Halifax vs Stockport County Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Halifax

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Halifax head into this fixture following a 2-2 National League tied result vs Boreham Wood.

The only name on the scoresheet from Halifax was Billy Waters (22', 79'). Josh Rees (27') and Scott Boden (38') scored for Boreham Wood.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Halifax have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Halifax have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 8 goals in the process.

Ahead of this clash, Halifax are undefeated in their last 2 home league matches.

Stockport County

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Stockport County come into this clash after a 0-2 National League win with the downing of Maidenhead United in their most recent outing.

For Stockport County, the goals were scored by John Rooney (17') and Alex Reid (59').

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games involving Stockport County has been apparent recently. A glance at their last six meetings shows that it has happened 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal aggregate of 6 while Stockport County have scored 4. However, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern might be maintained in this game.

Heading into this fixture, Stockport County haven't been defeated in their previous 4 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 25/08/1990 tells us that these encounters have not been kind to Halifax. They’ve not been able to come away with any victories at all whereas Stockport County have been superior, beating them in 67% of those ties.

16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 3 for The Shaymen and 13 belonging to The Hatters. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The last league match featuring the two was National League match day 41 on 01/05/2021 and the score finished Halifax 0-1 Stockport County.

The match was refereed by Steven Copeland.

🗞️ Team News: Halifax

The Halifax manager Pete Wild does not have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game with a completely healthy squad available for selection.

📋 Team News: Stockport County

Due to a mostly healthy group of players, there’s just a single fitness issue for the Stockport County manager Simon Rusk to contend with. Connor Jennings (Cancer) won’t be playing here. Ashley Palmer cannot play in this game through suspension.

💭 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Halifax might have a difficult job to hit the back of the net against this Stockport County outfit who we think should score one, at least.

We’ve gone for a good battle with a 0-1 victory for Stockport County when all is said and done.

Should be an interesting one.

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Renata Leite, 23:44 13/09/2021