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

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Wed 29.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: The People's Pension Stadium (30750 seats)

Crawley Town are impatient to improve their points total at their own ground in the upcoming match versus Bristol Rovers.

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

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Crawley Town form and stats

When playing at home in the League Two, Crawley Town have managed 3 wins, 3 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 10 games.

It's back home for Crawley Town, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Leyton Orient away with the result 2-1. Appiah and Francomb found the net in that victory. Midfielder Powell was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.43 (out of ten) in that game. Powell hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that, Crawley played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Walsall.

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 Crawley have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 16 matches with the results: Won eight, drawn three and lost five.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Crawley as they have a new game in only three days, a League Two match thankfully also at home. Colchester United are visiting.

The Crawley fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 12 in 10 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Crawley defense is not exactly impregnable. 16 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Bristol Rovers form and stats

There's been little loot from Bristol Rovers's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 10 away games in the League Two. Bristol Rovers only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 4 draws.

The supporters enjoyed Bristol's previous game versus Rochdale (placed 14th), a League Two 4-2 win played at home. A stark raving crazy game with lots of goals last time out for Bristol, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that entertaining match, will this match be as gleeful? Attacker Evans got a player rating of 8.84 in the game. "Man of the match" Evans scored one goal, served one assist and hit four key passes.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Port Vale.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by Bristol Rovers in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Bristol Rovers, four draws and three defeats.

The schedule is very tough for Bristol now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A League Two game at Leyton Orient is waiting in only three days.

Bristol have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 10 away games in the league. Bristol Rovers have conceded 15 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these two sides meet this campaign, as the records show this recent game: Bristol Rovers - Crawley 1-0. Crawley-Bristol Rovers H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Crawley Town two wins, Bristol Rovers five wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

CrawleyK. Appiah
K. Appiah
8 goals
Bristol RoversS. Nicholson
S. Nicholson
4 goals
Bristol RoversB. Pitman
B. Pitman
4 goals

Crawley Town missing players

Bristol Rovers missing players

Crawley Town Bristol Rovers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 1 Played P 2 10 21
7 3 1 Won W 0 2 7
4 3 0 Drew D 2 4 5
9 4 0 Lost L 0 4 9
23 12 2 Scored S 2 10 27
30 16 1 Conceded C 2 15 33
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
65% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 81%
55% 70% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 57%
20% 30% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 33%
10% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 10%
65% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 70% 67%
20% 10% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 19%
20% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 14%
 
4.1 3.4 4 Corners for (avg) C F 7 5.4 4.3
5.1 5.9 0 Corners against (avg) C A 6 3.9 4.4
1.6 1.7 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.4 2.1
3 3 0 Red cards R C 2 3 7
 
10.2 9.1 11 Shots (avg) S ( 12 11.4 10.5
3.2 3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.1 3.6
35% 40% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 24% 36%
 
11.7 11.4 11 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 12.5 11.8
4.7 5.3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.7 4.2
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Bristol Rovers have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Bristol Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Crawley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Crawley Town 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 Forest Green Rovers 20 13 5 2 43 20 9 6 1 2 16 9 11 7 4 0 27 11 23 44
2 Northampton Town 21 12 4 5 29 17 10 7 1 2 16 7 11 5 3 3 13 10 12 40
3 Tranmere Rovers 22 11 5 6 20 14 11 8 0 3 13 6 11 3 5 3 7 8 6 38
4 Sutton United 22 11 3 8 33 27 10 7 0 3 17 9 12 4 3 5 16 18 6 36
5 Port Vale 21 10 5 6 35 23 10 5 3 2 16 8 11 5 2 4 19 15 12 35
6 Newport County 22 9 7 6 35 29 10 5 3 2 20 11 12 4 4 4 15 18 6 34
7 Exeter City 21 8 9 4 32 24 11 5 4 2 17 11 10 3 5 2 15 13 8 33
8 Swindon Town 20 9 6 5 29 24 9 2 4 3 10 11 11 7 2 2 19 13 5 33
9 Mansfield Town 22 9 5 8 27 28 13 7 3 3 20 15 9 2 2 5 7 13 -1 32
10 Leyton Orient 22 7 10 5 37 21 11 6 3 2 24 7 11 1 7 3 13 14 16 31
11 Harrogate Town 22 8 6 8 35 31 11 3 4 4 18 18 11 5 2 4 17 13 4 30
12 Walsall 21 7 7 7 25 24 11 4 4 3 16 14 10 3 3 4 9 10 1 28
13 Salford City 21 7 6 8 24 21 12 5 5 2 14 7 9 2 1 6 10 14 3 27
14 Rochdale 22 6 9 7 30 30 11 3 5 3 14 12 11 3 4 4 16 18 0 27
15 Hartlepool United 22 8 3 11 24 34 11 7 2 2 16 11 11 1 1 9 8 23 -10 27
16 Bradford City 21 5 11 5 27 25 11 3 7 1 17 13 10 2 4 4 10 12 2 26
17 Bristol Rovers 21 7 5 9 27 33 11 5 1 5 17 18 10 2 4 4 10 15 -6 26
18 Crawley Town 20 7 4 9 23 30 10 3 3 4 12 16 10 4 1 5 11 14 -7 25
19 Barrow 21 5 7 9 22 26 10 3 4 3 13 12 11 2 3 6 9 14 -4 22
20 Colchester United 20 5 7 8 16 25 10 3 3 4 10 12 10 2 4 4 6 13 -9 22
21 Carlisle United 21 4 7 10 15 29 10 2 5 3 6 9 11 2 2 7 9 20 -14 19
22 Scunthorpe United 22 3 10 9 19 37 10 2 4 4 8 15 12 1 6 5 11 22 -18 19
23 Stevenage 21 4 7 10 16 34 11 3 5 3 10 13 10 1 2 7 6 21 -18 19
24 Oldham Athletic 22 4 4 14 22 39 12 2 2 8 16 25 10 2 2 6 6 14 -17 16

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.