Oldham Athletic vs Rochdale Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Oldham Athletic

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Oldham Athletic, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 2-0 National League triumph over Eastleigh.

For Oldham Athletic, the goalscorers were Billy Waters (8') and Jake Caprice (74').

Oldham Athletic haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics of late. Their sum of goals equals just 3 vs opponents over their previous 6 matches. In those games, Oldham Athletic have also seen the number of goals against them come to 7. We will have to find out if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Coming into this clash, Oldham Athletic have not been beaten in the league by Rochdale in their last 8 matches. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.

Rochdale

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Rochdale go into this meeting following on from a 3-0 National League win as they beat Altrincham in their most recent game.

For Rochdale, the goals were scored by Aidan Barlow (64'), Jay Bird (67') and Kairo Mitchell (82').

In the course of their 6 previous matches, Jimmy McNulty's Rochdale have found the back of the net 7 times, giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.17.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Rochdale:

• have not won against Oldham Athletic when having played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• remain undefeated by Oldham Athletic in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings dating back to 11/12/2018 shows that Oldham Athletic have won 3 of them & Rochdale 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.

13 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 7 of them for The Latics and 6 coming from The Dale. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was National League match day 19 on 04/02/2025 when the final score was Rochdale 0-1 Oldham Athletic.

The match was refereed by Paul Marsden.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that Rochdale have the firepower to find the back of the net against this Oldham Athletic team, however it probably won’t quite be as many as they’ll concede.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 2-1 win for Oldham Athletic when the full-time whistle blows. Should be a good one.

Peter Guest, 03:06 12/03/2025