Match Report
48 points for AFC Wimbledon (21st), 38 for Rochdale (24th): a 10-point gap. Rochdale's recent output outran their position: 16th on form over five rounds, 24th in the table. Per game in the league, AFC Wimbledon were scoring 1.04 and conceding 1.3, Rochdale 1 and 1.52, against a competition average of 1.17 goals per team per game.
The sides have met 14 times in the GioScore results database: 7 wins for AFC Wimbledon, 5 draws and 2 for Rochdale, at 3 goals per meeting. Only 14% of these meetings ended in a home win. Goals at both ends are the pattern: both teams scored in 71% of the meetings. Recent editions have opened up: 4.4 goals per game across the last five meetings against 3 historically.
Kingsmeadow in Kingston upon Thames, capacity 4,850, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-1.