Forest Green Rovers 1-4 Crewe Alexandra: result and report
League Two · Saturday 9 September 2023
Result
Forest Green Rovers 1-4 Crewe Alexandra
League Two · Saturday 9 September 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Forest Green Rovers 1-4 Crewe Alexandra: match report
Forest Green Rovers lost to Crewe Alexandra 1-4 in the League Two on Saturday 9 September 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.
Reece Brown opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Forest Green Rovers's goal came from Reece Brown (35'). Crewe Alexandra scored through Christopher Long (49'), Courtney Baker-Richardson (60'), Courtney Baker-Richardson (69') and Elliott Nevitt (82').
Discipline: Forest Green Rovers received 4 yellow cards; Crewe Alexandra received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Forest Green Rovers were 18th on 7 points from 6 and Crewe Alexandra 12th on 9 points from 6. Forest Green Rovers went on to finish that season 24th with 42 points, and Crewe Alexandra 7th with 74.
Forest Green Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Crewe Alexandra in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Courtney Baker-Richardson of Crewe Alexandra (8.7), ahead of Christopher Long (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Forest Green Rovers wins, 1 draw and 2 for Crewe Alexandra.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Joel Tabiner
- 18'Yellow card · Luke Offord
- 35'Goal · Reece Brown
- 46'Yellow card · Troy Deeney
- 49'Goal · Christopher Long
- 53'Yellow card · Jamie Robson
- 60'Goal · Courtney Baker-Richardson
- 63'Yellow card · Connor O'Riordan
- 68'Yellow card · Harvey Bunker
- 69'Goal · Courtney Baker-Richardson
- 74'Yellow card · Darnell Johnson
- 82'Goal · Elliott Nevitt
Head-to-head
Team news
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Forest Green Rovers line-up (4-4-2)
Luke Daniels, Dominic Bernard, Ryan Inniss, Reece Welch, Jamie Robson, Kyle McAllister, Reece Brown, Harvey Bunker, Dylan Kadji, M. Taylor, Troy Deeney
Crewe Alexandra line-up (3-5-2)
Harvey Davies, Connor O'Riordan, Luke Offord, Mickey Demetriou, Rio Adebisi, Joel Tabiner, Conor Thomas, Jack Powell, Aaron Rowe, Christopher Long, Courtney Baker-Richardson