A key match in League Two as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Forest Green Rovers in 4th position and Newport County placed 1st, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!
- Forest Green Rovers have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Newport County have scored in all their matches so far.
Newport County could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a FA Cup game only three sleeps ago.
Forest Green Rovers form and stats
Forest Green Rovers have played 6 League Two games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Happy days for Forest in their previous game, a League Two match away at Southend United (placed 24th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Before that, Forest Green Rovers played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Barrow.
The victory against Southend United came after Jake Young's winning goal. The Forest Green Rovers manager M. Cooper was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 59th minute.
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 as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Forest Green Rovers has won three of these, drawn four and lost six.
There will be little rest for Forest after this match as they are travelling to Harrogate Town for a League Two game in only four days.
Forest has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Forest's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Newport County form and stats
As the visiting team in League Two matches, Newport County have produced an overall stat of 3-1-2 so far.
J. Proctor, S. Janneh and P. Amond scored in Newport County's previous match, the home game against Salford City that ended 3-0. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Walsall in the League Two.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Newport County playing away and similar expectations, we found 13 relevant matches. Results were three Newport County wins, three draws and seven defeats.
After this away game Newport return home for a League Two game against Morecambe. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The travelling fans enjoy Newport's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. 6 goals have been conceded by Newport in these games.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Forest won four, Newport County won three and three draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Matt 5 goals | J. Young 4 goals |  S. Twine 4 goals |
Forest Green Rovers missing players
Newport County missing players
| Forest Green Rovers | Newport County | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 77% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 54% |
| 21% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 17% | 8% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 17% | 8% |
| 57% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 62% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | 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 |
| 1.4 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | 16.8 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 13.2 | 15.5 |
| 4.2 | 5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 32% | 27% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 75% | 43% | 41% |
- Forest Green Rovers have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Forest Green Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- 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 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 29 |
| 2 | Cheltenham Town | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 26 |
| 3 | Cambridge United | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 25 |
| 4 | Forest Green Rovers | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 25 |
| 5 | Exeter City | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 24 |
| 6 | Leyton Orient | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 7 | Carlisle United | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 23 |
| 8 | Salford City | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 22 |
| 9 | Bolton Wanderers | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | -1 | 22 |
| 10 | Tranmere Rovers | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 21 |
| 11 | Colchester United | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 20 |
| 12 | Harrogate Town | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 19 |
| 13 | Port Vale | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 19 |
| 14 | Morecambe | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -8 | 19 |
| 15 | Crawley Town | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 18 |
| 16 | Walsall | 14 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 17 |
| 17 | Oldham Athletic | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 14 | -6 | 17 |
| 18 | Grimsby Town | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -7 | 15 |
| 19 | Barrow | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 13 |
| 20 | Bradford City | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 13 |
| 21 | Stevenage | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 11 |
| 22 | Mansfield Town | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -6 | 11 |
| 23 | Scunthorpe United | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | -11 | 11 |
| 24 | Southend United | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 14 | -23 | 5 |