Crawley Town vs Newport County betting preview

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Sat 26.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The People's Pension Stadium (30750 seats)

Crawley Town will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 10 points behind Newport County.

Insights:
  • Crawley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Newport County have scored in all their matches so far.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Crawley Town form and stats

Overall League Two stats at home this season for Crawley Town are 5-2-2 (wins-draw-losses).

Crawley are returning here after visiting Leyton Orient in a League Two game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Max Watters scored the goal(s). The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Bradford City.

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

Goals decide football matches and Crawley are scoring many of them at home; 18 on target from 9 league matches. On the other hand, Crawley Town have conceded 10 goals. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Newport County form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their League Two travels is 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Home advantage was not enough for Newport in their previous game, as they lost their League Two-match, hosting Oldham Athletic, 2-4. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Salford City that ended 1-1.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Newport, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

After this away game Newport return home for a League Two game against Exeter City. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Newport has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 10 games. As opposed to that, Newport have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: four wins for Crawley, two draws and four wins for Newport County. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

Newport CountyS. Twine
S. Twine
6 goals
CrawleyT. Nichols
T. Nichols
5 goals
Newport CountyP. Amond
P. Amond
5 goals

Crawley Town missing players

Newport County missing players

Crawley Town Newport County
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 3 10 19
7 5 1 Won W 1 4 11
6 2 0 Drew D 0 3 4
6 2 1 Lost L 2 3 4
30 18 4 Scored S 4 15 30
26 10 3 Conceded C 4 10 20
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 84%
53% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 40% 53%
26% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 11%
16% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 11%
63% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 60% 68%
16% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 40% 32%
21% 11% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.1 1 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 1.8 1.4
2 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.8 10.8 9 Shots (avg) S ( 14 13.2 15.3
4 3.7 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.7 3.8
39% 55% 80% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 41% 42%
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Crawley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Crawley Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Newport County have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Newport County haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Newport County 19 11 4 4 30 20 9 7 1 1 15 10 10 4 3 3 15 10 10 37
2 Forest Green Rovers 19 10 6 3 25 15 9 5 3 1 12 7 10 5 3 2 13 8 10 36
3 Carlisle United 19 11 2 6 27 17 9 8 0 1 20 8 10 3 2 5 7 9 10 35
4 Cheltenham Town 19 10 3 6 29 20 10 5 2 3 16 11 9 5 1 3 13 9 9 33
5 Morecambe 19 9 4 6 24 29 9 4 3 2 10 12 10 5 1 4 14 17 -5 31
6 Exeter City 18 8 6 4 39 25 9 6 0 3 21 9 9 2 6 1 18 16 14 30
7 Salford City 18 8 6 4 25 14 10 4 6 0 16 7 8 4 0 4 9 7 11 30
8 Walsall 19 7 9 3 26 24 10 5 3 2 12 10 9 2 6 1 14 14 2 30
9 Cambridge United 18 8 4 6 29 17 10 5 3 2 15 9 8 3 1 4 14 8 12 28
10 Colchester United 19 7 7 5 27 27 9 6 2 1 17 10 10 1 5 4 10 17 0 28
11 Crawley Town 19 7 6 6 30 26 9 5 2 2 18 10 10 2 4 4 12 16 4 27
12 Leyton Orient 19 8 3 8 28 24 9 4 2 3 16 11 10 4 1 5 12 13 4 27
13 Tranmere Rovers 18 8 3 7 22 23 8 4 0 4 11 8 10 4 3 3 11 15 -1 27
14 Oldham Athletic 19 8 2 9 32 35 10 2 1 7 13 18 9 6 1 2 19 17 -3 26
15 Bolton Wanderers 19 7 4 8 22 29 10 3 2 5 11 15 9 4 2 3 11 14 -7 25
16 Port Vale 19 7 3 9 29 27 10 3 3 4 12 12 9 4 0 5 17 15 2 24
17 Harrogate Town 19 6 4 9 19 23 9 1 3 5 7 13 10 5 1 4 12 10 -4 22
18 Scunthorpe United 18 6 2 10 17 25 9 3 2 4 8 14 9 3 0 6 9 11 -8 20
19 Grimsby Town 18 5 4 9 16 30 8 2 2 4 6 14 10 3 2 5 10 16 -14 19
20 Mansfield Town 19 2 11 6 19 25 10 0 6 4 10 16 9 2 5 2 9 9 -6 17
21 Bradford City 18 4 5 9 17 24 10 3 3 4 10 11 8 1 2 5 7 13 -7 17
22 Barrow 19 3 7 9 26 30 10 2 6 2 17 15 9 1 1 7 9 15 -4 16
23 Stevenage 17 2 7 8 11 20 8 2 2 4 6 7 9 0 5 4 5 13 -9 13
24 Southend United 18 3 4 11 11 31 9 2 1 6 8 16 9 1 3 5 3 15 -20 13

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.