Torquay United vs Southend United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Torquay United

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Torquay United will be hoping to bounce back here following the 2-1 National League losing effort in their last game against Solihull Moors.

The only player to score from Torquay United was Klaidi Lolos (80'). Andrew Dallas (32') and Joe Sbarra (48') scored for Solihull Moors.

Torquay United have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets lately, although they have also done enough to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Torquay United have conceded in 6 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches. That pattern might not be carried forward into this match, however.

Heading into this fixture, Torquay United have not won at home in their last 5 league matches. Fans are getting restless.

Southend United

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Aldershot Town in National League competition, Southend United and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

For Southend United, the goalscorers were Rhys Murphy (17') and Jason Demetriou (37' Own goal, 95'). Mohamed Bettamer (50') and Jacob Berkeley-Agyepong (88') scored for Aldershot Town.

During their 6 latest matches, Phil Brown's Southend United have slotted home a total of 6 times, giving them a goals per game average of 1.

Going into this encounter, Southend United have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 22/10/2011 tells us that Torquay United have won 1 of these and Southend United 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

A combined sum of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 4 of them from The Gulls and 10 created by The Shrimpers. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The last league game featuring these clubs was League Two match day 40 on 29/03/2014 when it ended Southend United 1-0 Torquay United.

The match was refereed by Rob Lewis.

🗞️ Team News: Torquay United

The Torquay United manager Gary Johnson doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game with a fully healthy group available for selection.

🗞️ Team News: Southend United

Due to a fully injury-free squad to choose from, the Southend United boss Phil Brown has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game.

💭 Prediction

Here is a game where Southend United could find themselves struggling to score against this Torquay United side who should get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re therefore predicting a very competitive game with a 1-0 win for Torquay United when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Peter Guest, 23:44 13/09/2021