Tranmere Rovers perform at a high level so far being 8th in the table. Walsall can look both up and down from their 16th position.
- Tranmere Rovers is in the best form (5-0-1)
- Walsall has the most matches under the total-line (11) in League Two
It's no vacation for neither Tranmere nor Walsall 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.
Tranmere Rovers form and stats
Tranmere Rovers, who have the most clean sheets (8) in League Two, have collected 12 points from their League Two home games so far after 4-0-3. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena. Tranmere has recorded two wins in a row here at Prenton Park, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Tranmere Rovers, as their goalkeeper Scott Davies has completely shut out the opponents for 285 minutes in the League Two.
It's back home for Tranmere Rovers, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Oldham Athletic away with the result 1-0. James Vaughan found the net in that victory. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Brackley Town.
This is expected to be a close game, with Tranmere Rovers perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Tranmere as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Tranmere Rovers has won five of these, drawn three and lost six.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Tranmere as they have a new game in only three days, a EFL Trophy match thankfully also at home. Manchester City U21 are visiting.
Tranmere are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. Tranmere are not conceding a lot of goals here at Prenton Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 7 matches.
Walsall form and stats
Walsall have only collected 6 points from their away games in the League Two, after 0-6-1 (7 played).
Walsall's last game was the home draw against Stevenage (1-1). Before that, Walsall travelled to Newport County and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.
As mentioned above, Walsall drew the match against Stevenage. Manager D. Clarke brought on Josh Gordon to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by Walsall in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Walsall, six draws and five defeats.
The visiting Walsall have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 8 goals from 7 games. Walsall's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 11 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Tranmere two wins, five draws and Walsall three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Vaughan 8 goals |   E. Adebayo 5 goals | C. Lavery 3 goals |
Tranmere Rovers missing players
Walsall missing players
| Tranmere Rovers | Walsall | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 11 | 17 |
| 87% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 47% | 57% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 73% |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | 27% |
| 27% | 14% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 13% |
| 13% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 13% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 86% | 60% |
| 53% | 57% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 47% | 43% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 14% | 27% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9.2 | 8.6 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 8.4 | 11.1 |
| 2.5 | 2.3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
| 49% | 62% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 42% | 27% |
- All of Walsall's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Tranmere Rovers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in League Two
- Tranmere Rovers has the most clean sheets (8) in League Two
- Tranmere Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Tranmere Rovers is in the best form (5-0-1)
- Walsall has the most matches under the total-line (11) in League Two
- Walsall have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Walsall have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Walsall have yet to win a game away.
- Walsall 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 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 30 |
| 2 | Cheltenham Town | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 29 |
| 3 | Exeter City | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 27 |
| 4 | Forest Green Rovers | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 26 |
| 5 | Carlisle United | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 26 |
| 6 | Cambridge United | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 15 | 25 |
| 7 | Leyton Orient | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 8 | Tranmere Rovers | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 24 |
| 9 | Salford City | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 22 |
| 10 | Bolton Wanderers | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | -1 | 22 |
| 11 | Morecambe | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -7 | 22 |
| 12 | Colchester United | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 21 |
| 13 | Crawley Town | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 19 |
| 14 | Port Vale | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 19 |
| 15 | Harrogate Town | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | -2 | 19 |
| 16 | Walsall | 15 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 18 |
| 17 | Oldham Athletic | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 14 | -7 | 17 |
| 18 | Grimsby Town | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -10 | 15 |
| 19 | Mansfield Town | 15 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | -5 | 14 |
| 20 | Scunthorpe United | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | -8 | 14 |
| 21 | Barrow | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | -3 | 13 |
| 22 | Bradford City | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 13 |
| 23 | Stevenage | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 12 |
| 24 | Southend United | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 14 | -23 | 5 |
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