📏 Form Guide

Stockport County

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Stockport County will be hoping for a better result after the 0-2 EFL Trophy losing effort in their last game against Tranmere Rovers.

Kristian Dennis (21') and Josh Hawkes (39') scored for Tranmere Rovers.

Matches featuring Stockport County have often been lively affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action anticipated. Over their past six games, the sum of 22 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 12 of these accredited to Stockport County.

Wrexham

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In their previous fixture, Wrexham drew 1-1 in the EFL Trophy tie with Port Vale.

The only name on the scoresheet from Wrexham was Max Cleworth (51'). Rico Richards (82') scored for Port Vale. After a tense 1-3 penalty shootout, Port Vale were victorious.

A run of reliable performances by the Wrexham defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their previous 6 clashes combined. Over that same period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 11. In any event, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern might be maintained in this match.

Leading up to this clash, Wrexham:

• have not won against Stockport County when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 28/12/2020 tells us that Stockport County have won 4 of these and Wrexham 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 0.

In all, 19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 13 of them for The Hatters and 6 coming from The Dragons. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The last league clash featuring these clubs was League Two match day 46 on 27/04/2024 when it finished Wrexham 2-1 Stockport County.

The referee was Stephen Martin.

🗞️ Team News: Stockport County

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the Stockport County manager Dave Challinor to be concerned about from of an almost fully healthy set of players. Will Collar (unknown injury) will miss out.

ℹ️ Team News: Wrexham

Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson has to contend with a number of unavailable players. James Jones (Foot injury), Steven Fletcher (Knee problems), George Evans (Torn ankle ligaments), Luke Bolton (Calf injury), Will Boyle (Calf injury), Arthur Okonkwo (Wrist fracture) and Jack Marriott (Broken fibula) are those who can’t be considered.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Wrexham will need to push hard to register a score against this Stockport County outfit who we reckon should get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

We’re therefore anticipating a narrow 1-0 advantage for Stockport County at the end of this one.

We’ll see what happens.

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

Renata Leite, 14:02 16/11/2024