Buckle up for a show! Today's main heroes are Burton Albion and Oxford United, a win is the main plot and 1 1/2 hours the duration.
- Burton Albion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Burton Albion have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Oxford United have scored away.
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 Burton Albion and Oxford United.
Burton Albion form and stats
14 points is a decent return from 7 League One games here at Pirelli Stadium for Burton Albion. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. Two home wins in a row for Burton Albion bring valid hopes of a third.
Burton Albion enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Fleetwood Town's place. The match ended 1-0 with Thomas O'Connor scoring. Thomas O'Connor (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.63/10. O'Connor scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Ahead of that match, Burton won a home game hosting Morecambe (3-2).This is expected to be a close game, with Burton Albion perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Burton Albion as a small favourite), we find ten games. Burton Albion has won four of these, drawn three and lost three.
A decent goal production from Burton Albion in their home games so far, with 11 goals from 7 league matches. Burton Albion have conceded 8 in these home matches.
Oxford United form and stats
1-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Oxford United in their League One matches away.
Oxford are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the League One against Shrewsbury Town (placed 21st). Mark Sykes, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.15. Sykes scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus Plymouth Argyle.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Oxford United in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Oxford, three draws and two defeats.
After this away game Oxford United return home for a EFL Trophy game against Tottenham U21. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Oxford are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 5 games (in the league). In the opposite end, Oxford have conceded 8 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Burton victories, three draws and three Oxford United wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Henry 5 goals |   T. O'Connor 4 goals | M. Taylor 4 goals |
Burton Albion missing players
Oxford United missing players
| Burton Albion | Oxford United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 20 |
| 16 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 92% |
| 71% | 86% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 77% |
| 43% | 57% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 54% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 31% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 57% | 86% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 80% | 69% |
| 29% | 14% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 23% |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 15% |
| 5.6 | 6.3 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 8.6 | 7.2 |
| 6.4 | 5.9 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.2 | 4.8 |
| 2.3 | 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.3 | 15.3 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 14.2 | 14.1 |
| 4 | 4.7 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
| 27% | 33% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 19% | 30% |
- Burton Albion have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Burton Albion have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Oxford United have scored away.
- Burton Albion have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Burton Albion haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Oxford United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Oxford United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Oxford United 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 | Plymouth Argyle | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 29 |
| 2 | Sunderland | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 28 |
| 3 | Wycombe Wanderers | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 27 |
| 4 | Wigan Athletic | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 25 |
| 5 | Rotherham United | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 24 |
| 6 | Milton Keynes Dons | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 22 |
| 7 | Burton Albion | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 22 |
| 8 | Oxford United | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
| 9 | Sheffield Wednesday | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| 10 | Accrington Stanley | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | -6 | 19 |
| 11 | Bolton Wanderers | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 12 | -3 | 18 |
| 12 | Cheltenham Town | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | -6 | 18 |
| 13 | Ipswich Town | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 17 |
| 14 | AFC Wimbledon | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -1 | 17 |
| 15 | Lincoln City | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 15 |
| 16 | Cambridge United | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 15 |
| 17 | Portsmouth | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -3 | 15 |
| 18 | Morecambe | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 16 | -1 | 14 |
| 19 | Gillingham | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -6 | 14 |
| 20 | Fleetwood Town | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 13 |
| 21 | Shrewsbury Town | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 11 | -10 | 11 |
| 22 | Charlton Athletic | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 9 |
| 23 | Crewe Alexandra | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -13 | 8 |
| 24 | Doncaster Rovers | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 16 | -15 | 7 |
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