Forest Green Rovers 3-0 Grimsby Town: result and report
League Two · Tuesday 22 January 2019
Result
Forest Green Rovers 3-0 Grimsby Town
League Two · Tuesday 22 January 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Forest Green Rovers 3-0 Grimsby Town: match report
Forest Green Rovers won against Grimsby Town 3-0 in the League Two on Tuesday 22 January 2019. The half-time score was 2-0.
Christian Doidge opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Forest Green Rovers's goals came from Christian Doidge (29'), Christian Doidge (45+1') and Reece Brown (50'). Grimsby Town did not score.
Discipline: Forest Green Rovers received no yellow cards; Grimsby Town received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Forest Green Rovers were 7th on 44 points from 27 and Grimsby Town 15th on 34 points from 28. Forest Green Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 75 points, and Grimsby Town 17th with 56.
Forest Green Rovers lined up in a 3-5-2 and Grimsby Town in a 3-5-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Forest Green Rovers win, 0 draws and 2 for Grimsby Town.
Going into the match Forest Green Rovers's last five read L-D-W-D-W and Grimsby Town's L-L-L-W-W.
Key events
- 29'Goal · Christian Doidge
- 45+1'Goal · Christian Doidge
- 49'Yellow card · L. Öhman
- 50'Goal · Reece Brown
- 64'Yellow card · Mitchell Rose
Head-to-head
Team news
Forest Green Rovers line-up (3-5-2)
James Montgomery, Farrend Rawson, Gavin Gunning, N. McGinley, Liam Shephard, Carl Winchester, Reece Brown, Paul Digby, Joseph Mills, George Williams, Christian Doidge
Grimsby Town line-up (3-5-2)
Sam Russell, Ludvig Öhman, Harry Davis, Joe Grayson, Jake Hessenthaler, Charles Vernam, Mitchell Rose, S. Ring, Harry Cardwell, Luke Hendrie, Wes Thomas