Forest Green Rovers 5-0 Colchester United: result and report
League Two · Saturday 14 October 2023
Result
Forest Green Rovers 5-0 Colchester United
League Two · Saturday 14 October 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Forest Green Rovers 5-0 Colchester United: match report
Forest Green Rovers beat Colchester United 5-0 in the League Two on Saturday 14 October 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.
Callum Morton opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Forest Green Rovers's goals came from Callum Morton (41'), Kyle McAllister (65'), Matty Taylor (77'), Mathew Stevens (79') and Mathew Stevens (90+3'). Colchester United did not score.
Discipline: Forest Green Rovers received 1 yellow card; Colchester United received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Forest Green Rovers were 24th on 7 points from 12 and Colchester United 21st on 10 points from 11. Forest Green Rovers went on to finish that season 24th with 42 points, and Colchester United 22nd with 45.
Forest Green Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Colchester United in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Matty Stevens of Forest Green Rovers (9.1), ahead of Harvey Bunker (8.1).
Key events
- 10'Yellow card · Jay Mingi
- 41'Goal · Callum Morton
- 44'Yellow card · Kyle McAllister
- 45+4'Yellow card · Cameron McGeehan
- 47'Second yellow · Jay Mingi
- 65'Goal · Kyle McAllister
- 77'Goal · Matty Taylor
- 79'Goal · Mathew Stevens
- 90+3'Goal · Mathew Stevens
Head-to-head
Team news
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Forest Green Rovers line-up (4-4-2)
James Belshaw, Marcel Lavinier, Dominic Bernard, Reece Welch, Fankaty Dabo, Kyle McAllister, Jacob Maddox, Harvey Bunker, Tyrese Omotoye, Callum Morton, Troy Deeney
Colchester United line-up (3-4-1-2)
Tom Smith, Mandela Egbo, Zach Mitchell, Connor Hall, Jayden Fevrier, Cameron McGeehan, Jay Mingi, Al-Amin Kazeem, Noah Chilvers, Tom Hopper, Joe Taylor