About Match
9 points for Tranmere Rovers (4th), 7 for Colchester United (12th): a 2-point gap. Per game in the league, Tranmere Rovers score 1.8 and conceding 1, Colchester United 1.2 and 1.6, against a competition average of 1.33 goals per team per game. A win would lift Tranmere Rovers to 12 points and up to 1st (other results unchanged).
Tranmere Rovers are unbeaten in 6, having scored in 6 consecutive games.
24 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Tranmere Rovers 8, draws 9, Colchester United 7, at 2.5 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 42% of the wins in this fixture.
Prenton Park in Birkenhead stages the fixture, a ground that holds 16,567.




