Match preview League One: Fleetwood Town - Accrington Stanley at Highbury Stadium

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Competition: England League One
Competition: Sat 27.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Highbury Stadium (5500 seats)

Struggling Fleetwood Town will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Accrington Stanley in the upcoming league round. It’s 17th vs 7th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Fleetwood Town has the most matches under the total-line (20) in League One
  • Accrington Stanley have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It's no vacation for neither Fleetwood nor Accrington Stanley as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Fleetwood Town form and stats

Overall League One stats at home this season for Fleetwood Town are 6-6-3 (wins-draw-losses).

Fleetwood Town faced defeat in their previous match, away at Sunderland (0-2). Preceding that game was the home draw versus Charlton Athletic that ended 1-1.

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 Fleetwood Town have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won eight, drawn six and lost one.

The manager S. Grayson will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Lincoln City in only three days.

Fleetwood Town are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 20 goals in 15 games. From these home matches, Fleetwood have conceded only 10 goals.

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Accrington Stanley form and stats

6 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Accrington Stanley playing as the away team in the League One this season.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Accrington Stanley, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-2 versus Crewe Alexandra (placed 11th). A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Shrewsbury Town.

Accrington goalkeeper Nathan Baxter had a great day against Crewe Alexandra, but despite making seven saves the loss could not be avoided.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Accrington playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were six Accrington Stanley wins, five draws and four defeats.

After this away game Accrington return home for a League One game against Ipswich Town. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Accrington are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 21 times in 14 away games so far. 20 goals have been conceded by Accrington in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Accrington Stanley - Fleetwood 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Fleetwood four wins, two draws and Accrington Stanley four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Accrington StanleyD. Charles
D. Charles
13 goals
FleetwoodC. Camps
C. Camps
8 goals
Fleetwood TownP. Madden
P. Madden
7 goals

Fleetwood Town missing players

Accrington Stanley missing players

Fleetwood Town Accrington Stanley
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 6 Played P 5 14 28
9 6 3 Won W 3 6 13
9 6 2 Drew D 0 3 7
12 3 1 Lost L 2 5 8
33 20 10 Scored S 10 21 39
28 10 4 Conceded C 7 20 30
83% 80% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
53% 53% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 86% 68%
30% 27% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 57% 43%
20% 20% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 29% 21%
13% 13% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 7% 11%
43% 47% 50% BTTS BTTS 60% 43% 39%
30% 33% 33% Clean Sheets C S 40% 36% 43%
43% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 21% 29%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.6 1.4 1.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 5
 
10.7 13 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 14.2 13.6 13.9
3.6 4.6 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.4 4.6 4.2
31% 29% 37% Goal Efficiency G E 37% 33% 33%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Accrington Stanley have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Accrington Stanley haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Fleetwood Town has the most matches under the total-line (20) in League One

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Peterborough United 29 18 4 7 49 25 14 11 2 1 32 10 15 7 2 6 17 15 24 58
2 Lincoln City 29 17 6 6 44 25 15 7 3 5 23 19 14 10 3 1 21 6 19 57
3 Hull City 31 16 5 10 49 28 15 8 2 5 15 9 16 8 3 5 34 19 21 53
4 Portsmouth 29 15 6 8 46 27 16 6 4 6 22 16 13 9 2 2 24 11 19 51
5 Sunderland 29 13 11 5 44 24 15 6 5 4 20 16 14 7 6 1 24 8 20 50
6 Doncaster Rovers 27 15 4 8 46 34 15 9 3 3 28 17 12 6 1 5 18 17 12 49
7 Accrington Stanley 28 13 7 8 39 30 14 7 4 3 18 10 14 6 3 5 21 20 9 46
8 Oxford United 28 13 5 10 43 35 13 7 2 4 19 12 15 6 3 6 24 23 8 44
9 Charlton Athletic 30 12 8 10 45 41 14 4 4 6 24 26 16 8 4 4 21 15 4 44
10 Ipswich Town 28 13 5 10 31 27 16 8 2 6 16 14 12 5 3 4 15 13 4 44
11 Crewe Alexandra 30 12 7 11 39 37 15 8 4 3 24 14 15 4 3 8 15 23 2 43
12 Plymouth Argyle 30 11 9 10 39 46 16 8 4 4 23 22 14 3 5 6 16 24 -7 42
13 Milton Keynes Dons 30 11 8 11 44 40 14 5 6 3 23 18 16 6 2 8 21 22 4 41
14 Blackpool 26 12 4 10 30 26 11 7 1 3 14 10 15 5 3 7 16 16 4 40
15 Gillingham 30 12 4 14 38 41 16 6 2 8 19 23 14 6 2 6 19 18 -3 40
16 Shrewsbury Town 27 9 10 8 31 31 13 4 5 4 19 17 14 5 5 4 12 14 0 37
17 Fleetwood Town 30 9 9 12 33 28 15 6 6 3 20 10 15 3 3 9 13 18 5 36
18 Rochdale 30 6 10 14 41 55 15 1 7 7 17 31 15 5 3 7 24 24 -14 28
19 Swindon Town 30 8 4 18 36 56 16 6 1 9 17 24 14 2 3 9 19 32 -20 28
20 AFC Wimbledon 28 7 7 14 30 50 12 3 2 7 15 23 16 4 5 7 15 27 -20 28
21 Bristol Rovers 29 7 6 16 28 48 14 4 1 9 15 23 15 3 5 7 13 25 -20 27
22 Wigan Athletic 30 7 6 17 31 57 15 2 4 9 15 34 15 5 2 8 16 23 -26 27
23 Northampton Town 30 6 8 16 23 47 15 3 4 8 8 20 15 3 4 8 15 27 -24 26
24 Burton Albion 28 6 7 15 34 55 14 3 2 9 18 31 14 3 5 6 16 24 -21 25

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