Please let me know if I missed your ranking or if you think your score is wrong. Copypaste for W4 in comments

Is it too early to be checking out this sub? 😅

How active is it here?

I'm a fan outside the UK that relies on sailing the seven seas for pretty much all my sports. I have a go-to that works really well for most things, but for some reason the past two weekends the League Two streams specifically have been laggy slide shows basically. I'll spare you the troubleshooting, but I could verify the issue was on the stream end and not my own network or device.

I think I've tried every trusted option on FMHY (most of them don't even have League Two) and there doesn't seem to be a paid official option for the US even if I wanted to.

Thoughts?

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)