MATCH
Stevenage 5–2 Swindon Town
FA Cup Round 2 · Saturday 2 December 2017
W
Result
H
Venue
1,883
Attendance
N. Kinseley
Referee
Updated
Goalscorers
Team
(54)
(84)Match Notebook
D
L
D
L
W
This was Boro’s biggest win over Swindon Town by goal margin in the senior archive since July 1980. The previous best was 2–0 on 14 January 2014.
After this match, Boro’s senior record against Swindon Town since July 1980 stood at P9 W3 D0 L6.
Jack King made his 50th Stevenage appearance.
Boro scored 5 goals in a match for the first time since a 5–0 result against Nantwich Town on 4 November 2017.
This was Boro’s 14th FA Cup Round 2 match and our 6th win at this stage. We’ve kept 3 clean sheets in these matches.
This was Boro’s 2nd FA Cup meeting with Swindon Town. We’ve won 2, drawn 0 and lost 0 of those matches.
This was Boro’s 6th 5–2 win since July 1980 — their 29th-most common senior scoreline at the time.
This was the 18th Stevenage match refereed by N. Kinseley. Boro’s record with N. Kinseley is W9 D4 L5.
Boro’ have now played 7 competitive matches on 2 December — winning 3, drawing 2 and losing 2. We’ve scored 16 goals, conceded 10 and kept 3 clean sheets on this day.
This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.