Stockport County vs AFC Wimbledon - prediction, team news, lineups

AFC Wimbledon volition caput connected their travels for Saturday's League One brushwood against Stockport County at Edgeley Park.

The visitors presently inhabit 17th spot successful the League One table, portion the promotion-chasing Hatters are sitting successful 2nd spot. 

Match preview

Stockport are sitting 2 points adrift of leaders Huddersfield Town aft winning seven, drafting 2 and losing 4 of their 13 league games.

However, the Hatters are conscionable 1 constituent wide of the 3 teams beneath them, including their astir caller opponents, third-placed Oxford United.

Mark Harris's first-half extremity proved the quality arsenic Stockport fell to a 1-0 decision astatine the Kassam Stadium, bringing an extremity to their six-game unbeaten league tally (W4, D2).

Stockport volition present instrumentality to the acquainted surroundings of Edgeley Park, wherever they person won each of their past 3 matches since losing 4-3 to Leicester City successful the mediate of September. 

They volition surely fancy their chances of troubling the scorers, having netted successful each 8 of their competitory location games this season. 

Jimmy McNulty's broadside besides boast a 100% grounds successful each six league matches successful which they person opened the scoring. 

Wimbledon, meanwhile, are presently enduring the second-longest winless tally successful League One aft failing to triumph immoderate of their past six matches successful the 3rd tier (D3, L3).

They astatine slightest managed to extremity a tally of 3 consecutive defeats with a 1-1 gully successful past Saturday's location clash against Wycombe Wanderers.

However, a much-changed Wimbledon broadside were incapable to physique upon that effect successful Tuesday's EFL Trophy clash against Arsenal Under-21s, falling to a 2-1 decision that condemned the Dons to a group-stage exit.

Johnnie Jackson's broadside volition present crook their absorption backmost to league action, arsenic they bid to assertion their archetypal triumph since signaling back-to-back victories implicit Bromley and Doncaster successful September.

Their hopes of a triumph volition beryllium tempered by the information that they person mislaid each of their past 4 meetings with Stockport since falling to a 1-0 nonaccomplishment successful January 2023. 

The archetypal extremity volition beryllium important to their chances of picking up a affirmative result, considering they person mislaid each 3 league games successful which they person conceded the opener this season. 

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Team News

Stockport stay without semipermanent absentee Brad Hills, who is moving connected his rehabilitation from an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Defender Kyron Gordon is besides unavailable for enactment aft missing the past 4 matches with a hamstring problem.

League One’s associated apical scorer Kyle Wootton volition beryllium looking to adhd to his nine-goal tally erstwhile helium leads the enactment against AFC Wimbledon. 

As for the visitors, they are expected to beryllium without Marcus Browne, Donnell McNeilly, Joe Kirby, Dujuan Richards, Delano McCoy-Splatt and Matty Stevens.

Dan Sweeney and Isaac Ogundere are the closest to returning to action, but it remains to beryllium seen whether either of the brace volition beryllium acceptable for Saturday’s distant trip.

Midfielder Alistair Smith is disposable for enactment aft missing the midweek EFL Trophy decision done suspension.

Stockport County imaginable starting lineup:

Whatmuff; Jobe, O’Connell, Pye; Glover, Bate, Norwood, Osborn; Wood, Diamond; Wootton

AFC Wimbledon imaginable starting lineup:

Bursik; Tilley, Yiadom, Johnson, Seddon, Sasu; Smith, Harrison, Hippolyte; Stockley, Cornick

We say: Stockport County 2-0 AFC Wimbledon

With Wimbledon winless successful six league games, we deliberation they volition conflict to laic a mitt connected a Stockport broadside that are chasing promotion and person won each of their erstwhile 3 location matches. 

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