Port Vale 2-1 Forest Green Rovers: result and report
League Two · Tuesday 20 August 2019
Result
Port Vale 2-1 Forest Green Rovers
League Two · Tuesday 20 August 2019, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Port Vale 2-1 Forest Green Rovers: match report
Port Vale defeated Forest Green Rovers 2-1 in the League Two on Tuesday 20 August 2019. The half-time score was 2-1.
Richie Bennett opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Port Vale's goals came from Richie Bennett (4') and David Amoo (34'). Forest Green Rovers scored through Joseph Mills (6').
Discipline: Port Vale received 2 yellow cards; Forest Green Rovers received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Port Vale were 17th on 3 points from 3 and Forest Green Rovers 3rd on 7 points from 3. Port Vale went on to finish that season 8th with 57 points, and Forest Green Rovers 11th with 49.
Port Vale lined up in a 4-3-3 and Forest Green Rovers in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to David Amoo of Port Vale (8.3), ahead of Richie Bennett (8.1).
Going into the match Port Vale's last five read D-D-D and Forest Green Rovers's W-D-W.
Key events
- 2'Yellow card · Cristian Montano
- 4'Goal · Richie Bennett
- 6'Goal · Joseph Mills
- 25'Yellow card · David Worrall
- 34'Goal · David Amoo
- 49'Yellow card · Matthew Mills
Team news
Port Vale line-up (4-3-3)
Scott Brown, James Gibbons, Adam Crookes, Leon Legge, Nathan Smith, Luke Joyce, David Worrall, Tom Conlon, Cristian Montano, David Amoo, Richie Bennett
Forest Green Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)
Joseph Wollacott, Matthew Mills, N. McGinley, Udoka Godwin-Malife, Dominic Bernard, Ebou Adams, James Morton, Joseph Mills, Carl Winchester, Aaron Collins, Junior Mondal