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Rochdale vs Burton Albion Live Stream, Predictions
Burton Albion will be at Crown Oil Arena on Saturday for the League One game with home side Rochdale.
All Rochdale v Burton Albion game predictions, stats and user poll are shown below (plus the best game odds).
📊 Form Guide
Rochdale
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Rochdale enter this match following a 0-0 League One drawn match vs Northampton Town.
Rochdale have been quite ineffective in attack in more recent games. Their sum of goals equals just 3 vs opposing sides over the course of their last 6 outings. In those games, The Dale have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them come to 8.
Ahead of this meeting, Rochdale have not won at home in their last 13 matches in the league. The home fans must be at their wits' end.
Burton Albion
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Burton Albion head into the meeting after a 1-2 League One win to beat Charlton Athletic in their last game.
The only player to score from Burton Albion was Mike Fondop (25'). Jayden Stockley (9') and Ben Watson (54' Own goal) scored for Charlton Athletic.
A tendency of at least one team not scoring a goal in games featuring Burton Albion has become evident recently. Checking on their last six games shows that it has happened 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 5 while The Brewers have scored 6. We will see whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.
👥 Head to head
Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels going back to 12/09/2015, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Rochdale winning 3 of those games, Burton Albion 3 and 0 being draws after 90 minutes of play.
A sum of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 from The Dale and 10 coming from The Brewers. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.
The last league fixture between these clubs was League One match day 7 on 20/10/2020 when it finished Burton Albion 0-1 Rochdale.
The match was refereed by Sam Purkiss.
📰 Team News: Rochdale
Rochdale manager Brian Barry-Murphy will be thankful to have no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this match with a completely healthy squad available for selection.
ℹ️ Team News: Burton Albion
Owing to a completely healthy group available for selection, Burton Albion boss Jimmy Hasselbaink has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match.
💭 Prediction
We’re of the view that Burton Albion and Rochdale 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. We’re therefore expecting a hard-fought 1-1 score draw at full-time.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura, 00:19 23/02/2021

🏟️ Team Focus:
Rochdale
Formed: 1907
Stadium: Crown Oil Arena (10,249)
Captain: Eoghan O'Connell
Chairman: Andrew Kilpatrick
Manager: Brian Barry-Murphy
Competitions: League One position 18
🔑 Key Player: Stephen Humphrys

Mostly taking to the field in the Striker position, Stephen Humphrys was born in Oldham, England. After having made a senior debut playing for Fulham in the 2016 - 2017 season, the goalscoring Forward has scored 7 league goals in the League One 2020 - 2021 campaign to date in a total of 18 appearances.
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29 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 58 | WWWWW |
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29 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 57 | WDDWD |
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31 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 21 | 53 | DLWDL |
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29 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 51 | DWLLW |
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29 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 20 | 50 | DLWWW |
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27 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 49 | WLLLD |
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28 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 46 | LDWDL |
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28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 44 | LWWDL |
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30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 44 | LWLDL |
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28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 44 | WLDDW |
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30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 43 | DWLLW |
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30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | -7 | 42 | DWWDL |
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30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 41 | DWWWL |
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26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 40 | WWLWW |
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30 | 12 | 4 | 14 | -3 | 40 | LWLWL |
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27 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 37 | LWWDW |
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30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 36 | DWLDL |
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30 | 6 | 10 | 14 | -14 | 28 | LLLDD |
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30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | -20 | 28 | WLLWD |
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28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -20 | 28 | LLWLW |
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29 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -20 | 27 | DLWLL |
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30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | -26 | 27 | WLLLW |
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30 | 6 | 8 | 16 | -24 | 26 | LLDLD |
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28 | 6 | 7 | 15 | -21 | 25 | LWWLW |
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Goals scored | 1.1 |
Goals conceded | 2.1 |
Time first goal scored | 39 |
Time first goal conceded | 25 |
Yellow cards | 1.6 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.1 |
Biggest victory | 2-1 |
Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
Goals scored | 1.1 |
Goals conceded | 1.7 |
Time first goal scored | 48 |
Time first goal conceded | 37 |
Yellow cards | 1.6 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 2.4 |
Biggest victory | 2-0 |
Biggest defeat | 5-1 |
Matty Lund | 11 |
Stephen Humphrys | 7 |
Alex Newby | 6 |
Jimmy Keohane | 5 |
Kwadwo Baah | 3 |
Kane Hemmings | 9 |
Lucas Akins | 6 |
John Brayford | 3 |
Joe Powell | 3 |
Sam Hughes | 2 |
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