Match Report
3 points and 115 places separated them: Blackpool 178th with 10, Accrington Stanley 63rd with 13. Blackpool ranked just 538th in the league on five-round form despite their 178th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Blackpool 1.86 scored and 1.14 conceded per game, Accrington Stanley 1.67 and 0.67, with the league averaging 1.82.
Accrington Stanley had not lost in 5 games, having scored in 6 consecutive games.
9 meetings are on record — 2 won by Blackpool, 2 by Accrington Stanley, 5 drawn, at 1.78 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 22% of meetings won. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 33% of the meetings.
Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 4 more goals closed it at 1-3.