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Derby County vs Bolton Wanderers Live Stream, Predictions
Derby County face off with visiting opponents Bolton Wanderers at Pride Park Stadium in this League One fixture on Saturday.
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📊 Form Guide
Derby County
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Derby County will be looking for another win after the 2-3 League One success over Cheltenham Town.
For Derby County, the goalscorers were Conor Hourihane (8'), Max Bird (11') and Tom Barkhuizen (55'). Caleb Taylor (2') and Alfie May (77') scored for Cheltenham Town.
Their most recent results reveal that huge efforts have been put in by the Derby County backline. Derby County have been miserly, resulting in the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their last six matches standing at 2. It will be interesting to see if that trend will end up being continued on here.
Looking at their past form shows that Derby County:
- have not lost a league tie with Bolton Wanderers in their previous 2 games.
- are undefeated in their previous 6 league matches at home.
Bolton Wanderers
DDWDWW 📈
Bolton Wanderers go into this game following on from a 3-0 League One win with the downing of Portsmouth in their previous outing.
For Bolton Wanderers, the scorers were Dion Charles (15'), Kieran Lee (48') and Eoin Toal (71').
A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Bolton Wanderers has been evident of late. Checking on their last 6 games shows that this has occurred 5 times. During those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal aggregate of 1 while Bolton Wanderers have scored 8.
Going into this encounter, Bolton Wanderers are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 09/04/2016 shows us that Derby County have won 4 of these games and Bolton Wanderers 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.
16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 13 from The Rams and 3 coming from The Trotters. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.
The previous league encounter between these sides was League One match day 23 on 27/12/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Derby County.
The referee was Samuel Barrott.
🗞️ Team News: Derby County
The Derby County manager Paul Warne doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever before this game with a completely injury-free squad to pick from.
📰 Team News: Bolton Wanderers
Due to a completely injury-free squad available to select from, the Bolton Wanderers boss Ian Evatt has zero fitness concerns to report coming into this game.
🔮 Prediction
We feel that Bolton Wanderers have the capability to break down this Derby County team, but it probably shouldn’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.
We’re going for both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Derby County at the end of the match. Let’s just see how this one goes.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins, 01:47 17/01/2023

🏟️ Team Focus:
Derby County
Formed: 1884
Stadium: Pride Park Stadium (33,597)
Captain: Curtis Davies
Chairman: David Clowes
Manager: Paul Warne
Competitions: League One position 4, FA Cup (Fourth Round)
🔑 Key Player: James Collins

Typically deployed in the Striker position, James Collins was born in Coventry, England. Having made a first senior appearance for Darlington in the 2009 - 2010 season, the talented Forward has scored 7 league goals in the League One 2022 - 2023 season so far in a total of 21 appearances.
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27 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 58 | WWWDD |
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26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 55 | DWWWW |
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26 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 22 | 51 | LWDDD |
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25 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 44 | WDWWW |
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26 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 44 | DDWDW |
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24 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 40 | WDWLL |
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25 | 12 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 38 | LDWLW |
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26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 38 | WWLWL |
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27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 37 | LLWWL |
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26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 35 | LDWWD |
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25 | 10 | 5 | 10 | -7 | 35 | LWLWL |
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26 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 34 | DLWWW |
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25 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 32 | DLWLW |
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25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 32 | WLLLW |
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23 | 7 | 10 | 6 | -1 | 31 | LDDLL |
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25 | 6 | 12 | 7 | -6 | 30 | LDDLD |
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25 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 29 | WLLWL |
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25 | 8 | 4 | 13 | -9 | 28 | LWLLL |
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24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | -15 | 25 | DDLLW |
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25 | 5 | 9 | 11 | -9 | 24 | LLWWW |
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25 | 7 | 3 | 15 | -19 | 24 | DWLLL |
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25 | 6 | 4 | 15 | -13 | 22 | WWLLD |
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26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -22 | 22 | LWWLL |
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26 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -28 | 21 | LLLLD |
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Goals scored | 1.9 |
Goals conceded | 0.8 |
Time first goal scored | 35 |
Time first goal conceded | 49 |
Yellow cards | 2.1 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.4 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-2 |
Goals scored | 1.2 |
Goals conceded | 1 |
Time first goal scored | 40 |
Time first goal conceded | 28 |
Yellow cards | 1.9 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.8 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
David McGoldrick | 12 |
James Collins | 8 |
Conor Hourihane | 6 |
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing | 6 |
Tom Barkhuizen | 4 |
Dion Charles | 11 |
Conor Bradley | 4 |
Kyle Dempsey | 4 |
Oladapo Afolayan | 3 |
Jón Daði Böðvarsson | 3 |
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