MATCH
Stevenage 3–1 Newport County
Sky Bet League Two · Saturday 7 January 2017
W
Result
H
Venue
2,185
Attendance
R. Lewis
Referee
Updated
1500 KO
Goalscorers
Team
(68)
(64)Match Notebook
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Matt Godden scored a hat-trick — Boro’s first hat-trick since Chris Whelpdale against Morecambe on 28 November 2015.
Matt Godden scored his 10th league goal for Stevenage.
Matt Godden reached 10 Boro’ goals in 25 recorded appearances — the 26th quickest player in the recorded archive to that milestone.
This was Boro’s joint-biggest win over Newport County by goal margin in the senior archive since July 1980. The most recent previous win by the same margin was 2–0 on 6 December 2016.
After this match, Boro’s senior record against Newport County since July 1980 stood at P6 W4 D1 L1.
Matt Godden made his 25th Stevenage appearance.
This was Boro’s 105th 3–1 win since July 1980 — their 8th-most common senior scoreline at the time.
This was the 9th Stevenage match refereed by R. Lewis. Boro’s record with R. Lewis is W4 D3 L2.
Boro’ have now played 6 competitive matches on 7 January — winning 2, drawing 2 and losing 2. We’ve scored 8 goals, conceded 8 and kept 1 clean sheets on this day. This was Boro’s biggest win on this date.
This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.