Chesterfield vs Colchester Prediction & Betting Tips

Recent form across all competitions

Chesterfield's last 20 matches, spanning league, cup and trophy games, show seven wins, eight draws and five losses, with 27 goals scored and 22 conceded. That's a decent, fairly settled run without too many heavy defeats.

Chesterfield: 20 completed matches; Colchester: 20 completed matches.

Chesterfield

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

35% 7 / 20

Loss

30% 6 / 20

Scored

27

Conceded

23

Difference

+4

Colchester

20 matches

Win

25% 5 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

28

Conceded

28

Difference

0

Colchester's equivalent sample reads six wins, five draws and nine losses, with 28 goals for and 27 against. They've scored freely at times but the nine losses in 20 outings point to a leakier defence and less consistency than Chesterfield.

Chesterfield's form looks a touch more stable, mainly because they've avoided as many losses.

Comparative Team Statistics: Chesterfield vs Colchester

A history that swings both ways

These two have met plenty of times down the years, and the recent meetings haven't followed one pattern. Chesterfield won the most recent one 3-0 at home back in March. Before that, Colchester won twice, including a 6-2 hammering at their own ground, and there was also a 1-1 draw in an earlier meeting.

So neither side has dominated lately. The head-to-head suggests goals tend to flow when these two meet, rather than pointing clearly to one team's superiority.

Recent meetings have often been high-scoring, whoever came out on top.

Where they sit in League Two

Chesterfield are eighth with 11 points from seven league games, built on three wins, two draws and two losses. Colchester are down in 15th on nine points from the same number of matches, with two wins, three draws and two losses.

The gap is only two points, so this isn't a case of a table-topper facing a strugglER. It's more a case of Chesterfield edging things so far.

Players making the difference

Chesterfield's L. Bonis has three goals in seven appearances, making him their most productive attacker so far. For Colchester, O. Thorn leads the way creatively with three assists in the same number of games.

Chesterfield:

Best scorers:

L. Bonis - 3

Colchester:

Best scorers:

M. Sesay - 3

Best assist providers:

O. Thorn - 4

Penalty cards:

Jaden Williams x 1

Colchester's Jaden Williams has picked up a red card in six matches this season, which is worth keeping an eye on for discipline, though it doesn't tell us anything definite about his availability for this particular game.

An open, goal-friendly fixture

Both sides have goals in their game, and their head-to-head record backs that up, with several of their recent meetings finishing with three or more goals. Chesterfield's tighter defensive numbers this season (22 conceded in 20 games) suggest they might be a bit harder to break down than Colchester have been at times, but neither team looks like keeping things especially tight based on what we've seen.