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League Two Rankings: Attacking and Overall After 9 Games

Following the publication of the defensive rankings yesterday, it’s time to check out how efficient each team has been in the 9 games so far this season at the other end of the pitch. Again these attacking rankings studies five key statistics covering a wide variety of attacking play. These are then followed by the overall League Two rankings. Will

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League Two Rankings: The Defence

Throughout this season I’ll be analysing all teams in League Two and attempting to put some reason behind League form and position. Our rankings are divided into both defensive and attacking phases of play. Five separate measures are used within each defensive and attacking areas to rank the performance of all League Two teams.  The best a team can score in

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League Two Review: Gillingham give a thrashing and a Plymouth sacking

It has been another weekend of excellent football in the npower League Two. Plymouth continue to lurch from crisis to crisis, this week yet another defeat swiftly followed by the sacking of their manager. There were also goals galore as high scoring games dominated the league on Saturday.  All of the action is assessed here in the latest instalment of Andrew Steele

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Match Preview: Swindon at Burton Albion

After knocking three past Crawley in our first Football League visit to Broadfield Stadium in midweek, Swindon Town travel to Staffordshire for a first ever meeting between the two sides. Form… With three successive victories, Paolo Di Canio’s Swindon Town have well and truly silenced the doubters. A move up the League to tenth has seen victories over three of the fancied

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Ten games in: The making of Paolo Di Canio

The Crawley game marked Paolo Di Canio’s tenth game in charge of Swindon Town. With all the hype surrounding his appointment and the influx of signings that followed, the burning question is however; just how has the ‘Di Canio Project’ fared so far? Andrew Steele-Davis investigates. The summer had been a manic but very exciting time for everyone connected with

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Crawley Town 0 Swindon 3: Town hitting the heights again

This fixture was always going to generate interest with both Crawley Town and Swindon many people’s tip to challenge for automatic promotion from League Two. With Crawley’s blistering start and Swindon’s recent fine form, the game at Broadfield Stadium was billed as an early six pointer, reports Andrew Steele-Davis. The mind games that took place during the week between Paolo Di

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