Match Report
6 points for Marine (18th), 8 for Chorley (17th): a 2-point gap. Chorley had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 9th in the league over the last five rounds against 17th overall. Per game in the league, Marine were scoring 1 and conceding 1.14, Chorley 1.29 and 1.71, against a competition average of 1.31 goals per team per game.
Four consecutive defeats weighed on Chorley. Over the last five, Marine had taken 7 of 15 points to Chorley's 1.
The sides have met 6 times in the GioScore results database: 2 wins for Marine, 1 draw and 3 for Chorley, at 2.83 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 83% of the meetings. 83% of the meetings finished with three goals or more.
The referee was T. Wall, with 6 matches in our database and 0.5 yellows per game on average. The Marine Travel Arena, capacity 3,185, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, Chorley led 2-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-2 the final score.
Goal scorers
Chorley: Callum Miles Rowe (2'), Mike Calveley (27')
Key stats
Possession: Marine 58% · Chorley 42% · Total shots: 13-9 · On target: 6-4 · Corners: 5-5