Barrow will hope to use their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The team playing at home are currently 5 points behind Morecambe.
- Barrow have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in League Two
- Morecambe have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Barrow and Morecambe.
Barrow form and stats
When playing at home in the League Two, Barrow have managed 2 wins, 4 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 6 games. Three draws from their last three home games means a steady supply of points here at The Dunes Hotel Stadium, but a victory now would be sweet for Barrow.
Barrow are confident in defense, having played 325 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Barrow, who played 0-0 against Salford City. That match was also played at this venue (The Dunes Hotel Stadium). Defender Ray got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.84/10. Ray won 6 of 9 duels.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Forest Green Rovers and winning 2-0.Low-scoring affair? Looking at this club's last 13 league games, 10 have contained zero, one or two goals.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Barrow as they are travelling to their away game against Northampton Town in the FA Cup. That match is four days after this one.
Barrow has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Barrow have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Morecambe form and stats
The visitors are W3-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the League Two. The fact that Morecambe have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
Morecambe go into this game after a win, the home game against AFC Wimbledon that ended 4-1. It's hard not to mention Mellon's lethal finishing against AFC Wimbledon. three goals were a big reason for the important victory. Attacker Mellon got a player rating of 9.63 in the game. "Man of the match" Mellon scored three goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Tranmere Rovers.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Morecambe when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 7 matches with the visitors losing 5 times, drawing 1 and winning 1 game.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Morecambe manager Adams as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Lincoln City.
The travelling fans enjoy Morecambe's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. As for defending, Morecambe rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 11 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Barrow one win, zero draws and Morecambe three victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Mellon 9 goals |  E. Acauah 5 goals | J. McKiernan 4 goals |
Barrow missing players
Morecambe missing players
| Barrow | Morecambe | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 23 |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 11 | 16 |
| 87% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 93% |
| 67% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 79% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 83% | 64% |
| 13% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 7% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 14% |
| 60% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 21% |
| 5.4 | 4.5 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.3 | 5.4 |
| 4.8 | 5.3 | 7.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.5 | 5.1 |
| 1.5 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.3 | 2.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 12 | 11.5 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9.5 | 11.4 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| 28% | 29% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 36% |
| 11.3 | 9.7 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 17.8 | 15.1 |
| 3.7 | 2.7 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.8 | 4 |
- All of Morecambe's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Barrow have not yet lost a game at home.
- Barrow have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in League Two
- Barrow have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in League Two
- Barrow have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Morecambe have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Morecambe have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Morecambe have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Morecambe haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Stockport County | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 35 |
| 2 | Notts County | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 30 |
| 3 | Wrexham | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 32 | 27 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 30 |
| 4 | Mansfield Town | 15 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 15 | 29 |
| 5 | Crewe Alexandra | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 35 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 29 |
| 6 | Morecambe | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 27 |
| 7 | Accrington Stanley | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 26 |
| 8 | Gillingham | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 25 |
| 9 | Swindon Town | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 33 | 24 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 23 |
| 10 | AFC Wimbledon | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 22 |
| 11 | Barrow | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 22 |
| 12 | Milton Keynes Dons | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 26 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 22 |
| 13 | Salford City | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 21 |
| 14 | Crawley Town | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 27 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 17 | -3 | 21 |
| 15 | Walsall | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 21 | -4 | 20 |
| 16 | Bradford City | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -4 | 20 |
| 17 | Doncaster Rovers | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -5 | 20 |
| 18 | Harrogate Town | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -7 | 19 |
| 19 | Newport County | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -6 | 18 |
| 20 | Colchester United | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 16 |
| 21 | Grimsby Town | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -6 | 14 |
| 22 | Forest Green Rovers | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -9 | 13 |
| 23 | Tranmere Rovers | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 18 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 17 | -11 | 10 |
| 24 | Sutton United | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 22 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 23 | -14 | 10 |
