📏 Form Guide
Bradford City WWLWWL
Bradford City will be hoping to bounce back here following the 4-1 EFL Cup defeat last time out to Newcastle United.
In that match, Bradford City managed 23% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Bradford City was Andy Cook (79'). On the other side, Newcastle United got 27 attempts at goal with 11 of them on target. Joelinton (17', 75') and Will Osula (19', 87') scored for Newcastle United.
Fixtures with Bradford City have often been lively ones of late with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past half dozen games, a total of 22 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 12 of them being chalked up by Bradford City.
Looking at the pre-match facts, Bradford City:
- haven't won against Blackpool in their last 3 matches in the league.
- haven't been defeated in their previous 8 home league matches. They have been so resilient here.
Blackpool LLDLWW 🌤
Blackpool head into the meeting following a 1-0 League One win against Barnsley in their most recent game.
The only player to score from Blackpool was Jordan Brown (98').
A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Blackpool has been fairly consistent in recent matches. Looking at their last six outings shows that it’s occurred 5 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 5 and Blackpool have scored 7. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, of course.
Heading into this fixture, Blackpool haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league matches.
👥 Head to head
Checking out their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 03/11/2015, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Bradford City winning 3 of those games, Blackpool 3 and 0 being draws after 90 minutes of play.
In all, 20 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 7 of them for The Bantams and 13 coming from The Seasiders. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.
The previous league match featuring the two was League One match day 39 on 23/03/2019 which finished with the scoreline of Bradford City 1-4 Blackpool.
The referee was Anthony Coggins.
🗞️ Team News: Bradford City
Andy Cook (Cruciate ligament injury), Ciaran Kelly (Ankle injury) and Calum Kavanagh (Shin injury) are unavailable for Bradford City gaffer Graham Alexander.
In our view, The Bantams look set to go for a 3-1-4-2 system in the match, utilising Egil Selvik, Max Alleyne, Kevin Keben, Mattie Pollock, Imran Louza, Formose Mendy, Nampalys Mendy, Hector Kyprianou, Marc Bola, Vivaldo Semedo and Nestory Irankunda.
ℹ️ Team News: Blackpool
Due to a mostly healthy group of players, there’s just a single fitness problem for the Blackpool manager Steve Bruce to contend with. James Husband (Hamstring injury) won’t be playing here.
We reckon that The Seasiders seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, giving starts to Ivor Pandur, Lewie Coyle, John Egan, Charlie Hughes, Ryan Giles, Amir Hadziahmetovic, John Lundstram, Joel Ndala, Joe Gelhardt, Kyle Joseph and Oliver McBurnie.
💭 Prediction
For this match, we think that Blackpool will likely create enough chances to breach the defence of this Bradford City outfit, however that probably shouldn’t be enough to avoid a loss.
We think that it’s going to be a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Bradford City after 90 minutes. Definitely a tough call.
Peter Guest, 13:06 27/09/2025