📏 Form Guide

Newport County

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Newport County head into this match after a 0-0 League Two tied result vs Fleetwood Town.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Newport County have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Newport County have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 9 goals during that time.

Their past results show that Newport County:

• have not registered a win against Tranmere Rovers in their last 5 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Tranmere Rovers

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Crewe Alexandra in League Two competition, Tranmere Rovers will be aiming to make amends here.

The only name on the scoresheet from Tranmere Rovers was James Plant (44'). Conor Thomas (77') and Josh March (91') scored for Crewe Alexandra.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games involving Tranmere Rovers has been evident in recent matches. Examining their last six games reveals that it has happened 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 11 and Tranmere Rovers have scored 3. We will have to find out whether or not that trend can be sustained in this game.

Heading into this fixture, Tranmere Rovers have not lost to Newport County when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 18/03/2023 tells us that Newport County have won 1 of these games & Tranmere Rovers 4, with the number of drawn results being 1.

An aggregate of 20 goals were produced between them in these games, with 8 of them for The Exiles and 12 netted by Super White Army. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was League Two match day 8 on 13/09/2025 when it ended Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Newport County.

The match was refereed by Alan Young.

📋 Team News: Tranmere Rovers

From a largely available group, there is just the one fitness worry for the Tranmere Rovers boss Andy Crosby to contend with. Josh Williams (Cruciate ligament injury) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

When taking everything into account, Newport County may find it difficult to put one past this Tranmere Rovers team who we think might manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a 0-1 advantage for Tranmere Rovers at the conclusion of the game.

There should be little in it.

Andre Moura, 19:06 03/03/2026