MATCHDAY LIVE: Swindon Town v Port Vale

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Swindon Town 3-0 Port Vale

90' Their will be 4 minutes of added time at the County Ground. 

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78' SWINDON SUBSTITUTION

Off - Jaiyesimi

ON - Rose

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72' SWINDON SUBSTITUTION

OFF - Baudry

ON - Broadbent

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67' Swindon break on the counter-attack with Jaiyesimi, he opens his body to shoot but his effort is put wide. 

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64' CHANCE SWINDON

The ball rebounds off a couple of players and lands at the feet of Woolery inside the Vale box. He's one-on-one with the keeper, shoots, the crowd rise up to cheer, but it's OFF THE POST and Vale clear.

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63' Port Vale Substitution

OFF - Luke Joyce

ON - Tom Conlon

60' GOAL SWINDON.

Doughty's free-kick from 25 yards out is a beauty as he curls it into the net past Brown.

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57' HOW IS IT NOT IN THE NET?!

Swindon have a magnitude of chances as crosses in from either wings wreak havoc in the box. Hope goes close to scoring with his header on goal, Woolery also went close but couldn't quite reach the ball.

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47' Port Vale have a chance to get back into the game after the ball falls to Mark Cullen on the edge of the box. He looks to curl it past Benda into the top right corner but his aim is off and his effort is shanked wide.

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46' Back underway at the County Ground. Swindon comfortably in front after a Vale own goal and a goal by Hallam Hope on the stroke of half-time gave the Robins a two-nil lead.

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HALF-TIME

Swindon Town 2-0 Port Vale

46' That goal was beautifully worked by Swindon's attackers. Doughty's through ball for Hunt split the Vale defence and his simple ball back across the six-yard box was an easy tap-in for Hope on his debut.

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45' GOAL SWINDON!

Hallam Hope scores on his debut.

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43' Swindon's opener has gone down as an own goal.

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41' The goal came after some good pressure from Swindon at the end of the first half but a big deflection off skipper Leon Legge carried it into the back of the net. 

Might go down as an own goal.

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40' GOAL SWINDON

Jaiyesimi's shot from the edge of the box takes a horrible deflection and is into the back of the net.

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33' Stop in play after a bad challenge from Will Atkinson on Anthony Grant sees the referee show a yellow card to the Vale player. Home fans certainly not happy and were calling for red.

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31' Woolery has the ball at his feet central of goal from the edge of the Vale box. Nothing is on for him so he attempts to shoot on his left-foot from outside the box. The shot is saved well by Brown who tips behind for a corner that comes to nothing.

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29' This game is just starting to warm up a little bit as Doughty's long-ball upfield is chased by Woolery. He's strong to hold off his opponent before firing a shot off that goes into the sidenetting.

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Port Vale Substitution:

OFF - Nathan Smith

ON - Shaun Brisley

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26'

Caddis take it instead, attempts to chip to back-post but Vale clear.

Clearance falls as far as Jaiyesimi on the left-wing, he dances with the ball at his feet before ebentually cutting inside and stinging the palms of Brown from close-range. Scrambled clearance sees the ball roll out to Edmonds-Green who shoots on the turn with his shot clipping the crossbar. 0-0

25' Swindon win a free-kick 25-30 yards from goal. Doughty looks to be lining this one up.

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22' Swindon try and create an opening down the left-wing as Hallam Hope cuts back inside on the edge of the Vale box before unleashing a shot that is blocked well and eventually cleared.

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12' Woolery is playing through the middle of Vale's centre-back partnership and looks to have gotten away from the duo as he latches onto Isgrove's through ball. But... the linesman has his flag up for offside.

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10' Ten minutes gone and there is little to right home about at the minute. Neither team looking like scoring at the moment. 0-0

8' Corner Swindon.

It's taken short by Doughty, Jaiyesimi eventually gets a cross in but it fails to beat the first man.

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7' Doughty picks up Woolery with a lovely lobbed ball forward. The striker tries to collect it but is off balance.

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3' Early showings suggest Swindon are playing a 4-2-3-1 system. Woolery playing through the middle as number 9.

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2' Corner comes in and is cleared well by Doughty.

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1' Port Vale win a free-kick about 40 yards out from the Swindon goal. Ball is played to the back post and Woolery puts it behind for a corner.

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KICK-OFF: Port Vale get the match underway.

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The players are out and kick-off is just moments away.

This is set to be a stonker of a clash between two promotion chasing sides.

If you need reminding of what happened in the reverse fixture, a fired-up Port Vale side inflicted Swindon's first defeat in ten games back in December. Goals from Scott Burgess and Jake Taylor saw Vale record a 2-0 win over Town.

John Askey's side have only lost once in their last eight games, and are knocking on the door of a play-off spot - the Valiants currently sit four points adrift of the top seven.

Hallam Hope joined Swindon on an undisclosed fee from Carlisle during the week, and it will be interesting to see how the 25-year-old does on his Town debut after struggling for form so far this season.

Hope has been a target for Wellens since the summer, and it's easy to see why the Swindon manager was so keen to sign him. 14 goals last season shows just how potent Hope can be, and this figure is even more impressive due to Hope not being a natural striker.

Team News:

Swindon Town (4-2-3-1): Steven Benda; Paul Caddis, Mathieu Baudry, Rarmani Edmonds-Green, Rob Hunt; Michael Doughty, Anthony Grant; Lloyd Isgrove, Diallang Jaiyesimi, Kaiyne Woolery; Hallam Hope

Port Vale (4-3-3): Scott Brown; James Gibbons, Leon Legge, Nathan Smith, Cristian Montano; Scott Burgess, Luke Joyce, Will Atkinson; David Amoo, Mark Cullen, David Worrall

Hello and welcome to Total Sport Swindon's live blog of Swindon Town vs Port Vale as Richie Wellens' side look to get back to winning ways following a 2-0 defeat in South Wales to Newport last time out.