FootyMAD's Eastbourne Borough match preview

History of the Eastbourne Borough v Crawley Town fixture

Crawley Town face a trip to Eastbourne Borough at on Friday afternoon,

The most recent encounter between these two sides was less than a year ago, in March 2009, the carving out a narrow 2 - 1 victory in a (Conference) Premier match.

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Recent encounters between the teams:
2009/2010	Sat 26 Dec	Crawley Town	2 - 2	Eastbourne B.	CONF
2008/2009	Tue 31 Mar	Eastbourne B.	2 - 1	Crawley Town	CONF
2008/2009	Sun 28 Dec	Crawley Town	1 - 0	Eastbourne B.	CONF
2007/2008	Sat 22 Dec	Eastbourne B.	1 - 2	Crawley Town	CNFC
2003/2004	Sat 14 Feb	Crawley Town	3 - 1	Eastbourne B.	SPL
2003/2004	Tue 02 Sep	Eastbourne B.	1 - 1	Crawley Town	SPL

Recent respective form guides

Eastbourne Borough need to improve on their recent home record of just 3 draws from the previous six. While have scored 5, a worringly large 8 have been leaked at the other end.

Crawley Town's away form is none too clever either, winning and losing 3 each of the last six games. A generous 9 goals have been both scored and conceded in this period.

Eastbourne B. are hovering perilously just above the relegation zone, with 22 points from 25 matches. Crawley Town's 35 points from 26 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 10th position.

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Current form guides:	P	W	D	L	F	A	P
Eastbourne B.	6	1	4	1	8	10	7
Crawley Town	6	3	1	2	11	10	10

FootyMad's prediction ...

Crawley Town are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win

Sequence statistics:
Eastbourne B.	Drawn last 2 games at home. Failed to win in previous 6 home matches. Not won in the 2 most recent games.
Crawley Town	3 successive away victories. 7 games since last away draw. 5 games since last defeat.