📊 Form Guide

Newport County

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Newport County will be hoping to bounce back here after a 1-2 League Two loss in their previous game against Tranmere Rovers.

The only scorer from Newport County was Will Evans (20'). Rob Apter (25', 36') was the scorer for Tranmere Rovers.

Newport County have really been misfiring of late. Their sum of goals equals just 3 against opposing sides during the course of their last six outings. In those games, Newport County have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 13. Having said that, we must now wait to see whether the trend might be maintained in this match.

Salford City

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Bradford City in League Two action, Salford City and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

The only player to score from Salford City was Callum Hendry (18'). Calum Kavanagh (45') and Brad Halliday (86') scored for Bradford City.

In as many as 5 of the previous 6 clashes featuring Salford City, three or more goals have gone in. The average goals scored per game in that spell is 2.83, with the number of goals averaged by Salford City working out to 1.33.

Coming into this fixture, Salford City are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results going back to 16/01/2021 shows that these encounters have been disappointments for Newport County. They have not managed to register any victories whatsoever while Salford City have maintained the edge over them, finishing as winners in 83 per cent of those matches played.

A combined sum of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 4 for The Exiles and 13 netted by The Ammies. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The previous league contest between these clubs was League Two match day 10 on 30/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Salford City 2-1 Newport County.

The match was refereed by Seb Stockbridge.

🗞️ Team News: Newport County

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Newport County manager Graham Coughlan to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength set of players. Josh Seberry (Broken fibula) is sidelined.

🗞️ Team News: Salford City

Due to a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the Salford City manager Karl Robinson does not have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Newport County will need to apply a lot of pressure to register a score against this Salford City team who we think should emerge victorious.

That’s why we have predicted a very competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Salford City when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Lucas Pereira, 13:07 20/04/2024