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

Forest Green Rovers · Crewe Alexandra · League Two predictions

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).

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Joel TabinerCrewe Alexandra
  • 18'Yellow card · Luke OffordCrewe Alexandra
  • 35'Goal · Reece BrownForest Green Rovers · 1-0
  • 46'Yellow card · Troy DeeneyForest Green Rovers
  • 49'Goal · Christopher LongCrewe Alexandra · 1-1
  • 53'Yellow card · Jamie RobsonForest Green Rovers
  • 60'Goal · Courtney Baker-RichardsonCrewe Alexandra · 1-2
  • 63'Yellow card · Connor O'RiordanCrewe Alexandra
  • 68'Yellow card · Harvey BunkerForest Green Rovers
  • 69'Goal · Courtney Baker-RichardsonCrewe Alexandra · 1-3
  • 74'Yellow card · Darnell JohnsonForest Green Rovers
  • 82'Goal · Elliott NevittCrewe Alexandra · 1-4

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