Crawley Town visit Morecambe at the Mazuma Stadium on late Tuesday on the back of three consecutive wins in League Two.
Crawley have picked up 10 points from their last six games, and they face a Shrimps side who also won their last match, and have collected 11 points from the last possible 18.
In the last 10 years, Morecambe and Crawley have played each other on 12 occasions. Morecambe won five of them, Crawley four, and they drew three times.
On average, the Shrimps scored 1.4 goals and the Red Devils 1.4 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on February 3, when Morecambe won 2-1 away.
With 51 goals in 34 games so far this season, Morecambe are scoring at the league's average rate with 1.5 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 54 goals at a rate of 1.6 per game.
Crawley are also average scorers, with 1.5 goals per game. They have also conceded 1.5 goals per game.
The Shrimps are ninth in the table after 34 games, of which they have won 14 and drawn nine, earning 51 points.
Town are two places behind the hosts in 11th, with 15 wins and four draws putting them on 49 points.
In Danilo Orsi-Dadamo, the Red Devils have one of the league's most on-form strikers so far this season. He has notched 15 goals in 32 appearances, to sit eighth in the scoring charts.
His goal rate of one every 187 minutes is slightly quicker than that of Michael Mellon, Morecambe's top scorer with a goal every 134 minutes, and a total of 13 goals in 22 games.
Morecambe's last match was on Saturday, a 3-2 win against Crewe Alexandra, with Joe Adams, Jordan Michael Slew and Mickey Demetriou (own goal) getting the goals for the Shrimps.
Crawley beat Accrington Stanley 1-0 last time out, on February 24, with Harry Ransom on the scoresheet.
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Morecambe v Crawley Town
League Two | Mazuma Stadium
Tuesday, 5 March 2024 @ 7.45pm
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