Forest Green Rovers - Crawley Town: Small difference between teams in League Two clash

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Competition: England League Two
Date: Sat 05.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The New Lawn (5140 seats)

It's advantage Forest Green Rovers so far with their 4th position in the League Two table, welcoming Crawley Town who are placed 10th.

Forest Green Rovers and Crawley Town should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Forest Green Rovers form and stats

The story so far in the League Two for Forest Green Rovers, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) in League Two, at their home stadium (The New Lawn) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

A good away victory last time out for Forest Green Rovers, who won 4-0 against Salford City (placed 18th). In the match before that, Forest Green Rovers hosted Stevenage and drew the game 0-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with Forest Green Rovers perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Forest Green Rovers as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Forest Green Rovers has won 3 of these, drawn 4 and lost 4.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Forest Green Rovers, as the EFL Trophy home game vs Coventry City is only three days away.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Forest Green Rovers here at The New Lawn in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 5 games). Forest Green Rovers have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.

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Crawley Town form and stats

The visitors are W1-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the League Two. Visiting Crawley Town has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a League Two home defeat versus Walsall with 2-3 on the scoreboard. Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Stoke City.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Crawley Town in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Crawley Town, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

The travelling fans enjoy Crawley Town's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 5 league matches away. In the opposite end, Crawley Town have conceded 9 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 5 - 2 - 3 (Forest Green Rovers wins - draws - Crawley Town wins). As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

B. Lubala
6 goals / 1 assists
O. Palmer
4 goals / 1 assists
J. Mills
3 goals / 3 assists

Forest Green Rovers missing players

Crawley Town missing players

Forest Green Rovers Crawley Town
Total Home Home vs mid Statistics Stat Away vs top Away Total
11 5 1 Played P 0 5 11
6 3 1 Won W 0 1 4
3 1 0 Drew D 0 3 4
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 3
11 3 1 Scored S 0 9 18
5 2 0 Conceded C 0 9 16
82% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
36% 20% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 82%
18% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 80% 64%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 60% 45%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 18%
18% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 73%
73% 80% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 27%
27% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.1 4.2 4 Corners For (avg) C F 0 6.6 7.3
4.8 4.2 8 Corners Against (avg) C A 0 5.8 5.5
2.3 2 3 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 0 2 1.7
4 2 0 Red Cards R C 0 1 1
Key stats This season:
  • All of Crawley Town's away matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Crawley Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Crawley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Crawley Town have scored at least twice as many goals away as Forest Green Rovers have scored home.
  • Crawley Town have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Crawley Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Forest Green Rovers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

Forest Green Rovers
All EFL Trophy League Two Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
07-09-19 LT Cambridge United 0 - 1 Forest Green Rovers
14-09-19 LT Forest Green Rovers 1 - 0 Colchester United
17-09-19 LT Carlisle United 0 - 0 Forest Green Rovers
21-09-19 LT Forest Green Rovers 0 - 0 Stevenage
28-09-19 LT Salford City 0 - 4 Forest Green Rovers
05-10-19 LT Forest Green Rovers 14:00 Crawley Town
08-10-19 EFL Forest Green Rovers 18:00 Coventry City
12-10-19 LT Exeter City 14:00 Forest Green Rovers
19-10-19 LT Forest Green Rovers 14:00 Mansfield Town
22-10-19 LT Morecambe 18:45 Forest Green Rovers
Crawley Town
All EFL Trophy League Two Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
14-09-19 LT Crawley Town 1 - 0 Mansfield Town
17-09-19 LT Crawley Town 2 - 2 Plymouth Argyle
21-09-19 LT Northampton Town 2 - 2 Crawley Town
24-09-19 CC Crawley Town 1 - 1 Stoke City
28-09-19 LT Crawley Town 2 - 3 Walsall
01-10-19 EFL Crawley Town 18:45 Norwich City U21
05-10-19 LT Forest Green Rovers 14:00 Crawley Town
12-10-19 LT Crawley Town 14:00 Colchester United
19-10-19 LT Bradford City 14:00 Crawley Town
22-10-19 LT Newport County 18:45 Crawley Town

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Exeter City 11 6 4 1 16 10 6 3 2 1 8 6 5 3 2 0 8 4 6 22
2 Crewe Alexandra 11 7 1 3 18 13 5 3 0 2 9 8 6 4 1 1 9 5 5 22
3 Cheltenham Town 11 6 3 2 20 10 6 4 2 0 16 8 5 2 1 2 4 2 10 21
4 Forest Green Rovers 11 6 3 2 11 5 5 3 1 1 3 2 6 3 2 1 8 3 6 21
5 Swindon Town 11 6 2 3 18 13 6 3 0 3 9 9 5 3 2 0 9 4 5 20
6 Newport County 11 5 5 1 11 6 5 3 2 0 6 3 6 2 3 1 5 3 5 20
7 Grimsby Town 11 5 3 3 19 13 5 2 2 1 9 7 6 3 1 2 10 6 6 18
8 Bradford City 11 5 3 3 15 10 5 3 1 1 8 3 6 2 2 2 7 7 5 18
9 Colchester United 11 4 4 3 12 9 5 2 2 1 5 4 6 2 2 2 7 5 3 16
10 Crawley Town 11 4 4 3 18 16 6 3 1 2 9 7 5 1 3 1 9 9 2 16
11 Cambridge United 11 4 3 4 14 11 5 1 1 3 4 6 6 3 2 1 10 5 3 15
12 Plymouth Argyle 11 4 3 4 15 13 5 2 2 1 8 6 6 2 1 3 7 7 2 15
13 Northampton Town 11 4 3 4 14 12 5 2 1 2 8 6 6 2 2 2 6 6 2 15
14 Walsall 11 4 3 4 8 11 5 1 2 2 3 5 6 3 1 2 5 6 -3 15
15 Port Vale 11 3 5 3 14 17 5 3 2 0 7 4 6 0 3 3 7 13 -3 14
16 Carlisle United 11 4 2 5 13 18 6 2 2 2 6 8 5 2 0 3 7 10 -5 14
17 Macclesfield Town 11 3 4 4 11 12 6 2 3 1 7 4 5 1 1 3 4 8 -1 13
18 Salford City 11 2 5 4 12 20 6 2 2 2 5 8 5 0 3 2 7 12 -8 11
19 Mansfield Town 11 2 4 5 12 16 6 1 2 3 6 10 5 1 2 2 6 6 -4 10
20 Oldham Athletic 11 2 4 5 12 16 5 1 2 2 6 6 6 1 2 3 6 10 -4 10
21 Leyton Orient 11 2 4 5 15 21 6 1 2 3 8 11 5 1 2 2 7 10 -6 10
22 Morecambe 11 1 4 6 11 21 6 0 3 3 6 10 5 1 1 3 5 11 -10 7
23 Scunthorpe United 11 1 3 7 11 19 6 1 3 2 8 8 5 0 0 5 3 11 -8 6
24 Stevenage 11 0 5 6 7 15 6 0 2 4 5 9 5 0 3 2 2 6 -8 5

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