About Match
Port Vale go into the game 24th in the table on 2 points; Chesterfield sit 18th on 5 — a 3-point gap. Against a league average of 1.33 goals per team per game, Port Vale run at 0.4 scored and 1.4 conceded, Chesterfield at 1.2 and 1.4. A win would lift Port Vale to 5 points and up to 16th, overtaking Chesterfield (other results unchanged).
A win has eluded Port Vale for 6 matches.
The head-to-head ledger counts 17 games: 6 Port Vale wins, 8 for Chesterfield, 3 draws, at 2.71 goals per meeting. Recent meetings have been cagier — 1.8 goals per game across the last five against 2.71 historically.
Vale Park in Stoke-on-Trent stages the fixture, a ground that holds 19,052.