📊 Form Guide

Colchester United

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Colchester United will be wanting a better result here following a 1-4 League Two loss in their previous game against Doncaster Rovers.

The only player to score from Colchester United was Jayden Fevrier (9'). Luke Molyneux (14'), Harrison Biggins (22'), Tom Anderson (76') and Joe Ironside (85') scored for Doncaster Rovers.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Colchester United haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Colchester United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 8 goals in the process.

Crewe Alexandra

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Wrexham in League Two competition, Crewe Alexandra and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

Ollie Palmer (24'), Paul Mullin (45') and Andy Cannon (61') scored for Wrexham.

The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Crewe Alexandra has been noticeable of late. Looking at their last 6 outings shows that this has happened 6 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 9 while Crewe Alexandra have scored 1. That kind of pattern might not follow through into this next game, though.

Looking at their past form shows that Crewe Alexandra:

• haven't won against Colchester United in away games against them for the last 4 league games. Not the best of away records.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings going back to 21/08/2018 shows us that Colchester United have won 2 of them and Crewe Alexandra 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined sum of 17 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 12 for The U's and 5 being from The Railwaymen. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.

The last league encounter between these clubs was League Two match day 9 on 23/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Crewe Alexandra 2-1 Colchester United.

The match was refereed by Charles Breakspear.

📰 Team News: Colchester United

Marley Marshall-Miranda (Ankle injury), Zach Mitchell (Hamstring injury) and Mandela Egbo (Knee injury) won’t be available for Colchester United boss Danny Cowley.

🗞️ Team News: Crewe Alexandra

Thanks to a completely healthy group to pick from, the Crewe Alexandra manager Lee Bell has zero fitness worries at all coming into this game.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, Crewe Alexandra might have a difficult job to hit the back of the net against this Colchester United side who will likely just have the edge.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a good tussle with a 1-0 winning margin for Colchester United at the conclusion of the game.

Let’s see what happens.

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

Lucas Pereira, 13:02 27/04/2024