📏 Form Guide

Tranmere Rovers

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Tranmere Rovers will be hoping to bounce back here following the 1-0 League Two defeat in their last game at the hands of Shrewsbury Town.

Sam Stubbs (55') was the scorer for Shrewsbury Town.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games where Tranmere Rovers have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Tranmere Rovers have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals in the process. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained here.

Their previous form shows that Tranmere Rovers:

• have not emerged victorious against Colchester United in their previous 6 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 4 league matches. Their fans aren't happy.

Colchester United

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Oldham Athletic in League Two competition, Colchester United and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

The only name on the scoresheet from Colchester United was Kyreece Lisbie (53'). Donervon Daniels (8'), Kane Taylor (86') and Kane Drummond (90') scored for Oldham Athletic.

The attacking players from Colchester United have failed to get amongst the goals over their previous 6 encounters, recording the disappointing return of only 4. In those matches, The U's have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 7.

Analysis of their past results shows that Colchester United:

• have not lost to Tranmere Rovers in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 25/03/2023 shows that Tranmere Rovers have won 0 of these games & Colchester United 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

An aggregate of 15 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 4 from Super White Army and 11 for The U's. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was League Two match day 1 on 02/08/2025 which ended up with the score at Colchester United 1-1 Tranmere Rovers.

The referee was David Rock.

📰 Team News: Tranmere Rovers

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just the sole fitness concern for the Tranmere Rovers boss Pete Wild to be concerned with from a near full-strength group of players. Josh Williams (Cruciate ligament injury) is sidelined.

📋 Team News: Colchester United

Colchester United boss Danny Cowley has to currently contend with reduced team options. Micah Mbick (Knee injury), Ben Perry (Cruciate ligament tear), Harvey Araujo (Broken cheekbone) and Tom Smith (Torn thigh muscle) miss out here.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Tranmere Rovers will need to push hard to hit the back of the net against this Colchester United outfit who will likely end up scoring and staying ahead.

We’re going for a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 winning score for Colchester United at the end of this game.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 03:02 06/04/2026