Stevenage 1–2 Crewe Alexandra

Match Notebook

• Tom Conlon made his 50th Stevenage appearance.
• This was Boro’s 13th opening-day defeat. Across 39 recorded league openers, we’ve scored in 32 and kept 13 clean sheets.
• On This Day: Before this match, Boro’ had played 2 competitive matches on 6 August — winning 1, drawing 1 and losing 0. We’d scored 2 goals, conceded 0 and kept 2 clean sheets before today.
• Boro’ are now without a win in 3 matches.
• This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.