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Port Vale

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Port Vale will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 3-0 League One defeat in their last game at the hands of Peterborough United.

The only name on the scoresheet from Port Vale was Alex Iacovitti (86' Own goal). Joel Randall (45') and Harrison Burrows (56') scored for Peterborough United.

A recurring characteristic of recent Port Vale games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

Taking their prior 6 clashes before this one, in 6 of them a bet on "Both Teams to Score" would have lost.

Ahead of this clash, Port Vale are unbeaten in the league by Exeter City in their previous 2 games.

Exeter City

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In their last game, Exeter City drew 2-2 in the League One tie with Leyton Orient.

For Exeter City, the goalscorers were Millenic Alli (88') and Tom Carroll (92'). Ollie O'Neill (36') and George Moncur (64') scored for Leyton Orient.

Over the course of their previous half-dozen outings, Exeter City have bagged a tally of 10 goals. Exeter City have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have seen 4 goals go against them. That pattern won’t necessarily follow through into this game, however.

Their past results show that Exeter City:

• are winless against Port Vale in games played away from home for the previous 5 league matches. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• are undefeated in their last 3 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 02/04/2021 shows us that Port Vale have won 4 of them & Exeter City 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A total of 8 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 4 from The Valiants and 4 for The Grecians. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.33.

The last league clash featuring these sides was League One match day 21 on 09/12/2023 when it ended Exeter City 0-1 Port Vale.

The referee was Neil Hair.

📋 Team News: Port Vale

The Port Vale boss Darren Moore will be grateful to have no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match owing to a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

📋 Team News: Exeter City

Exeter City boss Gary Caldwell has to currently contend with reduced team options. Ben Purrington (Ankle injury), Harry Lee (Broken arm), Demetri Mitchell (Cruciate ligament injury) and Gabe Billington (Broken ankle) are not able to play.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, Exeter City will manage to find the back of the net against this Port Vale team, but it probably shouldn’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 2-1 winning score for Port Vale at full-time. It really should be an interesting one.

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

Victor Martins, 13:01 13/04/2024