Preview: Plymouth Argyle vs. Bristol City - prediction, team news, lineups

Bristol City volition look to assertion a 3rd consecutive triumph erstwhile they question to Home Park for a New Year's Day clash against Plymouth Argyle.

Meanwhile, the Pilgrims are hoping for improved fortunes successful the caller twelvemonth aft finishing 2024 with a nine-game winless run.

Match preview

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Plymouth brag Wayne Rooney is nether unit to prevention his job, with the Pilgrims languishing astatine the ft of the Championship table aft winning four, drafting six and losing 13 of their 23 league matches.

Rooney's broadside recorded the astir caller of those 4 victories connected November 5 erstwhile they edged retired relegation rivals Portsmouth by a 1-0 scoreline.

The Pilgrims person mislaid six of their 9 matches since that triumph (D3), including defeats successful their last 2 outings of 2024.

Plymouth slumped to a dense 4-0 nonaccomplishment successful their Boxing Day clash against Coventry City, earlier they fell to a 2-0 decision successful Sunday's distant clash with Oxford United, starring to boos from the distant enactment astatine the Kassam Stadium.

After competing successful back-to-back distant games, Plymouth volition present instrumentality to the acquainted surroundings of Home Park, wherever they person collected 16 of their 18 points this season.

With 4 points separating them from safety, the Pilgrims volition beryllium hopeless to assertion a league triumph implicit Bristol City for the archetypal clip since March 2010.

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In opposition to their hosts, Bristol City enjoyed a palmy extremity to the calendar year, signaling back-to-back location victories against Luton Town and Portsmouth.

Scott Twine scored the decisive extremity successful a 1-0 triumph implicit the Hatters, earlier the Robins scored 3 goals successful the opening 35 minutes to clinch maximum points successful Sunday's clash with Pompey.

Anis Mehmeti netted a brace alongside a Rob Dickie effort to occurrence Bristol City to their 2nd consecutive triumph without conceding, moving the Robins up to 10th spot and to wrong 4 points of the playoffs.

After competing successful consecutive location games, Bristol City volition present caput connected their travels with hopes of ending their four-game winless distant run.

The Robins person failed to people successful 3 of those 4 roadworthy trips, but they whitethorn inactive fancy their chances of exploiting a Plymouth broadside that person the league's worst antiaircraft grounds with 51 goals conceded.

The visitors volition besides instrumentality assurance from the information they person won each of their past 3 competitory games against Plymouth, including a ascendant 4-0 triumph successful November's reverse fixture.

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Team News

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Plymouth are apt to beryllium without Michael Obafemi, Joe Edwards, Muhamed Tijani and Mustapha Bundu owed to injury.

Callum Wright volition service the 2nd crippled of a three-match prohibition aft being shown a consecutive reddish paper successful the Boxing Day decision against Coventry.

Ibrahima Cissoko is closing successful connected a instrumentality to action, but it remains to beryllium seen whether helium volition beryllium acceptable to diagnostic successful Wednesday's matchday squad.

As for the visitors, Manning volition beryllium incapable to telephone upon the injured trio of Joe Williams, Sinclair Armstrong and Adam Murphy.

Kal Naismith and Mark Sykes are making advancement successful their respective recoveries, but the brace are not expected to instrumentality successful clip for the travel to Home Park.

Buoyed from Sunday's brace, Mehmeti volition connection 1 of Bristol City's main attacking threats, particularly arsenic helium scored 2 goals and provided an assistance successful November's 4-0 triumph implicit Plymouth.

Plymouth Argyle imaginable starting lineup:
Hazard; Mumba, Szucs, Gibson, Galloway; Whittaker, Gyabi, Randell, Roberts, Sorinola; Hardie

Bristol City imaginable starting lineup:
O'Leary; Vyner, Dickie, McNally; McCrorie, Knight, Bird, Pring; Twine, Mehmeti; Wells

We say: Plymouth Argyle 1-2 Bristol City

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