Colchester United vs Rochdale Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Colchester United

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Colchester United will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-1 EFL Trophy loss in their previous game against Sutton United.

It has not been often in recent games that Colchester United haven’t conceded. The facts show that Colchester United have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 10 goals on the way. Such a pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, however.

Ahead of this meeting, Colchester United have not won against Rochdale in their last 7 league matches.

Rochdale

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Rochdale go into this game after a 3-0 League Two win to defeat Newport County in their last fixture.

For Rochdale, goals were scored by Jake Beesley (2', 72') and Liam Kelly (89').

Throughout their six previous matches, Robbie Stockdale's Rochdale have turned their attacks into goals 9 times therefore yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.5.

Coming into this clash, Rochdale remain undefeated by Colchester United when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results going back to 25/02/2012 tells us that these fixtures have not been happy ones for Colchester United. They have not managed to come away with any wins at all while Rochdale have just been stronger than them, finishing as winners in 67 per cent of those match-ups.

A combined total of 17 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 5 of them from The U's and 12 coming from The Dale. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was League Two match day 5 on 27/08/2021 and the score finished Rochdale 1-1 Colchester United.

The referee was Rebecca Welch.

📰 Team News: Colchester United

Miles Welch-Hayes (Unknown Injury), Shamal George (Bruised Rib), Frank Nouble (Knee Injury) and Ryan Clampin (Knee Injury) won’t be playing for Colchester United manager Hayden Mullins.

📰 Team News: Rochdale

Thanks to a fully injury-free group available to choose from, the Rochdale manager Robbie Stockdale does not have any fitness concerns to speak of before this match.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Rochdale and Colchester United could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. That’s why we have predicted a close game with a score draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 00:21 04/01/2022