Doncaster Rovers - Crawley Town: Small difference between teams in League Two clash

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Tue 03.Oct
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: M-Power Stadium

The visiting Crawley Town team should be favourites at Doncaster Rovers, as the away team enjoy a 12 point supremacy from their ten league matches this season.

Insights:
  • Doncaster Rovers have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Crawley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Doncaster Rovers and Crawley Town.

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Doncaster Rovers form and stats

The story so far in the League Two for Doncaster Rovers at their home stadium (M-Power Stadium) is 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

No payout for Doncaster in their previous match, an away game at Barrow that ended in defeat 2-3. The attacking player Ironside won the honour of being "man of the match" for Doncaster Rovers with the rating of 7.21/10. Ironside scored one goal.

Before that, Doncaster had a home game versus Gillingham which ended with a victory 2-1.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Doncaster Rovers have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 1 and lost 2.

Goals, goals, goals? We don't know the future, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league games with this side has contained three goals or more.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Doncaster Rovers as they are travelling to their away game against Stockport County in the League Two. That match is four days after this one.

Doncaster have conceded 7 in these home matches. When Doncaster Rovers hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Salford City, Grimsby Town, Newport County, Tranmere Rovers, Colchester United, Forest Green Rovers and Sutton United), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.

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Crawley Town form and stats

The visitors are W1-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the League Two. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Crawley hope to make it five in this match.

Crawley Town are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the fixture against Sutton United (placed 24th). Defender Maguire was the best team player with a rating of 8.65. Maguire scored one goal and won 9 of 16 duels.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Grimsby Town with the score of 3-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 4 similar matches played by Crawley Town in our archives, and the results are: 0 wins for Crawley Town, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

Will there be lots of goals? This team have played 6 consecutive league games all having at least three goals (over 2.5 goals).

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Wrexham in just four days.

The travelling fans enjoy Crawley's attacking play in away games, having scored 7 goals in 4 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Doncaster Rovers have avoided a loss in the last 7 games (2-5-0) facing Crawley Town.

Top Goalscorers

Crawley TownD. Orsi-Dadamo
D. Orsi-Dadamo
4 goals
Crawley TownA. Campbell
A. Campbell
4 goals
Doncaster RoversB. Close
B. Close
3 goals

Doncaster Rovers missing players

Crawley Town missing players

Doncaster Rovers Crawley Town
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 4 Played P 2 4 10
2 1 1 Won W 1 1 6
2 2 2 Drew D 1 2 2
6 2 1 Lost L 0 1 2
11 5 5 Scored S 4 7 20
19 7 6 Conceded C 3 12 17
90% 80% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 60% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
80% 60% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 75% 70%
40% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 75% 50%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 75% 50%
70% 60% 75% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 60%
10% 20% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 20%
30% 40% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 20%
 
5.8 4.2 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.2 5.3
5.3 6.4 6.8 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 3.5 3.1
2.3 1.6 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.8 2.9
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.4 10.8 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 12.2 14.6
4.4 4.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.2 5
25% 22% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 80% 54% 40%
 
13.7 12.6 14 Shots against (avg) S A 12 14.2 11.3
5.3 5.2 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 6.2 4.8
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • All of Crawley Town's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Crawley Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Crawley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Crawley Town have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Crawley Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Doncaster Rovers have won significantly less 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 Notts County 10 6 2 2 23 19 4 4 0 0 12 7 6 2 2 2 11 12 4 20
2 Crawley Town 10 6 2 2 20 17 6 5 0 1 13 5 4 1 2 1 7 12 3 20
3 Swindon Town 9 5 4 0 26 14 5 4 1 0 17 6 4 1 3 0 9 8 12 19
4 Gillingham 10 6 1 3 9 9 5 3 1 1 5 5 5 3 0 2 4 4 0 19
5 Mansfield Town 10 4 6 0 17 9 4 3 1 0 7 2 6 1 5 0 10 7 8 18
6 AFC Wimbledon 10 4 5 1 19 10 5 1 3 1 9 7 5 3 2 0 10 3 9 17
7 Crewe Alexandra 10 4 5 1 24 17 5 3 2 0 13 8 5 1 3 1 11 9 7 17
8 Stockport County 10 5 2 3 20 13 5 2 2 1 10 5 5 3 0 2 10 8 7 17
9 Wrexham 10 4 4 2 23 23 6 3 2 1 20 16 4 1 2 1 3 7 0 16
10 Barrow 9 4 3 2 11 9 3 2 1 0 6 4 6 2 2 2 5 5 2 15
11 Milton Keynes Dons 10 4 2 4 16 16 5 2 1 2 5 5 5 2 1 2 11 11 0 14
12 Morecambe 9 4 2 3 11 11 5 3 2 0 8 3 4 1 0 3 3 8 0 14
13 Walsall 10 4 2 4 15 17 4 2 1 1 5 5 6 2 1 3 10 12 -2 14
14 Bradford City 10 3 4 3 11 12 5 2 2 1 6 6 5 1 2 2 5 6 -1 13
15 Accrington Stanley 10 4 1 5 14 16 6 3 1 2 11 9 4 1 0 3 3 7 -2 13
16 Harrogate Town 10 4 1 5 9 11 4 2 0 2 5 4 6 2 1 3 4 7 -2 13
17 Newport County 10 3 2 5 18 21 5 2 2 1 11 8 5 1 0 4 7 13 -3 11
18 Colchester United 9 3 1 5 15 15 5 2 1 2 10 10 4 1 0 3 5 5 0 10
19 Grimsby Town 10 2 4 4 12 14 5 2 2 1 7 4 5 0 2 3 5 10 -2 10
20 Salford City 10 3 1 6 13 17 5 1 1 3 5 8 5 2 0 3 8 9 -4 10
21 Doncaster Rovers 10 2 2 6 11 19 5 1 2 2 5 7 5 1 0 4 6 12 -8 8
22 Forest Green Rovers 10 2 1 7 10 20 6 0 0 6 4 15 4 2 1 1 6 5 -10 7
23 Tranmere Rovers 10 2 0 8 13 19 5 2 0 3 9 7 5 0 0 5 4 12 -6 6
24 Sutton United 10 1 1 8 12 24 5 1 1 3 6 7 5 0 0 5 6 17 -12 4

Read more about League Two

The English Football League Two (usually referred to as League Two) is the fourth highest division in English football. The League Two league table has 24 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 552 fixtures. Seasons run from August to May. Four teams are promoted and four relegated.