Bristol City vs Plymouth Argyle Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Bristol City

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Bristol City head into this match after a 0-0 Championship stalemate vs West Bromwich Albion.

In that game, Bristol City managed 46% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, West Bromwich Albion got 14 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

Fewer than three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Bristol City have taken part. In terms of the goal weighting during that period, opposing sides scored a total of 5 and Bristol City got themselves 4.

Ahead of this meeting, Bristol City are without a win at home for the past 4 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Plymouth Argyle

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After a losing effort in their last game against Preston North End in Championship competition, Plymouth Argyle will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Plymouth Argyle had 66% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 on target. The scorer for Plymouth Argyle was Ryan Hardie (61'). Preston North End had 9 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Duane Holmes (1') and Liam Millar (25') scored for Preston North End.

Steven Schumacher's Plymouth Argyle have slotted home 9 times in the course of their most recent sextet of matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those matches equals 8.

A look at their previous results shows us that Plymouth Argyle:

• are winless against Bristol City when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 30/09/2008 shows that Bristol City have won 3 of them and Plymouth Argyle 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

An aggregate of 21 goals were scored between them in these games, with 14 from The Robins and 7 being from The Pilgrims. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

🗞️ Team News: Bristol City

The Bristol City manager Nigel Pearson does not have any fitness worries to speak of before this clash owing to a completely injury-free squad available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Plymouth Argyle

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group, there’s just the one fitness problem for the Plymouth Argyle manager Steven Schumacher to contend with. Michael Cooper (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that Plymouth Argyle should get enough chances to find the back of the net against this Bristol City side, but that probably shouldn’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We can see a 2-1 victory for Bristol City at the end of the 90 minutes. Hopefully this is a good one.

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

Peter Guest, 00:36 15/09/2023