League One Preview

In this weeks PoN's preview to the League One games played on the 31^st of January and the 1^st of February, several key games have been identified – None more important than the Sheffield United v Swindon game, as automatic promotion chasing Bristol City and MK Dons will be keen to see Sheffield United continue their recent form.

If the Blades win, they could move into the play off places while the robins will also be hoping to win so they can stay top of the league with Bristol City chasing them.

* Important Game – ** Key Game

Saturday 31st January

Barnsley v Port Vale – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (1-2)

Bradford v Colchester – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (2-0)

Chesterfield v Doncaster – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (1-1)

Coventry v Rochdale – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (0-1)

Crawley v Preston – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (0-3)

Crewe v MK Dons – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (0-2)

*Leyton Orient v Scunthorpe – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (1-0)

*Oldham v Notts County – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (1-2)

* Peterborough v Yeovil – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (2-0)

**Sheffield United v Swindon – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (1-2)

Sunday 1st February

**Bristol City v Fleetwood – Kick Off 3:00pm – Score Prediction (2-0)

Walsall v Gillingham – Kick Off 6:00pm – Score Prediction (2-1)

My Stand-out Games

Sheffield United v Swindon

Leyton Orient v Scunthorpe

Bristol City v Fleetwood

Sheffield United will be hoping to re enter the play off places with a win against Swindon with 3 games in hand over Fleetwood who currently are in 6^th place.

A win for Swindon would keep them temporarily in 1^st place on goal difference, until Bristol City play Fleetwood on Sunday whereby a high win for the Robins may change this.

Leyton Orient could do with a win against Scunthorpe to get out of the relegation places and possibly move above their opponents today which could see them move up to 19^th place.

Scunthorpe will be hoping to keep up there current form which could see them move up to 16^th position but may have to pin their hopes on paddy madden.

Bristol City will be hoping to beat Fleetwood, then it will be down to Swindon to beat Sheffield United in order to regain the top position of League One otherwise they may still end up in 2nd position depending on their goal difference.

Fleetwood can only possibly move up one place to 5^th in the league but could pull away from 7^th place Bradford and 8^th place Sheffield United, who are hoping to chase them down with a victory against Swindon.

Thoughts on Oldham v Notts County

This week’s match for us is a tough one to predict again with both teams not picking many points up recently though saying that I think we should just about edge it.

Our current results against Oldham Athletic have been pretty good, last losing against them back in 2011.

The last time Oldham Athletic beat us was back in 2013 losing 5–1 in the football league trophy.

The overall head to head record shows us as slight favourites winning 35 Oldham 32 and 20 draws.

Oldham Athletic last beat us in the league on the 31/12/11 beating us 3–2 .

We have picked up 9 points out of 15 from the last 5 meetings.

As I said earlier this match is a tough one to predict both teams struggling for form though our form is slightly better which makes me predict us to just about pull it off.