Newport County vs Forest Green Rovers Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Newport County

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Newport County head into this match following a 1-1 League Two draw versus Exeter City.

The only scorer from Newport County was Dominic Telford (88'). Ryan Bowman (22') scored for Exeter City.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Newport County have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that The Exiles have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals during that time.

Heading into this contest, Newport County haven't lost in the league to Forest Green Rovers in their last 2 matches.

Forest Green Rovers

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Forest Green Rovers will come into the match following a 1-2 League Two win with the downing of Carlisle United in their last match.

For Forest Green Rovers, the goalscorers were Aaron Collins (60') and Odin Bailey (75'). Gimé Touré (72') scored for Carlisle United.

Mark Cooper's Forest Green Rovers have converted a total of 7 times in the course of their latest 6 matches. The aggregate of goals that they have conceded during those same matches comes to 7.

Leading up to this clash, Forest Green Rovers:

• remain unbeaten by Newport County in games played away from home for the previous 4 league games. Travelling fans have really enjoyed these clashes.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 14/10/2017 shows us that Newport County have won 2 of these games & Forest Green Rovers 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.

An aggregate of 21 goals were produced between them in these games, with 12 of them for The Exiles and 9 netted by The Green Devils. That’s an average goals per game of 3.5.

The last league encounter featuring these sides was League Two match day 15 on 01/12/2020 when it ended Forest Green Rovers 1-1 Newport County.

The match was refereed by Ben Toner.

📋 Team News: Newport County

Newport County manager Michael Flynn has no fitness concerns at all before this match with a completely healthy squad ready to go.

ℹ️ Team News: Forest Green Rovers

With a completely healthy group available to choose from, Forest Green Rovers boss Mark Cooper has no fitness worries at all ahead of this match.

🧠 Prediction

We’re thinking that Forest Green Rovers and Newport County could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore predicting a very close game with a score draw at the end of the match.

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

Andre Moura, 00:14 16/02/2021