The League One tie at Highbury Stadium on Saturday sees home side Fleetwood Town playing against opponents Burton Albion.
Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Fleetwood Town v Burton Albion are shown on this page (including the best match odds).
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Form Guide
Fleetwood Town
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Fleetwood Town will be looking for a repeat result of the 0-1 League One triumph over Leyton Orient.
The only name on the scoresheet from Fleetwood Town was Xavier Simons (93').
Charlie Adam's Fleetwood Town have hit the target a sum total of 5 times over their last six outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games is 11.
Heading into this contest, Fleetwood Town haven't beaten Burton Albion in their previous 2 matches in the league.
Burton Albion
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Burton Albion will go into this clash following a 3-2 League One win versus Reading in their last game.
For Burton Albion, goals were scored by Mason Bennett (5'), Mustapha Carayol (11') and Bobby Kamwa (42'). Lewis Wing (34') and Sam Smith (59') scored for Reading.
Looking at their form, and Burton Albion have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, conceding 13 goals in total. Defensively, Burton Albion have clearly had some problems.
Pre-game facts show that Burton Albion:
- remain undefeated by Fleetwood Town when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
- are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.
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Head to head
A look at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 27/04/2021 shows us that Fleetwood Town have won 1 of these and Burton Albion 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.
A total of 21 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 of them for The Fishermen and 13 for The Brewers. The average goals per game has been 3.5.
The last league contest between these sides was League One match day 9 on 23/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Burton Albion 1-1 Fleetwood Town.
The match was refereed by Ollie Yates.
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Team News: Fleetwood Town
The Fleetwood Town boss Charlie Adam has a full complement, with no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game thanks to a completely healthy group ready to go.
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Team News: Burton Albion
With a completely healthy squad available to select from, the Burton Albion manager Martin Paterson doesnโt have any fitness concerns at all before this match.
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Prediction
Our thinking is that Burton Albion could find themselves struggling to get anything against this Fleetwood Town lineup who we reckon will score at least once to gain the upper hand.
Thatโs why we have predicted a narrow 1-0 winning margin for Fleetwood Town at full-time.
Letโs see how this one goes.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura,
21:01 26/04/2024
๐๏ธ Team Focus:
Fleetwood Town
Formed: 1908
Stadium: Highbury Stadium (5,327)
Captain: Brendan Sarpong-Wiredu
Chairman: Steve Curwood
Manager: Charlie Adam
Competitions: League One position 22
โญ Star Player: Promise Omochere
Typically used in the Right Wing position, Promise Omochere was born in Rep. Ireland. Having made a first senior appearance for Bohemian FC in the 2020 season, the dangerous Forward has netted 6 league goals in the League One 2023 - 2024 campaign to date coming from a total of 33 appearances.