After their 1-0 win in the first leg, Stockport County could win successive Football League games against Stevenage (including play-offs) for the very first time. Indeed, the Hatters have never previously won both legs of a two-legged EFL play-off tie.
Stevenage won their league visit to Stockport this season 3-1 in December; as a Football League side, they have never won away to the same side twice in a single campaign in all competitions.
Each of the last nine occasions that the away side has won the first leg of a League One play-off semi-final, that side has gone on to reach the final, with the last to fail to do so being Carlisle against Leeds United in 2007-08 (won first leg 2-1 away, lost second leg 2-0 at home).
Stockport lost two of their final three home games of the regular League One season (W1), as many as their previous 12 beforehand (W8 D2 L2).
Stevenage only won two of their final 13 away games of the regular League One season (D3 L8). Indeed, since Christmas Day, only Rotherham (6) and Northampton (3) earned fewer away points in the division than the Boro (9).
Since losing their first ever Football League play-off home match 0-2 to Chesterfield in 1990, Stockport are unbeaten in their last seven semi-final home legs in the top four tiers (W4 D3).
There were just 14 shots in the first leg of this play-off tie between Stevenage (6) and Stockport (8). It was the fewest shots in any Stockport County match in League One this season, while only one Stevenage game saw fewer (vs Cardiff in December, 13).
Ben Osborn’s winner in the 94th minute for Stockport against Stevenage in the first leg was the first time a team won a League One play-off semi-final first leg via a goal in the 90th-minute or later since Swindon v Sheffield United in 2015.
