Forest Green Rovers 1-2 Salford City: result and report
League Two · Saturday 18 January 2020
Result
Forest Green Rovers 1-2 Salford City
League Two · Saturday 18 January 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Forest Green Rovers 1-2 Salford City: match report
Forest Green Rovers lost to Salford City 1-2 in the League Two on Saturday 18 January 2020. The half-time score was 1-1.
Ibou Touray opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Forest Green Rovers's goal came from Josh March (11'). Salford City scored through Ibou Touray (3') and M. O'Connor (55').
Discipline: Forest Green Rovers received 1 yellow card; Salford City received 4 yellow cards and 2 red cards.
Going into the game Forest Green Rovers were 7th on 44 points from 27 and Salford City 14th on 32 points from 27. Forest Green Rovers went on to finish that season 11th with 49 points, and Salford City 10th with 50.
Forest Green Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Salford City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Michael O'Connor of Salford City (7.8), ahead of Josh March (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Forest Green Rovers win, 0 draws and 0 for Salford City.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Ibou Touray
- 11'Goal · Josh March
- 14'Yellow card · Ashley Hunter
- 38'Yellow card · M. O'Connor
- 55'Goal · M. O'Connor
- 63'Yellow card · R. Towell
- 75'Second yellow · R. Towell
- 80'Yellow card · N. Pond
- 90+3'Yellow card · Farrend Rawson
- 90+5'Second yellow · Ashley Hunter
Head-to-head
Team news
Forest Green Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Adam Smith, Dominic Bernard, Farrend Rawson, Liam Kitching, Joseph Mills, Ebou Adams, Carl Winchester, Junior Mondal, Jevani Brown, Jack Aitchison, Josh March
Salford City line-up (4-4-2)
Kyle Letheren, S. Wiseman, Nathan Pond, Cameron Burgess, Ibou Touray, Ashley Hunter, Richie Towell, Michael O'Connor, Jake Jervis, Brandon Thomas-Asante, Adam Rooney