Stockport County favourites for feisty fight facing Sutton United

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Sat 29.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Edgeley Park (10832 seats)

This is match day, this is League Two and this is Stockport County - Sutton United. Prepare with our full preview!

Insights:
  • Sutton United have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in League Two

13-10-20 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Sutton United when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 43 matches are 55-61 (scored/conceded).

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.

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Stockport County form and stats

3-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the League Two numbers at home for Stockport County so far this season.

Nothing to worry about in defence for Stockport County, as their goalkeeper Ben Hinchiffe has completely shut out the opponents for 180 minutes in the League Two.

A nice win for Stockport County last time playing, versus Carlisle United. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Wootton and Hippolyte scoring for the victors. Hussey was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.83 out of 10. The defender Hussey hit two key passes and won 8 of 9 duels.

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Salford City.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Stockport handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

There will be little rest for Stockport County after this match as they are travelling to Tranmere Rovers for a League Two game in only three days.

Stockport County are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games.

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Sutton United form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sutton United so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-5 (win-draw-lose).

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Northampton Town (placed 3rd) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. A comeback secured a 90 minute draw in the match against Northampton Town. Sutton United were trailing 0-2 but refused to surrender and clawed their way back to 2-2, with Wilson scoring the equalizer. Bugiel, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.8. Bugiel scored one goal.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Walsall.

Sutton are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.

The visitors have scored 6 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Sutton United rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 12 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Sutton United have not lost in the last 4 games (1-3-0) against Stockport County.

Top Goalscorers

Stockport CountyP. Madden
P. Madden
5 goals
Stockport CountyA. Sarcevic
A. Sarcevic
3 goals
Sutton UnitedW. Randall
W. Randall
3 goals

Stockport County missing players

Sutton United missing players

Stockport County Sutton United
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 8 3 Played P 3 8 16
5 3 1 Won W 0 1 5
3 3 1 Drew D 1 2 4
7 2 1 Lost L 2 5 7
18 9 4 Scored S 1 6 16
19 8 4 Conceded C 3 12 20
93% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 88% 94%
73% 62% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 69%
47% 25% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 44%
20% 25% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 12%
13% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 6%
60% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 50%
40% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 25%
7% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 50% 31%
 
5.1 5.6 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 5.4 5.5
3.8 3.2 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.6 4.8
1.3 0.9 0.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.6 1.9
5 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
12.1 14.9 14.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11 10 10.9
4.5 5.2 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.2 3.2
27% 21% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 23% 31%
 
9.8 8 8.3 Shots against (avg) S A 7.7 9.6 9.8
3.1 2.9 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.6 3
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Sutton United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sutton United have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in League Two

  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 15 11 3 1 25 9 8 6 1 1 13 4 7 5 2 0 12 5 16 36
2 Stevenage 16 11 2 3 23 14 8 7 0 1 14 5 8 4 2 2 9 9 9 35
3 Northampton Town 16 9 4 3 28 18 8 5 1 2 15 9 8 4 3 1 13 9 10 31
4 Mansfield Town 15 8 3 4 23 16 7 4 3 0 12 6 8 4 0 4 11 10 7 27
5 Salford City 15 8 3 4 19 12 8 3 2 3 9 7 7 5 1 1 10 5 7 27
6 Swindon Town 16 7 6 3 18 15 8 5 2 1 12 6 8 2 4 2 6 9 3 27
7 Bradford City 15 7 5 3 20 12 8 3 4 1 10 5 7 4 1 2 10 7 8 26
8 Barrow 15 8 1 6 18 16 7 5 0 2 9 6 8 3 1 4 9 10 2 25
9 Tranmere Rovers 15 7 3 5 18 11 7 4 1 2 12 5 8 3 2 3 6 6 7 24
10 Carlisle United 15 6 6 3 21 16 8 4 3 1 13 8 7 2 3 2 8 8 5 24
11 Grimsby Town 15 6 5 4 17 12 7 1 4 2 7 6 8 5 1 2 10 6 5 23
12 Doncaster Rovers 16 6 4 6 19 21 8 4 1 3 12 10 8 2 3 3 7 11 -2 22
13 Walsall 16 5 5 6 20 16 8 4 2 2 14 7 8 1 3 4 6 9 4 20
14 Crewe Alexandra 15 4 7 4 15 17 8 3 3 2 11 8 7 1 4 2 4 9 -2 19
15 Sutton United 16 5 4 7 16 20 8 4 2 2 10 8 8 1 2 5 6 12 -4 19
16 Stockport County 15 5 3 7 18 19 8 3 3 2 9 8 7 2 0 5 9 11 -1 18
17 AFC Wimbledon 15 4 4 7 17 22 7 2 2 3 7 8 8 2 2 4 10 14 -5 16
18 Newport County 16 4 3 9 14 19 8 2 1 5 6 11 8 2 2 4 8 8 -5 15
19 Crawley Town 15 3 4 8 17 27 7 3 0 4 11 13 8 0 4 4 6 14 -10 13
20 Gillingham 15 2 7 6 6 16 8 2 4 2 4 6 7 0 3 4 2 10 -10 13
21 Harrogate Town 15 3 3 9 12 21 7 2 2 3 7 9 8 1 1 6 5 12 -9 12
22 Rochdale 15 3 3 9 12 22 7 1 1 5 6 10 8 2 2 4 6 12 -10 12
23 Colchester United 15 2 4 9 12 21 8 2 3 3 8 10 7 0 1 6 4 11 -9 10
24 Hartlepool United 16 1 6 9 13 29 8 1 4 3 5 10 8 0 2 6 8 19 -16 9

Read more about League Two

The English Football League Two (usually referred to as League Two) is the fourth highest division in English football. The League Two league table has 24 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 552 fixtures. Seasons run from August to May. Four teams are promoted and four relegated.