📊 Form Guide

Exeter City

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Exeter City, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 League One success versus Bristol Rovers.

For Exeter City, the goalscorers were Caleb Watts (11') and Reece Cole (42'). Ruel Sotiriou (70') scored for Bristol Rovers.

It has not been often in recent times that Exeter City have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Exeter City have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 7 goals in the process. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be sustained here, though.

Pre-game facts show that Exeter City:

• have not been beaten in the league by Burton Albion in their previous 3 games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 matches in the league.

Burton Albion

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Burton Albion will come into the game after a 3-0 League One win vs Huddersfield Town in their previous fixture.

For Burton Albion, the goalscorers were Rumarn Burrell (9', 55') and Julian Larsson (45').

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 clashes featuring Burton Albion, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The average number of goals per match during that time is 2.83, with the number of goals averaged by Burton Albion working out to 1.5.

Coming into this meeting, Burton Albion are without a win away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head meetings going back to 06/12/2014 shows that Exeter City have won 3 of these games and Burton Albion 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

An aggregate of 10 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 for The Grecians and 5 created by The Brewers. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.67.

The previous league meeting between these sides was League One match day 21 on 21/12/2024 when it finished Burton Albion 1-2 Exeter City.

The match was refereed by Seb Stockbridge.

🗞️ Team News: Exeter City

Jack Fitzwater (Hamstring injury), Johnly Yfeko (Hamstring injury) and Yanic Wildschut (Cruciate ligament injury) aren’t available for Exeter City boss Gary Caldwell.

ℹ️ Team News: Burton Albion

Due to a mostly healthy group, there is only the sole fitness problem for the Burton Albion gaffer Gary Bowyer to contend with. Geraldo Bajrami (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be playing here.

💡 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Burton Albion and Exeter City could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

A draw is a real possibility, as we are expecting there to be little between them. That’s why our selection here is for a very close game with a 1-1 score draw at the end of this one.

Lucas Pereira, 11:06 18/04/2025