Bristol Rovers vs Burton Albion Prediction & Betting Tips

📊 Form Guide

Bristol Rovers

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Bristol Rovers, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 League One triumph over Lincoln City.

For Bristol Rovers, the goalscorers were James Daly (48') and Brandon Hanlan (58'). Lewis Montsma (46') was the scorer for Lincoln City.

It has not been often in recent games that Bristol Rovers have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that The Pirates have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 9 goals on the way.

Ahead of this clash, Bristol Rovers are winless against Burton Albion in their last 3 matches in the league.

Burton Albion

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Plymouth Argyle in League One competition, Burton Albion and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

Luke Jephcott (25') and Byron Moore (47') scored for Plymouth Argyle.

The stats don’t lie, and Burton Albion have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 18 goals in total. Defensively, The Brewers seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. Such a trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, though.

Ahead of this meeting, Burton Albion have not won away from home in their last 4 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 02/03/2013 tells us that Bristol Rovers have won 2 of them & Burton Albion 3, with the number of drawn games being 1.

In all, 9 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 5 for The Pirates and 4 being from The Brewers. The average goals per game has been 1.5.

📋 Team News: Bristol Rovers

Bristol Rovers manager Ben Garner will be happy not to have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash owing to a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Burton Albion

With a completely injury-free squad to choose from, Burton Albion boss Jake Buxton doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this game.

✨ Prediction

In our opinion, Burton Albion and Bristol Rovers should both be able to find the back of the net here although it’s difficult to select a clear winner.

It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a 1-1 score draw at the end of this game.

Lucas Pereira, 19:31 13/10/2020