Oldham Athletic vs Bournemouth Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Oldham Athletic

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Oldham Athletic head into this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 League Two drawn match against Forest Green Rovers.

The only player to score from Oldham Athletic was Zak Dearnley (45'). Nicky Cadden (20') was the scorer for Forest Green Rovers.

It has been seldom in recent times where Oldham Athletic haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that The Latics have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 9 goals in the process.

Bournemouth

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Bournemouth go into this encounter following a 0-1 Championship win versus Stoke City in their previous game.

In that match, Bournemouth managed 48% possession and 10 shots at goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Bournemouth was Junior Stanislas (79'). At the other end, Stoke City had 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Bournemouth has become noticeable of late. Checking on their last six meetings reveals that this has occurred 5 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 2 and The Cherries have scored 8. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

👥 Head to head

A look at their past head to head clashes dating back to 18/09/2010 tells us that Oldham Athletic have won 2 of these games and Bournemouth 3, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

A total of 13 goals were produced between them in this period, with 4 for The Latics and 9 netted by The Cherries. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league game between these sides was League One match day 39 on 16/03/2013 when the final score was Oldham Athletic 0-1 Bournemouth.

The match was refereed by Keith Hill.

📰 Team News: Oldham Athletic

Oldham Athletic boss Harry Kewell has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this match owing to a completely healthy group ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Bournemouth

Thanks to a fully injury-free group available to select from, Bournemouth manager Jason Tindall has zero fitness worries to report before this match.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Oldham Athletic are capable enough to score a goal against this Bournemouth team, although just one goal possibly won’t quite be enough to give them the result that they want.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-2 advantage for Bournemouth when all is said and done. There looks to be little in this one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 00:08 05/01/2021