Bristol Rovers vs Ipswich Town Prediction & Betting Tips

The League One game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday sees home side Bristol Rovers welcome opponents Ipswich Town.

For all of our match predictions, pre-game poll and statistics for Bristol Rovers v Ipswich Town, scroll down - as well as the best betting odds.

📏 Form Guide

Bristol Rovers LLWLDD

Bristol Rovers prepare for this fixture following a 1-1 League One tied result against Sunderland.

The only name on the scoresheet from Bristol Rovers was Luke Leahy (3'). Chris Maguire (82') was the scorer for Sunderland.

It’s been seldom in recent times where Bristol Rovers haven’t conceded. The facts show that The Pirates have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 10 goals in the process. Let’s see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Ipswich Town LLWLWL

Since a loss in their previous game against Fulham in EFL Cup competition, Ipswich Town and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Ipswich Town had 31% possession and 5 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Fulham had 15 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Aleksandar Mitrović (38') scored for Fulham.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games involving Ipswich Town has become noticeable of late. A glance at their last 6 meetings reveals that this has happened 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal tally of 5 and The Tractor Boys have scored 6.

Coming into this fixture, Ipswich Town are without an away win for the past 4 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 10/04/1991 shows us that Bristol Rovers have won 2 of these and Ipswich Town 3, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A combined total of 18 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 7 for The Pirates and 11 for The Tractor Boys. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

🗞️ Team News: Bristol Rovers

Bristol Rovers boss Ben Garner has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game owing to a completely healthy group to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Ipswich Town

Owing to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from, Ipswich Town boss Paul Lambert has no fitness worries at all coming into this game.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Ipswich Town and Bristol Rovers could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. That is why we are leaning toward a 1-1 scoreline when the full-time whistle blows.

Andre Moura, 23:16 14/09/2020