Match Report
Port Vale went into the game 23rd in the table on 41 points; Cambridge United sat 18th on 48 — a 7-point gap. Against a league average of 1.29 goals per team per game, Port Vale ran at 0.89 scored and 1.61 conceded, Cambridge United at 0.85 and 1.33.
Port Vale had been beaten in four straight games. 5 games without a win framed Cambridge United's arrival.
10 meetings are on record — 4 won by Port Vale, 5 by Cambridge United, 1 drawn, at 2.2 goals per meeting. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 30% of the meetings went over two goals.
Vale Park in Stoke-on-Trent, capacity 18,947, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.