The league table in League Two tells a story about these teams so far, with Port Vale leading Scunthorpe United by 15 points. Match preview to follow:
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Port and Scunthorpe United.
Port Vale form and stats
The story so far in the League Two for Port Vale at their home stadium (Vale Park) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Port's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 3-4 versus Tranmere Rovers (placed 15th). Ahead of that match, Port won a home game hosting Liverpool U21 (4-2).
A disaster for the home team in their last match (vs Tranmere Rovers) as a comfortable lead 2-0 was completely ruined into a loss 3-4. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? The defeat against Tranmere Rovers was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored six minutes into stoppage time (by K. Morris).
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Port handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, four draws and one defeat.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Port as they are travelling to their away game against Newport County in the League Two. That match is four days after this one.
The Port fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 8 in 6 matches. Port's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Scunthorpe United form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League Two travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
Scunthorpe play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Oldham Athletic (placed 20th). The game before that, in the EFL Trophy, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Mansfield Town.
Scunthorpe are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, three draws and seven defeats. From a total of twelve matches.
A quick return to home after this game, as Scunthorpe are hosting Morecambe in the League Two only four days away.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Scunthorpe as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. 7 goals have been conceded by Scunthorpe in these games.
Head 2 Head
Port-Scunthorpe United H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Port Vale two wins, Scunthorpe United four wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  T. Conlon 2 goals |  T. Pope 2 goals | M. Cullen 2 goals |
Port Vale missing players
Scunthorpe United missing players
| Port Vale | Scunthorpe United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 15 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 17 |
| 91% | 83% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | 67% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 20% | 33% |
| 18% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 20% | 33% |
| 9% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 20% | 33% |
| 45% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 22% |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 60% | 44% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 116 | 67 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 16 | 47 | 81 |
| 40 | 21 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 13 | 24 |
| 38% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 23% | 25% |
- Port Vale has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in League Two
- Port Vale have scored more than double the goals of Scunthorpe United.
- Scunthorpe United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Scunthorpe United 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 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 25 |
| 2 | Cambridge United | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 16 | 24 |
| 3 | Cheltenham Town | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 22 |
| 4 | Exeter City | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 21 |
| 5 | Forest Green Rovers | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 21 |
| 6 | Carlisle United | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 20 |
| 7 | Colchester United | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
| 8 | Port Vale | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| 9 | Crawley Town | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 18 |
| 10 | Morecambe | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -7 | 18 |
| 11 | Salford City | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 12 | Harrogate Town | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
| 13 | Walsall | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 16 |
| 14 | Leyton Orient | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 15 |
| 15 | Tranmere Rovers | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 15 |
| 16 | Bradford City | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 17 | Bolton Wanderers | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | -6 | 13 |
| 18 | Barrow | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 12 |
| 19 | Grimsby Town | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 12 |
| 20 | Oldham Athletic | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 11 |
| 21 | Mansfield Town | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -5 | 10 |
| 22 | Stevenage | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 8 |
| 23 | Scunthorpe United | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -11 | 7 |
| 24 | Southend United | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -19 | 5 |