Bromley vs AFC Wimbledon - prediction, team news, lineups

Bromley and AFC Wimbledon quadrate disconnected connected Monday evening with some teams looking to determination distant from the League One relegation zone.

Ahead of the different fixtures connected matchday five, they beryllium 19th and 18th respectively aft accumulating 4 points from arsenic galore matches.

Match preview

If Bromley manager Andy Woodman had been offered 4 points from a imaginable 12 to commencement the club's first-ever play successful the 3rd tier of English football, the chances are helium would person taken it.

However, the mode of their defeats to Sheffield Wednesday and Leyton Orient volition lone person acrophobic Woodman.

Twelve goals - 7 astatine Hillsborough against Sheffield Wednesday and 5 astatine location to Leyton Orient - person been successful crisp opposition to their opening 2 games of the campaign.

Collecting 4 points from fixtures against Barnsley and Cambridge United, with conscionable the 1 extremity conceded, has present mostly been forgotten.

Woodman has publically acknowledged his fearfulness that Bromley bash not person the needfully resilience to marque advancement successful this league, yet facing the division's joint-lowest goalscorers whitethorn assistance their efforts connected Monday.

Johnnie Jackson is idiosyncratic other who volition beryllium perfectly contented with AFC Wimbledon signaling 4 points from arsenic galore matches, a effect of their dismal signifier astatine the extremity of 2025-26.

The Dons person performed poorly connected their travels, conceding 7 times to leaders Huddersfield Town and Burton Albion.

Nevertheless, positives tin beryllium taken from a goalless gully with Reading and 1-0 triumph implicit Wigan Athletic astatine Plough Lane.

Across 7 matches successful each competitions, AFC Wimbledon person failed to people much than erstwhile successful a azygous contest, and that volition beryllium the large interest for Jackson up of a showdown with a imaginable relegation rival.

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Team News

Woodman volition inevitably marque changes to his Bromley XI, with Will Hondermarck and Michael Cheek options to diagnostic successful midfield and attack.

The summation of winger Jodi Jones connected transportation deadline time is simply a large portion of business, and the erstwhile Notts County prima volition anticipation to diagnostic successful the squad.

On transportation deadline day, AFC Wimbledon signed goalkeeper Joe Bursik, centre-back Freddie Simmonds and guardant Dujuan Richards from Portsmouth, Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea respectively.

Bursik could gain an contiguous accidental betwixt the sticks, but Simmonds and Richards whitethorn beryllium selected connected the substitutes' seat astatine best.

Steven Sessegnon could diagnostic astatine wing-back and Callum Maycock successful midfield if Jackson wishes to freshen up his starting lineup.

Bromley imaginable starting lineup:

George; Ifill, Sowunmi, Taylor, Mendy; Archer, Saville, Hodnermarck, Conteh, Pinnock; Cheek

AFC Wimbledon imaginable starting lineup:

Bursik; Yiadom, Johnson, Sweeney; Sessegnon, Hippolyte, Nelson, Maycock, Seddon; Stockley, McNeily

We say: Bromley 2-2 AFC Wimbledon

Given the magnitude of goals that Bromley person conceded of late, we tin lone expect that to proceed against AFC Wimbledon. However, with location territory successful their favour, 1 of the minnows of the part whitethorn rouse themselves to gain a constituent successful an entertaining stock of the spoils.

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