📏 Form Guide

Barrow

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Barrow will be wanting a better result here after a 1-2 League Two defeat last time out to Bradford City.

The only scorer from Barrow was Kian Spence (59'). Bobby Pointon (29') and Tyler Smith (90') scored for Bradford City.

Fixtures featuring Barrow have proved to be absorbing affairs lately with a lot of goalmouth action being a real hallmark. Over their past 6 clashes alone, the sum of 20 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 7 of them belonging to Barrow. Let’s see if that trend will be continued on in this game.

Coming into this meeting, Barrow have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

Mansfield Town

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Mansfield Town go into this encounter following a 2-1 League Two win against Gillingham in their last game.

For Mansfield Town, the goalscorers were Davis Keillor-Dunn (77') and Stephen McLaughlin (80'). Timothée Dieng (19') scored for Gillingham.

The stats tell the story, and Mansfield Town have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals in total. In defence, Mansfield Town have been far from perfect.

Ahead of this meeting, Mansfield Town remain unbeaten by Barrow when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings going back to 06/03/2021, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Barrow winning 3 of those games, Mansfield Town 3 and 0 being drawn in regulation time.

A combined total of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for The Bluebirds and 7 created by The Stags. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league match between these sides was League Two match day 9 on 23/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Mansfield Town 1-0 Barrow.

The referee was Marc Edwards.

🗞️ Team News: Barrow

The Barrow boss Pete Wild will be grateful not to have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash owing to a completely injury-free squad available for selection.

🗞️ Team News: Mansfield Town

Thanks to a mainly healthy group of players, there’s just a single fitness problem for the Mansfield Town manager Nigel Clough to be concerned about. Alfie Kilgour (Achilles tendon rupture) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, Mansfield Town and Barrow could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw is looking likely to us. Therefore, we predict a close game with a 1-1 score draw at the end of this game.

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

Andre Moura, 13:02 27/04/2024