Match Thread Home V Stevenage Tue 17th Aug @ 7.45pm

We really need to be turning teams like these over at home and there is no reason why not . The old Bradford City that stays in L2 gets a draw here but if we’re serious about being up there we need to make a statement and beat teams like Stevenage at home. No league games are easy but our squad should be more than capable of beating these.

 

SPOT ON!!

 

Absolutely. Hopefully DA has instilled this mentality into the team.

 

No hopefully about it. An SM team would have lost saturdays match in injury time.

 

Stevenage form since Boxing Day..

Played 30
Won 14
Drawn 10
Lost 6
GD +12
Pts 52
Clean sheets 16
Conceeded more than 1 goal in game.. 4
Pts per game 1.73

Tough game. And before the usual suspects round upon my post, these facts have to be considered with real merit.

 

Stevenage last 13 away games...

Won 7
Drawn 4
Lost 2
Pts 25

Run of results away from home for Stevenage
0-2 Bristol Rovers
0-1 scunthorpe
0-1 Cambridge
2-1 Salford
0-1 Oldham
0-0 Southend
0-0 Leyton
0-0 Newport
0-0 port vale
0-1 Crawley
1-0 Bolton
0-1 Tranmere
1-2 Grimsby

10 clean sheets in those 13 games

 

Reeves 18/1 to score first

 

All good runs come to an end, let's batter them. Get a couple of crunching tackles on Reeves early doors to test his mettle against the team where for whatever reason he massively under achieved.

I can't see him risking Songo'o from the start but Evans or Sutton can do a decent enough job there to sure up the middle and allow Cooke to get forward.

Come on, no excuses let's do this!

 

Looking at data, Stevenage could well have a lot of ball possession tonight. Stevenage have had over 55% of ball possession this season to Bradford 41%. Other nugget of thought, Stevenage only 4% of shots in 6 yard box since beginning of 2020/21 season but 64% in the 18 yard box... Have to watch those runners...

 

Not massively different to ours

Played 30
Won 13
Drawn 7
Lost 10
Pts 46
PPG 1.53
Clean sheets 9
Conceded more than 1 Goal in a game 8

Conclusion.................... 0.0 Draw

 

For “teams like these” read possibly the L2 form team of the calendar year. No push over at all on that basis and I understand the whole Board are coming tonight, full of anticipation they will turn us over. Be nice to send them back deflated and pointless before our next toughie on paper Saturday

 

Cant abide athletics

 

It's a must..!! too early to have our bubble burst yet..

 

Better than the 150/1 you could get on him starting a match for us in the last 18 months of his career

 

I've highlighted this above, with reasonably detailed stats.

 

Pretty obvious Fordy.

 

Thank you!

 

I dont think anyone says it will be easy but this is Stevenage at home we are talking about not Man U, home game, 15k city fans in the stadium, not a pushover but neither were oldham and nor will most teams. Looks like they keep it tight but this season really needs to be a case of NO Excuses. Promotion will only happen with rock solid home form. Looking at the bristol rovers stats (3 defeats this season) Stevenage were heading for a nil nil right up to the 87th minute and committed a lot of fouls for the second game running. Could be a battle out there tonight but personally am confident we can do the biz !

 

next two games not easy