📏 Form Guide

Port Vale

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Port Vale head into this fixture following on from a 1-1 League One stalemate against Luton Town.

The only player to score from Port Vale was Ben Waine (29'). Nahki Wells (5') was the scorer for Luton Town.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Port Vale haven’t conceded. In fact, Port Vale have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 10 goals in the process.

Bristol City

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Watford in Championship competition, Bristol City will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Bristol City had 65% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Bristol City was Scott Twine (36'). Watford had 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Luca Kjerrumgaard (7') and Jeremy Ngakia (77') scored for Watford.

Showing their appetite for high-scoring matches, goals have been seen as many as 21 times in the last 6 matches in which Bristol City have taken to the pitch, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals each clash. Their opponents have hit 13 from this total. That kind of pattern might not be continued here, of course.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings going back to 23/09/2006 reveals that these fixtures have not been good ones for Port Vale. They’ve not managed to get themselves any victories whatsoever whereas Bristol City have been the better of the two, winning in 83 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

In all, 19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 3 for The Valiants and 16 being from The Robins. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The last league contest between these sides was League One match day 30 on 10/02/2015 when it ended Bristol City 3-1 Port Vale.

On that occasion, Bristol City managed 55% possession and 19 shots on goal with 13 on target. Goals were scored by Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (34'), Joe Bryan (59') and Matt Smith (67').

For their opponents, Port Vale got 11 shots at goal with 7 on target. Mark Marshall (77') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Brendan Malone.

ℹ️ Team News: Bristol City

Bristol City boss Gerhard Struber has to currently contend with reduced team options. Jason Knight (Adductor injury), Cameron Pring (Ankle injury), Luke McNally (Cruciate ligament injury) and Max Bird (Calf injury) are not able to play.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Port Vale will need things to go their way to put one past this Bristol City outfit who we think should score one, at least.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very even contest with a 0-1 win for Bristol City at the end of the match.

Should be a close one.

Peter Guest, 19:01 03/03/2026