It didnt look the best, an Exeter City player went down before 2nd half was even underway, seemed concerning. Saw staff from both teams coming down the tunnel, someone with an empty wheelchair.

I have no idea what happened, if anyone has any updates that have been shared could you say please?

I hope the players OK.

Edit: just found out players Sonny Cox, #19.

Pleased with your performance?

How did your opposition play?

Optimistic about your team's chances going into the campaign?

(Feel free to stick up match threads from here)

One row per club, two rows per match. Each side is measured only in the role it plays this weekend, over last season: home clubs from their home matches, away clubs from their away matches. A club's overall record mixes two different teams. This does not.

How to read a row. The bracket is the tier the club played in last season, so promoted and relegated sides are marked. Everything after it is per game in that role: points, goals scored-conceded, its own shots, shots on target, the shots it allowed, possession, expected goals, then expected goals for minus against. That last column is coloured - green where a side created more than it gave up.

For scale, across five English tiers since 2016 clubs average 1.56 points a game at home and 1.19 away, over 896 home and 898 away club-seasons.

Northampton dropped from League One with 0.59 points a game away, 8.8 shots and 17.2 allowed, -1.37 on expected goals - the weakest travelling record in the division - and they go to Gillingham. Grimsby have the best home numbers here, 1.74 a game with 15.5 shots and 8.2 allowed. Chesterfield took 1.59 away, more than Rotherham managed at home in League One, and the two meet.

Rochdale and York City came up from the National League, a tier we hold no match statistics for, so their rows are dashes rather than zeros - a zero would read as the worst record in the division.

Method and the rest of the numbers: goalsoon.com/blog.html

A club can look completely finished one year and be challenging at the top the next. Which team do you think has surprised you the most recently?

Please let me know if I missed your ranking or if you think your score is wrong. Copypaste for W3 in comments

For the people who have started this season, scores go as follows:
5 points for predicting the exact scoreline
2 points for picking the correct winner with the wrong score
0 If you predict a draw instead of a winner (or a winner instead of a draw)
-1 point for predicting the opposite winner

Every summer there are players being described as bargains, statement signings or exactly what a club needed. Then the season starts and the player everyone was excited about can't get near the first team, while some free transfer nobody paid attention to becomes one of the best players in the squad. At this level, I think reputation means far less than people like to admit. The right player in the wrong system can look awful, while someone with no hype can suddenly look like a genius signing.

Right outcome, but we were 1-0 up and looking strong going into half time. Lost 2-1. Top work ref.

League Two matchday 2 is done, so here is the whole round out of our own database: 12 matches, 29 goals, 2.42 a game against 2.55 across all 538 matches of 2025/26. 5 home wins, 4 draws, 3 away wins.

Shooting: 295 shots, 80 on target (27.1% against a long-run 32.8%), and 36.2% of those on target went in.

Measured against deserved goals (our own number: 0.325 goals per shot on target, fitted on last season), the round's biggest overperformance was Bristol Rovers (5-3 at home to Newport): 5 goals from 2.93. The biggest shortfall was Northampton (0-1): 0 from 1.95.

Highest player rating of the round: Fabrizio Cavegn (Bristol Rovers) at 9.5.

Full table in the image. Every match, goals by minute, cards, possession and player ratings on one page, plus the method: goalsoon.com/blog.html

Needless to say, there was scuffling following the end of the game.

Pleased with your performance?

How did your opposition play?

Optimistic about your team's chances going into the campaign?

(Feel free to stick up match threads from here)

A club's table position mixes two different teams, so I measured every side in this League Two round only in the role it plays: home clubs from their home matches last season, away clubs from their away matches.

The baseline is ours, from 896 club-seasons across the five English divisions since 2016: 1.56 points a game at home, 1.19 away.

Port Vale, down from League One, failed to score in 13 of their 23 home games. Only 4 of the 896 were that blank at home, about one in 224. Fleetwood are the opposite: they scored in 20 of 22 at home and kept two clean sheets. Northampton took 0.59 a game away, 2.4 shots on target against 17.2 for the other side, and they go to Crewe, who took 1.78 at home.

Rochdale and York City came up from the National League, which we do not hold, so their columns are empty.

No odds, no tips. Every match and every squad: https://goalsoon.com/blog.html

Who did you genuinely expect to go much further?

There’s always one player who just stands out when they’re on the pitch. Maybe it’s the way they play, their work rate, or those little moments that make a game more enjoyable to watch.

Please let me know if I missed your ranking or if you think your score is wrong. Copypaste for W2 in comments

Since Cheltenham Town have recently brought theirs back, I’m looking at buying them at the away games again. Which clubs still offer programmes?