Oldham Athletic vs York City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Oldham Athletic

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Oldham Athletic will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-0 National League loss in their previous game against Bromley.

Josh Passley (28'), Sam Woods (42') and Corey Whitely (67') scored for Bromley.

Oldham Athletic haven’t made the most of their chances in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 4 vs opponents over the course of their previous 6 outings. In those meetings, Oldham Athletic have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them come to 7. Such a pattern might not be carried forward here, however.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Oldham Athletic:

• haven't lost in the league to York City in their last 3 matches.
• are without a home win in the past 3 league matches.

York City

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York City will come into the match following on from a 3-0 National League win with the downing of Southend United in their last fixture.

For York City, the scorers were Thierry Latty-Fairweather (26'), Maziar Kouhyar (74') and Zanda Siziba (77').

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 clashes involving York City, at least three goals have been struck. The average goals scored per game in that spell is 3.83, with the number of goals averaged by York City being 1.5.

Coming into this fixture, York City are without a win away from home in their last 6 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 09/08/1997 tells us that Oldham Athletic have won 3 of these games and York City 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

A total of 11 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for The Latics and 4 belonging to The Minstermen. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.83.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was National League match day 29 on 24/01/2023 when it finished Oldham Athletic 2-0 York City.

The match was refereed by Greg Rollason.

📋 Team News: Oldham Athletic

The Oldham Athletic boss David Unsworth has a full complement, with no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game thanks to a fully healthy group available for selection. James Norwood will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

📋 Team News: York City

From a largely full-strength group, there’s only the one fitness worry for the York City boss Neal Ardley to be concerned with. David Stockdale (Unknown Injury) misses out for this game.

⚡ Prediction

Our thinking is that York City have it in them to score against this Oldham Athletic side, but it is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We can see a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Oldham Athletic after the 90. It really should be an interesting one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 00:38 15/09/2023