Struggling Grimsby Town will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Newport County in the upcoming league round. It’s 20th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Grimsby Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Newport County have scored at least twice as many goals away as Grimsby Town have scored home.
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.
Grimsby Town form and stats
1-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the League Two numbers at home for Grimsby Town so far this season.
In their previous game, the manager I. Holloway led his Grimsby Town to a defeat in the League Two match away at Colchester United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Blundell Park. Ahead of that match, Grimsby lost 1-4 at home to Exeter City.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Grimsby as they have a new game in only four days, a League Two match thankfully also at home. Mansfield Town are visiting.
Grimsby aren't scoring a lot here at Blundell Park in the league, with only 4 goals from 5 games. Grimsby are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (11 from 5 played).
Newport County form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League Two travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Matthew Dolan and Pádraig Amond scored in Newport County's previous match, the home game against Morecambe that ended 2-1. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Forest Green Rovers that ended 1-1.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Newport County manager M. Flynn as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Leyton Orient.
Newport are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. 7 goals have been conceded by Newport County in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Grimsby won four games, two matches ended with a draw and Newport County has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / sixTop Goalscorers
  P. Amond 4 goals | T. Abrahams 4 goals | S. Twine 4 goals |
Grimsby Town missing players
Newport County missing players
| Grimsby Town | Newport County | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 11 | 24 |
| 24 | 11 | 9 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 86% | 80% |
| 57% | 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | 53% |
| 36% | 40% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 21% | 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 50% | 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 57% | 67% |
| 21% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 43% | 33% |
| 43% | 20% | 33% | 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 |
| 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.7 | 9.8 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 12.9 | 15.2 |
| 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| 35% | 29% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 42% | 42% |
- Grimsby Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Grimsby Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Grimsby Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Newport County have scored at least twice as many goals away as Grimsby Town have scored 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 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 33 |
| 2 | Cheltenham Town | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 32 |
| 3 | Forest Green Rovers | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 29 |
| 4 | Carlisle United | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 29 |
| 5 | Exeter City | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 33 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 27 |
| 6 | Cambridge United | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 14 | 25 |
| 7 | Salford City | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 25 |
| 8 | Leyton Orient | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 24 |
| 9 | Colchester United | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 24 |
| 10 | Tranmere Rovers | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 24 |
| 11 | Port Vale | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 24 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 22 |
| 12 | Bolton Wanderers | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | -4 | 22 |
| 13 | Morecambe | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -8 | 22 |
| 14 | Walsall | 16 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 21 |
| 15 | Crawley Town | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 20 |
| 16 | Oldham Athletic | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 15 | -6 | 20 |
| 17 | Harrogate Town | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | -3 | 19 |
| 18 | Scunthorpe United | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | -6 | 17 |
| 19 | Mansfield Town | 16 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | -5 | 15 |
| 20 | Grimsby Town | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -11 | 15 |
| 21 | Barrow | 16 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 13 |
| 22 | Stevenage | 16 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 13 |
| 23 | Bradford City | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 13 |
| 24 | Southend United | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14 | -23 | 6 |
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