📊 Form Guide

Port Vale

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Port Vale are hoping to win again after their last result, a 5-0 EFL Trophy success against Barnsley.

For Port Vale, goals were scored by Ruari Paton (5', 8'), Dajaune Brown (72'), Ben Waine (80') and Jesse Debrah (83').

A common characteristic of more recent Port Vale games is the number of results with a nil in them.

Taking their prior 6 matches before this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would have been a loser. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, of course.

Coming into this contest, Port Vale haven’t won at home in the past 4 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Bradford City

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Bradford City come into this match following a 0-1 League One win vs Plymouth Argyle in their previous fixture.

The only name on the scoresheet from Bradford City was Antoni Sarcevic (57').

It is worth noting that Bradford City have suffered from a shortage of goals over their last six encounters, netting the disappointing return of just 3. In those matches, The Bantams have also seen the collective goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 8.

Coming into this clash, Bradford City have not emerged victorious against Port Vale when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 29/12/2020 shows that Port Vale have won 3 of them & Bradford City 1, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

In all, 13 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 for The Valiants and 5 created by The Bantams. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The last league contest between the two was League Two match day 40 on 01/04/2025 when the final score was Port Vale 2-0 Bradford City.

The match was refereed by Ben Toner.

📋 Team News: Port Vale

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just a single fitness concern for the Port Vale boss Darren Moore to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group. Mo Faal (Hamstring injury) won’t play.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Bradford City and Port Vale won’t have much between them here, and goals could be hard to come by.

We’ll see, but this could easily end up all-square. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a 0-0 scoreline at the end of the match.

Peter Guest, 18:03 09/12/2025