Excitement is likely at The New Lawn when Forest Green Rovers challenge Swindon Town in what should be a brilliant fixture. Read more!
- Forest Green Rovers have the most scored goals (20) in League Two
- Swindon Town have the most scored goals in the second half (11) in League Two
This has all the signs of an intriguing game with lots of fun and energy as both contenders are well rested since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's go!
Forest Green Rovers form and stats
3-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the League Two numbers at home for Forest Green Rovers so far this season.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Luke McGee not having conceded a league goal in 531 minutes.
A strong away win for Forest against Carlisle United the last match, as Jamille Matt and Nicky Cadden were on target. The striker Jamille Matt outperformed all the other players in that game and got a match rating of 8.31 out of 10. Matt scored one goal, served one assist and hit two key passes.
In the match before that, Forest hosted Tranmere Rovers and drew the game 0-0.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Forest matches with similar probabilities have ended with four wins, zero draws and two defeats (from six games).
Forest have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The New Lawn with 9 goals in 5 league matches. On the other hand, Forest have conceded 6 goals.
Swindon Town form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Swindon Town playing as the away team in the League Two this season.
Two travels in a row for Swindon, whose manager B. Garner could celebrate last time after the League Two win against Bristol Rovers. Midfielder Jack Payne was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.85. Payne scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 29 successful passes (of 34 total).
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Colchester United.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Swindon playing away, we found four games. Results were two away wins, one draw and one home win.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Swindon Town manager B. Garner as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Plymouth Argyle.
Swindon Town has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 5 games. It's not easy to score on Swindon Town as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Data for the former ten meetings involving these two sides are: three wins for Forest, two draws and five wins for Swindon Town. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: eight games.Top Goalscorers
  J. Matt 6 goals | M. Stevens 6 goals | N. Cadden 4 goals |
Forest Green Rovers missing players
Swindon Town missing players
| Forest Green Rovers | Swindon Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 12 |
| 8 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 80% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 80% |
| 70% | 60% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 60% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 30% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 20% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 80% | 60% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 40% |
| 30% | 40% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 5.7 | 5.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 3.8 |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.4 | 5.9 |
| 1.6 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.6 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 14.8 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 13.8 | 13 |
| 4.9 | 5.2 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| 41% | 35% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 47% | 28% |
- Forest Green Rovers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Forest Green Rovers have the most scored goals (20) in League Two
- Forest Green Rovers have the the best goal difference (+12) in League Two
- Swindon Town have not yet lost a game away.
- Swindon Town have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Swindon Town have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Swindon Town have the most scored goals in the second half (11) in League Two
- Swindon Town 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 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 23 |
| 2 | Harrogate Town | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
| 3 | Port Vale | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
| 4 | Leyton Orient | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| 5 | Swindon Town | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 6 | Exeter City | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| 7 | Barrow | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| 8 | Bradford City | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 9 | Tranmere Rovers | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| 10 | Northampton Town | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 11 | Sutton United | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 12 | Newport County | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 14 |
| 13 | Hartlepool United | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
| 14 | Crawley Town | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -2 | 14 |
| 15 | Salford City | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
| 16 | Rochdale | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 17 | Stevenage | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 12 |
| 18 | Colchester United | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 19 | Carlisle United | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -6 | 10 |
| 20 | Bristol Rovers | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -8 | 10 |
| 21 | Walsall | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
| 22 | Mansfield Town | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 9 |
| 23 | Oldham Athletic | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -10 | 7 |
| 24 | Scunthorpe United | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -11 | 7 |