Season ticket holders at Northern Commercials Stadium haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Bradford City languishing in the 19th position so far. The guesting Port Vale will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
- Port Vale have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Bradford City form and stats
When playing at home in the League Two, Bradford City have managed 3 wins, 3 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 10 games.
Bradford City are returning here after visiting Tranmere Rovers in a League Two game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. L. Novak scored the goal(s). In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Grimsby Town.
This is expected to be a close game, with Bradford City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Bradford City as a small favourite), we find 16 games. Bradford has won five of these, drawn five and lost six.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Bradford City as they have a new game in only four days, a League Two match thankfully also at home. Morecambe are visiting.
Bradford has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Bradford's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Port Vale form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League Two travels is 4 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats.
The manager J. Askey was unhappy after their last game, a League Two match played at their home ground Vale Park. Port suffered a 0-2 loss to Barrow (placed 22nd). Prior to that match, the Port manager J. Askey faced defeat when travelling to Walsall and losing 3-4.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 19 similar matches played by Port Vale in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for Port, six draws and six defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Port manager J. Askey as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Mansfield Town.
The travelling fans enjoy Port Vale's attacking play in away games, having scored 17 goals in 9 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Port's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 15 goals from these trips. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Bradford three wins, five draws and Port Vale two victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Rodney 6 goals |   L. Novak 5 goals |  T. Conlon 4 goals |
Bradford City missing players
Port Vale missing players
| Bradford City | Port Vale | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 20 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 17 | 29 |
| 25 | 11 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 15 | 29 |
| 95% | 90% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 60% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 78% | 70% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 56% | 40% |
| 20% | 10% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 22% | 20% |
| 45% | 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | 50% |
| 20% | 30% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 22% | 25% |
| 40% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 30% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.2 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11.4 | 12.1 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 11 | 11.8 |
| 4 | 4.5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.6 | 3.8 |
| 25% | 22% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 41% | 39% |
- Port Vale have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Port Vale 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 | Newport County | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 37 |
| 2 | Forest Green Rovers | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 37 |
| 3 | Carlisle United | 19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 35 |
| 4 | Cheltenham Town | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 33 |
| 5 | Exeter City | 19 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 40 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 31 |
| 6 | Cambridge United | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 31 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 31 |
| 7 | Morecambe | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -5 | 31 |
| 8 | Salford City | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 30 |
| 9 | Walsall | 19 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 26 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 30 |
| 10 | Colchester United | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 27 | 29 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -2 | 28 |
| 11 | Crawley Town | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 27 |
| 12 | Leyton Orient | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 29 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 27 |
| 13 | Tranmere Rovers | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 15 | -1 | 27 |
| 14 | Oldham Athletic | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 32 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 17 | -3 | 26 |
| 15 | Bolton Wanderers | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -7 | 25 |
| 16 | Port Vale | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 29 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 24 |
| 17 | Harrogate Town | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | -4 | 22 |
| 18 | Mansfield Town | 20 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 22 | 27 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 11 | -5 | 20 |
| 19 | Bradford City | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -6 | 20 |
| 20 | Scunthorpe United | 19 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 28 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 11 | -9 | 20 |
| 21 | Grimsby Town | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -15 | 19 |
| 22 | Barrow | 19 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 15 | -4 | 16 |
| 23 | Southend United | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | -18 | 16 |
| 24 | Stevenage | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 13 |
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