League One: Two participants who have played fine so far. Get smart on Stevenage - Oxford United with this complete preview!
- Stevenage have not yet lost a game at home.
- Oxford United is in the best form (5-0-1) in League One
Both squads have had plenty of rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's trust this will be an energetic fixture!
Stevenage form and stats
The total League One stats playing at home this season for Stevenage are 1-3-0 (wins-draws-losses). The home fans are hungry for more even though Stevenage have been steadily collecting points here at The Lamex Stadium through three straight draws.
Happy days for Stevenage in their previous game, a fixture away at Cheltenham Town (placed 24th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. Midfield player Roberts got a match rating of 8.5 in that game, the max score being 10. Roberts scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Charlton Athletic.This is expected to be a close game, with Stevenage perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Stevenage as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Stevenage has won 3 of these, drawn 0 and lost 1.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Stevenage as they are travelling to their away game against Bolton Wanderers in the League One. That match is three days after this one.
The Stevenage fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 4 matches. Stevenage have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Oxford United form and stats
Playing away, Oxford United have won 3 games, drawn 0 and suffered 1 defeat in the League One this season. Oxford United have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
The Oxford United goalkeeper James Beadle is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 180 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Impressive finishing from Brannagan (2) and Rodrigues secured the home win 3-0 against Exeter City in their previous game. Midfield player Brannagan was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.61/10. Brannagan scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 34 successful passes (of 40 total).
The game before that was the EFL Trophy-duel against Milton Keynes Dons, a home defeat (0-1). As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by Oxford in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Oxford United, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
Lots of goals? This club have played 6 consecutive league fixtures all having three or more than three goals (over 2.5 goals).
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Shrewsbury Town in just three days.
Oxford United have the goal stats of 8-4 (for/against) from 4 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Stevenage three wins, three draws and Oxford United four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Reid 5 goals |   C. Brannagan 3 goals |  M. Harris 3 goals |
Stevenage missing players
Oxford United missing players
| Stevenage | Oxford United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 89% | 75% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 75% |
| 11% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 25% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 56% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 22% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 5.6 | 8.2 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.5 | 5.8 |
| 5.4 | 4 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 8.8 | 5.9 |
| 2.4 | 2.2 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | 14 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 11.8 | 12.4 |
| 5.3 | 5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 5 | 4.8 |
| 29% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 40% | 39% |
| 10.4 | 9.2 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.2 | 10.5 |
| 2.6 | 1.8 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4 | 3.6 |
- All of Oxford United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Oxford United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Oxford United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Oxford United is in the best form (5-0-1) in League One
- Stevenage have not yet lost a game at home.
- Stevenage have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Stevenage have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Stevenage have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Portsmouth | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 2 | Oxford United | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 18 |
| 3 | Stevenage | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | Port Vale | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 17 |
| 5 | Barnsley | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 6 | Exeter City | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 7 | Bolton Wanderers | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 8 | Peterborough United | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 14 |
| 9 | Derby County | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 10 | Cambridge United | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 11 | Wycombe Wanderers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 13 |
| 12 | Lincoln City | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 12 |
| 13 | Bristol Rovers | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 14 | Blackpool | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 15 | Leyton Orient | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -5 | 11 |
| 16 | Charlton Athletic | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 17 | Shrewsbury Town | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 9 |
| 18 | Northampton Town | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 7 |
| 19 | Carlisle United | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 7 |
| 20 | Burton Albion | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 6 |
| 21 | Wigan Athletic | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 5 |
| 22 | Reading | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -3 | 5 |
| 23 | Fleetwood Town | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -10 | 2 |
| 24 | Cheltenham Town | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | -15 | 1 |
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