Wigan Athletic vs Crawley Town betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the League One match on August 24th, 2024

Wigan Athletic and Crawley Town will meet each other on August 24th, 2024, Saturday at 14:00h (UTC), in a match counting for the League One in England, check the Wigan Athletic vs Crawley Town betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Wigan Athletic vs Crawley Town will occur

The game takes place in the small The DW Stadium stadium, in the city of Wigan, with a capacity for 25138 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

Take the opportunity to check out the match live in Betarena, bringing much information to your bets, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Wigan Athletic vs Crawley Town betting tip 2024/2025

Wigan Athletic comes from a loss in the last match played. On that occasion the opponent was Reading, in a match valid for League One, and the match ended 2-0. Coach S. Maloney's team lined up with this formation: 4-2-3-1.

A defeat of the home team had odds of 2.10, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

The team's defensive line was far from their best in the contest. Will Aimson had a terrible performance, failed at crucial moments, and became one of the leading players responsible for the negative result.

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a draw in the last round. In a dispute valid for EFL Trophy, Crawley Town, who used a 3-4-2-1 formation, faced the Brighton U21 team with a final score of 2-2.

Prior to the match, there were signs indicating that the game would be evenly matched between the two teams. As a result, a draw with odds around 3.60 seemed like a plausible and expected outcome.

The previous encounter between these teams saw them fighting hard to stay ahead.

The most recent precedent between these two clubs was in 04-11-2017, in the 2017/2018 season of the FA Cup, which ended with a 2-1 win for Wigan Athletic.

Wigan Athletic

Current leaderboard

Wigan Athletic is currently ranked 21st place in the table, with 0 points achieved up until 3rd round.

Wigan Athletic analysis

Wigan Athletic at the end of round 2 in League One had 0 goals scored and 3 conceded.

To control the game, the Wigan Athletic team would try to achieve an average ball possession of 59%. This is because teams would have some control over their opponents if they had ball possession above 50%.

The adaptation of Dion Rankine with the new jersey has not been the best. He had another disappointing performance in Wigan Athletic last game of the season, against Reading. In the clash, the midfielder failed to be effective and did little for the team. Despite the good expectations for the player, his performance is starting to worry.

Crawley Town

Current leaderboard

3rd place in the league after the 3rd round, winning 6 points, from their matches so far this season is Crawley Town.

Crawley Town analysis

Crawley Town after 2 days has put up 3 goals scored, and taken 1, and thus record has a positive goal difference.

Crawley Town signed A. Papadopoulos, for a total of 1 new players in the squad. A good job by the management during the transfer market last preseason.

Crawley Town does not average a high number of shots, but in terms of accuracy, the team's results are really good. The team, in fact, averaged 3.5 shots towards the opponent's goal in each match, averaging 1.5 goals. In fact, 2 out of every 5 shots end up in the net.

For punters some entries may be interesting for this game, namely:

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 4.75 per game.

Wigan Athletic is usually quite offensive in their matches, and this has resulted in a high average of corner kicks in the competition. Currently, the team averages 6 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Wigan Athletic in this match.

Goals Top Betting Tips

The number of goals that both teams scored and conceded at the start of the championship round can be a successful betting parameter. Wigan Athletic didn't score any goal in the last round games and conceded in 3 opportunities, while Crawley Town scored 3 times and conceded 1 goal.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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