📏 Form Guide

Mansfield Town

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Mansfield Town will be looking for a repeat result of a 1-4 League Two triumph over MK Dons.

For Mansfield Town, the goalscorers were Elliott Hewitt (30'), Davis Keillor-Dunn (51', 90') and James Gale (92'). Max Dean (13') scored for MK Dons.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games that Mansfield Town have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Mansfield Town have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 10 goals on the way. In any event, time will tell if such a trend will continue on in this upcoming match.

Coming into this fixture, Mansfield Town have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Accrington Stanley

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After a losing effort in their last game against Doncaster Rovers in League Two competition, Accrington Stanley and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

Hakeeb Adelakun (6'), Joe Ironside (21'), James Maxwell (60') and Owen Bailey (71') scored for Doncaster Rovers.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Accrington Stanley, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per match in that spell is 3, with the average number of goals for Accrington Stanley standing at 1.5.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings going back to 27/09/2016, both clubs have shared the honours with Mansfield Town winning 2 of those games, Accrington Stanley 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 24 in total which averages out at 4 goals per meeting.

The last league game between these clubs was League Two match day 7 on 09/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Accrington Stanley 0-3 Mansfield Town.

The match was refereed by Ross Joyce.

📰 Team News: Mansfield Town

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Mansfield Town boss Nigel Clough to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength squad. Alfie Kilgour (Achilles tendon rupture) won’t play.

ℹ️ Team News: Accrington Stanley

With a completely healthy squad available for selection, the Accrington Stanley manager John Doolan has zero fitness worries at all coming into this clash.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Mansfield Town have it within them to be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

At the other end, Accrington Stanley are also probably going to find it difficult to score themselves although we do see them hitting back at some stage, too.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 3-1 margin for Mansfield Town at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 18:01 16/04/2024