📊 Form Guide

Barrow

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Barrow enter this match following a 2-2 League Two stalemate versus Newport County.

For Barrow, the scorers were Ben Whitfield (45') and Scott Smith (84'). Anthony Glennon (39') and Courtney Baker-Richardson (64') scored for Newport County.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Barrow haven’t conceded. In fact, Barrow have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 10 goals in the process. We will have to find out whether or not that trend can be continued on here.

Looking at their past form shows that Barrow:

• have not been beaten in the league by Tranmere Rovers in their last 4 matches.
• haven't beaten Tranmere Rovers in their last 2 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league games. That's never good.

Tranmere Rovers

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Fleetwood Town in EFL Trophy action, Tranmere Rovers and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

The only player to score from Tranmere Rovers was Patrick Brough (57' Own goal). Ronan Coughlan (71') and Mark Helm (88') scored for Fleetwood Town.

Tranmere Rovers have regularly broken through opposing defences leading up to this encounter, having scored 10 times in their previous 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that Tranmere Rovers can also improve defensively after being scored against in 6 of those same outings.

Heading into this contest, Tranmere Rovers have not won against Barrow when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings going back to 29/12/2022, there has been little between the sides with Barrow winning 2 of those games, Tranmere Rovers 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

A combined sum of 12 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 6 from The Bluebirds and 6 created by Super White Army. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

The last league encounter between the two was EFL Trophy match day 2 on 07/10/2025 and the score finished Barrow 1-2 Tranmere Rovers.

ℹ️ Team News: Barrow

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Barrow manager Andy Whing to contend with from a near full-strength group. Rhys Healey (Knee injury) will miss out.

🗞️ Team News: Tranmere Rovers

Due to a mostly healthy group, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Tranmere Rovers gaffer Andy Crosby to be concerned about. Josh Williams (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be playing here.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the view that Tranmere Rovers and Barrow might both not be able to do quite enough to get on the scoresheet here.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level and two clean sheets. We’re therefore expecting a hard-fought 0-0 scoreline by the conclusion of this game.

Andre Moura, 19:05 09/12/2025