Salford City are considered as favourites to win this home match versus Newport County, if the league positions are anything to judge by. Or are we looking at a possible?
These are hustling days for the host team, as they played only four days ago in the League Two. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Barrow.
Salford City form and stats
When playing at home in the League Two, Salford City have managed 7 wins, 5 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 17 games.
An away draw last time out for Salford, facing Barrow in a game that ended 1-1. Midfield player Barry got a match rating of 7.94 in that game, the max score being 10. Barry hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 8 of 10 times.
In the preceding match a 5-2 victory visiting Mansfield Town.This is expected to be a close game, with Salford City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Salford City as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Salford City has won 5 of these, drawn 6 and lost 4.
Observe: 11 of the latest 14 league games from this club have had goals from both teams.
Salford City has scored 20 league goals at home this season, in 17 matches.
Newport County form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League Two travels is 5 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats.
Newport County's previous game was their home loss versus Sutton United (0-2). That loss was their first after five consecutive league games winning points. Norman got a match rating of 7.45 in that game, top player of the team. Norman hit two key passes.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Hartlepool United with the score of 1-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by Newport in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Newport County, 5 draws and 6 defeats.
Low on goals? 9 of this club's latest 12 league matches have contained zero, one or two goals.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Newport County manager Coughlan as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Grimsby Town.
It's not easy to score on Newport County as they have only conceded 15 goals from these away games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
Salford City have managed a streak of 5 consecutive games without losing (3-2-0) when playing Newport County.The most recent registered history between these teams is the Newport County - Salford 2-3 played not long ago this season.
Top Goalscorers
  O. Bogle 9 goals |   C. McAleny 8 goals |  M. Smith 7 goals |
Salford City missing players
Newport County missing players
| Salford City | Newport County | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 34 | 17 | 4 | Played | P | 6 | 16 | 32 |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 48 | 20 | 8 | Scored | S | 3 | 16 | 31 |
| 36 | 17 | 4 | Conceded | C | 7 | 15 | 36 |
| 94% | 94% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 94% | 94% |
| 68% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 69% | 69% |
| 41% | 35% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 17% | 25% | 31% |
| 21% | 12% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 6% | 12% |
| 18% | 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| 50% | 47% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 47% |
| 32% | 35% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 25% | 22% |
| 24% | 24% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 31% | 38% |
| 4.5 | 4.8 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| 4.9 | 4.9 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.2 | 4.2 |
| 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.2 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.2 | 12.4 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 11.5 | 12.1 |
| 3.9 | 3.6 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.9 | 2.2 |
| 36% | 32% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 52% | 45% |
| 12.8 | 11.5 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.2 | 10.4 | 10.1 |
| 3.3 | 3.1 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| 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 | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 45 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 24 | 71 |
| 2 | Stevenage | 32 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 46 | 28 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 60 |
| 3 | Carlisle United | 33 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 54 | 34 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 18 | 20 | 58 |
| 4 | Northampton Town | 33 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 46 | 32 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 14 | 56 |
| 5 | Stockport County | 33 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 48 | 31 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 24 | 18 | 17 | 54 |
| 6 | Bradford City | 32 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 40 | 29 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 54 |
| 7 | Salford City | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 48 | 36 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 19 | 12 | 53 |
| 8 | Mansfield Town | 32 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 51 | 42 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 17 | 9 | 52 |
| 9 | Sutton United | 33 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 36 | 38 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 25 | -2 | 50 |
| 10 | Swindon Town | 32 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 43 | 35 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 48 |
| 11 | Barrow | 34 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 37 | 41 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 26 | -4 | 48 |
| 12 | Tranmere Rovers | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 34 | 32 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 47 |
| 13 | Doncaster Rovers | 32 | 14 | 4 | 14 | 36 | 43 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 25 | -7 | 46 |
| 14 | Walsall | 31 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 35 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 43 |
| 15 | AFC Wimbledon | 33 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 35 | 36 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 20 | -1 | 42 |
| 16 | Grimsby Town | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 38 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 20 | -4 | 38 |
| 17 | Crewe Alexandra | 32 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 28 | 39 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 19 | -11 | 38 |
| 18 | Newport County | 32 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 31 | 36 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 15 | -5 | 37 |
| 19 | Colchester United | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 31 | 40 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 22 | -9 | 35 |
| 20 | Gillingham | 32 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 21 | 37 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 21 | -16 | 33 |
| 21 | Harrogate Town | 33 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 38 | 51 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 27 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 24 | -13 | 31 |
| 22 | Hartlepool United | 34 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 36 | 62 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 29 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 33 | -26 | 28 |
| 23 | Crawley Town | 31 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 34 | 53 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 26 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 27 | -19 | 26 |
| 24 | Rochdale | 34 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 27 | 52 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 26 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 26 | -25 | 22 |
