About Match
2 points for Port Vale (24th), 12 for Bristol Rovers (1st): a 10-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Port Vale 0.4 scored and 1.4 conceded per game, Bristol Rovers 2.4 and 1.2, with the league averaging 1.33. Port Vale would climb to 5 points with a win and up to 16th (other results held equal).
Port Vale's winless run stands at 6. Momentum sits with Bristol Rovers, winners of their last three, having scored in 6 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Port Vale 2/15, Bristol Rovers 13/15.
Across 14 recorded meetings, Port Vale have 7 wins to Bristol Rovers's 6, with 1 draw, at 2.43 goals per meeting. 71% of these meetings ended in a home win.
Vale Park in Stoke-on-Trent, capacity 19,052, hosts the game.