Fleetwood Town vs Rochdale - prediction, team news, lineups

Aiming to grounds 3 consecutive successes astatine their Highbury Stadium fortress, Fleetwood Town big chap League Two outfit Rochdale for a clash successful the archetypal circular of the FA Cup connected Saturday afternoon.

The Cod Army person taken Arsenal's scalp connected location ungraded successful caller times successful the EFL Cup, whilst the Dale are struggling to get a grip connected the 4th tier pursuing their promotion from the National League.

Match preview

Despite mulling astir successful the little reaches of the League Two standings since their League One relegation successful 2024, Fleetwood Town person enjoyed the spotlight precocious aft a historical cupful success.

On October 27, the Cod Army welcomed Premier League champions Arsenal to Highbury and knocked their visitors retired of the EFL Cup, with the hosts earning a quarter-final necktie with Everton successful the mediate of December.

Scoring successful some the beating of the Gunners and past weekend's 3-1 third-tier triumph implicit Bristol Rovers, Aaron Loupalo-Bi is experiencing a breakthrough run successful elder football, with the Fulham loanee netting 5 competitory goals for Fleetwood truthful far.

That occurrence implicit the Gasmen past clip retired extended the Cod Army's unbeaten tally astatine Highbury Stadium to 5 matches (W4 D1) successful each competitions, whilst Matt Lawlor's men person mislaid conscionable erstwhile crossed 7 location league contests to date.

Rather unsurprisingly, that sole Lancashire nonaccomplishment came astatine the hands of Saturday's visitors Rochdale successful September, erstwhile first-half efforts from Dajaune Brown and Aden Flint sealed maximum League Two points for the Dale.

Rochdale are backmost successful the EFL this run pursuing a three-year absence, winning the National League playoff last implicit Boreham Wood astatine Wembley Stadium, with that peculiar clash decided by punishment kicks.

Since returning, the Dale person failed to region themselves from an impending relegation dogfight, with Saturday afternoon's visitors successful the midst of a seven-game winless tally (D2 L5) crossed League Two and EFL Trophy duties.

Alarmingly, Ian Watson's men person mislaid each of their past 3 competitory contests by an aggregate scoreline of 13-3, suffering a 4-1 EFL Trophy decision by Doncaster Rovers astatine Crown Oil Arena connected Tuesday night.

Last tasting fourth-tier occurrence connected October 3 astatine location to Swindon Town, Rochdale person slumped down to 20th spot successful the League Two table, conscionable 3 points supra 23rd-placed Colchester United.

Runners-up successful the EFL Cup successful 1962, the Dale person not enjoyed specified occurrence successful the FA Cup and past season's effort astatine glory ended successful the 4th qualifying circular astatine the hands of York City.

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Team News

Scoring Fleetwood's 3rd extremity successful the triumph implicit Bristol Rovers, midfielder Josh Robertson is pushing for a uncommon commencement this weekend.

The Cod Army could impact attacker Will Davies from the commencement connected Saturday, with the 27-year-old providing an assistance against the Gasmen past clip out.

A leader astatine wing-back for Fleetwood successful their conquering of Arsenal successful the EFL Cup, Scotsman Shaun Rooney should commencement successful a much earthy centre-back relation connected Saturday.

Captaining Rochdale astatine the property of 41 earlier successful the week, Ian Henderson should support his spot astatine the focal constituent of attack.

That being said, the Dale volition beryllium keen to get Derby County loanee Brown backmost into the starting XI for a winner-takes-all clash astatine Highbury.

Fleetwood Town imaginable starting lineup:

Lynch; Rooney, Bennett, Potter; McLean, Neal, Helm, McCann, Batty; Coughlan, Loupalo-Bi

Rochdale imaginable starting lineup:

Waller; Sherring, Flint, Wilson, Tasker; Adeeko, Gilmour; Hannot, Francis; Henderson, Brown

We say: Fleetwood Town 3-0 Rochdale

Following their historical location occurrence implicit Arsenal past month, Fleetwood volition beryllium highly assured of repeating the instrumentality against a chap League Two broadside this weekend.

Rochdale person conceded 18 goals crossed their past 5 matches and are improbable to support the Cod Army astatine bay connected Saturday.

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