Crawley Town 2–1 Stevenage Borough

Match Notebook

• This was Boro’s 9th opening-day defeat. Across 30 recorded league openers, we’ve scored in 26 and kept 11 clean sheets.
• Season opener record: W15 D3 L12, F56 A40. Boro’ are now without a win in 2 successive season opener matches.
• Opening league game record: W15 D6 L9, F55 A33. Boro’ are now without a win in 2 successive opening league game matches.
• This was the 7th Stevenage match refereed by N. Kinseley. Boro’s record with N. Kinseley is W4 D2 L1.
• Boro’ have now played 3 competitive matches on 11 August — winning 1, drawing 0 and losing 2. We’ve scored 4 goals, conceded 6 and kept 0 clean sheets on this day.
• This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.