Crawley Town vs Bristol Rovers Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Crawley Town

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Crawley Town will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-0 EFL Cup success versus Bristol Rovers.

In that match, Crawley Town managed 52% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Crawley Town was Tom Nichols (74'). For their opponents, Bristol Rovers got 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

Crawley Town haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics of late. Their goals record equals just 4 vs opposing sides during the course of their previous 6 outings. In those games, Crawley Town have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 11. Let’s see if that trend can be continued on here.

Bristol Rovers

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Proving their penchant for eventful encounters, goals have been celebrated 22 times in the last six games in which Bristol Rovers have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.67 goals each fixture. Opposition teams have hit 6 of those goals.

👥 Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 08/01/2014 tells us that Crawley Town have won 1 of these games and Bristol Rovers 5, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

16 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 5 of them from The Red Devils and 11 belonging to The Pirates. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league fixture between these sides was League Two match day 24 on 08/03/2022 which ended up with the score at Crawley Town 1-2 Bristol Rovers.

The match was refereed by Lee Swabey.

📰 Team News: Crawley Town

The Crawley Town boss Kevin Betsy will be happy not to have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash owing to a completely healthy group to pick from.

📰 Team News: Bristol Rovers

Due to a mostly full-strength group, there is just the lone fitness worry for the Bristol Rovers gaffer Joey Barton to be concerned about. Nick Anderton (cancer) won’t be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Crawley Town will have to perform well to hit the back of the net against this Bristol Rovers lineup who we think will likely be able to grind out a win.

That’s why we have predicted a very competitive game with a 0-1 victory for Bristol Rovers after 90 minutes.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 16:02 05/08/2022