Crawley Town vs Colchester United: Match guide and preview

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Sat 01.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The People's Pension Stadium (30750 seats)

Crawley Town - Colchester United: League Two cellar occupants hungry for points and greatness. Here are all the available stats and tables before the game!

Insights:
  • Crawley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Colchester United have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in League Two

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Crawley Town form and stats

Overall League Two results playing at home this season for Crawley Town are 3-3-4 (wins-draws-losses).

A strong away win for Crawley Town against Leyton Orient the last match, as Appiah and Francomb were on target. 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 home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Crawley handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, two draws and three defeats.

Crawley has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 16 goals have been conceded.

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Colchester United form and stats

Colchester United have only collected 10 points from their away games in the League Two, after 2-4-4 (10 played).

Colchester are looking to quickly end their 192 minutes long goal drought in the League Two.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Colchester, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-3 versus Walsall (placed 12th). Smith was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 6.83. The defender Smith hit one key pass and won 11 of 15 duels.

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Bradford City.

We have checked recent matches where Colchester have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 15 games were zero victories, seven draws and eight defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Colchester as they have only managed to score 6 times from 10 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Colchester United have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these parties meet on the pitch this campaign, as the records show this recent game: Colchester United - Crawley 0-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Crawley wins - draws - Colchester United wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Crawley TownK. Appiah
K. Appiah
8 goals
Colchester UnitedF. Sears
F. Sears
7 goals
CrawleyJ. Hessenthaler
J. Hessenthaler
3 goals

Crawley Town missing players

Colchester United missing players

Crawley Town Colchester United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 1 Played P 4 10 20
7 3 1 Won W 2 2 5
4 3 0 Drew D 1 4 7
9 4 0 Lost L 1 4 8
23 12 2 Scored S 5 6 16
30 16 1 Conceded C 4 13 25
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 70% 85%
65% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 60% 65%
55% 70% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 35%
20% 30% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 10% 15%
10% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 10% 5%
65% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 30% 45%
20% 10% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 30% 20%
20% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 70% 50%
 
4.1 3.4 4 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 3.6 4.2
5.1 5.9 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.3 5.5
1.6 1.7 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2 1.9
3 3 0 Red cards R C 1 1 3
 
10.2 9.1 11 Shots (avg) S ( 10.8 10.7 10.3
3.2 3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.2 2.5
35% 40% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 27% 31%
 
11.7 11.4 11 Shots against (avg) S A 14.5 14.9 14.3
4.7 5.3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 4.7 4.5
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Colchester United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Colchester United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Colchester United have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in League Two
  • 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 Swindon Town 21 9 7 5 29 24 10 2 5 3 10 11 11 7 2 2 19 13 5 34
8 Exeter City 21 8 9 4 32 24 11 5 4 2 17 11 10 3 5 2 15 13 8 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 22 5 8 9 22 26 11 3 5 3 13 12 11 2 3 6 9 14 -4 23
20 Colchester United 20 5 7 8 16 25 10 3 3 4 10 12 10 2 4 4 6 13 -9 22
21 Stevenage 22 4 8 10 16 34 11 3 5 3 10 13 11 1 3 7 6 21 -18 20
22 Carlisle United 21 4 7 10 15 29 10 2 5 3 6 9 11 2 2 7 9 20 -14 19
23 Scunthorpe United 22 3 10 9 19 37 10 2 4 4 8 15 12 1 6 5 11 22 -18 19
24 Oldham Athletic 23 4 5 14 22 39 12 2 2 8 16 25 11 2 3 6 6 14 -17 17

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.