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Commentary
1¹An outswinging corner was touched into the arms of BISHOP by GROZAV.
7¹BUTTERWORTH made space on the right and pulled the ball to OSULA who rasped the ball wide.
10¹BUTTERWORTH's shot was well saved by the Cheltenham Town 'keeper.
11¹OSULA's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Cheltenham Town upright.
17¹A penalty box scramble resulted in NORTON cracking the ball wide.
21¹CONLON booked.
24¹GOAL!! A strike from BENKOVIC was booted off the line only for TSONEV to flick the ball in. (1-0 Cheltenham Town)
28¹A clever cross from WORRALL was flicked goalbound by TAYLOR only for the Cheltenham Town 'keeper to block.
29¹A twenty yard drive from NORTON caused the 'keeper no problem.
31¹GOAL!! An exceptional ball from CHOUDHURY left BALLARD in the clear, he made the Port Vale 'keeper commit himself before squaring the ball to GROZAV to score. (2-0 Cheltenham Town)
34¹The referee yellow cards TAYLOR for a high challenge.
38¹GOAL!! A Cheltenham Town counter-attack allowed WILSON to setup GROZAV with a simple goal. (3-0 Cheltenham Town)
41¹Uncertainty in the Port Vale defence enabled TSONEV to hit the ball inches wide.
4²NORTON beat NAYLOR and fired the ball to GROZAV who pulled his shot wide.
11²NAYLOR stabbed an easy chance past the far post.
17²A drive from OSULA seemed a certain goal but PETROVIC managed to parry the ball away.
17²A bad tackle gets OSULA a yellow card.
25²A wonderful save prevented OSULA from scoring a great goal.
31²OSULA dummied TSONEV but blasted the ball into the arms of PETROVIC.
35²BUTTERWORTH ran onto a delightful ball from WORRALL but toe-poked his shot wide.
41²A free-kick from CONLON floated over.
43²GOAL!! SMITH drove a powerful shot against the post with CONLON tapping in the rebound. (3-1 Cheltenham Town)

 
Port Vale
 
League position: 18
Home league form: LWWL
Overall league form: WLLLLWXW
Formation: 3-5-2
Line-ups
Nathan BISHOP6 16 DJordje PETROVIC
David WORRALL6½27 Hamza CHOUDHURY
Liam MILLAR7 37½YURI Oliveira RIBEIRO
Nathan SMITH6 47½Daniel BALLARD
(c)Liam KITCHING6 58 Filip BENKOVIC
Tom NAYLOR5½66½Dimitris GOUTAS
Jack COLBACK6½77½Harry WILSON(c)
Jake TAYLOR6½87 Gheorghe GROZAV
(p)William OSULA6 96 Christian NORTON(p)
Dan BUTTERWORTH6 107 Borislav TSONEV(f)
(f)Tom CONLON6 117 Florin ANDONE
Jamie MessengerManager
Sam McCALLUM  12  Will FERRY
Aidan STONE  13  John RUDDY
Dennis POLITIC  14  Lenny NANGIS
Rory HOLDEN  15  Charlie BROWN
Ellis HARRISON  16  Ryan BROOM
 
Cheltenham Town
 
League position: 7
Away league form: XWWW
Overall league form: LXWXOWWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Port Vale 1 Cheltenham Town 3
(Half-time: 0-3, Attendance: 17,453, Stadium: Vale Park, Referee: Mike Reed 8)

Conlon 43²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Tsonev 24¹, Grozav 31¹, Grozav 38¹
  
  
Conlon 21¹, Taylor 34¹, Osula 17² 
21
186
22
95
85
1710
82
47%53%
Man of the match: Filip Benkovic