MATCH
Stevenage Borough 2–1 Hertford Town
Vauxhall Opel League Division 2 North · Saturday 19 August 1989
W
Result
H
Venue
277
Attendance
Unknown
Referee
Updated
Goalscorers
Team
(49)
(49)Match Notebook
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This was Boro’s joint-biggest win over Hertford Town by goal margin in the senior archive since July 1980. The most recent previous win by the same margin was 1–0 on 8 March 1986.
After this match, Boro’s senior record against Hertford Town since July 1980 stood at P6 W2 D1 L3.
Paul Palma made his 10th Stevenage start.
Mark Taverner made his 10th substitute appearance for Stevenage.
This was Boro’s 7th opening-day win. Across 12 recorded league openers, we’ve scored in 11 and kept 2 clean sheets.
Opening league game record: W7 D1 L4, F24 A14. We’ve also failed to keep a clean sheet in 3 successive opening league game matches.
This was Boro’s 40th 2–1 win since July 1980 — their 2nd-most common senior scoreline at the time.
Boro’ have now played 3 competitive matches on 19 August — winning 2, drawing 0 and losing 1. We’ve scored 7 goals, conceded 4 and kept 1 clean sheets on this day.
This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.