GAME REVIEW
Our analysts have prepared this review for 13. Feb 2018 League 2 game with Lincoln City against Cheltenham Town. It looks like an open yet one-sided game. Lincoln City has collected 9 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses in their last 20 games. Last 10 HOME games of Lincoln City have shown us 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 losses. Their last HOME game was on 6. February against Chelsea U21 and it ended with draw (1-1). Last 20 matches of Cheltenham Town show us 8 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses. Last 8 AWAY games of Cheltenham Town are: 4 wins, 1 draws and 3 losses. The last AWAY game was on 6. January against Colchester United and that ended with away win (1-4). From this data, we see Lincoln City is in a better form with more chances to win than their opponent.
Expecting an interesting game between High ranking team Lincoln City and Medium ranking team Cheltenham Town. Lincoln City's last 10 HOME games against Medium ranking teams: 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 losses. Cheltenham Town AWAY performance against High ranking teams: 1 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses from last 10 AWAY games. Lincoln City's scoring ability is 1.9 goals scored per game vs Cheltenham Town's 1.3. Defensive performance shows Lincoln City with 0.8 and Cheltenham Town with 2.4 goals conceded per game. If I consider all of the Ranking-based data and stats, I would say Lincoln City being stronger and most likely winning this game.
When we look at the last 20 games of Lincoln City, we note 9 Overs and 11 Unders. Among the last 20 games of Cheltenham Town, there have been 12 Overs and 8 Unders. Considering the rank-based O/U 2.5 stats of Lincoln City we see 6 Overs and 4 Unders in their last 10 HOME games against teams with similar ranking and performace as Cheltenham Town. Cheltenham Town has seen 7 Overs and 3 Unders in their last 10 AWAY games against teams with similar ranking and performance as Lincoln City has. Lincoln City is averaging 1.9 goals in their home games while Cheltenham Town makes about 2 goals away from home. Taking both numbers together we get 3.9 goals per match between the teams. Lincoln City concedes 1 goals on average and Cheltenham Town 1.75. Both teams´s stats combined, we get a total of 2.75 goals conceded per match. With these statistics, we guess a total score of 3.3 goals per match. History shows that 45% of games end Over 2.5 for Lincoln City and 60% for Cheltenham Town. When trying to give a proper Over/Under 2.5 football prediction ,I would say it will be a sure OVER 2.5 game.
From Lincoln City's last 20 encounters 10 have been with both teams scoring a goal and 10 only one team scoring or no goals at all. From Cheltenham Town's last 20 games, it is 13 with both teams scoring and 7 with only one team/no score. Considering the rank-based BTTS stats, Lincoln City had 5 games where both teams scored and 5 where at least one did not. For Cheltenham Town, we have seen 6 BTTS YES and 4 NO's. There is a 70% chance of Lincoln City scoring today and 85% for Cheltenham Town scoring today. Probability of conceding a goal is 65% for Lincoln City and 75% for Cheltenham Town. Looking at the numbers, we predict that it is going to be a game where BOTH TEAMS have a great chance to score and thus the best BTTS football prediction would be BOTH TEAMS to Score.