Bradford City vs. Harrogate Town Prediction, Tips & Odds – Dec. 29, 2022 20:45 CET
Bradford and Harrogate will meet on Thursday night in the Yorkshire derby. The home team are on the run of three consecutive defeats and Harrogate, who has three consecutive wins, wants to take all three points here.
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Bradford City Team News
Bradford started this season with high ambition. They want the promotion to League One and that’s the main goal. In February they appointed ex-Premier League manager Mark Hughes and he build a good squad during the summer. Their expectations were to finish at least in the top 7 and to qualify for the playoffs.
For the larger part of the first half of the season, Bradford was in the top 7 but in the last couple of weeks, they suffered three consecutive defeats and had a couple of postponements and now they are over a month without a win and they slipped on the table to the 9th position.
The situation isn’t that bad because they are only two points from the top 7 zone but the top three are now 10 points far. The top three teams in League Two will go to League One automatically.
If we take a look at Bradford’s results in the last two months we will see that they have only two wins from the last eight games. That’s only nine points from a possible 24. The worrying thing is Bradford’s results at home. They are five games without a win at home and only have three wins this season. Bradford has the best atmosphere in the league and the highest attendance.
They scored 26 goals and conceded 21. They keep seven clean sheets and also failed to score in seven games.
Harrogate Town Team News
This is Harrogate’s 3rd season in League Two. In the previous two, they finished in the second half of the table but never were in the relegation fight.
This season started poorly but in recent weeks Harrogate improve his results and they are in the run of three consecutive wins. With that nine points, they climbed to 19th place and now they are seven points above the relegation zone.
Harrogate played some incredible games in recent weeks. Six of their last seven games ended with over 2.5 goals and in the last seven games, we saw 30 goals which are 4,3 per game!
Since the start of October, they kept only one clean sheet and failed to score in only one game. Their attack isn’t bad with 27 goals scored, but their defence is one of the worst in the league with 32 goals conceded. Only Crawley Town and Hartlepool United conceded more goals.
At the start of the season, they struggled so much and in the first ten games, they failed to score in seven of them. Harrogate is very poor away from the home side with seven defeats in 10 games and only three teams in the league have won fewer points.
H2H
They played five times against each other since Harrogate was promoted to League Two in 2020. Harrogate has three wins, Bradford one, and one game was finished with a draw. Three games ended with over 2.5 goals and BTTS.
Team News and Injuries
Bradford City: Emmanuel Osadebe and Jamie Walker are injured. Lee Angol is questionable.
Harrogate Town: Dior Angus, Matty Daly, Stephen Dooley, and Rory McArdle are injured.
Bradford City vs. Harrogate Town Prediction
This is a Yorkshire derby between the two closest rivals. Only 46 kilometres separate these two clubs. Bradford is a favourite because they are a bigger club and they come into this season with big ambitions. But, judging by the form in recent weeks Harrogate is in a much better position.
Harrogate played some very interesting games in recent weeks and we hope that this will continue this Thursday. Bradford is struggling defensively but they have the quality to score a goal against every team in the league.
Kick-off Time: Thursday, 29.12.2022, 20:45
Prediction: BTTS & Over 2.5 Goals
Odds: 2.30
Sportsbook: Bet365
