Match Report
Bury, 3rd with 79 points, sat 15 points above Swindon Town (13th, 64). On recent form Bury sat only 7th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Bury 1.78 scored and 1.22 conceded per game, Swindon Town 1.28 and 1.22, with the league averaging 1.28.
The sides have met 7 times in the GioScore results database: 5 wins for Bury, 1 draw and 1 for Swindon Town, at 2 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 14% of those meetings.
Gigg Lane in Bury, capacity 11,840, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-3.