Match Report
Chesterfield, 1st with 98 points, sat 29 points above Aldershot Town (8th, 69). On recent form Chesterfield sat only 21st league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 1st overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Chesterfield 2.3 scored and 1.41 conceded per game, Aldershot Town 1.61 and 1.8, with the league averaging 1.47.
Chesterfield came in having won five on the spin, having scored in 15 consecutive games. From the last five rounds, Chesterfield held 15 points of 15 and Aldershot Town 8.
The head-to-head ledger counts 10 games: 4 Chesterfield wins, 2 for Aldershot Town, 4 draws, at 1.7 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 10% of meetings won. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 20% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match was played at Technique Stadium in Chesterfield (capacity 10,504). The referee was R. Ricardo, with 99 matches in our database and 2.8 yellows per game on average. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 4-1.