The visiting Salford City side should be favourites in this visit to Mansfield Town, as the away team holds a 10 point advantage from their 18 league games this season.
- Mansfield Town have yet to win a game at home.
- Salford City has the fewest conceded goals (14) in League Two
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.
Mansfield Town form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the League Two this season. Mansfield Town have only managed 0 wins, 6 draws and 4 losses from their games here at One Call Stadium. Mansfield Town 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.
It's back home for Mansfield, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Scunthorpe United away with the result 3-2. George Lapslie and Jordan Bowery found the net in that victory. In the match before that, Mansfield hosted Southend United and drew the game 1-1.
This is expected to be a close game, with Mansfield perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Mansfield Town as a small favourite), we find 16 games. Mansfield Town has won three of these, drawn six and lost seven.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Mansfield as they have a new game in only four days, a League Two match thankfully also at home. Port Vale are visiting.
The Mansfield fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 10 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 16 goals have been conceded.
Salford City form and stats
As the visiting team in League Two matches, Salford City, who have the fewest conceded goals (14) in League Two, have produced an overall stat of 4-0-4 so far. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Salford are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Impressive finishing from J. Wilson secured the home win 1-0 against Walsall in their previous game. Prior to that result Salford won their away game at Harrogate Town. The scoreline was 1-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Salford City in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Salford, two draws and one defeat.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Salford manager G. Alexander as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Leyton Orient.
Salford City are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  I. Henderson 7 goals | A. Hunter 6 goals |  J. Wilson 5 goals |
Mansfield Town missing players
Salford City missing players
| Mansfield Town | Salford City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 1 | Played | P | 4 | 8 | 19 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 22 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 7 | 9 | 26 |
| 27 | 16 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 14 |
| 85% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 70% | 70% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 25% | 50% | 63% |
| 40% | 40% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 38% | 42% |
| 25% | 30% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 12% | 16% |
| 15% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 70% | 70% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 37% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 53% |
| 25% | 30% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 21% |
| 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 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.2 | 13.8 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 12.8 | 12.4 |
| 4 | 4.5 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 28% | 22% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 22% | 27% |
- Mansfield Town have yet to win a game at home.
- Salford City has the fewest conceded goals (14) in League Two
- Salford City has the fewest conceded goals (7) away in League Two
- Salford City has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in League Two
- Salford City 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 | Newport County | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 37 |
| 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 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 35 |
| 4 | Cheltenham Town | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 33 |
| 5 | Exeter City | 19 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 40 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 31 |
| 6 | Cambridge United | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 31 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 31 |
| 7 | Morecambe | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -5 | 31 |
| 8 | Salford City | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 30 |
| 9 | Walsall | 19 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 26 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 30 |
| 10 | Colchester United | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 27 | 29 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -2 | 28 |
| 11 | Crawley Town | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 27 |
| 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 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 15 | -1 | 27 |
| 14 | Oldham Athletic | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 32 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 17 | -3 | 26 |
| 15 | Bolton Wanderers | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -7 | 25 |
| 16 | Port Vale | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 29 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 24 |
| 17 | Harrogate Town | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | -4 | 22 |
| 18 | Mansfield Town | 20 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 22 | 27 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 11 | -5 | 20 |
| 19 | Bradford City | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -6 | 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 | Grimsby Town | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -15 | 19 |
| 22 | Barrow | 19 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 15 | -4 | 16 |
| 23 | Southend United | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | -18 | 16 |
| 24 | Stevenage | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 13 |