The guesting Salford City team should be odds-on favourites at Rochdale, as the away side hold a 12 point lead from their seven league matches this season.
- Rochdale is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- Salford City have scored more than double the goals of Rochdale.
Rochdale and Salford City should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Rochdale form and stats
Rochdale have played three League Two home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 1 point from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
Rochdale drew their last game, 3-3 away at Carlisle United (placed 12th). A disappointing finish for Rochdale in their match versus Carlisle United as their 3-1 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 3-3 full time score. Attacking player Quigley bested all teammates in that fixture and managed a match rating of 8.63 out of 10. Quigley scored two goals, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
In the game before, 3-3 away to Accrington Stanley (after extra-time, 4-3 on penalties) (EFL Trophy).
The match schedule is unforgiving for Rochdale as they have a new game in only three days, a League Two match thankfully also at home. Leyton Orient are visiting.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Rochdale here at Crown Oil Arena in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (2 from 3 games). Rochdale have conceded 4 in these home matches.
Salford City form and stats
Salford City are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League Two, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Salford City's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Crawley Town that finished 2-2. The attacker Hendry got a match rating of 7.85 in that game. Hendry scored one goal and hit two key passes.
Before that one, the win at home hosting Liverpool U21 in the EFL Trophy (2-1).
Salford have another fixture away from home in just three days, a League Two match versus Harrogate Town. A difficult fixture list for the visiting team!
The visiting Salford City have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. As opposed to that, Salford City have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Rochdale-Salford City H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Rochdale zero wins, Salford City one win, two draws. one of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  D. Rodney 2 goals | S. Quigley 2 goals |  R. Watson 2 goals |
Rochdale missing players
Salford City missing players
| Rochdale | Salford City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 86% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 71% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 33% | 14% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 57% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 5 | 6.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 5.4 | 2.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 2.1 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.9 | 13.3 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 13 | 13.4 |
| 2.4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 29% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 33% | 39% |
| 13.6 | 9.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 10.7 | 9.3 |
| 3.7 | 3.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 3 | 2.3 |
- Rochdale have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Rochdale have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Rochdale have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Rochdale have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Rochdale have yet to win a game.
- Rochdale haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Rochdale is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- Salford City have scored more than double the goals of Rochdale.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Leyton Orient | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 19 |
| 2 | Stevenage | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 3 | Barrow | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 4 | Salford City | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | Northampton Town | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | Doncaster Rovers | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Mansfield Town | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 8 | Bradford City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| 9 | Grimsby Town | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 10 | Crewe Alexandra | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | Sutton United | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 12 | Carlisle United | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 13 | Walsall | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 14 | Swindon Town | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 15 | AFC Wimbledon | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 8 |
| 16 | Tranmere Rovers | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 17 | Newport County | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | -1 | 7 |
| 18 | Stockport County | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 19 | Harrogate Town | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 20 | Colchester United | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 21 | Gillingham | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -7 | 5 |
| 22 | Crawley Town | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 3 |
| 23 | Hartlepool United | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 3 |
| 24 | Rochdale | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 2 |
