📏 Form Guide

Burton Albion

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Burton Albion will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-3 League One defeat last time out to Barnsley.

The only name on the scoresheet from Burton Albion was Joe Powell (37'). John McAtee (54', 64') and Luca Connell (69') scored for Barnsley.

Burton Albion haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics in recent times. Their goals record equals just 4 vs opponents over the course of their last 6 fixtures. In those games, Burton Albion have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them total 11. Despite that, time will tell if that trend shall be replicated in this game.

Going into this one, Burton Albion haven’t won at home in the past 6 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.

Oxford United

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Oxford United will go into this game after a 4-0 League One win with the eclipse of Fleetwood Town in their previous match.

For Oxford United, the goals were scored by Cameron Brannagan (14'), Mark Harris (30', 83') and Owen Dale (43').

During their 6 previous matches, Des Buckingham's Oxford United have slotted home 10 times, earning them a goals scored per game average of 1.67.

Heading into this contest, Oxford United haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 11/08/2021 shows us that Burton Albion have won 1 of these games and Oxford United 4, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 19 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 6 for The Brewers and 13 for The U's. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was League One match day 22 on 16/12/2023 and the score finished Oxford United 3-0 Burton Albion.

The match was refereed by Martin Woods.

🗞️ Team News: Burton Albion

The Burton Albion manager Martin Paterson will be grateful to have no fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash owing to a fully healthy group available for selection.

In our view, The Brewers may well line up in a 4-4-1-1 system for this game featuring Jordan Pickford, Seamus Coleman, James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Vitalii Mykolenko, Ashley Young, James Garner, Idrissa Gana Gueye, Dwight McNeil, Abdoulaye Doucoure and D. Calvert-Lewin.

📰 Team News: Oxford United

Owing to a fully healthy group available to select from, the Oxford United boss Des Buckingham has zero fitness concerns to report before this match.

There’s a good chance that The U's appear most likely to utilise a 4-4-2 system using Arijanet Muric, Lorenz Assignon, Dara O'Shea, Maxime Esteve, Vitinho, Lyle Foster, Sander Berge, Josh Cullen, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Wilson Odobert and David Datro Fofana.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that Burton Albion could find themselves struggling to score goals against this Oxford United side who we reckon should score & stay on top.

We’re therefore predicting a narrow 0-1 victory for Oxford United after 90 minutes.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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

Victor Martins, 13:03 06/04/2024