Getting closer to the top teams is at stake when these two mid-table clubs battle it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league table standing, Crawley Town in 11th and Mansfield Town in 16th place.
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 Crawley and Mansfield Town.
Crawley Town form and stats
Overall League Two stats at home this season for Crawley Town are 8-4-4 (wins-draw-losses). It’s been three wins in a row for Crawley Town here at The People's Pension Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Glenn Morris not having conceded a league goal in 182 minutes.
Crawley's last game was hosting Salford City (placed 9th) and winning 1-0. In the game before, an away victory match versus Tranmere Rovers with a 1-0 scoreline.
Glenn Morris loved the game against Salford City. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 1-0 victory.
This is expected to be a close game, with Crawley perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Crawley Town as a small favourite), we find 18 games. Crawley Town has won eleven of these, drawn four and lost three.
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. Walsall are visiting.
A decent goal production from Crawley Town in their home games so far, with 24 goals from 16 league matches. Crawley Town have only conceded 15 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Mansfield Town form and stats
As the visiting team in League Two matches, Mansfield Town have produced an overall stat of 5-7-5 so far. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on N. Clough, the Mansfield manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Jamie Reid and Jordan Bowery (2) scored in Mansfield's previous match, the home game against Cheltenham Town that ended 3-1. A 0-2 defeat away at Barrow before that.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Mansfield Town in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Mansfield Town, three draws and seven defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Carlisle United in just three days.
Mansfield have scored 19 goals on their travels this season, from 17 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. Mansfield have conceded 20 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Mansfield Town - Crawley 3-3 earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Crawley Town won two, Mansfield Town won four and four draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Nichols 10 goals |   J. Bowery 10 goals |
Crawley Town missing players
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| Crawley Town | Mansfield Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 16 | 6 | Played | P | 4 | 17 | 33 |
| 13 | 8 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 11 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 43 | 24 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 19 | 41 |
| 40 | 15 | 8 | Conceded | C | 5 | 20 | 44 |
| 97% | 94% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | 91% |
| 75% | 69% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 25% | 65% | 70% |
| 47% | 44% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 35% | 45% |
| 25% | 25% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 24% | 30% |
| 9% | 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 15% |
| 56% | 44% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 59% | 61% |
| 28% | 44% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 18% | 21% |
| 19% | 19% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 75% | 29% | 27% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10.9 | 9.8 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.8 | 10 | 12.2 |
| 4 | 3.4 | 2.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.8 | 2.5 | 3.1 |
| 34% | 44% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 44% | 40% |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cheltenham Town | 33 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 45 | 31 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 59 |
| 2 | Cambridge United | 35 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 50 | 32 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 27 | 18 | 18 | 58 |
| 3 | Forest Green Rovers | 33 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 47 | 35 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 58 |
| 4 | Tranmere Rovers | 33 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 46 | 38 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 8 | 57 |
| 5 | Morecambe | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 49 | 46 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 28 | 3 | 56 |
| 6 | Newport County | 33 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 42 | 33 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 18 | 9 | 54 |
| 7 | Bolton Wanderers | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 44 | 42 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 54 |
| 8 | Exeter City | 32 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 57 | 37 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 20 | 53 |
| 9 | Salford City | 33 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 41 | 27 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 28 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 50 |
| 10 | Harrogate Town | 34 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 39 | 38 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 24 | 23 | 1 | 48 |
| 11 | Crawley Town | 32 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 43 | 40 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 3 | 47 |
| 12 | Bradford City | 32 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 37 | 35 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 2 | 47 |
| 13 | Carlisle United | 30 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 41 | 36 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 44 |
| 14 | Leyton Orient | 33 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 37 | 38 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 22 | -1 | 43 |
| 15 | Stevenage | 35 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 28 | 31 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 12 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -3 | 42 |
| 16 | Mansfield Town | 33 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 41 | 44 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 24 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 20 | -3 | 40 |
| 17 | Oldham Athletic | 33 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 49 | 56 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 21 | 29 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 27 | -7 | 40 |
| 18 | Scunthorpe United | 32 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 33 | 42 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 19 | -9 | 39 |
| 19 | Walsall | 32 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 36 | 41 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 20 | -5 | 38 |
| 20 | Colchester United | 33 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 33 | 48 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 29 | -15 | 36 |
| 21 | Port Vale | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 43 | 49 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 30 | -6 | 35 |
| 22 | Barrow | 31 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 41 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 20 | -6 | 29 |
| 23 | Southend United | 34 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 49 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 24 | -28 | 29 |
| 24 | Grimsby Town | 32 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 24 | 52 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 28 | -28 | 25 |