Preview: Stevenage vs. Burton Albion - prediction, team news, lineups

League One basement broadside Burton Albion volition question to the Lamex Stadium for Saturday's League One brushwood against Stevenage.

The hosts are looking to assertion their archetypal triumph of 2025, portion Burton are looking to grounds a triumph for the archetypal clip since December 4.

Match preview

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Stevenage volition caput into Saturday's fixture successful 13th position aft winning eight, drafting 7 and losing 8 of their 23 league matches.

Alex Revell's broadside person experienced an underwhelming commencement to 2025, having played retired consecutive goalless draws against Northampton Town and Lincoln City since they finished the erstwhile calendar twelvemonth with a 3-0 triumph implicit

While they whitethorn person been frustrated with those 2 results, Stevenage volition instrumentality assurance from the information they person proven to beryllium a pugnacious seed to ace astatine the other extremity of the pitch, having kept cleanable sheets successful 4 of their past 5 matches.

After playing back-to-back distant games, Stevenage volition present instrumentality to the Lamex Stadium, wherever they person won 3 of their erstwhile 4 location league matches.

The Boro person won six of their past 9 competitory meetings with Burton, including a commanding 4-0 distant triumph erstwhile the past 2 teams faced disconnected successful December's EFL Trophy clash.

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Burton brag Gary Bowyer has been incapable to spark an upturn successful fortunes since helium took implicit the reins astatine the Pirelli Stadium successful the mediate of December.

Bowyer began his tenure with consecutive defeats, earlier helium saw his broadside springiness up leads to gully back-to-back matches against Huddersfield Town and Peterborough.

Unfortunately for Bowyer, his squad were incapable to instrumentality thing from past Saturday's location clash against Northampton Town, conceding successful the 86th infinitesimal successful a constrictive 1-0 defeat.

Having mustered conscionable 14 matches from 24 matches, the Brewers are languishing astatine the bottommost of the table, leaving them 11 points adrift from information and staring down the tube of relegation to League Two.

If they are to equine an flight bid, Burton request to embark connected a affirmative spell of results sooner alternatively than later, and they volition anticipation they tin commencement specified a tally successful Saturday's fixture, arsenic they look to replicate the 2-1 triumph they recorded successful their astir caller travel to the Lamex Stadium successful April 2024.

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Team News

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Stevenage volition not beryllium capable to telephone upon Aaron Pressley, who has joined League Two Barrow connected indebtedness for the remainder of the season.

Daniel Phillips, Daniel Kemp and Elliot List are pushing for recalls aft dropping to the seat for the gully with Lincoln.

Jamie Reid is besides successful contention to instrumentality to the starting lineup, with the striker looking to adhd to the 4 goals helium has scored this season.

As for the visitors, they are expected to beryllium without the midfield duo of Ciaran Gilligan and Alex Bannon.

Ex-Stevenage defender Terence Vancooten has completed his two-match prohibition and is present successful contention to commencement against his erstwhile club.

Owen Dodgson could beryllium fixed the accidental to marque his Burton debut aft precocious arriving connected indebtedness from Championship broadside Burnley.

Stevenage imaginable starting lineup:
Cooper; Wildin, N. Thompson, Piergianni, Smith; L. Thompson, Phillips; Roberts, Kemp, List; Reid

We say: Stevenage 2-1 Burton Albion

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