Generalising to any specific scoreline within the data in my set I could find no other scoreline that occurred more times in a single gameweek than the 1-0 examples outlined above."
Seven of nine Ligue 1 matches finished 1-0 (78%) in the cited weekend. The Championship 2016-17 14th round produced eight 1-0 results from 12 matches. The 2012-13 Turkish Super Lig 29th round featured nine matches with eight finishing 1-0 (88.89%), the lone non-1-0 being 1-1. A dataset identified 12 European gameweeks exceeding 78% 1-0 outcomes, ten of which came from Scottish leagues where four of five matches ended 1-0. No other specific scoreline was found to occur more times in a single gameweek than these 1-0 examples. Long title droughts for capital clubs were also noted.
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