📊 Form Guide

Halifax

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Halifax will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 4-1 National League loss in their previous game against York City.

The only player to score from Halifax was Josh Hmami (56'). Josh Stones (18'), Alex Hunt (25'), Ollie Pearce (40') and Ollie Banks (58') scored for York City.

Halifax have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, but they have also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Halifax have seen their goal breached in 5 of them in addition to scoring in 6 of those matches. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

Going into this one, Halifax have not lost a league tie with Rochdale in their last 2 games.

Rochdale

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Rochdale come into this match following a 3-0 National League win to defeat Woking in their previous outing.

For Rochdale, the goalscorers were Kyron Gordon (27') and Emmanuel Dieseruvwe (35', 74').

A series of hard-working showings by the Rochdale defence has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their last 6 outings overall. During the same period, their forwards have scored 12.

Analysis of their past results shows that Rochdale:

• have not beaten Halifax when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• have not lost to Halifax in away games against them for the last 8 league matches. What an away run they have had against them.
• have not been beaten in their last 6 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels stretching back to 05/03/2002, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Halifax winning 2 of those games, Rochdale 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

In all, 14 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 from The Shaymen and 7 netted by The Dale. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was National League match day 13 on 01/10/2025 when the final score was Rochdale 1-2 Halifax.

The referee was Scott Oldham.

✨ Prediction

Our assessment here is that Halifax will have their work cut out to register a score against this Rochdale team who should score one, at least.

We therefore see a good battle with a 0-1 win for Rochdale at full-time.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

Peter Guest, 04:10 24/02/2026