A classic home victory, the away team runs away as victors or a score draw? It's all up in the air when the mid-table sides Exeter City and Newport County battle at St. James' Park.
- Exeter City have not yet lost a game at home.
- Newport County have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Newport County could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a EFL Trophy game only four sleeps ago.
Exeter City form and stats
Exeter City have collected 9 points from their League Two home games so far after 2-3-0. The last three games played by Exeter City, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
Exeter City manager M. Taylor and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Stevenage (placed 15th) in the League Two. Josh Key (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.64/10. Key served one assist and hit three key passes.
Before that, Exeter City played out a EFL Trophy draw 2-2 when visiting Cheltenham Town (after extra-time, 2-3 on penalties).The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Exeter handle that role? We have found twelve games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are seven wins, three draws and two defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Exeter City as they are travelling to their away game against Crawley Town in the League Two. That match is three days after this one.
The Exeter City fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 8 goals in 5 league matches. Exeter have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Newport County form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League Two travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Newport have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Joe Day. It's been 192 minutes since they last conceded in League Two.
The manager M. Flynn was unhappy after their last game, a EFL Trophy match played at their home ground Rodney Parade. Newport suffered a 3-4 loss to Arsenal U21. A loony fixture with masses of goals last time out for Newport, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this fixture be as refreshing? Newport were so close to getting something from the game against Arsenal U21, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal two minutes into overtime.
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Bradford City in the League Two.We have checked recent matches where Newport County have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were zero victories, one draw and three defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Newport are hosting Carlisle United in the League Two only three days away.
Newport have scored 6 goals on their travels this season, from 6 away games in the league. Newport struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 9 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Exeter three wins, four draws and Newport County three victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), nine games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Jay 5 goals | S. Nombe 4 goals |  T. Dieng 3 goals |
Exeter City missing players
Newport County missing players
| Exeter City | Newport County | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 16 | 8 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 10 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 13 |
| 73% | 60% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 73% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 64% |
| 45% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 64% |
| 36% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 18% |
| 9% | 20% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 45% | 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 45% |
| 45% | 60% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 36% |
| 36% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| 3.9 | 3.4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 4 | 4.2 |
| 6.1 | 6 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
| 1.6 | 1 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.5 | 13 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 10 | 10.9 |
| 4.5 | 4.6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 33% | 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 24% | 27% |
- Exeter City have not yet lost a game at home.
- Exeter City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Newport County have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Newport County haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 23 |
| 2 | Harrogate Town | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 22 |
| 3 | Swindon Town | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| 4 | Port Vale | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 18 |
| 5 | Tranmere Rovers | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 18 |
| 6 | Leyton Orient | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 7 | Sutton United | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| 8 | Hartlepool United | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 17 |
| 9 | Crawley Town | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 17 |
| 10 | Exeter City | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
| 11 | Barrow | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 12 | Bradford City | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 16 |
| 13 | Newport County | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| 14 | Northampton Town | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 15 |
| 15 | Stevenage | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 13 |
| 16 | Bristol Rovers | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 13 |
| 17 | Salford City | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 12 |
| 18 | Rochdale | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | -2 | 12 |
| 19 | Walsall | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 12 |
| 20 | Colchester United | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -4 | 10 |
| 21 | Mansfield Town | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 10 |
| 22 | Carlisle United | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -9 | 10 |
| 23 | Oldham Athletic | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -10 | 8 |
| 24 | Scunthorpe United | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | -16 | 7 |