Stevenage Borough 2–1 Desborough Town

Match Notebook

• Paul Johnson made his 25th Stevenage appearance.
• This was Boro’s 3rd opening-day win. Across 6 recorded league openers, we’ve scored in 5 and kept 0 clean sheets.
• Opening league game record: W3 D0 L3, F12 A8. We’ve also failed to keep a clean sheet in 6 successive opening league game matches.
• Boro’ have now played 2 competitive matches on 27 August — winning 2, drawing 0 and losing 0. We’ve scored 7 goals, conceded 2 and kept 0 clean sheets on this day.
• Boro’ have now won 2 matches in a row.
• This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.