Accrington Stanley vs Tranmere Rovers Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Accrington Stanley

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Accrington Stanley will be hoping for a better result after the 4-2 League Two defeat in their last game at the hands of Stockport County.

For Accrington Stanley, the goalscorers were Shaun Whalley (17') and Jack Nolan (77'). Kyle Wootton (9', 62'), Connor Lemonheigh-Evans (44') and Antoni Sarcevic (79') scored for Stockport County.

At least three goals per game have been seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Accrington Stanley have taken part. Opposing sides scored 13 times in these games whereas Accrington Stanley bagged a total of 7. That being said, time will tell whether that trend will be sustained in this match.

Their past results show that Accrington Stanley:

• are winless against Tranmere Rovers in their last 4 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 5 league matches. That's never good.

Tranmere Rovers

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Tranmere Rovers will go into the meeting after a 3-2 League Two win as they beat AFC Wimbledon in their last fixture.

For Tranmere Rovers, goals were scored by Harvey Saunders (35'), Rob Apter (45') and Connor Jennings (71'). Josh Kelly (56', 95') scored for AFC Wimbledon.

Indicating their appetite for eventful matches, the back of the net has been hit 20 times in the previous six games in which Tranmere Rovers have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.33 goals each clash. Their opponents have got 12 of these goals.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 06/09/2014 tells us that Accrington Stanley have won 1 of these & Tranmere Rovers 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 2.

In all, 19 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 7 from Stanley and 12 belonging to Super White Army. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league contest featuring these sides was League Two match day 9 on 23/09/2023 and the score finished Tranmere Rovers 2-0 Accrington Stanley.

The match was refereed by Sam Purkiss.

🗞️ Team News: Accrington Stanley

The Accrington Stanley manager John Doolan has zero fitness concerns at all coming into this clash with a completely injury-free group to pick from.

📰 Team News: Tranmere Rovers

Owing to a fully injury-free squad to choose from, the Tranmere Rovers manager Nigel Adkins has no fitness worries to speak of before this clash.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Tranmere Rovers and Accrington Stanley may well end up cancelling each other out here.

A draw is a real possibility, as we are expecting there to be little between them. That is why we are leaning toward a tight encounter with a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes.

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

Peter Guest, 10:34 26/04/2024