Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Gainsborough Trinity 7th with 64 points, Basford United 21st with 37, 27 apart. Gainsborough Trinity ranked 2nd in the league on five-round form, well above their 7th table position. Per game in the league, Basford United were scoring 1.19 and conceding 1.88, Gainsborough Trinity 1.38 and 1.26, against a competition average of 1.46 goals per team per game.
Basford United had lost six in a row. Basford United had banked 0 of the last 15 points on offer; Gainsborough Trinity, 6.
The sides have met 4 times in the GioScore results database: 2 wins for Basford United, 0 draws and 2 for Gainsborough Trinity, at 2.5 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 75% of the meetings. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 75% of the meetings.
The venue was Greenwich Avenue in Nottingham, with room for 2,200 spectators. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.