Grimsby Town face off with visitors Crawley Town at Blundell Park in this League Two tie on Saturday.
Full predictions, stats & game poll for the Grimsby Town v Crawley Town match are shown here - as well as up-to-date odds.
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Form Guide
Grimsby Town
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Grimsby Town will be wanting a better result here after a 3-0 League Two loss in their previous game against Wrexham.
Ollie Palmer (21'), Will Boyle (31') and Elliot Lee (79') scored for Wrexham.
It has been a rare occasion in recent times that Grimsby Town haven’t conceded. The facts show that Grimsby Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 9 goals along the way.
Their past results show that Grimsby Town:
- have not lost a league tie with Crawley Town in their last 4 games.
- are unbeaten in their last 8 league matches at home. A run that they'll hope to extend here.
Crawley Town
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Crawley Town will go into this match after a 3-2 League Two win as they beat Tranmere Rovers in their last game.
For Crawley Town, the scorers were Ronan Darcy (61'), Nick Tsaroulla (68') and Klaidi Lolos (96'). Charlie Jolley (21') and Sam Taylor (66') scored for Tranmere Rovers.
In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 clashes featuring Crawley Town, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per match in that spell is 5, with the average number of goals for Crawley Town being 2.33. We will just have to see if that trend will be continued on here.
Coming into this meeting, Crawley Town are without an away win for the past 4 league games.
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Head to head
Looking over their prior head to head clashes going back to 29/12/2019 tells us that Grimsby Town have won 3 of them & Crawley Town 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.
A total of 18 goals were scored between them in this period, with 11 of them for The Mariners and 7 for The Red Devils. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.
The last league match between the two was League Two match day 26 on 28/03/2023 which ended up with the score at Crawley Town 1-1 Grimsby Town.
The referee was Lee Swabey.
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Team News: Grimsby Town
The Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst does not have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash owing to a fully injury-free group available for selection.
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Team News: Crawley Town
With a fully injury-free squad available to select from, the Crawley Town boss Scott Lindsay has no fitness worries to report coming into this match.
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Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Crawley Town might have a difficult job to hit the back of the net against this Grimsby Town team who we think will likely emerge victorious.
With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a hard-fought 1-0 advantage for Grimsby Town at the end of the 90 minutes.
Let’s see.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Peter Guest,
00:58 19/09/2023
⚽️ Team Focus:
Grimsby Town
Formed: 1878
Stadium: Blundell Park (9,052)
Captain: Luke Waterfall
Chairman: Jason Stockwood
Manager: Paul Hurst
Competitions: League Two position 15, EFL Trophy (Group F - North)
⭐ Star Man: Danny Rose
Typically playing in the Striker position, Danny Rose was born in Barnsley, England. After having played his first senior match for Barnsley in the 2010 - 2011 season, the dangerous Forward has managed to score 2 league goals in this League Two 2023 - 2024 season so far in 7 appearances.