Match Report
60 points for Fleetwood Town (14th), 73 for AFC Wimbledon (5th): a 13-point gap. On recent form AFC Wimbledon sat only 15th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 5th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Fleetwood Town 1.3 scored and 1.3 conceded per game, AFC Wimbledon 1.22 and 0.76, with the league averaging 1.25.
Defeat had not touched AFC Wimbledon in 10 games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 18 games: 6 Fleetwood Town wins, 6 for AFC Wimbledon, 6 draws, at 2.11 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 28% of meetings won.
The venue was Highbury Stadium in Fleetwood, with room for 5,327 spectators. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.