Newport County vs Cambridge United Prediction & Betting Tips

Tuesday’s EFL Cup action will see Newport County battling it out with Cambridge United.

All Newport County v Cambridge United game predictions, stats and user poll are shown below - as well as up-to-date odds.

📏 Form Guide

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Newport County go into this fixture following on from a 1-1 League Two draw versus Scunthorpe United.

The only name on the scoresheet from Newport County was Ryan Taylor (32'). Ryan Loft (58') was the scorer for Scunthorpe United.

Fewer than three goals per match were seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Newport County have taken part. In terms of the goal distribution in this period, their opponents scored a total of 9 and The Exiles got themselves 4.

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Cambridge United go into this encounter after a 3-0 League Two win against Carlisle United in their most recent outing.

For Cambridge United, the goalscorers were Luke Hannant (9'), Paul Mullin (16') and Joe Ironside (86').

A sequence of accomplished displays from the Cambridge United defenders has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their previous 6 fixtures in total. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 8. That aside, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern will be sustained in this next match.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 28/04/2018 shows us that Newport County have won 4 of these & Cambridge United 1, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

A total of 18 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 13 for The Exiles and 5 coming from The U's. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was League Two match day 32 on 08/02/2020 which ended up with the score at Newport County 0-1 Cambridge United.

The referee was Lee Swabey.

📋 Team News: Newport County

Newport County manager Mike Flynn will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash owing to a completely injury-free group available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Cambridge United

Due to a fully injury-free group ready to go, Cambridge United manager Mark Bonner doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this match.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Cambridge United should have enough to score a goal against this Newport County side, but that probably won’t quite be as many as they’ll concede.

We think that it’s going to be both teams to score in a 2-1 win for Newport County by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Looking forward to this.

Victor Martins, 10:09 13/09/2020