This season has been back-breaking for Newport County up to now, while Swindon Town have played well. Will the away side get the points at Rodney Parade?
- Newport County have won significantly more corners at home than away.
Both sides have had enough rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's look for an enthusiastic match!
Newport County form and stats
Newport County's results here at Rodney Parade in the League Two have been very modest with 3 victories, 3 draws and 7 defeats. Two draws in a row at home now for Newport County.
No payout for Newport County in their previous match, an away game at Carlisle United that ended in defeat 0-2. The first defeat after going unbeaten in four league rounds. Midfielder Lewis was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.01 (out of ten) in that game. Lewis hit the woodwork once, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 1-1 draw away before that, with Rochdale the opponent.This is expected to be a close game, with Newport County perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Newport County as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Newport County has won 5 of these, drawn 3 and lost 7.
Trench warfare? In this club's last 20 league games, 15 have produced two goals or less.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Newport here at Rodney Parade in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (11 from 13 games). Newport County's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Swindon Town form and stats
5-4-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Swindon Town in their League Two matches away.
Swindon Town played 3-3 against Gillingham in their previous match. An inspired comeback made the scores level in Swindon's duel with Gillingham. It looked bad at 1-3 but the team were not done and fought back to 3-3 after Austin found the equalizer. The attacker Austin got a match rating of 8.52 in that game. Austin scored two goals.
Before that, Swindon Town secured a home win against Grimsby Town with the score 5-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Swindon Town in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Swindon Town, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
The visiting Swindon Town have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 13 games. Swindon have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The fixture history shows this score when the contenders met previously this season; Swindon Town - Newport County 1-0. Newport-Swindon Town H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Newport County four wins, Swindon Town five wins, one draw. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  J. Williams 8 goals |   O. Bogle 7 goals |  J. Wakeling 5 goals |
Newport County missing players
Swindon Town missing players
| Newport County | Swindon Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 27 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 8 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 12 | 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 24 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 14 | 36 |
| 30 | 16 | 4 | Conceded | C | 6 | 15 | 28 |
| 92% | 92% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 92% | 89% |
| 69% | 62% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 69% | 67% |
| 31% | 31% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 31% | 41% |
| 12% | 15% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 8% | 15% |
| 4% | 8% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 15% |
| 46% | 38% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 46% | 48% |
| 19% | 23% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 23% | 33% |
| 42% | 46% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 38% | 30% |
| 4.2 | 5 | 2.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.2 | 5.7 | 6.3 |
| 4.3 | 3.5 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 4.9 | 4.6 |
| 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.9 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11.6 | 11.9 | 8.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.5 | 11.5 | 13.2 |
| 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.7 | 4 |
| 50% | 41% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 34% |
| 10.3 | 9.6 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 11.4 | 10.6 |
| 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.5 | 3.1 |
- Newport County have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | Leyton Orient | 28 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 36 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 57 |
| 2 | Stevenage | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 39 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 55 |
| 3 | Northampton Town | 27 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 42 | 28 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 14 | 49 |
| 4 | Carlisle United | 27 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 43 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 48 |
| 5 | Salford City | 27 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 37 | 28 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 42 |
| 6 | Swindon Town | 27 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 36 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 42 |
| 7 | Mansfield Town | 27 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 40 | 36 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 42 |
| 8 | Bradford City | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 41 |
| 9 | Barrow | 27 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 32 | 32 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 40 |
| 10 | AFC Wimbledon | 27 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 28 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 2 | 39 |
| 11 | Sutton United | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 35 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 23 | -7 | 39 |
| 12 | Stockport County | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 38 |
| 13 | Tranmere Rovers | 27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 29 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 38 |
| 14 | Walsall | 24 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 30 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 37 |
| 15 | Doncaster Rovers | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 31 | 39 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 23 | -8 | 37 |
| 16 | Grimsby Town | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 26 | 32 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 17 | -6 | 30 |
| 17 | Crewe Alexandra | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -8 | 30 |
| 18 | Colchester United | 29 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 29 | 37 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 14 | 21 | -8 | 30 |
| 19 | Newport County | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 30 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 14 | -6 | 26 |
| 20 | Crawley Town | 25 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 29 | 41 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 22 | -12 | 25 |
| 21 | Harrogate Town | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 32 | 41 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 20 | -9 | 24 |
| 22 | Hartlepool United | 28 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 28 | 52 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 29 | -24 | 22 |
| 23 | Gillingham | 26 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 19 | -17 | 21 |
| 24 | Rochdale | 28 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 22 | 42 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 21 | -20 | 20 |
