📏 Form Guide

Burton Albion

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Burton Albion will play in this fixture after a 0-0 League One stalemate versus Huddersfield Town.

An interesting characteristic of recent Burton Albion games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

Taking their prior six clashes before this one, in 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would have been a losing one.

Their prior results show that Burton Albion:

• have not emerged victorious against Plymouth Argyle in their last 7 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 3 league games.

Plymouth Argyle

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Plymouth Argyle will go into the clash after a 6-2 EFL Trophy win over Tottenham Hotspur U23 in their previous game.

For Plymouth Argyle, the scorers were Mathias Ross (5'), Aribim Pepple (28') and Sebastian Campbell (86').

The stats don’t lie, and Plymouth Argyle have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 10 goals overall. Defensively, Plymouth Argyle could really do with shoring things up. That aside, we’ll just have to find out if that trend will be sustained in this upcoming game.

Heading into this fixture, Plymouth Argyle are undefeated by Burton Albion when they've played them away from home in the last 5 league games. A very good run of results for them.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 10/10/2020 shows that Burton Albion have won 0 of these & Plymouth Argyle 3, with the number of drawn games being 3.

12 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 4 of them for The Brewers and 8 netted by The Pilgrims. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The previous league game between these clubs was League One match day 45 on 29/04/2023 and the score finished Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Burton Albion.

The referee was Lewis Smith.

📋 Team News: Plymouth Argyle

In an otherwise full-strength squad, there’s just the lone fitness issue for the Plymouth Argyle manager Tom Cleverley to be concerned with. Brendan Galloway (Leg injury) misses out for this game.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment is that Plymouth Argyle and Burton Albion could both end up scoring in a what should be a good tussle with little between the two teams.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. That’s why we have predicted a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 13:06 27/09/2025