League One duel: Close contest expected between Fleetwood Town and Peterborough United

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Competition: England League One
Date: Fri 19.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Highbury Stadium (5327 seats)

Fleetwood Town will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Peterborough United.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Fleetwood Town form and stats

When playing at home, Fleetwood Town have managed 8 wins, 7 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 20 games.

The fans are hoping that Fleetwood Town will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-4 away loss in the League One game against Barnsley. In the match before that, Fleetwood Town hosted Southend United and drew the game 2-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Fleetwood Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Fleetwood Town as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Fleetwood Town has won 4 of these, drawn 5 and lost 2.

The manager J. Barton will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Blackpool in only three days.

Fleetwood Town have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Highbury Stadium with 30 goals in 20 matches. Fleetwood Town's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 25 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Peterborough United form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their travels is 10 wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats.

Two travels in a row for Peterborough United, whose manager D. Ferguson could celebrate last time after the League One win against Blackpool. Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Gillingham.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 50 similar matches played by Peterborough United in our archives, and the results are: 19 wins for Peterborough United, 14 draws and 17 defeats.

After this away game Peterborough United return home for a League One game against Sunderland. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Peterborough United are not goal shy away from home, finding the net 36 times in 20 away games so far. 28 goals have been conceded by Peterborough United in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Peterborough United - Fleetwood Town 1-0. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's 3 Fleetwood Town victories, 1 draw and 5 Peterborough United wins.

Top Goalscorers

C. Evans
16 goals / 4 assists
P. Madden
14 goals / 7 assists
M. Godden
13 goals / 4 assists

Fleetwood Town missing players

Peterborough United missing players

Fleetwood Town Peterborough United
Total Home Statistic Away Total
41 20 Played 20 41
54 30 Scored 36 63
47 25 Conceded 28 54
93% 95% Over 0.5 100% 98%
68% 75% Over 1.5 75% 76%
46% 55% Over 2.5 60% 54%
22% 30% Over 3.5 55% 39%
10% 10% Over 4.5 20% 12%
44% 60% Both teams to score 55% 56%
37% 30% Clean Sheet 25% 24%
27% 15% Failed To Score 20% 22%
 
0 0 Corners For (avg) 0 0
0 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 0
0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0
0 0 Red Cards (avg) 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Peterborough United hasn't played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Peterborough United is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
  • Fleetwood Town is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Luton Town 42 25 12 5 81 37 21 15 6 0 52 16 21 10 6 5 29 21 44 87
2 Barnsley 42 23 13 6 72 35 21 13 8 0 36 14 21 10 5 6 36 21 37 82
3 Sunderland 41 21 17 3 74 41 21 11 9 1 43 24 20 10 8 2 31 17 33 80
4 Portsmouth 41 23 11 7 75 44 20 11 6 3 37 17 21 12 5 4 38 27 31 80
5 Charlton Athletic 42 23 10 9 62 38 21 14 5 2 33 15 21 9 5 7 29 23 24 79
6 Doncaster Rovers 42 19 12 11 71 52 21 12 7 2 42 19 21 7 5 9 29 33 19 69
7 Peterborough United 41 18 10 13 63 54 21 8 6 7 27 26 20 10 4 6 36 28 9 64
8 Coventry City 42 17 10 15 50 49 21 8 6 7 21 19 21 9 4 8 29 30 1 61
9 Burton Albion 42 16 12 14 60 48 21 10 5 6 32 20 21 6 7 8 28 28 12 60
10 Blackpool 42 14 16 12 47 46 21 7 8 6 26 22 21 7 8 6 21 24 1 58
11 Fleetwood Town 41 15 11 15 54 47 20 8 7 5 30 25 21 7 4 10 24 22 7 56
12 Oxford United 42 13 14 15 50 56 21 10 3 8 30 24 21 3 11 7 20 32 -6 53
13 Shrewsbury Town 42 12 14 16 47 53 21 8 8 5 23 22 21 4 6 11 24 31 -6 50
14 Bristol Rovers 42 12 13 17 44 47 21 5 6 10 22 26 21 7 7 7 22 21 -3 49
15 Gillingham 42 13 9 20 54 68 21 6 4 11 24 33 21 7 5 9 30 35 -14 48
16 Accrington Stanley 42 12 12 18 43 61 21 6 6 9 21 29 21 6 6 9 22 32 -18 48
17 Wycombe Wanderers 42 12 11 19 52 64 21 8 5 8 26 26 21 4 6 11 26 38 -12 47
18 Plymouth Argyle 42 12 11 19 51 67 21 8 6 7 33 33 21 4 5 12 18 34 -16 47
19 Scunthorpe United 42 12 9 21 49 73 21 6 6 9 29 39 21 6 3 12 20 34 -24 45
20 Rochdale 42 12 9 21 51 83 21 6 4 11 23 37 21 6 5 10 28 46 -32 45
21 AFC Wimbledon 42 12 8 22 37 59 21 5 4 12 21 35 21 7 4 10 16 24 -22 44
22 Southend United 42 12 7 23 49 63 21 6 2 13 27 31 21 6 5 10 22 32 -14 43
23 Walsall 42 11 9 22 45 69 21 6 4 11 26 36 21 5 5 11 19 33 -24 42
24 Bradford City 42 10 6 26 45 72 21 7 2 12 24 30 21 3 4 14 21 42 -27 36

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