📊 Form Guide

Port Vale

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Port Vale will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 0-1 League One success against Burton Albion.

The only name on the scoresheet from Port Vale was Ryan Loft (83').

Port Vale have been quite ineffective in attack in more recent games. Their goals record equals just 4 versus opposing sides during their last 6 outings. In those games, Port Vale have also seen the tally of goals against them total 9. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, though.

Ahead of this meeting, Port Vale are without a home win in the past 8 league matches. It's been disappointing.

Bristol Rovers

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Lincoln City in League One action, Bristol Rovers will be aiming to make amends here.

Paudie O'Connor (11'), Joe Taylor (19', 23', 55') and Reeco Hackett-Fairchild (81') scored for Lincoln City.

The forward players for Bristol Rovers have suffered from a lack of goals over their previous 6 clashes, contributing the unsatisfactory return of only 4. In those fixtures, The Pirates have also seen the collective goal aggregate against them equal 12.

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

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head meetings going back to 22/01/2019 tells us that Port Vale have won 2 of these games & Bristol Rovers 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A total of 16 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them for The Valiants and 11 created by The Pirates. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The last league fixture between the two was League One match day 11 on 03/10/2023 and the score finished Bristol Rovers 3-0 Port Vale.

The match was refereed by Ben Speedie.

📰 Team News: Port Vale

The Port Vale manager Darren Moore has no fitness concerns to speak of before this game owing to a completely injury-free group available for selection.

📋 Team News: Bristol Rovers

Due to a fully injury-free squad to choose from, the Bristol Rovers boss Matt Taylor has zero fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash.

⚡ Prediction

Our thinking is that Bristol Rovers and Port Vale could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

It could well end in a draw. That’s why our selection here is for a close game with a 1-1 score draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 14:08 29/03/2024