Exeter City vs Bristol City - prediction, team news, lineups

Exeter City and Bristol City reason their pre-season schedules connected Saturday with a fixture astatine St James' Park.

While the location broadside are preparing for a play successful League Two, Bristol City person ambitions to scope the Championship playoffs.

Match preview

When Bristol City were outperforming Newcastle United successful a 4-1 win connected Wednesday, Eddie Howe's exit from the Magpies had not been nationalist knowledge.

Nevertheless, that should not instrumentality distant from a connection show from Michael Skubala's new-look side.

Skubala has taken a hazard successful leaving Lincoln City, but moving 3-0 up of the Premier League giants wrong 50 minutes volition fortify the feeling that helium has made the close decision.

Signing Plymouth Argyle guardant Lorent Tolaj for £4m is the club's standout woody of the summer, yet it remains to beryllium seen whether the Swiss tin marque the measurement up to the Championship.

This is Bristol City's last crippled earlier they play big to Walsall successful the EFL Cup archetypal circular connected August 6.

Exeter are preparing for the highly-anticipated showdown with Plymouth successful the aforesaid competition.

However, Matt Taylor volition beryllium placing acold much accent connected getting his squad acceptable for what they anticipation volition beryllium a bounce-back campaign.

At this constituent successful time, conscionable 3 players - Shrewsbury Town midfielder Taylor Perry, Morecambe winger Gwion Edwards and Walsall guardant Josh Gordon - person been added to the squad.

More volition inevitably travel fixed the presumption of the players that person left, but Taylor volition beryllium satisfied that Exeter were capable to present a 2-0 triumph astatine Weston-super-Mare past weekend.

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Team News

With Exeter besides playing Torquay United connected Friday night, determination is uncertainty implicit their starting lineup.

However, the presumption is that the strongest XI volition beryllium saved for the clash with second-tier opposition.

Sonny Cox and Gordon got connected the scoresheet successful the triumph astatine Weston-super-Mare.

The bulk of Bristol City's starting lineup against Newcastle were fixed betwixt 69 and 73 minutes of crippled time.

Skubala whitethorn take to get much minutes into the legs of the aforesaid players, earlier making wide changes astatine fractional clip oregon successful the 2nd half.

Yu Hirakawa and Emil Riis some stay unavailable, contempt being adjacent to a instrumentality from insignificant injuries.

Exeter City imaginable starting lineup:

Bycroft; Edwards, Fitzwater, James, Yfeko, Oluwabori, Cummins, Perry, Birch, Cox, Wareham

Bristol City imaginable starting lineup:

Tickle; Tanner, Dickie, Eissat, Pring, Randell, Knight,, Bird, Horvat, Greenwood, Tolaj

We say: Exeter City 1-4 Bristol City

After their show against Newcastle, assurance is precocious wrong this Bristol City squad. Although Exeter person gone done somewhat of a refresh, we expect much of the aforesaid from the visitors successful this contest.

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