Derby County vs Luton Town Live Stream, Predictions

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Derby County

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Derby County will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 1-0 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Stoke City.

In that game, Derby County managed 39% possession and 5 shots on goal with 0 on target. At the other end, Stoke City got 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Jacob Brown (74') was the scorer for Stoke City.

Derby County have really been misfiring in more recent games. Their goals record equals just 2 vs opposition teams over the course of their previous 6 fixtures. In those games, The Rams have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 9.

Pre-game facts show that Derby County:

• are winless against Luton Town in their previous 2 league games.
• are without a win at home for the past 3 matches in the league.

Luton Town

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Luton Town go into this encounter following a 0-1 Championship win vs Preston North End in their last outing.

In that match, Luton Town managed 53% possession and 20 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. At the other end, Preston North End got 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. Daniel Iversen (83' Own goal) was the scorer for Preston North End.

A tendency of at least one team not scoring a goal in games featuring Luton Town has been fairly consistent recently. Examining their last six outings shows that this has occurred 5 times. During these clashes, their opponents have managed a goal tally of 6 while The Hatters have scored 7. That being said, time will tell whether such a trend might be sustained in this upcoming match or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 18/03/2006, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Derby County winning 3 of those games, Luton Town 3 and 0 being draws in regulation time.

A combined sum of 14 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 8 of them for The Rams and 6 being from The Hatters. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The previous league contest between these sides was Championship match day 2 on 19/09/2020 when it finished Luton Town 2-1 Derby County.

That time, Luton Town had 35% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The goalscorers were Luke Berry (34') and Jordan Clark (87').

For their opponents, Derby County got 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Jack Marriott (52') was the scorer.

The referee was Dean Whitestone.

ℹ️ Team News: Derby County

Curtis Davies (Achilles tendon rupture) and Krystian Bielik (Torn knee ligament) will not be taking part for Derby boss Wayne Rooney.

📋 Team News: Luton Town

Owing to a completely injury-free squad available to select from, Luton Town manager Nathan Jones does not have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Luton Town should be able to breach the defence of this Derby County lineup, but that possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid a loss.

We think that it’s going to be a narrow 2-1 winning margin for Derby County at the end of this one. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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Renata Leite, 23:06 28/03/2021