Wigan vs Bristol Rovers Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Wigan Athletic

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Wigan fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 1-2 League One victory against Portsmouth.

For Wigan Athletic, the goals were scored by Luke Chambers (22') and Josh Magennis (83'). Kusini Yengi (85') scored for Portsmouth.

Wigan Athletic have been conceding pretty frequently of late, although they’ve also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Wigan Athletic have been punished defensively in 5 of them while also getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those games. We will have to see whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Their prior results show that Wigan Athletic:

• are unbeaten in their last 6 home league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league matches.

Bristol Rovers

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Peterborough United in League One competition, Bristol Rovers and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Joel Randall (41') and Ricky-Jade Jones (95') scored for Peterborough United.

Over the course of 5 of the prior six clashes involving Bristol Rovers, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game within that period is a mere 1.83, with the number of goals averaged by The Pirates being 0.67.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 17/02/2001 tells us that Wigan have won 2 of these & Bristol Rovers 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

A sum of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 7 for The Latics and 6 coming from The Pirates. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

The last league encounter between the two was League One match day 9 on 23/09/2023 when it finished Bristol Rovers 4-1 Wigan Athletic.

The match was refereed by Geoff Eltringham.

📰 Team News: Wigan

The Wigan manager Shaun Maloney has a full complement, with no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Bristol Rovers

Owing to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from, the Bristol Rovers boss Matt Taylor does not have any fitness worries at all before this match.

⚡ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Bristol Rovers would be disappointed if they were not to put a goal past this Wigan Athletic side, although it might not be enough to avoid a loss.

We think that it’s going to be a 2-1 winning margin for Wigan Athletic by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Should be a good one.

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Lucas Pereira, 17:09 26/04/2024