Swindon Town are hunting the top league places while Port Vale are more worried about avoiding relegation. May the best team win!
- Port Vale have won significantly less corners away then at home.
The hosts Swindon saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the EFL Trophy. This match was also played here at The Energy Check County Ground. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Port Vale have had more rest.
Swindon Town form and stats
1-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the League Two numbers at home for Swindon Town so far this season.
A nice win for Swindon last time playing, versus Arsenal U21. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with M. Dabre scoring for the victors.
Before that, Swindon played out a League Two draw 1-1 when visiting Stevenage.This is expected to be a close game, with Swindon perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Swindon Town as a small favourite), we find ten games. Swindon Town has won four of these, drawn one and lost five.
Swindon Town have scored 2 league goals here from 3 matches, not a lot. Swindon Town have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Port Vale form and stats
Port Vale are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League Two, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
The manager D. Clarke was unhappy after their last game, a League Two match played at their home ground Vale Park. Port suffered a 2-3 loss to Rochdale (placed 10th). The attacker Jamie Proctor got a match rating of 8.63 in that game. Proctor scored two goals and hit one key pass.
Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Bolton Wanderers's place.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Port Vale playing away and similar expectations, we found 16 relevant matches. Results were seven Port wins, four draws and five defeats.
Port find the net regularly in their away games. 3 goals from 3 away fixtures in the league. Port are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Swindon victories, two draws and three Port Vale wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Proctor 4 goals |  J. Payne 3 goals | H. Parsons 1 goals |
Swindon Town missing players
Port Vale missing players
| Swindon Town | Port Vale | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 50% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 50% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 50% |
| 3.2 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.3 | 5.3 |
| 6.2 | 6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4 | 3.3 |
| 2.3 | 2.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.7 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 11 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 9.7 | 11 |
| 4 | 4.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 3.3 |
| 29% | 15% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 25% | 25% |
- Port Vale have won significantly less corners away then 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 | Harrogate Town | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | Forest Green Rovers | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 3 | Bradford City | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | Swindon Town | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | Northampton Town | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 6 | Leyton Orient | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Hartlepool United | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | Carlisle United | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Barrow | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 10 | Rochdale | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | Tranmere Rovers | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 12 | Stevenage | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 8 |
| 13 | Exeter City | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 14 | Mansfield Town | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 7 |
| 15 | Newport County | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 16 | Bristol Rovers | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 7 |
| 17 | Port Vale | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 18 | Colchester United | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 19 | Scunthorpe United | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 6 |
| 20 | Salford City | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 21 | Walsall | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 5 |
| 22 | Crawley Town | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 4 |
| 23 | Oldham Athletic | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -6 | 3 |
| 24 | Sutton United | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 2 |