Match Report
16 points separated the sides: Crawley Town 12th on 61, Southend United 23rd on 45. Recent form flatters Southend United's table spot — 10th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 23rd. Per game in the league, Southend United were scoring 0.63 and conceding 1.26, Crawley Town 1.22 and 1.35, against a competition average of 1.18 goals per team per game.
Crawley Town had gone 6 games without a win.
5 meetings are on record — 1 won by Southend United, 1 by Crawley Town, 3 drawn, at 3 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 20% of meetings won.
The match was played at Roots Hall Stadium in Southend-on-Sea (capacity 12,392). It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.