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The League One meeting at The Completely-Suzuki Stadium on Saturday sees home team Cheltenham Town take on Lincoln City.
For all of our match predictions, pre-game poll and statistics for Cheltenham Town v Lincoln City, scroll down (plus the best game odds).
📏 Form Guide
Cheltenham Town
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Cheltenham Town will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-2 League One victory vs Burton Albion.
For Cheltenham Town, the scorers were Matty Taylor (51') and Curtis Davies (71'). Steve Seddon (45') scored for Burton Albion.
It has not been often in recent games where Cheltenham Town have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Cheltenham Town have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 10 goals in the process.
Pre-game facts show that Cheltenham Town:
- haven't won against Lincoln City in their last 8 league matches.
- haven’t won at home in the past 5 matches in the league. Fans are getting restless.
Lincoln City
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Lincoln City go into this match following a 0-1 League One win to beat Oxford United in their last game.
The only scorer from Lincoln City was Danny Mândroiu (47').
A series of reliable displays by the Lincoln City defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their last 6 fixtures in total. During the same period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 17. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, though.
Leading up to this clash, Lincoln City:
- have not registered a win against Cheltenham Town in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
- have not lost to Cheltenham Town when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.
- are unbeaten in their previous 8 league matches away from home. They really have been good on their travels.
↔️ Head to head
Inspecting their past head to head clashes stretching back to 13/04/2019 shows that Cheltenham Town have won 0 of these & Lincoln City 3, with the number of draws standing at 3.
A total of 13 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 3 of them for The Robins and 10 belonging to The Red Imps. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.
The last league game between these sides was League One match day 10 on 30/09/2023 when the final score was Lincoln City 2-0 Cheltenham Town.
The match was refereed by Ben Atkinson.
📰 Team News: Cheltenham Town
It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Cheltenham Town boss Darrell Clarke to contend with from a near full-strength group of players. Robert Street (Knee injury) will miss out.
ℹ️ Team News: Lincoln City
In an otherwise full-strength group of players, there’s just the sole fitness worry for the Lincoln City manager Michael Skubala to contend with. Lewis Montsma (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be in action.
🧠 Prediction
We feel that Cheltenham Town may not find it easy to get anything against this Lincoln City team who we think might gain the upper hand.
We’re going for a 0-1 advantage for Lincoln City when the referee blows for full-time.
Looking forward to this.
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Andre Moura, 13:07 20/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Cheltenham Town
Formed: 1887
Stadium: The Completely-Suzuki Stadium (7,066)
Captain: Sean Long
Chairman: David Bloxham
Manager: Darrell Clarke
Competitions: League One position 22
⭐ Star Player: Liam Sercombe
Generally playing in the Centre Midfield position, Liam Sercombe was born in Exeter, England. After having played his first senior match for Exeter City in the 2007 - 2008 season, the goalscoring Midfielder has bagged 10 league goals in this League One 2023 - 2024 season to date in 41 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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44 | 27 | 13 | 4 | 36 | 94 | WDWDW |
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44 | 26 | 8 | 10 | 38 | 86 | LWDDW |
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44 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 33 | 83 | DWWDD |
4 |
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43 | 24 | 8 | 11 | 28 | 80 | LWWLW |
5 |
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44 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 75 | WLLDL |
6 |
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45 | 21 | 11 | 13 | 22 | 74 | WWWLD |
7 |
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44 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 71 | WWDLW |
8 |
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44 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 70 | LDWWW |
9 |
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45 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 68 | DLWLD |
10 |
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44 | 17 | 11 | 16 | -3 | 62 | LLWDL |
11 |
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44 | 17 | 8 | 19 | -8 | 59 | WLWWL |
12 |
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43 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 58 | LDDWW |
13 |
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44 | 16 | 10 | 18 | -15 | 58 | DWWDW |
14 |
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44 | 16 | 9 | 19 | -12 | 57 | DLLWW |
15 |
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44 | 18 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 56 | DLDDW |
16 |
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44 | 11 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 52 | DDWDD |
17 |
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44 | 15 | 11 | 18 | -2 | 50 | WLDWD |
18 |
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44 | 13 | 8 | 23 | -30 | 47 | DDLLD |
19 |
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43 | 12 | 10 | 21 | -21 | 46 | WWLDL |
20 |
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44 | 11 | 10 | 23 | -26 | 43 | DLLWL |
21 |
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43 | 11 | 8 | 24 | -24 | 41 | LLLLW |
22 |
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44 | 10 | 10 | 24 | -31 | 40 | LDLLL |
23 |
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44 | 8 | 13 | 23 | -27 | 37 | LLLWL |
24 |
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44 | 7 | 9 | 28 | -36 | 30 | WLLWL |
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Goals scored | 1 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 46 |
Time first goal conceded | 37 |
Yellow cards | 2.2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.8 |
Biggest victory | 2-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 1.2 |
Goals conceded | 1 |
Time first goal scored | 39 |
Time first goal conceded | 56 |
Yellow cards | 2.5 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.8 |
Biggest victory | 5-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Liam Sercombe | 11 |
Will Goodwin | 6 |
Matty Taylor | 6 |
Elliot Bonds | 2 |
Will Ferry | 2 |
Joe Taylor | 10 |
Danny Mândroiu | 8 |
Reeco Hackett | 7 |
Teddy Bishop | 4 |
Jack Moylan | 4 |
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