Colchester United vs Rochdale Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Colchester United

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Colchester United will be wanting a better result here following a 0-1 League Two loss in their previous game against Grimsby Town.

Harry Clifton (63') scored for Grimsby Town.

It has not been often in recent times that Colchester United have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Colchester United have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 8 goals on the way.

Their prior results show that Colchester United:

• haven't lost in the league to Rochdale in their previous 2 matches.
• have not registered a win against Rochdale in their previous 8 league games.
• are without a win at home for the past 3 matches in the league.

Rochdale

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Rochdale will go into this encounter following a 1-0 EFL Trophy win with the downing of Liverpool U23s in their last outing.

The only player to score from Rochdale was Tahvon Campbell (82').

Demonstrating their fondness for action-packed matches, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the last 6 matches in which Rochdale have played, giving a mean average of 3.5 goals for each fixture. Opposition teams have hit 14 of this grand total. Let’s see whether or not that trend will be continued on here.

Taking a look at their past results, Rochdale:

• have not lost to Colchester United in games played away from home for the previous 4 league matches. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.
• are without an away win for the past 5 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of past results between these clubs stretching back to 13/12/2014 shows that these encounters have not been fruitful for Colchester United. They have not managed to register any wins at all whereas Rochdale have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 67% of those ties.

An aggregate of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 6 of them for The U's and 13 created by The Dale. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The previous league contest featuring the two was League Two match day 26 on 01/02/2022 when the final score was Colchester United 1-1 Rochdale.

The referee was Craig Hicks.

ℹ️ Team News: Colchester United

Tommy Smith (Foot Injury), Emyr Huws (Ankle Injury) and Gene Kennedy (Knee Injury) won’t be available for Colchester United .

🗞️ Team News: Rochdale

With a fully healthy squad to choose from, the Rochdale manager Jim Bentley does not have any fitness worries at all before this clash.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that Rochdale might need a bit of good fortune to get anything against this Colchester United side who should gain the upper hand.

That’s why our selection here is for a narrow 1-0 victory for Colchester United when all is said and done.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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Andre Moura, 23:34 19/09/2022