Match Report
The table gap was wide: 44 points between Mansfield Town (3rd, 86 pts) and Forest Green Rovers (24th, 42 pts). Forest Green Rovers had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 11th in the league over the last five rounds against 24th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Mansfield Town 1.96 scored and 1.02 conceded per game, Forest Green Rovers 0.96 and 1.7, with the league averaging 1.49.
GioScore's database holds 13 meetings between the two: 4 for Mansfield Town, 4 for Forest Green Rovers and 5 drawn, at 2.69 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 31% of the meetings went to the host.
D. Middleton officiated: 78 games logged, averaging 1.8 yellow cards each. One Call Stadium in Mansfield staged the fixture, a ground that holds 10,000. Mansfield Town led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-0.