Oldham Athletic vs Southend United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Oldham Athletic

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Oldham Athletic will be looking for another win after the 1-5 National League success over Dorking Wanderers.

For Oldham Athletic, goals were scored by Mike Fondop (18', 34', 56'), Peter Clarke (45') and Ellis Chapman (64'). James McShane (8') was the scorer for Dorking Wanderers.

Oldham Athletic have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, but they’ve also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Oldham Athletic have conceded in 6 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those games.

Southend United

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Southend United will come into the meeting after a 3-0 National League win to beat Solihull Moors in their last match.

For Southend United, the goals were scored by Jason Demetriou (19'), Harry Cardwell (55') and Jack Bridge (60').

During their six previous matches, Kevin Maher's Southend United have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 6 times, earning them a goals per game average of 1.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head meetings going back to 01/04/2017 tells us that Oldham Athletic have won 1 of them & Southend United 4, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A combined total of 12 goals were scored between them in this period, with 2 of them for The Latics and 10 netted by The Shrimpers. The average goals per game has been 2.

The previous league game between the two was National League match day 4 on 20/08/2022 when the final score was Southend United 1-0 Oldham Athletic.

The match was refereed by Adrian Quelch.

🗞️ Team News: Oldham Athletic

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just one fitness concern for the Oldham Athletic gaffer David Unsworth to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy group. Magnus Norman (Ankle Fracture) won’t play.

ℹ️ Team News: Southend United

Due to a completely injury-free group available for selection, the Southend United boss Kevin Maher has zero fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash.

✨ Prediction

Our assessment here is that Oldham Athletic will need to put in a solid display to break down this Southend United lineup who will likely gain the upper hand.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 advantage for Southend United when all is said and done.

Let’s see how it plays out.

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Renata Leite, 01:52 17/01/2023