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The Guardian - UK
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What scoreline has occurred most in a football gameweek?

Europa League Semi Final second leg match scoreline between Atlético Madrid  and Arsenal on 3 May 2018.
1-0 – not to the Arsenal this time – but the most common scoreline in football? Photograph: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images

“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.

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