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Salford City vs Morecambe Live Stream, Predictions
Morecambe make the trip to Peninsula Stadium on Sunday for the League Two fixture with home team Salford City.
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๐ Form Guide
Salford City
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Salford City head into this fixture following on from a 2-2 League Two stalemate vs Stockport County.
For Salford City, the goalscorers were Luke Garbutt (8') and Curtis Tilt (39'). Ibou Touray (51') and Isaac Olaofe (64') scored for Stockport County.
Matches featuring Salford City have usually been absorbing ones of late with a lot of goalmouth action anticipated. Over their past half dozen clashes, a total of 26 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 4.33 goals per game) with 10 of them being chalked up by Salford City. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen whether that pattern might be sustained in this upcoming game.
Coming into this meeting, Salford City are winless against Morecambe in their previous 2 matches in the league.
Morecambe
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After a loss in their previous game against Newport County in League Two competition, Morecambe and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.
For Morecambe, the goals were scored by Gwion Edwards (31', 74') and Chris Stokes (70'). Aaron Wildig (12', 54'), Adam Lewis (18'), Harry Charsley (78') and Seb Palmer-Houlden (97') scored for Newport County.
Indicating their fondness for productive matches, the back of the net has been hit 23 times in the previous six games in which Morecambe have sent out their troops, making it a mean average of 3.83 goals per clash. Opposition teams have got 14 from this total.
๐ค๐ค Head to head
The previous league clash featuring the two was League Two match day 6 on 02/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Morecambe 1-0 Salford City.
The match was refereed by Will Finnie.
๐๏ธ Team News: Salford City
The Salford City manager Karl Robinson doesnโt have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash with a fully healthy group available to select from.
โน๏ธ Team News: Morecambe
Thanks to a completely injury-free group to choose from, the Morecambe manager Ged Brannan has zero fitness worries to report coming into this game.
๐ญ Prediction
Weโre of the opinion that Morecambe have it in them to score against this Salford City team, although it isnโt expected to be as many as they will have scored against them.
Weโre predicting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 victory for Salford City when all is said and done. Itโs a very tough call.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Peter Guest, 13:00 17/03/2024
โฝ๏ธ Team Focus:
Salford City
Formed: 1940
Stadium: Peninsula Stadium (5,108)
Captain: Alex Cairns
Manager: Karl Robinson
Competitions: League Two position 20
โญ Key Player: Ryan Watson
Generally deployed in the Centre Midfield position, Ryan Watson was born in Crewe, England. Having made his senior debut playing for Northampton Town in the 2014 - 2015 season, the talented Midfielder has netted 5 league goals in the League Two 2023 - 2024 campaign so far coming from a total of 36 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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1 |
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38 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 42 | 72 | WLWLW |
2 |
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36 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 30 | 67 | LDDWD |
3 |
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38 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 20 | 67 | DWWDL |
4 |
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39 | 20 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 67 | LWWLW |
5 |
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38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 64 | WLLWL |
6 |
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37 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 61 | LWWDD |
7 |
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39 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 57 | WDWWL |
8 |
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38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 56 | WWLDD |
9 |
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39 | 16 | 8 | 15 | -9 | 56 | WLDLD |
10 |
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36 | 17 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 55 | WWLWW |
11 |
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38 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 55 | WLLWW |
12 |
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37 | 15 | 9 | 13 | -6 | 54 | DWWLL |
13 |
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38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | -12 | 51 | LDLDD |
14 |
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39 | 15 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 50 | LWDWW |
15 |
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37 | 13 | 11 | 13 | -1 | 50 | WDWLL |
16 |
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38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | -3 | 50 | LLLWD |
17 |
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37 | 14 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 48 | LLLLD |
18 |
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37 | 13 | 7 | 17 | -13 | 46 | WLDWW |
19 |
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39 | 11 | 11 | 17 | -5 | 44 | WDLLL |
20 |
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38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | -16 | 41 | LDLLD |
21 |
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37 | 8 | 15 | 14 | -14 | 39 | WDDWD |
22 |
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36 | 8 | 9 | 19 | -19 | 33 | DDDLD |
23 |
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38 | 8 | 9 | 21 | -25 | 33 | DLWWL |
24 |
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39 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -28 | 30 | WLDLW |
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Stockport County |
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Gillingham |
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Colchester United |
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Gillingham |
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Newport County |
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Wrexham |
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Crawley Town |
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Gillingham |
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Colchester United |
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Barrow |
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Doncaster Rovers |
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Wrexham |
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Crawley Town |
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Goals scored | 1.6 |
Goals conceded | 2.1 |
Time first goal scored | 30 |
Time first goal conceded | 34 |
Yellow cards | 2.8 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.3 |
Biggest victory | 5-3 |
Biggest defeat | 5-1 |
Goals scored | 1.7 |
Goals conceded | 2.3 |
Time first goal scored | 29 |
Time first goal conceded | 30 |
Yellow cards | 2.6 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 4.4 |
Biggest victory | 5-0 |
Biggest defeat | 6-0 |
Matt Smith | 23 |
Callum Hendry | 7 |
Conor McAleny | 6 |
Ryan Watson | 5 |
Kelly NโMai | 3 |
Michael Mellon | 13 |
Jordan Slew | 8 |
JJ McKiernan | 7 |
Charlie Brown | 4 |
Gerard Garner | 4 |
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Sutton United |
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Bradford City |
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Harrogate Town |
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Barrow |
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Doncaster Rovers |
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Crewe Alexandra |
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Forest Green Rovers |
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