AFC Wimbledon vs Plymouth Argyle - prediction, team news, lineups

Plymouth Argyle marque the travel to AFC Wimbledon connected Saturday day looking to unafraid the triumph that volition support them progressive successful the contention for the playoffs.

At a clip erstwhile the Pilgrims beryllium successful ninth spot successful the League One table, the Dons are successful 20th spot aft a five-match losing streak.

Match preview

Despite 5 wins and conscionable 1 decision coming from 8 matches, Plymouth stay arsenic outsiders to decorativeness wrong the apical six.

The 2-2 gully against rivals Exeter City has resulted successful Tom Cleverley's broadside heading into the play 4 points adrift of the apical six with 4 matches remaining.

However, facing 3 of the bottommost 5 clubs during the run-in volition promote Cleverley and his players that they tin support the unit connected Stockport County and the teams astir them.

Plymouth besides marque the travel to the Cherry Red Records Stadium having won 10 of their 20 distant fixtures successful this season's League One.

Furthermore, 13 points person travel from the past six specified contests, with astatine slightest 2 goals being scored successful 5 of those encounters.

Meanwhile, AFC Wimbledon person gone from looking connected people for a comfy mid-table decorativeness to desperately requiring a triumph to bolster their endurance hopes.

Losing 2-0 to Stockport connected Wednesday made it 7 defeats successful 8 matches for Johnnie Jackson's broadside since March 14.

AFC Wimbledon person besides failed to people successful their past 5 fixtures, an alarming statistic for a squad that person present conceded 10 goals without uncovering the backmost of the nett themselves.

While Jackson tin instrumentality positives from conscionable 24 goals being conceded successful 21 location fixtures, they person accumulated conscionable 1 constituent - against Peterborough United - successful their past 4 specified games.

As a result, determination is present conscionable a three-point spread supra 21st-placed Exeter City with 3 matches left, the different remaining games coming against Wigan Athletic and Huddersfield Town.

AFC Wimbledon League One form:

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Plymouth Argyle League One form:

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Team News

Jackson is hopeful that Sam Hutchinson and Marcus Browne volition some shingle disconnected insignificant issues to instrumentality to the AFC Wimbledon starting lineup.

Patrick Bauer could driblet out, with Jackson having suggested earlier successful the week that the centre-back took a hazard by facing Stockport.

Ryan Johnson, Joe Lewis, Miles Hippolyte and Omar Bugiel are among those pushing to instrumentality from wounded for the last games of the season.

Plymouth brag Cleverley volition measure Aribim Pepple with the guardant having missed the past 2 matches with a calf issue.

Although Caleb Watts and Xavier Amaechi are some successful contention for a recall, Cleverley whitethorn opt for an unchanged starting lineup.

Brendan Wiredu, Bradley Ibrahim and Herbie Kane stay sidelined for the visitors.

AFC Wimbledon imaginable starting lineup:

Bishop; Asiimwe, Ogundere, Hutchinson, Seddon; Tilley, Reeves, Smith, Maycock; Browne, Sasu

Plymouth Argyle imaginable starting lineup:

Hazard; Edwards, Ross, Mitchell, Harding; Curtis, Boateng, Paterson, Dale; Tolaj, Oseni

We say: AFC Wimbledon 1-3 Plymouth Argyle

Although Plymouth were held by Exeter past clip out, we cannot disregard AFC Wimbledon's existent plight. With that successful mind, expect a convincing distant triumph that whitethorn spot the location broadside lone nett a consolation extremity erstwhile the lucifer is implicit arsenic a contest.

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