Swindon Town vs Rochdale Prediction & Betting Tips

Rochdale will be at The Energy Check County Ground on Saturday for the League One game with hosts Swindon Town.

Our tips, poll and stats for Swindon Town v Rochdale can all be found here (plus the best game odds).

📊 Form Guide

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Swindon Town will be hoping to bounce back here after the 2-3 EFL Trophy loss in their previous game against West Brom U23s.

In their preceding 6 fixtures, Richie Wellens's Swindon Town have hit the target 9 times resulting in an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.

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Rochdale come into this meeting after a 1-2 EFL Trophy win over Morecambe in their previous outing.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Rochdale, 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 The Dale working out to 1.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 21/10/2014 tells us that Swindon Town have won 3 of these & Rochdale 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 25 in total which averages out at 4.17 goals per match.

The previous league clash featuring the two was League One match day 18 on 19/11/2016 when it ended Rochdale 4-0 Swindon Town.

The match was refereed by Darren Handley.

📰 Team News: Swindon Town

Swindon Town manager Richie Wellens will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this game thanks to a fully injury-free group ready to go.

ℹ️ Team News: Rochdale

Due to a completely injury-free group to pick from, Rochdale manager Brian Barry-Murphy does not have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this match.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Rochdale could well find it tough to be putting a goal past this Swindon Town team who we think will likely win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore predicting a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning score for Swindon Town at full-time.

We’ll see what happens.

Victor Martins, 23:15 07/09/2020