Message #453575

[west stand oap]

OK Evers, in anticipation of us playing again. Swindon last played on 11th December in a 0-2 defeat at Barrow so have been out of action like us since that date. They currently sit in 8th position on 33 points, 7 points below us with a game in hand which they will catch up this evening as they are at home to Stevenage. Swindon are 22nd in the div 2 home records as only 10 of their 33 points have been gained on home soil (they should add to that tonight). They have 2 wins (Mansfield, Hartlepool), 4 draws (Tranmere, Colchester, Rochdale, Harrogate) and 3 defeats (Carlisle, Port Vale, Bradford). In these 9 games they have scored 10 goals but only twice scored more than 1 and twice they have failed to score. They have conceded 11 keeping 3 clean sheets but on 4 occasions conceding at least 2.
I thought they looked a decent team when they came here but maybe they are more suited to playing away. They like to play a possession based game and I think we can have some success with a high pressing game.
In our last 3 visits we have a win and 2 draws but our overall record there is quite poor. The head to head records I have retrieved show that in 54 visits we have only 9 wins, 10 draws and 35 defeats in all competitions. They have outscored us by 117 goals to 49.
As they are playing tonight it would appear they are in a slightly better covid position than us. It will be interesting to see what kind of team we can select and if we have a full squad of 18. Therefore it is impossible to make a prediction but let's hope we can continue our run of form (25 points from the last 30) from where we left off.