The League One match summary, better known as a league table, tells the truth about these teams up until now, with Bolton Wanderers leading Milton Keynes Dons by 25 points. Get your full match preview:
- Bolton Wanderers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in League One
- Milton Keynes Dons have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It's no vacation for neither Bolton Wanderers nor Milton Keynes Dons as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Bolton Wanderers form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at University of Bolton Stadium as Bolton Wanderers have scored 21 goals to get 34 points from 16 games. The overall stats in the League One are 10-4-2 (wins-draws-losses). The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of four straight victories regardless of arena.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper James Trafford not having conceded a league goal in 224 minutes.
Bolton Wanderers enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Peterborough United's place. The match ended 5-0 with Charles and Santos (2) scoring. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Wanderers played a great game against Peterborough United and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Trafford loved the game against Peterborough United. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 5-0 victory. Defender Santos got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 9.44/10. Santos scored two goals and won 9 of 14 duels.
Ahead of that match, Bolton Wanderers won a home game hosting Cheltenham Town (1-0).The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Bolton Wanderers's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 7 games, won 4 matches, drawn 3 and lost 0.
There will be little rest for Bolton Wanderers after this match as they are travelling to Wycombe Wanderers for a League One game in only four days.
Wanderers are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 21 goals in 16 games. Bolton Wanderers are not conceding a lot of goals here at University of Bolton Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 16 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Milton Keynes Dons form and stats
6-1-7 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Milton Keynes Dons in their League One matches away. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Milton Keynes Dons are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Keynes played 1-1 against Oxford United in their previous match. Watson, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.14. Watson hit one key pass and won 4 of 7 duels.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Bristol Rovers.Low-scoring game? 8 of this team's most recent 10 league matches have had zero, one or two goals.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Milton Keynes Dons manager Jackson as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Sheffield Wednesday.
Milton Keynes Dons have scored 17 goals on their travels this season, from 14 away games in the league. Keynes have conceded 17 goals in these away matches. Milton Keynes Dons has visited these top teams four times, and 3 of 4 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
These opponents have met previously this season: Milton Keynes Dons - Bolton Wanderers 0-2. Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: three - three - three (Wanderers wins - draws - Milton Keynes Dons wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Charles 14 goals |   W. Grigg 5 goals |  B. Johnson 5 goals |
Bolton Wanderers missing players
Milton Keynes Dons missing players
| Bolton Wanderers | Milton Keynes Dons | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 16 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 30 |
| 16 | 10 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | 17 |
| 43 | 21 | 5 | Scored | S | 2 | 17 | 28 |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 11 | 17 | 41 |
| 84% | 81% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 93% |
| 65% | 56% | 25% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 79% | 70% |
| 39% | 31% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 50% | 40% |
| 16% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 21% | 20% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 35% | 25% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 36% | 43% |
| 52% | 69% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 36% | 23% |
| 29% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 36% | 40% |
| 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 4.3 | 3.8 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5 | 4.8 |
| 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11.9 | 11.9 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.5 | 8.8 | 9.8 |
| 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
| 45% | 43% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 32% | 26% |
| 9.9 | 9.3 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 13.3 | 12.3 |
| 2.9 | 2.1 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
- Bolton Wanderers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Bolton Wanderers have the fewest conceded goals (8) at home in League One
- Bolton Wanderers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in League One
- Bolton Wanderers have the most clean sheets (11) at home in League One
- Milton Keynes Dons have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sheffield Wednesday | 28 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 48 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 30 | 61 |
| 2 | Plymouth Argyle | 29 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 51 | 30 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 21 | 61 |
| 3 | Ipswich Town | 29 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 54 | 29 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 19 | 25 | 55 |
| 4 | Derby County | 28 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 45 | 21 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 24 | 53 |
| 5 | Bolton Wanderers | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 38 | 23 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 53 |
| 6 | Barnsley | 27 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 47 |
| 7 | Peterborough United | 27 | 14 | 2 | 11 | 45 | 32 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 22 | 13 | 44 |
| 8 | Wycombe Wanderers | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 38 | 27 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 44 |
| 9 | Shrewsbury Town | 29 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 36 | 31 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 44 |
| 10 | Portsmouth | 27 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 35 | 33 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 2 | 38 |
| 11 | Exeter City | 29 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 42 | 41 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 38 |
| 12 | Charlton Athletic | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 43 | 39 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 4 | 37 |
| 13 | Bristol Rovers | 29 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 43 | 52 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 28 | -9 | 37 |
| 14 | Port Vale | 29 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 29 | 40 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 21 | -11 | 37 |
| 15 | Oxford United | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 34 | 36 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 19 | -2 | 35 |
| 16 | Lincoln City | 27 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 27 | 30 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 20 | -3 | 34 |
| 17 | Fleetwood Town | 28 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 31 | 33 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 16 | -2 | 29 |
| 18 | Cheltenham Town | 28 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 19 | -12 | 29 |
| 19 | Milton Keynes Dons | 29 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 27 | 40 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 17 | -13 | 28 |
| 20 | Burton Albion | 28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 37 | 56 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 33 | -19 | 28 |
| 21 | Morecambe | 28 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 31 | 45 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 28 | -14 | 27 |
| 22 | Accrington Stanley | 27 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 45 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 24 | -20 | 26 |
| 23 | Cambridge United | 28 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 24 | 47 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 30 | -23 | 26 |
| 24 | Forest Green Rovers | 30 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 24 | 57 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 30 | -33 | 21 |
