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Predictions and Tips
Gateshead head to The Bolt New Lawn on Saturday for the National League tie with hosts Forest Green Rovers.
Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Forest Green Rovers v Gateshead are shown on this page (inc. the best betting odds).
📏 Form Guide

Forest Green Rovers
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Forest Green Rovers won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 2-1 National League losing effort in their last game against Wealdstone.
The only player to score from Forest Green Rovers was Jordon Garrick (19'). Alex Reid (45', 82') was the scorer for Wealdstone.
It’s not been often in recent games where Forest Green Rovers have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Forest Green Rovers have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 9 goals in the process. It will be interesting to see if that trend can be sustained here.
Ahead of this clash, Forest Green Rovers haven't been defeated in their previous 21 league matches at home. What a fortress they have created.
Gateshead
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Gateshead will go into this match after a 2-1 National League win to beat Dagenham & Redbridge in their previous outing.
For Gateshead, the scorers were Tim Akinola (19') and Ethan Robson (37'). Josh Rees (61') was the scorer for Dagenham & Redbridge.
The stats tell the story, and Gateshead have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, conceding 14 goals overall. In defence, Gateshead could really do with shoring things up.
Coming into this fixture, Gateshead are without an away win for the past 4 league matches.
↔️ Head to head
A glance at their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 18/04/2015 shows that Forest Green Rovers have won 4 of them & Gateshead 2, with the tally of drawn games being 0.
A total of 15 goals were scored between them in this period, with 9 of them from The Green Devils and 6 belonging to The Tynesiders. The average goals per game has been 2.5.
The last league contest featuring the two was National League match day 10 on 21/09/2024 which ended up with the score at Gateshead 0-2 Forest Green Rovers.
The referee was Benjamin Wyatt.
📋 Team News: Gateshead
In an otherwise available group, there’s just the lone fitness issue for the Gateshead boss Carl Magnay to be concerned about. Greg Olley (Broken leg) misses out for this game.
💡 Prediction
For this match, we think that Gateshead are likely to breach the defence of this Forest Green Rovers lineup, although that may not quite be enough to avoid a loss.
We’re going for a 2-1 win for Forest Green Rovers at the end of the match. Hopefully this is a good one.
Andre Moura, 16:02 12/04/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ Team Focus:
Forest Green Rovers
Formed: 1889
Stadium: The Bolt New Lawn (5,147)
Captain: Jordan Moore-Taylor
Chairman: Dale Vince
Manager: Steve Cotterill
Competitions: National League position 3
🔑 Star Man: Christian Doidge
Typically deployed in the Striker position, Christian Doidge was born in Newport, Wales. Having made his senior debut playing for Dagenham & Redbridge in the 2014 - 2015 season, the goalscoring Forward has scored a sum of 10 league goals in this National League 2024 - 2025 season to date from a total of 37 appearances.
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42 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 50 | 92 | WWWLD |
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41 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 42 | 83 | WLWWW |
3 |
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41 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 24 | 75 | WDLWL |
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41 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 66 | WDWLL |
5 |
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41 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 64 | LLDLD |
6 |
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41 | 18 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 63 | LLLLW |
7 |
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40 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 61 | DLWDL |
8 |
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41 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 60 | LLDDW |
9 |
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41 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 60 | DWLWD |
10 |
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41 | 15 | 12 | 14 | -6 | 57 | DWWWL |
11 |
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41 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 55 | DDWWW |
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41 | 14 | 13 | 14 | -1 | 55 | WDLDW |
13 |
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41 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 54 | LDLLD |
14 |
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41 | 13 | 14 | 14 | -3 | 53 | DWLWL |
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41 | 14 | 10 | 17 | -7 | 52 | LLWWL |
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41 | 14 | 9 | 18 | -7 | 51 | LWWLW |
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41 | 11 | 16 | 14 | -11 | 49 | LDWDW |
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42 | 12 | 13 | 17 | -17 | 49 | LLWWD |
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40 | 13 | 9 | 18 | -6 | 48 | WDLDL |
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41 | 12 | 10 | 19 | -13 | 46 | LWWLW |
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41 | 10 | 13 | 18 | -7 | 43 | LWDWL |
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41 | 11 | 8 | 22 | -25 | 41 | WLDLW |
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41 | 11 | 6 | 24 | -29 | 39 | LWLLL |
24 |
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41 | 2 | 13 | 26 | -54 | 19 | LWDDL |
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Goals scored | 1.6 |
Goals conceded | 0.7 |
Time first goal scored | 45 |
Time first goal conceded | 57 |
Yellow cards | 1.5 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 3.9 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | null |
Goals scored | 1.6 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 36 |
Time first goal conceded | 40 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4 |
Biggest victory | 5-0 |
Biggest defeat | 7-1 |
Christian Doidge | 11 |
Kyle McAllister | 10 |
Charlie McCann | 9 |
Harvey Bunker | 5 |
Ryan Inniss | 5 |
Luke Hannant | 14 |
Owen Oseni | 12 |
Jovan Malcolm | 7 |
Callum Whelan | 6 |
Jacob Butterfield | 4 |
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