Colchester United 3-1 Newport County: result and report
League Two · Saturday 26 October 2019
Result
Colchester United 3-1 Newport County
League Two · Saturday 26 October 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Colchester United 3-1 Newport County: match report
Colchester United defeated Newport County 3-1 in the League Two on Saturday 26 October 2019. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Tristan Abrahams opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Colchester United's goals came from Ryan Jackson (33'), Ben Stevenson (42') and Courtney Senior (75'). Newport County scored through Tristan Abrahams (5').
Discipline: Colchester United received 1 yellow card; Newport County received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Colchester United were 12th on 20 points from 15 and Newport County 6th on 27 points from 14. Colchester United went on to finish that season 7th with 61 points, and Newport County 15th with 46.
Colchester United lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Newport County in a 4-1-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Courtney Senior of Colchester United (9.1), ahead of Ryan Jackson (8.3).
Going into the match Colchester United's last five read D-L-L-W-D and Newport County's D-W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Tristan Abrahams
- 33'Goal · Ryan Jackson
- 41'Yellow card · Ryan Inniss
- 42'Goal · Ben Stevenson
- 47'Yellow card · B. Comley
- 55'Yellow card · Joss Labadie
- 74'Yellow card · Ryan Haynes
- 75'Goal · Courtney Senior
- 90+3'Yellow card · Mark O'Brien
Team news
Colchester United line-up (4-2-3-1)
Dean Gerken, Ryan Jackson, Tom Eastman, Luke Prosser, Cohen Bramall, Ben Stevenson, Brandon Comley, Courtney Senior, Kwame Poku, Frank Nouble, Luke Norris
Newport County line-up (4-1-3-2)
Tom King, Danny McNamara, Ryan Inniss, Mark O'Brien, R. Haynes, Scot Bennett, Robbie Willmott, Josh Sheehan, George Nurse, Tristan Abrahams, Padraig Amond