More matches already? It’s hard enough work keeping up as a forecaster, let alone as a player. While Jurgen and Pep are moaning in the Premier League, it really is the lower leagues where playing squads aren’t so deep that the intense Covid-influenced schedule bites most.
So, another (almost) full round of fixtures. Lee Johnson’s Sunderland entertain AFC Wimbledon in what looks like League One’s biggest mismatch of the week.
In League Two, Oldham slayed their third (Bradford) manager since the start of 2018 on the weekend to move a little closer to the ultimate manager slayers Gillingham, and tonight face Walsall, in what should be a very exacting fixture given Oldham’s relatively poor home form and the resurgence in form of the Saddlers, who have dispensed with Tranmere and Bolton in the last week. Our model fancies Oldham (48% to win), whereas the bookies see Walsall as ever so slight favourites at 36%). I’d say it’s bound to be 1-1. But Oldham matches don’t tend to be that low scoring any more…
