MATCHDAY LIVE: Swindon v Stevenage

Ed Brand has been sent off after the match ended, presumably for saying something uncouth to the referee.

Full-time: Swindon 0 Stevenage 1

"1-0 to the referee" rings around the County Ground and it is as loud as it has been all night.

90- Max Clark gets booked for a foul on RHM. Free-kick half way inside the Stevenage half with not long left. 0-1.

90- OFF: Rose

ON: James-Wildin

90- Swindon had a sixth penalty shout of the match turned down, but this one definitely wasn't handball, so you can't really complain about that one. 0-1.

90- McEachran's low corner finds RHM and it deflects behind for another corner. 0-1.

90- Seven minutes added on *Obligatory where did that come from*. 0-1.

90- Minturn has just successfully done a Ronald-chop in his box and I have never been prouder of a Swindon academy player, including Nathan Thompson and Scott Twine. 0-1.

86- OFF: Reid

ON: Horgan

82- OFF: Bostwick, Roberts

ON: Forster-Caskey, Taylor

80- The ire of Swindon fans is in full flow towards the ref. A few penalty shouts and subsequent decisions going Stevenage's way has made him comfortably public enemy number one. 0-1.

74- Lovely move. McEachran plays a one-two with Hepburn-Murphy and drives through the middle before playing the ball wide to Austin. He tried to drill a low cross into the middle, but it was cleared away. 0-1.

73- The attendance tonight is 8289 with 311 away fans. 0-1.

72- That should have been the equaliser. Hutton crossed from deep straight onto the head of Austin, but he headed wide. 0-1.

70- OFF: Jephcott, Shade, Cain

ON: Austin, Wakeling, Darcy

69- Minturn gets let off. He tried to beat Roberts, but the forward blocked him, he played in Reid, who blazed the shot high and wide. 0-1.

66- I was fine with the other penalty shouts being turned down, but I have no idea how the ref can think that was not a penalty. The challenge comes from behind RHM and the ball doesn't move. You don't want to blame officiating but stuff like that makes it difficult. 0-1.

63- I am in shock. Hutton hits the highest cross you will ever see, Lo-Tutala misjudges it and spills to the feet of RHM, as he goes to finish he is taken from behind. Referee says no penalty. You really have to question what he thought happened there for it not to be a penalty. 0-1.

59- A corner was headed clear but as it dropped down Lavinier volleyed the ball sweetly towards goal, but Sweeney managed to get in the way. 0-1.

58- The whistle had already gone but Kane Smith just hit a fine strike into the bottom corner. 0-1.

56- Swindon are once again struggling to release pressure on them. 0-1.

51- Guilt-edged chance. Roberts skins Hutton and plays a perfect cross to the back post where fifty-pence head Danny Rose gets up and heads it out for a throw in. 0-1.

46- Early chance for RHM. He plays a quick one-two with Jephcott to get free and cuts inside the defender, but his low shot is too close to Lo-Tutala. 0-1.

46- Jake Reeves gets us back underway. 0-1.

Stevenage have made their way back out. Hopefully the yelling is still going on in the home dressing room.

Swindon rallied quite well there. It was looking very bleak early on as the aerial bombardment was in full effect and Town would have taken 1-0 then. Since the goal Swindon have regained their composure and started to cause problems, but that physical threat is very much still there.

Half-time: Swindon 0 Stevenage 1

45- As three minutes get added on RHM drives quickly down the left into the box and tees up McEachran, who tries to finesse the ball into the corner, but Lo-Tutala made the save. Big chance. 0-1.

45- Stevenage have just taken a corner which swung straight out of play. That is your whole game plan. 0-1.

41- Minturn covers back very well to deny Reid having a free shot in the box after Rose got in behind when he looked offside. 0-1.

40- Nearly. Lavinier is given space and just keeps running, he is eventually closed down 25 yards out and takes a shot that the 'keeper parries but just recovers before any Swindon players can get to the ball. 0-1.

36- Since getting the opener, Stevenage have dropped in and allowed Swindon to have the ball. As yet they have not taken advantage of this. 0-1.

35- Huge let off. Khan tries to take on three attackers on the edge of his own box, gets tackled and Roberts took his shot from the edge of the area, but it went over the top. 0-1.

30- That was injury-related, Brewitt went down before walking off under his own steam. 0-1.

30- OFF: Brewitt

ON: Minturn

The youngster is being thrown to the wolves here. 0-1.

29- A fairly rowdy away support has been enthused by the goal and is getting after Charlie Austin warming up in front of them. 0-1.

