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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Sat 09.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Borough Sports Ground (7032 seats)

Port Vale visit Sutton United and The Borough Sports Ground full of confidence, but the team playing at home is not a walk in the park. More news on the fixture here!

Insights:
  • Sutton United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Port Vale is in the best form (5-0-1)

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the EFL Trophy.

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Sutton United form and stats

The League Two results at home this season for Sutton United are 3-0-1 (wins-draws-losses). Sutton are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Dean Anthony Bouzanis not having conceded a league goal in 186 minutes.

Sutton United are returning here after visiting Northampton Town in a League Two game and winning with a 2-0 scoreline. Donovan Wilson and Joe Kizzi scored the goal(s). Defender Joe Kizzi got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.04/10. Kizzi scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 2 of 4 duels.

Before that, Sutton had a home game versus Carlisle United which ended with a victory 4-0.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Sutton United have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won six, drawn three and lost four.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sutton as they are travelling to their away game against Portsmouth in the EFL Trophy. That match is three days after this one.

Sutton United can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 8 times. Sutton United have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Port Vale form and stats

The visitors are W3-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the League Two. The fact that Port Vale have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

Port won their last game, 1-0 versus Rochdale played at home. The end of the last match, against Rochdale, was very satisfying as J. Taylor scored the winning goal deep into overtime.

That result followed a home victory 3-2 versus Leyton Orient in the League Two.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Port Vale in our archives, and the results are: six wins for Port, four draws and five defeats.

The visiting Port Vale have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 5 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Port ValeJ. Proctor
J. Proctor
5 goals
Port ValeB. Garrity
B. Garrity
3 goals
SuttonD. Ajiboye
D. Ajiboye
2 goals

Sutton United missing players

Port Vale missing players

Sutton United Port Vale
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 1 5 10
4 3 0 Won W 0 3 5
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 3
3 1 0 Lost L 1 1 2
12 8 0 Scored S 0 6 13
8 3 0 Conceded C 1 3 8
89% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 80%
78% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 60%
44% 75% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 30%
11% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
44% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 40%
44% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 50%
22% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 20% 30%
 
5.9 6.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 2 6.4 5.7
5.4 5.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.6 3.3
1.1 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
15.1 16.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 10 9.8 11.5
4.6 5.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.4 3.9
29% 38% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 27% 33%
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Port Vale haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Port Vale is in the best form (5-0-1)
  • Sutton United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sutton United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Sutton United have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Sutton United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Forest Green Rovers 10 7 2 1 20 8 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 4 1 0 11 2 12 23
2 Harrogate Town 10 5 4 1 17 12 5 2 3 0 8 6 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 19
3 Port Vale 10 5 3 2 13 8 5 2 2 1 7 5 5 3 1 1 6 3 5 18
4 Leyton Orient 10 4 4 2 18 10 5 3 1 1 9 2 5 1 3 1 9 8 8 16
5 Swindon Town 10 4 4 2 12 8 5 1 2 2 3 4 5 3 2 0 9 4 4 16
6 Exeter City 10 3 6 1 14 8 5 2 3 0 8 3 5 1 3 1 6 5 6 15
7 Barrow 10 4 3 3 14 11 5 2 2 1 8 7 5 2 1 2 6 4 3 15
8 Bradford City 10 4 3 3 14 11 5 3 2 0 10 4 5 1 1 3 4 7 3 15
9 Tranmere Rovers 10 4 3 3 6 4 5 4 0 1 6 2 5 0 3 2 0 2 2 15
10 Northampton Town 10 4 3 3 9 9 5 2 1 2 5 6 5 2 2 1 4 3 0 15
11 Sutton United 9 4 2 3 12 8 4 3 0 1 8 3 5 1 2 2 4 5 4 14
12 Newport County 10 4 2 4 13 13 4 2 1 1 7 4 6 2 1 3 6 9 0 14
13 Hartlepool United 10 4 2 4 9 9 5 4 1 0 7 2 5 0 1 4 2 7 0 14
14 Crawley Town 10 4 2 4 13 15 5 3 2 0 8 5 5 1 0 4 5 10 -2 14
15 Salford City 10 3 3 4 11 10 6 2 3 1 7 4 4 1 0 3 4 6 1 12
16 Rochdale 10 3 3 4 12 13 5 1 2 2 3 4 5 2 1 2 9 9 -1 12
17 Stevenage 10 3 3 4 9 13 5 2 2 1 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 7 -4 12
18 Colchester United 9 2 4 3 7 9 4 0 1 3 1 5 5 2 3 0 6 4 -2 10
19 Carlisle United 10 2 4 4 9 15 5 1 3 1 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 9 -6 10
20 Bristol Rovers 10 3 1 6 9 17 5 2 0 3 4 8 5 1 1 3 5 9 -8 10
21 Walsall 10 2 3 5 11 15 5 2 1 2 7 7 5 0 2 3 4 8 -4 9
22 Mansfield Town 10 2 3 5 10 15 6 2 1 3 8 10 4 0 2 2 2 5 -5 9
23 Oldham Athletic 10 2 1 7 6 16 5 0 1 4 2 8 5 2 0 3 4 8 -10 7
24 Scunthorpe United 10 1 4 5 6 17 5 1 1 3 3 9 5 0 3 2 3 8 -11 7

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.