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Forest Green Rovers vs Walsall Live Stream, Predictions
The League Two meeting at The Bolt New Lawn on Saturday sees home team Forest Green Rovers do battle with opponents Walsall.
Our predictions, user poll and statistics for Forest Green Rovers v Walsall can be found here - plus the latest betting odds.
📊 Form Guide
Forest Green Rovers
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Forest Green Rovers will be wanting a better result here after the 1-0 League Two defeat last time out to Grimsby Town.
Harvey Rodgers (8') scored for Grimsby Town.
It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Forest Green Rovers have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Forest Green Rovers have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 9 goals along the way.
Their prior results show that Forest Green Rovers:
- have not won against Walsall in their last 2 league games.
- are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.
Walsall
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Walsall go into this encounter after a 3-1 League Two win vs Doncaster Rovers in their last match.
For Walsall, the goalscorers were Josh Gordon (18'), Jack Earing (67') and Mo Faal (80'). Kyle Hurst (62') scored for Doncaster Rovers.
A sequence of steadfast performances from the Walsall defensive unit has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their past 6 outings overall. In that time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 13. That pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, of course.
Heading into this contest, Walsall are unbeaten in their last 3 away league matches.
👥 Head to head
If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 10/04/2021, neither club has come out on top overall with Forest Green Rovers winning 2 of those games, Walsall 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.
A sum of 12 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 of them from The Green Devils and 5 coming from The Saddlers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.
The last league encounter between the two was League Two match day 19 on 25/11/2023 when it ended Walsall 0-0 Forest Green Rovers.
The match was refereed by Peter Wright.
📰 Team News: Forest Green Rovers
The Forest Green Rovers manager Steve Cotterill has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash owing to a completely healthy group to choose from.
ℹ️ Team News: Walsall
Owing to a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the Walsall manager Mat Sadler doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash.
✨ Prediction
We feel that over the course of the game, Forest Green Rovers may well find it hard to see themselves scoring against this Walsall side who we reckon will score at least once to put them ahead.
With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 0-1 advantage for Walsall at the end of this game.
We’ll see what happens.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 14:02 09/03/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Forest Green Rovers
Formed: 1889
Stadium: The Bolt New Lawn (5,147)
Captain: Dominic Bernard
Chairman: Dale Vince
Manager: Steve Cotterill
Competitions: League Two position 23
⭐ Star Player: Mathew Stevens
Customarily used in the Striker position, Mathew Stevens was born in Surrey, England. After making a first senior appearance for Barnet in the 2014 - 2015 season, the accomplished Forward has bagged 9 league goals in the League Two 2023 - 2024 campaign so far coming from a total of 27 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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35 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 38 | 66 | WLWWL |
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34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 29 | 63 | WLLDD |
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35 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 63 | WDLDW |
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35 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 61 | WWDWL |
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36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 61 | WDWLW |
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34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 56 | WLLLW |
7 |
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35 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 54 | WWWWW |
8 |
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35 | 15 | 9 | 11 | -2 | 54 | DLDWW |
9 |
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36 | 16 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 54 | LDWWL |
10 |
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36 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 51 | DLLWD |
11 |
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34 | 15 | 4 | 15 | -1 | 49 | DWWWL |
12 |
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35 | 14 | 7 | 14 | -3 | 49 | LWLWL |
13 |
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35 | 14 | 7 | 14 | -11 | 49 | LDLLD |
14 |
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34 | 14 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 47 | LWLLL |
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34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 47 | DWWWD |
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35 | 13 | 7 | 15 | -1 | 46 | WDLLL |
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36 | 11 | 11 | 14 | -2 | 44 | DLDWD |
18 |
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36 | 13 | 4 | 19 | 2 | 43 | LWLLW |
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36 | 10 | 10 | 16 | -14 | 40 | DWLDL |
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35 | 11 | 7 | 17 | -16 | 40 | DWWLD |
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34 | 7 | 13 | 14 | -15 | 34 | LLDWD |
22 |
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34 | 8 | 8 | 18 | -17 | 32 | DLDDD |
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35 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -28 | 27 | WLWDL |
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36 | 5 | 11 | 20 | -28 | 26 | LLDWL |
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Goals scored | 0.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.8 |
Time first goal scored | 37 |
Time first goal conceded | 32 |
Yellow cards | 2.7 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 4.2 |
Biggest victory | 5-0 |
Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
Goals scored | 1.6 |
Goals conceded | 1.9 |
Time first goal scored | 39 |
Time first goal conceded | 27 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.2 |
Biggest victory | 6-1 |
Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
Mathew Stevens | 9 |
Kyle McAllister | 5 |
Troy Deeney | 4 |
Christian Doidge | 3 |
Callum Morton | 3 |
Freddie Draper | 10 |
Isaac Hutchinson | 10 |
Danny Johnson | 4 |
Oisin McEntee | 4 |
Emmanuel Adegboyega | 3 |
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Notts County |
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Salford City |
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