Tranmere Rovers vs Newport County Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Tranmere Rovers

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Tranmere Rovers will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-0 League Two losing effort in their last game against Gillingham.

Shaun Williams (32') and Conor Masterson (83') scored for Gillingham.

Tranmere Rovers haven’t made the most of their chances of late. Their goals record stands at just 3 against opponents over the course of their last 6 outings. In those meetings, Tranmere Rovers have also seen the tally of goals against them come to 7. We will just have to see if that trend will be continued on here.

Their past results show that Tranmere Rovers:

• have left without a victory over Newport County in their last 3 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Newport County

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Previously, Newport County drew 1-1 in the League Two tie with AFC Wimbledon.

The only name on the scoresheet from Newport County was Harry Charsley (69'). Ali Al Hamadi (5') was the scorer for AFC Wimbledon.

Looking at their form, and Newport County have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 8 goals in total. At the back, Newport County have seen their frailties exposed.

Coming into this meeting, Newport County have not won away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 25/05/2019 shows that Tranmere Rovers have won 2 of these & Newport County 4, with the tally of drawn results being 0.

13 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for Super White Army and 8 being from The Exiles. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league contest between the two was League Two match day 5 on 20/08/2022 when the final score was Newport County 2-1 Tranmere Rovers.

The match was refereed by Tom Nield.

📰 Team News: Tranmere Rovers

The Tranmere Rovers manager Micky Mellon will be thankful to have no fitness worries to speak of before this clash thanks to a fully healthy squad to pick from.

ℹ️ Team News: Newport County

Thanks to a completely healthy group to pick from, the Newport County manager Graham Coughlan has zero fitness concerns whatsoever before this match.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Newport County might need a bit of good fortune to see themselves scoring against this Tranmere Rovers outfit who we think might well score one, at least.

We’re therefore anticipating a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning margin for Tranmere Rovers after 90 minutes.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

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