📊 Form Guide

Colchester United

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Colchester United will be wanting a better result here following a 1-2 League Two defeat in their last game at the hands of Wrexham.

The only name on the scoresheet from Colchester United was John Akinde (54'). Paul Mullin (62') and Max Cleworth (85') scored for Wrexham.

It has not been often in recent games that Colchester United have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Colchester United have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 games, letting in 8 goals on the way. Such a pattern might not be carried forward into this game, however.

Leading up to this clash, Colchester United:

• haven't beaten Stockport County in their previous 4 league games.
• are undefeated in their last 3 home league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 4 league matches. Their fans aren't happy.

Stockport County

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Stockport County come into this game following a 1-3 League Two win with the downing of Sutton United in their most recent match.

The only player to score from Stockport County was Paddy Madden (3', 30', 45'). Charlie Lakin (34') was the scorer for Sutton United.

In their previous 6 clashes, Stockport County have helped themselves to a tally of 13 goals. Stockport County have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. In that time, they have seen 3 goals go into their own net.

Going into this encounter, Stockport County haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 24/02/2009 shows us that Colchester United have won 2 of them and Stockport County 3, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

A total of 11 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 5 of them for The U's and 6 coming from The Hatters. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was League Two match day 18 on 18/11/2023 when the final score was Stockport County 2-0 Colchester United.

The match was refereed by Andrew Davies.

🗞️ Team News: Colchester United

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

🗞️ Team News: Stockport County

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad to choose from, the Stockport County manager Dave Challinor has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game.

🔮 Prediction

We think that Colchester United will need to apply a lot of pressure to breach the defence of this Stockport County side who we think will manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore seeing a very competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Stockport County at the end of this game.

Let’s see.

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

Victor Martins, 18:05 09/04/2024