Mansfield Town 2-1 Newport County: result and report
League Two · Saturday 25 February 2017
Result
Mansfield Town 2-1 Newport County
League Two · Saturday 25 February 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Mansfield Town 2-1 Newport County: match report
Mansfield Town beat Newport County 2-1 in the League Two on Saturday 25 February 2017. It was 1-1 at half-time.
R. Bird opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Mansfield Town's goals came from K. Pearce (17') and S. Coulthirst (75', penalty). Newport County scored through R. Bird (5').
Discipline: Mansfield Town received 2 yellow cards; Newport County received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Mansfield Town were 8th on 47 points from 32 and Newport County 24th on 26 points from 32. Mansfield Town went on to finish that season 12th with 66 points, and Newport County 22nd with 48.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Mansfield Town wins, 0 draws and 1 for Newport County.
Going into the match Mansfield Town's last five read L-D-W-W-W and Newport County's D-L-D-D-D.
Key events
- 5'Goal · R. Bird
- 9'Yellow card · Mitchell Rose
- 17'Goal · K. Pearce
- 65'Yellow card · J. Gordon
- 66'Yellow card · K. Pearce
- 67'Second yellow · J. Gordon
- 75'Penalty goal · S. Coulthirst
- 79'Yellow card · R. Bird
- 90+2'Yellow card · Yoann Arquin
Head-to-head
Team news
Mansfield Town line-up
J. Kean, Rhys Bennett, Lee Collins, Krystian Pearce, Mal Benning, CJ Hamilton, Jamie McGuire, Joel Byrom, Ben Whiteman, Shaq Coulthirst, Pat Hoban
Newport County expected line-up
Joe Day, Dan Butler, David Pipe, Mark O'Brien, Darren Jones, Sid Nelson, Mitchell Rose, M. Flynn, Ryan Bird, Craig Reid, Aaron Williams