Grimsby Town vs Crewe Alexandra Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Grimsby Town

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Grimsby Town will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 4-0 EFL Cup victory against Crewe Alexandra.

In that match, Grimsby Town managed 50% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Grimsby Town, the scorers were Luke Waterfall (13'), Kieran Green (34'), Andy Smith (56') and Stephen Wearne (86'). For their opponents, Crewe Alexandra got 10 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target.

It has not been often in recent games where Grimsby Town have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Grimsby Town have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 12 goals along the way.

Crewe Alexandra

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Looking at their form, and Crewe Alexandra have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 8 goals in all. At the back, Crewe Alexandra certainly have room for improvement. Previous results aside, it remains to be seen if that trend might persist in this match or not.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 11/02/2017 shows that Grimsby Town have won 2 of these games & Crewe Alexandra 4, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

A combined total of 14 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 3 of them from The Mariners and 11 belonging to The Railwaymen. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The last league encounter featuring these sides was League Two match day 7 on 07/09/2019 when it finished Grimsby Town 0-2 Crewe Alexandra.

The match was refereed by Anthony Coggins.

ℹ️ Team News: Grimsby Town

The Grimsby Town boss Paul Hurst has no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash thanks to a fully healthy group to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Crewe Alexandra

Due to a completely healthy squad to choose from, the Crewe Alexandra manager Alex Morris has zero fitness worries to report before this clash.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that Crewe Alexandra and Grimsby Town should both be able to score here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. We therefore see a very even match with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

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

Peter Guest, 16:03 05/08/2022