Match Report
36 points separated the sides: Macclesfield Town 1st on 92, Hartlepool United 14th on 56. Hartlepool United's recent output outran their position: 9th on form over five rounds, 14th in the table. Per game in the league, Hartlepool United were scoring 1.15 and conceding 1.37, Macclesfield Town 1.46 and 1, against a competition average of 1.3 goals per team per game.
The referee was T. Bramall, with 100 matches in our database and 2.2 yellows per game on average. The match was played at The Northern Gas and Power Stadium in Hartlepool (capacity 7,856). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Hartlepool United led 1-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-2.