League Two: Crawley vs Newport – Betting preview

Ace Football previews the League Two round 2 match between Crawley and Newport and offers team news, stats and a free betting tip with the latest odds.

Crawley hope to live up to their early billing as the League Two title favourites this coming Saturday when they welcome Newport over to the Broadfield Stadium for a round 2 match.

Crawley will be hopeful of getting on the board after an unlucky opening game to the new League Two campaign which left them empty-handed.

Form: Crawley vs Newport

Crawley Form

Crawley are looking to bounce back from a recent setback and get back to winning ways. In their last three matches, they first took out Northampton by 3-0, before beating Shrewsbury by 1-2. The winning streak came to an end against Grimsby, who ran out 3-0 winners. Crawley won half of their previous six matches on home soil in the League Two, while also drawing one. They suffered two defeats, while they scored ten and conceded six goals.

Newport Form

Newport only managed two draws in their last three matches. They started by losing 1-4 at the hands of Tranmere, before drawing 2-2 with Barnet. They secured another draw in their latest encounter against Notts Co. resulting 1-1. Newport didn’t manage a single away win in their last six League Two matches, but managed one draws, while suffering five defeats. They conceded 13 and scored three goals themselves.

Betting stats for Crawley and Newport

Let’s have a look at some of the most interesting betting-relevant facts based on the stats from the last couple of matches that Crawley and Newport played across all tournaments.

Players in form: Crawley vs Newport

Jay Williams found the target zero times in his previous six matches, whereas Gerard Garner just scored once in a similar number of matches.

Betting markets: Crawley vs Newport

Full-time result

Crawley claimed a modest three wins from their previous 10 home matches across all tournaments. They split the points with the visiting team in two of the games, whilst losing five. Newport won one of their last 10 games away, drew two and lost seven of the games in this run. Crawley have not lost to Newport in 5 consecutive home meetings.

Both teams to score

Crawley scored the first goal of the match in five of their previous ten games. Newport got the opening goal in four out of their last ten away games. Crawley have won to nil in 3 consecutive home games. Both teams have been quite terrible at keeping their opponents at bay in recent matches. While Crawley managed to keep a clean sheet in two of the last 10 games, Newport kept their opponent from scoring in two of their last 10 matches. Both Team have scored in 7 last consecutive meetings between Crawley and Newport when playing at Broadfield Stadium.

Total goals

Over 2.5 goals came out nine times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for Crawley, who scored an average of 1.4 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals came up in three of Newport’s previous ten matches across all tournaments. They managed to score an average of 0.7 goals in these matches.