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Burton Albion vs Bristol Rovers Live Stream, Predictions
Bristol Rovers visit Pirelli Stadium on Saturday for the League One tie with home team Burton Albion.
All Burton Albion v Bristol Rovers match predictions, user poll and stats are shown below - as well as the best betting odds.
📏 Form Guide
Burton Albion
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Burton Albion will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 3-0 League One loss in their previous game against Wycombe Wanderers.
David Wheeler (7'), Anis Mehmeti (16') and Josh Scowen (30') scored for Wycombe Wanderers.
An interesting characteristic of more recent Burton Albion games is the number of nil scores.
Taking their previous six clashes leading up to this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on "Both Teams to Score" would've been a losing one. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this match, of course.
Going into this one, Burton Albion have not been beaten in the league by Bristol Rovers in their previous 5 games.
Bristol Rovers
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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Forest Green Rovers in League One competition, Bristol Rovers and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
The only scorer from Bristol Rovers was Aaron Collins (71'). Jordan Moore-Taylor (55') and Regan Hendry (89') scored for Forest Green Rovers.
Showing their fondness for action-packed matches, we’ve had goals 22 times in the previous six matches in which Bristol Rovers have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.67 goals each fixture. Opposition teams have hit 6 from this total.
Going into this contest, Bristol Rovers have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.
🤜🤛 Head to head
A glance at their past head-to-head clashes going back to 21/02/2014 shows that Burton Albion have won 3 of these & Bristol Rovers 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 2.
8 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 5 from The Brewers and 3 being from The Pirates. The average goals per game has been 1.33.
The previous league match between these sides was League One match day 33 on 02/03/2021 which ended up with the score at Burton Albion 1-0 Bristol Rovers.
The referee was Charles Breakspear.
📋 Team News: Burton Albion
The Burton Albion boss Jimmy Hasselbaink will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all ahead of this clash with a fully injury-free group to pick from.
ℹ️ Team News: Bristol Rovers
Out of a mainly healthy group of players, there’s only the lone fitness problem for the Bristol Rovers boss Joey Barton to be concerned about. Nick Anderton (cancer) won’t be in action.
💭 Prediction
Bristol Rovers and Burton Albion may both struggle to make a breakthrough here.
With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a 0-0 scoreline at the end of the match.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 02:50 02/08/2022

🏟️ Team Focus:
Burton Albion
Formed: 1950
Stadium: Pirelli Stadium (6,912)
Captain: John Brayford
Chairman: Ben Robinson
Manager: Jimmy Hasselbaink
Competitions: League One position 24, EFL Cup (First Round)
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 0 | DWLLL |
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