Bristol Rovers vs Carlisle United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Bristol Rovers

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Bristol Rovers will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 1-3 League Two defeat in their last game at the hands of Swindon Town.

The only scorer from Bristol Rovers was Harry Anderson (17'). Jack Payne (57'), Ben Gladwin (85') and Harry McKirdy (87') scored for Swindon Town.

Joey Barton's Bristol Rovers have celebrated scoring 7 times in their preceding 6 outings. The corresponding number of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures is 8.

Coming into this clash, Bristol Rovers haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Carlisle United

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After a losing effort in their last game against Forest Green Rovers in League Two competition, Carlisle United will be hoping to turn things around here.

Jamille Matt (29') and Nicky Cadden (32') scored for Forest Green Rovers.

Looking at their form, and Carlisle United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 11 goals overall. Defensively, Carlisle United could really do with shoring things up. With no two games being the same, we’ll just have to find out if the trend shall be maintained in this next game.

Pre-game facts show that Carlisle United:

• are winless against Bristol Rovers in away games against them for the last 3 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 league matches.

👥 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head meetings dating back to 14/11/2009 shows us that Bristol Rovers have won 2 of these games and Carlisle United 3, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 in all which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

The previous league contest between these clubs was League Two match day 39 on 28/03/2016 which ended up with the score at Carlisle United 3-2 Bristol Rovers.

The match was refereed by Darren England.

🗞️ Team News: Bristol Rovers

The Bristol Rovers manager Joey Barton has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game owing to a completely healthy squad available to choose from.

📋 Team News: Carlisle United

Owing to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from, the Carlisle United manager Chris Beech has no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Carlisle United and Bristol Rovers could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. Therefore, we predict a close game with a 1-1 score draw after 90 minutes.

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Renata Leite, 23:11 04/10/2021