FootyMAD's Crawley Town match preview

History of the Exeter City v Crawley Town fixture

Exeter City play host to Crawley Town at St James' Park on Saturday afternoon, aiming to preserve their record of never having lost at home to the visitors. The Grecians have drawn both of the previous games against their opponents, however.

The last time the two teams met at Exeter City was back in November 1994, over five years ago, the Grecians carving out a narrow 1-0 victory in a F.A. Cup match.

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Recent encounters between the teams:
1994/1995	Sat 12 Nov	Exeter City	1-0	Crawley Town	FAC
1971/1972	Wed 24 Nov	Exeter City	2 - 0	Crawley Town	FAC
1971/1972	Sat 20 Nov	Crawley Town	0 - 0	Exeter City	FAC

Recent respective form guides

Exeter City have only performed averagely at home, winning 3 and losing 2 of their last six. The goals for column just outweighs the goals against over this period, 10 to 9.

The Reds have had a decent run of form away from home recently, with a marvellous return of five wins and one defeat from the last six. The games have constituted a decent return of 9 goals for the Reds, and 6 goals against.

Exeter City see themselves just below half way in the Nationwide Conference, showing a record of 5 points from their 5 games played so far, Crawley Town's 10 points from 5 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 8th position.

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Current form guides:	P	W	D	L	F	A	P
Exeter City	6	2	2	2	10	10	8
Crawley Town	6	4	1	1	8	7	13

FootyMad's prediction ...

Exeter City are not in a rich vein of form at the moment, and your Madmen see things getting no better with Crawley Town running out comfortable winners. Away win

Sequence statistics:
Exeter City	Failed to win in previous 2 home matches. Latest 2 games ended in defeat. Not won in the 2 most recent games.
Crawley Town	13 games since last away draw. Last drawn game 4 outings ago.