Stockport County vs Mansfield Town Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Stockport County

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Stockport County will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 0-1 League Two success vs Colchester United.

The only name on the scoresheet from Stockport County was Kyle Wootton (37').

Their most recent results show that quality has been evident in the Stockport County rearguard. Stockport County have given the opposition little, seeing the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their past six games standing at 2.

Pre-game facts show that Stockport County:

• have not beaten Mansfield Town in their previous 5 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their previous 8 league matches at home. Visiting teams have certainly not had an easy time of it here.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league games.

Mansfield Town

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Northampton Town in League Two competition, Mansfield Town and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

Sam Hoskins (28') was the scorer for Northampton Town.

Illustrating their involvement in action-packed encounters, we’ve had goals 20 times in the last 6 matches in which Mansfield Town have sent out their troops, giving an average of 3.33 goals each clash. Opposition teams have hit 7 of these goals. It will be interesting to see if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Coming into this clash, Mansfield Town remain unbeaten by Stockport County when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 09/04/2008 shows that Stockport County have won 1 of these games and Mansfield Town 5, with the number of draws standing at 0.

A combined total of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them from The Hatters and 13 being from The Stags. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The last league game between these clubs was League Two match day 5 on 20/08/2022 when it ended Mansfield Town 2-1 Stockport County.

The match was refereed by Peter Wright.

📋 Team News: Stockport County

The Stockport County boss Dave Challinor will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game thanks to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

📰 Team News: Mansfield Town

With a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Mansfield Town manager Nigel Clough does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game.

💭 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Mansfield Town will need to push hard to break down this Stockport County lineup who we think should score & stay on top.

We therefore fancy a very even contest with a 1-0 victory for Stockport County at the end of the 90 minutes.

Expecting it to be tight.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 02:27 14/03/2023