Salford City 2–0 Stevenage

Match Notebook

• This was Dino Maamria’s 25th defeat as Stevenage manager.
• This was Boro’s 14th opening-day defeat. Across 42 recorded league openers, we’ve scored in 34 and kept 13 clean sheets.
• Season opener record: W17 D8 L17, F72 A64. Boro’ are now without a win in 5 successive season opener matches. We’ve also failed to keep a clean sheet in 5 successive season opener matches.
• Opening league game record: W16 D12 L14, F69 A57. Boro’ are now without a win in 5 successive opening league game matches. We’ve also failed to keep a clean sheet in 5 successive opening league game matches.
• This was the 9th Stevenage match refereed by K. Johnson. Boro’s record with K. Johnson is W2 D3 L4.
• Boro’ have now played 3 competitive matches on 3 August — winning 1, drawing 0 and losing 2. We’ve scored 4 goals, conceded 6 and kept 1 clean sheets on this day. This was Boro’s heaviest defeat on this date.
• This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.