Only a win will satisfy the Forest Green Rovers supporters in this The innocent New Lawn Stadium clash with Colchester United, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the League Two table.
- Forest Green Rovers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Colchester United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
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 Forest and Colchester United.
Forest Green Rovers form and stats
The story so far in the League Two for Forest Green Rovers at their home stadium (The innocent New Lawn Stadium) is 6 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats.
The Forest fans got no joy from their last match, a League Two game also here at The innocent New Lawn Stadium: A 1-3 defeat against Southend United (placed 22nd). Before that match, a win away at Newport County.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Forest have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won five times, drawn four and lost five.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Forest Green Rovers as they are travelling to their away game against Stevenage in the League Two. That match is three days after this one.
Forest has scored 19 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. Forest Green Rovers's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Colchester United form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Colchester United so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 1-7-7 (win-draw-lose). Colchester United are desperate to end a 13-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Scunthorpe United fixture.
The manager S. Ball was unhappy after their last game, a League Two match played at their home ground JobServe Community Stadium. Colchester United suffered a 1-2 loss to Exeter City (placed 7th). Prior to that match, the Colchester manager S. Ball faced defeat when travelling to Crawley Town and losing 0-1.
Colchester are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, three draws and six defeats. From a total of ten matches.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Carlisle United in just three days.
The visitors have scored 10 goals from 15 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 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 have conceded 23 goals in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Colchester United - Forest 1-0 earlier this season. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's two Forest victories, zero draws and four Colchester United wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Matt 12 goals |   J. Brown 7 goals | A. Collins 6 goals |
Forest Green Rovers missing players
Colchester United missing players
| Forest Green Rovers | Colchester United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 29 | 14 | 6 | Played | P | 4 | 15 | 29 |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | 10 |
| 40 | 19 | 9 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 31 |
| 29 | 16 | 9 | Conceded | C | 13 | 23 | 39 |
| 93% | 93% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 86% |
| 66% | 71% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 72% |
| 41% | 43% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 45% |
| 21% | 21% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 13% | 17% |
| 10% | 7% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 13% | 10% |
| 59% | 64% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 53% | 62% |
| 38% | 36% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 27% | 24% |
| 10% | 7% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 40% | 28% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.9 | 13.5 | 10.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 9.5 | 9.8 |
| 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.3 |
| 32% | 29% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 24% | 33% |
- Colchester United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Forest Green Rovers have played more matches over 2,5 goals 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 | Cambridge United | 31 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 47 | 29 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 16 | 18 | 52 |
| 2 | Forest Green Rovers | 29 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 40 | 29 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 51 |
| 3 | Cheltenham Town | 29 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 38 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 50 |
| 4 | Morecambe | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 41 | 41 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 25 | 0 | 49 |
| 5 | Tranmere Rovers | 29 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 40 | 36 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 48 |
| 6 | Newport County | 29 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 38 | 31 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 47 |
| 7 | Exeter City | 28 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 51 | 35 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 22 | 19 | 16 | 46 |
| 8 | Salford City | 29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 39 | 25 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 45 |
| 9 | Bolton Wanderers | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 38 | 40 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 22 | -2 | 44 |
| 10 | Carlisle United | 26 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 37 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 43 |
| 11 | Bradford City | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 32 | 31 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 40 |
| 12 | Leyton Orient | 29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 35 | 31 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 4 | 39 |
| 13 | Harrogate Town | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 34 | 37 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 22 | -3 | 39 |
| 14 | Crawley Town | 28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 38 | 37 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 1 | 38 |
| 15 | Walsall | 29 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 35 | 38 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 19 | 19 | -3 | 37 |
| 16 | Scunthorpe United | 28 | 11 | 2 | 15 | 31 | 37 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 18 | -6 | 35 |
| 17 | Oldham Athletic | 29 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 46 | 53 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 21 | 27 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 26 | -7 | 35 |
| 18 | Port Vale | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 41 | 44 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 26 | -3 | 34 |
| 19 | Mansfield Town | 29 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 37 | 40 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 17 | -3 | 34 |
| 20 | Stevenage | 31 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 31 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -7 | 34 |
| 21 | Colchester United | 29 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 31 | 39 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 23 | -8 | 33 |
| 22 | Southend United | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 46 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 23 | -25 | 27 |
| 23 | Barrow | 28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 33 | 39 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 19 | -6 | 26 |
| 24 | Grimsby Town | 28 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 47 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 26 | -25 | 24 |