Hartlepool United vs AFC Wimbledon Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Hartlepool United

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Hartlepool United will be hoping to bounce back here after a 4-0 League Two losing effort in their last game against Walsall.

Brandon Comley (21') and Danny Johnson (27', 58', 73') scored for Walsall.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Hartlepool United haven’t conceded. In fact, Hartlepool United have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 13 goals in the process.

Coming into this meeting, Hartlepool United haven’t won at home in the past 8 league matches. They will be so desperate to end this run.

AFC Wimbledon

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AFC Wimbledon will go into the clash following on from a 2-0 League Two win against Gillingham in their last game.

For AFC Wimbledon, goals were scored by Ethan Chislett (15') and Jack Currie (71').

The stats don’t lie, and AFC Wimbledon have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in total. At the back, AFC Wimbledon have clearly had some problems. We will see if that trend can be sustained here.

Going into this encounter, AFC Wimbledon are without a win away from home in their last 13 league matches. They clearly need to do something about it.

👥 Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 22/10/2013 shows that Hartlepool United have won 4 of these & AFC Wimbledon 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

An aggregate of 14 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 8 for The Pool and 6 coming from The Dons. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league encounter between these sides was League Two match day 38 on 25/03/2016 when the final score was Hartlepool United 1-0 AFC Wimbledon.

The match was refereed by Darren Deadman.

📰 Team News: Hartlepool United

The Hartlepool United boss Paul Hartley does not have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match thanks to a fully healthy group ready to go.

📋 Team News: AFC Wimbledon

With a completely injury-free group available to choose from, the AFC Wimbledon boss Johnnie Jackson has no fitness worries at all ahead of this game.

🔮 Prediction

We’re thinking that AFC Wimbledon and Hartlepool United could both end up scoring in a what should be a good tussle with little between the two teams.

Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. That’s why our selection here is for a 1-1 draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

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

Peter Guest, 02:51 02/08/2022