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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 16 (setup 4, season 27)
Crewe Alexandra
v.
Port Vale
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
13
Overall form:
Home form:
Alex McCARTHY17Bram VERBIST
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Adam SMITH28Brice DJA DJEDJE
Craig FORSYTH736Jelle VAN DAMME
Lewis COOK48Andrew SURMAN
Harlee DEAN5Kenneth OMERUO
Kortney HAUSE76Alex BAPTISTE
Kenny LUNT7Thomas BUFFEL
Modou BARROW787Oliver BURKE
Jarrod BOWEN797Denis Andrés STRACQUALURSI
Rolando AARONS106Jordan RHODES
Ross McCORMACK611Kevin VANDENBERGH
Manager
Enda STEVENS12Leroy LITA
Ali AL-HABSI13Christian PANDER
Alex BRUCE14David MIRFIN
LUIS Fernández Teijeiro15Chris EAGLES
Perry NG16WENDEL Raul Gonçalves Gomes

Crewe Alexandra 2 Port Vale 1
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 9,926, Stadium: Gresty Road, Referee: Pavel NOVOTNÝ 8)
41 Forsyth, 71 BowenScorers47 Surman
Substitutions
Sendings off
6 HauseBookings11 Baptiste, 25 Vandenbergh, 73 Rhodes
0Corners0
10Fouls11
1Offsides0
3Shots on5
7Shots off9
10Total shots14
0Shots saved4
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Andrew SURMAN
6NOVOTNÝ books HAUSE for a bad foul.
11The ref books BAPTISTE.
19An exceptional effort from BARROW scraped the top of the crossbar.
25VANDENBERGH cautioned by NOVOTNÝ.
26A header by LUNT at the far post was easily collected by VERBIST.
29A shot from BUFFEL seemed a certain goal but the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper managed to force the ball clear.
32A free-kick from VAN DAMME floated over.
38A pin-point pass found DEAN and his right foot shot flew narrowly wide.
41GOAL!! A great piece of skill from HAUSE gave AARONS space on the left and FORSYTH stroked in his pin-point pass. (1-0 Crewe Alexandra)
 
47GOAL!! A great twenty yard shot from BUFFEL rattled the post and in the ensuing meleé the ball was kicked into the net by SURMAN. (1-1)
53FORSYTH ran onto a delightful ball from AARONS but hit his shot wide.
62A fine ball from VAN DAMME on the right found VANDENBERGH who sliced his shot wide.
63A corner bobbled toward COOK who forced an effort over the bar.
65A shot from STRACQUALURSI was smothered by MCCARTHY.
65A cross from BURKE left BUFFEL in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
68A mix up in the Port Vale defence enabled MCCORMACK to blast the ball over the bar.
71GOAL!! With his back to goal BOWEN wrong-footed the defence and poked the ball past VERBIST. (2-1 Crewe Alexandra)
72A penalty box scramble resulted in STRACQUALURSI knocking a low shot over.
73A high tackle on BOWEN by RHODES results in a booking.
76SURMAN shot wide.
86SURMAN chipped the ball to BURKE who nodded it just wide.
88BOWEN nodded the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.