Rochdale head into this fixture after a 1-1 National League drawn game vs Oldham Athletic.

It’s not been often in recent games where Rochdale haven’t conceded. The facts show that Rochdale have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 5 goals during that time. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Boreham Wood come into this encounter following on from a 4-0 National League win with the defeat of Wealdstone in their last game.

For Boreham Wood, the goals were scored by Kabongo Tshimanga (9\'), Billy Sass-Davies (60\'), Matt Robinson (70\') and Lee Ndlovu (74\').

Demonstrating their involvement in fruitful encounters, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the prior six games in which Boreham Wood have played, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals each fixture. Opposition teams have managed 14 of those goals.

Coming into this fixture, Boreham Wood haven’t won away from home in the past 6 league games.

Head to head

The last league contest between these sides was National League match day 10 on 19/09/2023 when it ended Boreham Wood 1-1 Rochdale.

The match was refereed by Richie Watkins.

Team News: Rochdale

Kyle Ferguson (Hamstring injury) and Bradley Kelly (Knee injury) aren’t available for Rochdale gaffer Jimmy McNulty. Ian Henderson cannot play in this game through suspension.

Team News: Boreham Wood

With a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Boreham Wood manager Luke Garrard doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game. Chris Bush is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

Prediction

Our feeling is that Boreham Wood will need things to go their way to register a score against this Rochdale outfit who we think might well get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

That’s why our selection here is for a very even contest with a 1-0 winning margin for Rochdale at the conclusion of the game. We’re expecting it to be that close.