📊 Form Guide

Cardiff Met

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Cardiff Met will be hoping for a better result after the 0-3 Premier League loss in their previous game against Connah's Quay Nomads.

Jordan Davies (45') scored for Connah's Quay Nomads.

Cardiff Met haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics of late. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 3 against opposition teams during the course of their previous 6 matches. In those games, Cardiff Met have also seen the number of goals against them come to 13. We will have to see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

The New Saints

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The New Saints come into this game following a 4-1 Premier League win vs Bala Town in their last outing.

For The New Saints, the goals were scored by Jordan Williams (41') and Declan McManus (68').

In their previous six clashes, The New Saints have bagged a total of 22 goals. The New Saints have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. In that time, they have seen 5 goals scored by their opponents.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 05/11/2022 tells us that Cardiff Met have won 1 of them & The New Saints 5, with the tally of draws being 0.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 35 overall which averages out at 5.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league game between the two was Premier League match day 4 on 02/03/2024 when the final score was The New Saints 4-0 Cardiff Met.

ℹ️ Team News: Cardiff Met

Harry Owen (unknown injury), Alaric Jones (unknown injury) and Charlie Corsby (Achilles tendon rupture) are not available for Cardiff Met boss Christian Edwards. Joe Evans is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

📰 Team News: The New Saints

Out of a mainly healthy squad, there is only the lone fitness issue for the The New Saints manager Anthony Limbrick to be concerned with. Ryan Astles (unknown injury) won’t be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, The New Saints will most probably be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

At the other end, Cardiff Met won’t find it easy scoring goals but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be managing to get on the scoresheet.

Accordingly, we see a fairly comfortable 1-3 winning margin for The New Saints when the referee blows the final whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 13:03 13/04/2024