FA Cup Β· ENG Β· Round 2

Exeter City
2 - 0 Full time
Port Vale

St. James Park

Lineups Predicted line-up

Exeter City

Exeter City

1 Robert Olejnik
3 Craig Woodman
15 Jordan Moore-Taylor
39 Troy Brown
14 Alex Nicholls
11 Arron Davies
22 David Wheeler
31 Joel Grant ↓90'
26 Jordan Tillson ⚽
10 Lee Holmes ↓84'
18 Jamie Reid ↓88'

Port Vale

21 Jak Alnwick
2 Ben Purkiss
4 Remie Streete ↓78'
6 Richard Duffy
5 Ryan McGivern
42 Anthony Grant
7 Christopher Birchall
10 Louis Dodds ↓52'
8 Michael O'Connor
11 Sam Foley ↓61'
20 AJ Leitch-Smith
Port Vale

Exeter City substitutes

29 Ollie Watkins βš½β†‘84'
8 Matt Oakley ↑88'
20 Tom Nichols ↑90'
13 Clinton Morrison
21 James Hamon
33 Josh Read
36 Kyle Egan

Coach: Paul Tisdale

Port Vale substitutes

9 Uche Ikpeazu ↑52'
18 Sam Alexander Kelly ↑61'
15 JJ Hooper ↑78'
38 Abdul Aziz Deen-Conteh
16 Adam Yates
1 Chris Neal
14 Colin Daniel

Coach: Robert Page

Match events

19'Jordan Tillson 1 - 0⚽
Second half
52'↑ Uche Ikpeazu ↓ Louis Dodds⇄
61'↑ Sam Alexander Kelly ↓ Sam Foley⇄
78'↑ JJ Hooper ↓ Remie Streete⇄
84'↑ Ollie Watkins ↓ Lee Holmes⇄
88'↑ Matt Oakley ↓ Jamie Reid⇄
88'Ollie Watkins 2 - 0⚽
90'↑ Tom Nichols ↓ Joel Grant⇄

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Sunday, 6 December 2015, 14:00 UTC β€” shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

6Exeter City wins2Draws7Port Vale wins

15 past meetings on record. Biggest Exeter City win: Exeter City 4–0 Port Vale (2022). Biggest Port Vale win: Exeter City 0–2 Port Vale (2020).

18 Feb 2023Port Vale 1 - 0 Exeter CityLeague One
5 Nov 2022Port Vale 2 - 3 Exeter CityFA Cup
6 Aug 2022Exeter City 4 - 0 Port ValeLeague One
7 May 2022Exeter City 0 - 1 Port ValeLeague Two
22 Mar 2022Port Vale 0 - 0 Exeter CityLeague Two
2 Apr 2021Port Vale 1 - 0 Exeter CityLeague Two
19 Sep 2020Exeter City 0 - 2 Port ValeLeague Two
28 Jan 2020Port Vale 3 - 1 Exeter CityLeague Two
17 Sep 2019Exeter City 2 - 0 Port ValeLeague Two
13 Apr 2019Exeter City 2 - 0 Port ValeLeague Two
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29 Sep 2018Port Vale 1 - 1 Exeter CityLeague Two
20 Mar 2018Port Vale 0 - 1 Exeter CityLeague Two
21 Oct 2017Exeter City 0 - 1 Port ValeLeague Two
26 Feb 2013Port Vale 0 - 2 Exeter CityLeague Two
6 Oct 2012Exeter City 0 - 2 Port ValeLeague Two