Delightful dogfight as daring Grimsby Town duel with determined Harrogate Town

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Tue 21.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Blundell Park (8933 seats)

Having a 7 point advantage in the league standings, Grimsby Town club members want to see their gladiators earn maximum points from this fixture against Harrogate Town.

Insights:
  • Harrogate Town have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Grimsby Town form and stats

Grimsby Town have played 13 League Two games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-5-5 (wins-draws-losses).

Grimsby Town enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Northampton Town's place. The match ended 2-1 with Driscoll-Glennon and Waterfall scoring. The victory against Northampton Town came after Driscoll-Glennon's winning goal. The Grimsby manager Hurst was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 63rd minute. Waterfall was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.71 out of 10. The defender Waterfall scored one goal and won 7 of 8 duels.

Heartbreak before that as Grimsby Town lost 1-2 at Gillingham's place.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Grimsby handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the League Two game versus Leyton Orient in only four days. This game is also played here at Blundell Park.

Grimsby Town have conceded 16 in these home matches.

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Harrogate Town form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Harrogate Town so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 3-3-8 (win-draw-lose).

Harrogate's last game was the home draw against Crewe Alexandra (2-2). Drawing 2-2 against Crewe Alexandra after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager Weaver needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result. Midfield player Olaigbe was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.83/10. Olaigbe scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Salford City.

We have checked recent matches where Harrogate Town have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 18 games were 3 victories, 3 draws and 12 defeats.

Betting related statistic: Both sides have scored in 15 of this club's last 20 league fixtures.

The schedule is very tough for Harrogate Town now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A League Two game at Swindon Town is waiting in only four days.

Harrogate Town find the net regularly in their away games. 16 goals from 14 away fixtures in the league. Harrogate's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 21 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Harrogate Town have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without losing (3-1-0) when facing Grimsby Town.

Harrogate Town - Grimsby Town 3-2 was the end result in these squads' latest head-to-head fixture, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

Harrogate TownL. Armstrong
L. Armstrong
10 goals
GrimsbyH. Clifton
H. Clifton
6 goals
Harrogate TownA. Pattison
A. Pattison
6 goals

Grimsby Town missing players

Harrogate Town missing players

Grimsby Town Harrogate Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 13 3 Played P 4 14 30
10 3 1 Won W 0 3 7
6 5 1 Drew D 0 3 8
12 5 1 Lost L 4 8 15
32 13 4 Scored S 4 16 37
36 16 2 Conceded C 9 21 47
93% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
71% 69% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 64% 73%
50% 46% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 50% 57%
18% 15% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 29% 33%
11% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 21% 17%
54% 62% 33% BTTS BTTS 75% 50% 53%
29% 31% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 21% 20%
25% 23% 33% Failed to Score F T 25% 36% 33%
 
4.8 5.3 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 3.3 4.4
4.8 4.8 6 Corners against (avg) C A 8.2 6.9 6.2
1.8 1.4 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 1.9 1.5
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
12 13.6 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 8.2 10.7
4.1 4 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 2.5 3
28% 25% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 46% 42%
 
11.7 10.8 9.3 Shots against (avg) S A 15 15.3 14.3
2.8 2.3 1.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.2 3.8 4.1
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Harrogate Town have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Harrogate Town have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Leyton Orient 33 21 7 5 43 19 17 13 3 1 24 5 16 8 4 4 19 14 24 70
2 Stevenage 30 16 9 5 43 25 15 12 1 2 29 9 15 4 8 3 14 16 18 57
3 Carlisle United 32 15 10 7 49 32 17 9 5 3 26 16 15 6 5 4 23 16 17 55
4 Northampton Town 31 14 10 7 44 31 16 7 5 4 21 15 15 7 5 3 23 16 13 52
5 Mansfield Town 31 15 7 9 49 37 15 7 5 3 27 20 16 8 2 6 22 17 12 52
6 Stockport County 31 15 6 10 46 29 16 9 4 3 24 13 15 6 2 7 22 16 17 51
7 Salford City 32 14 7 11 42 33 17 7 5 5 20 17 15 7 2 6 22 16 9 49
8 Bradford City 30 13 9 8 37 29 16 6 6 4 20 15 14 7 3 4 17 14 8 48
9 Sutton United 32 13 8 11 34 38 16 10 3 3 20 13 16 3 5 8 14 25 -4 47
10 Doncaster Rovers 31 14 4 13 36 42 15 9 1 5 22 17 16 5 3 8 14 25 -6 46
11 Swindon Town 31 12 9 10 40 35 15 6 5 4 22 15 16 6 4 6 18 20 5 45
12 Barrow 32 13 5 14 35 40 15 8 1 6 19 14 17 5 4 8 16 26 -5 44
13 AFC Wimbledon 31 10 12 9 32 31 15 6 6 3 17 13 16 4 6 6 15 18 1 42
14 Walsall 29 10 11 8 32 25 14 7 4 3 21 13 15 3 7 5 11 12 7 41
15 Tranmere Rovers 32 11 8 13 32 32 16 7 4 5 20 14 16 4 4 8 12 18 0 41
16 Grimsby Town 28 10 6 12 32 36 13 3 5 5 13 16 15 7 1 7 19 20 -4 36
17 Crewe Alexandra 30 8 12 10 27 38 17 6 5 6 17 19 13 2 7 4 10 19 -11 36
18 Colchester United 33 9 8 16 31 39 16 4 7 5 16 17 17 5 1 11 15 22 -8 35
19 Newport County 30 8 10 12 30 34 15 4 4 7 15 19 15 4 6 5 15 15 -4 34
20 Gillingham 30 7 9 14 19 34 14 5 4 5 9 13 16 2 5 9 10 21 -15 30
21 Harrogate Town 30 7 8 15 37 47 16 4 5 7 21 26 14 3 3 8 16 21 -10 29
22 Hartlepool United 32 6 9 17 33 58 15 3 6 6 16 25 17 3 3 11 17 33 -25 27
23 Crawley Town 29 6 8 15 32 47 14 6 2 6 20 21 15 0 6 9 12 26 -15 26
24 Rochdale 32 5 6 21 25 49 16 2 3 11 12 24 16 3 3 10 13 25 -24 21

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The English Football League Two (usually referred to as League Two) is the fourth highest division in English football. The League Two league table has 24 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 552 fixtures. Seasons run from August to May. Four teams are promoted and four relegated.