Newport County 3-3 Forest Green Rovers: result and report

League Two · Tuesday 6 March 2018

Result

Newport County 3-3 Forest Green Rovers

League Two · Tuesday 6 March 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-2

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Newport County 3-3 Forest Green Rovers: match report

Newport County drew with Forest Green Rovers 3-3 in the League Two on Tuesday 6 March 2018. It was 3-2 at half-time.

Newport County's goals came from Dan Butler (9'), Paul Hayes (17') and Paul Hayes (38'). Forest Green Rovers scored through an own goal by Dan Butler (6'), Gavin Gunning (30') and Lee Collins (82').

Discipline: Newport County received 1 yellow card; Forest Green Rovers received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Newport County were 14th on 48 points from 34 and Forest Green Rovers 19th on 36 points from 34. Newport County went on to finish that season 11th with 64 points, and Forest Green Rovers 21st with 47.

Newport County lined up in a 3-5-2 and Forest Green Rovers in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Newport County win, 0 draws and 0 for Forest Green Rovers.

Going into the match Newport County's last five read D-D-L-L-L and Forest Green Rovers's W-D-W-W-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Own goal · Dan ButlerForest Green Rovers · 0-1
  • 9'Goal · Dan ButlerNewport County · 1-1
  • 17'Goal · Paul HayesNewport County · 2-1
  • 26'Yellow card · Dan ButlerNewport County
  • 30'Goal · Gavin GunningForest Green Rovers · 2-2
  • 38'Goal · Paul HayesNewport County · 3-2
  • 82'Goal · Lee CollinsForest Green Rovers · 3-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Newport County 1, draws 0, Forest Green Rovers 0.

Team news

Newport County line-up (3-5-2)

Joe Day, David Pipe, Dan Butler, Ben White, Ben Tozer, Mark O'Brien, Mickey Demetriou, Robbie Willmott, Matty Dolan, Padraig Amond, Paul Hayes

Forest Green Rovers line-up (4-4-2)

Brad Collins, Dale Bennett, Gavin Gunning, Farrend Rawson, Haydn Hollis, Dayle Grubb, Chris Clements, Alex Bray, Isaiah Osbourne, Christian Doidge, Reuben Reid