Charlton Athletic vs Doncaster Rovers Prediction & Betting Tips

Charlton Athletic will do battle with visiting rivals Doncaster Rovers at The Valley in this League One meeting on Saturday.

Our Charlton Athletic v Doncaster Rovers predictions, statistics and match poll can be seen below - as well as the best betting odds.

📊 Form Guide

Charlton Athletic DLLWWL

Charlton Athletic will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 3-0 EFL Cup defeat in their last game at the hands of West Ham United.

In that game, Charlton Athletic had 39% possession and 5 shots on goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, West Ham United had 15 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Sébastien Haller (22', 26') and Felipe Anderson (80') scored for West Ham United.

At least three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Charlton Athletic have been involved. Opposing sides scored 12 of them in these games whereas The Addicks bagged a total of 8. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Charlton Athletic:

• have not been beaten in the league by Doncaster Rovers in their last 4 games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 matches in the league.

Doncaster Rovers LWWLDD ⚖

In the game prior to this, Doncaster Rovers drew 1-1 in the League One tie with MK Dons.

The only player to score from Doncaster Rovers was Madger Gomes (53'). Baily Cargill (88') was the scorer for MK Dons.

In the course of their 6 previous matches, Darren Moore's Doncaster Rovers have fired home 7 times - giving them a goals per game average of 1.17.

Going into this one, Doncaster Rovers have not beaten Charlton Athletic in away games against them for the last 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings dating back to 14/10/2017 shows us that Charlton Athletic have won 3 of them and Doncaster Rovers 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

A sum of 15 goals were scored between them in this period, with 9 for The Addicks and 6 for The Rovers. The average goals per game has been 2.5.

📰 Team News: Charlton Athletic

Charlton Athletic boss Lee Bowyer will be grateful to have no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match thanks to a completely injury-free group available for selection.

🗞️ Team News: Doncaster Rovers

Thanks to a completely healthy group available to choose from, Doncaster Rovers manager Darren Moore has zero fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Doncaster Rovers have enough to score against this Charlton Athletic lineup, but that is unlikely to be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re going for a very close game with a 2-1 winning score for Charlton Athletic after 90 minutes. There looks to be little in this one.

Renata Leite, 23:16 14/09/2020