Forest Green Rovers vs Bradford City Prediction & Betting Tips

Forest Green Rovers will be hosting the visiting Bradford City at The New Lawn in the League Two game on Saturday.

Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Forest Green Rovers v Bradford City are shown on this page - plus the latest betting odds.

📏 Form Guide

Forest Green Rovers DLWLLW

Forest Green Rovers will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-1 League Two triumph versus Bolton Wanderers.

The only scorer from Forest Green Rovers was Carl Winchester (50').

In their last six games, Mark Cooper's Forest Green Rovers have found the net 7 times which gives them an average number of goals per match of 1.17.

Coming into this meeting, Forest Green Rovers are without a win at home for the past 5 matches in the league. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Bradford City WLWDDL ⚖

Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Lincoln City in EFL Cup competition, Bradford City and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Bradford City had 57% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Bradford City was Tyler French (4' Own goal). Lincoln City had 11 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Anthony Scully (6'), Lewis Montsma (29'), James Jones (41') and Callum Morton (90') scored for Lincoln City.

It is worth noting that Bradford City have struggled for goals in their past 6 games, recording the poor return of only 4. In those fixtures, The Bantams have also seen the collective goal aggregate against them equal 9.

Coming into this contest, Bradford City are without an away win for the past 12 matches in the league. Very poor, indeed.

↔️ Head to head

The previous league game featuring these clubs was League Two match day 5 on 24/08/2019 and the score finished Bradford City 0-1 Forest Green Rovers.

The match was refereed by Andy Haines.

ℹ️ Team News: Forest Green Rovers

Forest Green Rovers manager Mark Cooper doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever before this match thanks to a completely healthy group available for selection.

📰 Team News: Bradford City

Due to a fully healthy group to pick from, Bradford City manager Stuart McCall doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that Bradford City must be fancied to find the net against this Forest Green Rovers outfit, but it may not be enough to avoid defeat.

Our selection here is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for Forest Green Rovers at the end of this one. It really should be an interesting one.

Lucas Pereira, 23:15 14/09/2020