25- Gilbey gets in behind Swindon and cut the ball back for Reid to slam home from close range. Not really a surprise. 0-1.

Goal. Swindon 0 Stevenage 1 (Reid '25)

23- Reid countered into space down the left for Stevenage, but with Rose in the middle he opted to shoot and it went well wide. 0-0.

21- Stevenage doing a Sutton and letting their goalkeeper take all free-kicks in their half. It is not a good plan as Lo-Tutala shanks it out for a throw-in. 0-0.

19- Close. Shade drives into the area and finds Jephcott with his back to goal, he tries to nudge the ball to McEachran but puts too much on it, he is forced to give it to RHM and his shot on the turn goes over the top. My negativity has turned the tide. 0-0.

17- Lavinier plays the ball to RHM, who burns his defender and looks to thread a pass in towards Jephcott, but Bostwick gets there first. Swindon are starting to find some room. 0-0.

15- Stevenage look to have switched to a back three tonight and dropped Bostwick into defence, Jephcott doesn't seem to be having too much fun so far against those three behemoths. 0-0.

11- There is absolutely no way Swindon get anything from this match but a thrashing on current evidence. Town haven't kept the ball at all and Stevenage have looked like scoring every time they win it back. 0-0.

10- The first foray forwards from Swindon sees McEachran making a clever run into the box and he goes down but the referee waves away the claims. 0-0.

10- Smith gets down the right and chips a ball to the back post where Roberts meets it, but heads wide. Utter domination from the visitors so far. 0-0.

8- Update: this is going very badly. 0-0.

6- The free-kick is touched to one side and Roberts slammed the shot, but it went over the top. Can I Change my prediction from LSPOD to 3-0 Stevenage? 0-0.

4- This is going to be a long evening. Reid wins the long ball and knocks it down to Roberts. Brewitt unceremoniously brings him down and it is a free-kick on the edge of the box. 0-0.

3- Cain gets muscled off the ball by Roberts and he slammed a short goalwards from the edge of the box, but Brewitt got in the way. Stevenage then spent ages preparing a long throw in that came to nothing. Pattern established. 0-0.

1- McEachran gets us underway at the County Ground. 0-0.

Has anyone tried to beat Stevenage this season with a smaller midfield than Jake Cain and George McEachran? I think not.

Here come the players

The obvious note from the line-up is that Jonny Williams is not involved. He was on the injury report with a groin issue, but it is hard not to suspect the contract situation is not playing at least some role in his absence.

Tyrese Shade's practice free-kicks in the warm-up have not gone well, McEachran to take them in the game.

The main thing I think Swindon need to add in the summer is a player who wears short socks. Watching Bradford last week and Charlie Walker made me miss McKirdy and the vibe of the short sock-wearing maverick. I don't really mind who they are as long as we get one.

Looking at some stats for Stevenage and they make for some very puzzling reading. Stevenage rank below Swindon for accurate long balls, above them for total of course, and they are second bottom for short passes. They don't appear to have had the ball at any point during the season and yet are getting promoted (more than likely). Really makes thing.

Makise Evans is on the bench for Stevenage tonight and he is 16 years old. He supposedly impressed on loan at Potters Bar Town in the Isthmian League Premier Division (seventh tier) and has now been put on the bench for the first team.

Bizarrely it would appear Stevenage are sticking largely with the team that lost against Mansfield rather than the one which won against Wimbledon and Doncaster. They have made one change from the weekend as Kane Smith replaces Luther James-Wildin, so 433 again.

Lo-Tutala

Smith Piergianni Sweeney Clark

Gilbey Bostwick Reeves

Reid Rose Roberts

Stevenage XI:

Lo-Tutala, Clarke, Reeves, Piergianni, Sweeney, Roberts, K.Smith, Gilbey, Bostwick, Reid, Rose

Subs: Przybek, James-Wildin, Taylor, Horgan, Tomkinson, Forster-Caskey, Evans

Swindon Town XI:

Brynn; Hutton, Brewitt, Clayton, Lavinier; Cain, Khan, McEachran; Shade, Jephcott, Hepburn-Murphy

Subs: Brann, Darcy, Austin, Kadji, Wakeling, Minturn, Brown

Good evening everyone. All eyes are on the County Ground tonight, that might be because it is a big game for Stevenage and not Swindon, but let's put that to one side. Jody Morris can win three straight games or even go four undefeated for the first time in his reign this evening, although that does seem a touch unlikely given the way the away leg of this went. Teams to follow.