📏 Form Guide

Burnley

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Burnley are hoping to win again following the 0-5 Championship victory against Queens Park Rangers.

In that match, Burnley managed 62% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 10 on target. For Burnley, the goals were scored by Josh Cullen (9'), Zian Flemming (20', 28') and Jeremy Sarmiento (62', 92'). Queens Park Rangers had 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

At least three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Burnley have played. Opposition teams scored 4 times in these games while Burnley managed to get a total of 13.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Burnley:

• have not won against Millwall in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 22 league matches at home. It really has been a fortress.

Millwall

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Millwall head into the clash following on from a 1-0 Championship win over Swansea City in their most recent game.

In that match, Millwall managed 43% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Millwall was George Saville (38'). At the other end, Swansea City got 12 shots at goal with 4 on target.

In their last six outings, Millwall have amassed a total of 9 goals. Millwall have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, they have seen 6 goals go into their own net. We will see if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Coming into this meeting, Millwall have not won against Burnley when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings going back to 02/11/2013 shows us that Burnley have won 3 of these games & Millwall 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

15 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 10 of them for The Clarets and 5 coming from The Lions. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was Championship match day 13 on 03/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Millwall 1-0 Burnley.

That time, Millwall had 36% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Jake Cooper (52').

Burnley had 8 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Gavin Ward.

📰 Team News: Burnley

Josh Laurent (Ankle injury), Benson Manuel (Achilles tendon problems), Mike Trésor (unknown injury) and Bashir Humphreys (unknown injury) are not available for Burnley manager Scott Parker.

📰 Team News: Millwall

Thanks to a largely healthy group of players, there is only the sole fitness issue for the Millwall gaffer Alex Neil to be concerned about. Danny McNamara (Knee surgery) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Burnley certainly have the ability to score at least once when they face Millwall, who will be up against it to score themselves.

We can therefore see a fairly comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Burnley after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 11:03 03/05/2025