Grimsby Town vs Southend United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Grimsby Town

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Grimsby Town will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 3-0 League Two defeat in their last game at the hands of Port Vale.

The only name on the scoresheet from Grimsby Town was Luke Waterfall (60' Own goal). Shaun Brisley (8') and Devante Rodney (15') scored for Port Vale.

Grimsby Town have struggled with their forward play of late. Their sum of goals equals just 4 versus opposition teams during their previous 6 matches. In those meetings, The Mariners have also seen the number of goals scored against them total 10. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be continued here, however.

Their prior results show that Grimsby Town:

• have not beaten Southend United in their previous 3 league games.
• have not won at home in their last 3 league matches.

Southend United

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Southend United will go into the encounter following a 1-0 League Two win with the downing of Barrow in their previous outing.

The only name on the scoresheet from Southend United was Reeco Hackett-Fairchild (3').

In 5 of the past six games featuring Southend United, a comparatively low number of goals have been struck between them and their opponents. The overall average goals scored per game within that period comes to a meagre 2, with the number of goals averaged by The Shrimpers being 1.33.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 04/05/1997 shows that Grimsby Town have won 3 of these & Southend United 1, with the number of drawn games being 2.

In all, 19 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 13 from The Mariners and 6 netted by The Shrimpers. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The last league match between these sides was League Two match day 18 on 15/12/2020 when it ended Southend United 3-1 Grimsby Town.

The referee was Sam Allison.

📰 Team News: Grimsby Town

Grimsby Town boss Paul Hurst will be happy not to have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match owing to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Southend United

Due to a completely healthy squad available for selection, Southend United boss Mark Molesley doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this match.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Southend United have it within them to score against this Grimsby Town side, although it probably shouldn’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 2-1 win for Grimsby Town at full-time. We’ll have to see what happens.

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

Victor Martins, 00:12 12/01/2021