After a week of detailed statistics as part of our League Two Rankings, Adam Johnson puts them to use with his view on Swindon Town’s away form, a story of two halves. Many promotion hopefuls get to their lofty position based on home form, ‘win your home games and you’ll do well’ is the usual logic to follow. However, picking
Read moreSo then… after two days of bamboozling you all with a wealth of statistics – defensive ranks & attacking ranks – I’ll attempt to give you a brief summary on the efficiency strengths and weaknesses of each League Two team as part of our overall rankings. Graphs showing the rankings split into home and away form are at the bottom of this post, but
Read moreAfter the defensive rankings, today we look beyond the ‘goals for’ column on the League Two table as our Attacking Rankings return. Taking into account a broader range of statistics to analyse Accrington to Torquay United, the five attacking assessments provide an indication of the relative strengths and weaknesses – home and away – of League Two after 17 games. Shots On Target
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Form… 6th placed Swindon have been unbeaten in their past 6 League Two games and 3 cup games. Town have won 4 and drawn 2 of their previous 6 League games. Away from home, recent victories at Accrington, Plymouth and Port Vale have made up for that awful start to the season on our travels. 11th placed AFC Wimbledon have been one of the
Read moreWe’re onto our second run through our League Two Rankings. Throughout this season we’ll be analysing all teams in League Two and attempting to put some reason behind League form and position. These rankings look behind just the usual goals for and against, games won and lost, to understand how each team compares in League Two. Five separate measures are
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Swindon recorded their fourth win in five games with a 2-0 success at Port Vale thanks to a debut goal from Lukas Magera and a penalty from Mehdi Kerrouche. The Town were in control from start to finish and managed to frustrate and restrict their hosts in an impressive and textbook away display, writes Tom Otrebski. Paolo Di Canio made two changes to the starting line-up
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It has been another weekend of goal-tastic action from the Npower League Two as Southend remain top of the table and Swindon continue their climb up the play-off places. Reports Andrew Steele-Davis. Let’s start off at Port Vale, where Swindon, who are one of the form teams in the league at the moment, continued their recent good form. After being held
Read moreForm… 7th placed Swindon have been unbeaten throughout October and now look to take their impressive League Two form into November. Town have won 3, drawn 2 and defeated once (at Macclesfield) in their previous 6 League games. Away from home, recent victories at Accrington and Plymouth have shown Swindon potentially do have what it takes to improve form to mount a
Read moreBradford were the visitors to the County Ground on Saturday and the team from Yorkshire came in search of their first away win of the season. Swindon were going into the game on a three match unbeaten run and with an eye on the automatic promotion places. Just who would come out on top? Reports Andrew Steele-Davis. Having kept the
Read moreIn a spooctacular weekend of football, the Npower League Two has a new leader as Southend continued their recent hot streak against Macclesfield. All of the action will be assessed here in the latest instalment of Andrew Steele-Davis’ League Two Review. Let’s start with the new table toppers, Southend United who returned to the top of the summit after a solid
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