Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Ipswich Town 2nd with 98 points, Fleetwood Town 13th with 58, 40 apart. Fleetwood Town ranked 6th in the league on five-round form, well above their 13th table position. Per game in the league, Fleetwood Town were scoring 1.15 and conceding 1.11, Ipswich Town 2.2 and 0.76, against a competition average of 1.28 goals per team per game.
Ipswich Town came in having won five on the spin, having scored in 14 consecutive games. The five-game form split read 7/15 points for Fleetwood Town against 15/15 for Ipswich Town.
7 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Fleetwood Town 2, draws 1, Ipswich Town 4, at 2.14 goals per meeting. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 29% of the meetings.
Highbury Stadium in Fleetwood staged the fixture, a ground that holds 5,327. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 4 more goals closed it at 2-2.