Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Exeter City 1st with 84 points, Oldham Athletic 23rd with 38, 46 apart. Exeter City had been under-performing their position — 10th on five-round form against 1st in the table. Scoring rates set the scale: Oldham Athletic 1 scored and 1.63 conceded per game, Exeter City 1.41 and 0.89, with the league averaging 1.23.
Oldham Athletic had lost three in a row. Over the last five, Oldham Athletic had taken 2 of 15 points to Exeter City's 8.
GioScore's database holds 13 meetings between the two: 3 for Oldham Athletic, 6 for Exeter City and 4 drawn, at 2.69 goals per meeting.
The match was played at Boundary Park in Oldham (capacity 13,512). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 0-2.