Accrington 3-0 Swindon
26% possession for Swindon, same formation, same style, defensive until its too late.
We have only won away at Accrington Stanley (who are day!) once in 5 meetings and that was under PdC when Sir Wes of Foderingham made his debut for us on loan from Palace keeping a clean sheet in a 2-0 win, Wes went on to keep 5 consecutive clean sheets at the start of his career never conceding more than a single goal a game in his first 19 matches! keeping 10 cleans sheets in that run.
Accrington are not on the best run of form having just 1 win in the last 8 games since their 6-1 demolition of our gassy friends down the M4 a run of DLDLDLDL a run that has taken them out of the promotion places to 5 points outside the play offs.
They don't concede many goals with only Oxford (4) Wigan (4) and Hull (3) scoring more than 2 goals against them in any league game with 10 clean sheets in 30 games.
Their 2 leading scorers are Dion Charles on 14 and Colby Bishop on 8. Ironically they were the 2 Crewe scorers in the match at the CG in November with the hapless Fryer scoring the other.
Stanley have utilised the loan system better than we have with 7 loan players at the club including the ex Town trialist Baxter who has been playing extremely well in goal and is up for POTY, he saved a penalty on Tuesday against Ipswich and kept them in the game with some good saves.
I have watched highlights of their last 6 games and you can see the pitch at the WHAM stadium is not a good surface for playing football on and they seem to have adapted to longer passing, the cetnre of their defence seems very prone to making bad mistakes similar to the ones we were making earlier in the season and struggle with any high balls put in the box.
But its down to the Swindon Young Guns to say I'm Your Man and score from A Different Corner and win the Freedom of the Wham stadium and Enjoy What You Do without any sendings off from the Bad Boys as we had Last Christmas leaving Town fans on the Edge Of Heaven with the Swindon physio Alison Willets having Everything She Wants.