Blackpool vs Swindon Town Prediction & Betting Tips

Swindon Town make the trip to Bloomfield Road Stadium on Saturday for the League One game with home team Blackpool.

View all of the Blackpool v Swindon Town predictions, poll and stats below - along with the latest match odds.

📏 Form Guide

Blackpool WDLDDL

Blackpool will be hoping for a better result after the 1-0 League One losing effort in their last game against Plymouth Argyle.

Luke Jephcott (3') was the scorer for Plymouth Argyle.

Blackpool have been quite ineffective in attack in more recent games. Their sum of goals equals just 3 against opponents over their last six fixtures. In those meetings, The Seasiders have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 4.

Swindon Town WWLLLW

Swindon Town will go into this encounter following on from a 3-1 League One win vs Rochdale in their most recent game.

For Swindon Town, the goalscorers were Tyler Smith (4'), Anthony Grant (33') and Matt Smith (41'). Jimmy Keohane (93') scored for Rochdale.

Illustrating their penchant for productive encounters, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the previous 6 matches in which Swindon Town have played, giving a mean average of 3.5 goals per fixture. Their opponents have hit 10 of those goals. Previous results aside, it remains to be seen whether the trend will persist in this next game or not.

Going into this encounter, Swindon Town have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels stretching back to 18/09/2004, there has been little to separate the clubs with Blackpool winning 1 of those games, Swindon Town 1 and 4 being draws in normal time.

A combined sum of 12 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 6 of them from The Seasiders and 6 belonging to The Robins. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

The last league game featuring the two was League One match day 32 on 20/02/2016 when it finished Swindon Town 3-2 Blackpool.

The match was refereed by Phil Gibbs.

📋 Team News: Blackpool

Blackpool manager Neil Critchley does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

ℹ️ Team News: Swindon Town

With a fully healthy group available for selection, Swindon Town boss Richie Wellens doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game.

✨ Prediction

In our opinion, Swindon Town will have to work hard as a team to get anything against this Blackpool outfit who we think will likely score one, at least.

We therefore fancy a very even match with a 1-0 win for Blackpool at the end of the 90 minutes.

We’ll see what happens.

Renata Leite, 23:16 14/09/2020