An important duel in the bottom section of the League Two, with both Mansfield Town and Port Vale experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 19th and the visitors in 17th place.
- Mansfield Town have yet to win a game at home.
- Port Vale has the most conceded goals in the second half (21) in League Two
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a League Two game only four days ago. That game was also an away game, at Bradford City. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Mansfield Town form and stats
Mansfield Town's struggle is real here at One Call Stadium with only 6 points collected from 10 League Two games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-6-4. Mansfield are slowly digging their own grave here at One Call Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in ten attempts. The last victory here came in the Tranmere Rovers match.
A strong away win for Mansfield against Scunthorpe United the last match, as George Lapslie and Jordan Bowery were on target. In the match before that, Mansfield Town hosted Southend United and drew the game 1-1.
This is expected to be a close game, with Mansfield Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Mansfield as a small favourite), we find 16 games. Mansfield Town has won three of these, drawn six and lost seven.
Mansfield are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 10 games. Mansfield have conceded 16 from these games.
Port Vale form and stats
Playing away, Port Vale have won 4 games, drawn 0 and suffered 5 defeats in the League Two this season.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Barrow.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 19 similar matches played by Port Vale in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for Port, six draws and six defeats.
Port are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 17 times in 9 away games so far. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Port rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: three - four - one (Mansfield Town wins - draws - Port Vale wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Rodney 6 goals |   G. Lapslie 4 goals |  T. Conlon 4 goals |
Mansfield Town missing players
Port Vale missing players
| Mansfield Town | Port Vale | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 22 | 10 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 17 | 29 |
| 27 | 16 | 8 | Conceded | C | 2 | 15 | 29 |
| 85% | 80% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 90% | 90% |
| 70% | 70% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 70% | 67% |
| 40% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 50% | 38% |
| 25% | 30% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 30% | 24% |
| 15% | 20% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 19% |
| 70% | 70% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 48% |
| 20% | 20% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 30% | 29% |
| 25% | 30% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 30% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 1.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.2 | 13.8 | 13.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 10.1 | 11.5 |
| 4 | 4.5 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| 28% | 22% | 19% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 41% | 38% |
- Mansfield Town have yet to win a game at home.
- Port Vale has the most conceded goals in the second half (21) in League Two
- Port Vale have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 | Newport County | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 38 |
| 2 | Forest Green Rovers | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 37 |
| 3 | Carlisle United | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 36 |
| 4 | Cheltenham Town | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 34 |
| 5 | Morecambe | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -3 | 34 |
| 6 | Salford City | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 33 |
| 7 | Exeter City | 19 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 40 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 31 |
| 8 | Cambridge United | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 31 |
| 9 | Walsall | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 26 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 30 |
| 10 | Crawley Town | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 31 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 28 |
| 11 | Colchester United | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 27 | 29 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -2 | 28 |
| 12 | Leyton Orient | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 29 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 27 |
| 13 | Tranmere Rovers | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 15 | -2 | 27 |
| 14 | Oldham Athletic | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 33 | 37 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 17 | -4 | 26 |
| 15 | Bolton Wanderers | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 32 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 17 | -7 | 26 |
| 16 | Harrogate Town | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 11 | -3 | 25 |
| 17 | Port Vale | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 29 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 24 |
| 18 | Bradford City | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | -5 | 23 |
| 19 | Mansfield Town | 20 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 22 | 27 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 11 | -5 | 20 |
| 20 | Scunthorpe United | 19 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 28 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 11 | -9 | 20 |
| 21 | Barrow | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 15 | -2 | 19 |
| 22 | Grimsby Town | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -17 | 19 |
| 23 | Stevenage | 19 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -8 | 17 |
| 24 | Southend United | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | -18 | 16 |