Forest Green vs Southend Prediction

Form guide

Southend's overall record this season reads nine wins, six draws and five losses, with 42 goals scored and 30 conceded. That's a team that scores goals fairly freely, though they've had some rough nights too, including a 1-6 defeat at Gateshead and a 2-4 home loss to Barrow.

Forest Green: 20 completed matches; Southend: 20 completed matches.

Forest Green

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

35

Conceded

37

Difference

-2

Southend

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

45

Conceded

33

Difference

+12

Forest Green's numbers are patchier: eight wins, five draws and seven losses, with goals shared almost evenly at 36 for and 37 against. Recent National League results have leaned toward defeats, including losses to Hartlepool, Boston United and Altrincham, though a 4-0 win over Gateshead shows there's still quality there when it clicks.

Southend's away form includes wins at Boston United, Solihull Moors and Altrincham, so this isn't a side that only wins at home.

Comparative Team Statistics: Forest Green vs Southend

A fixture that's rarely been one-sided

The last five meetings between these two have gone a 2-0 Southend win, a 2-1 Forest Green win, and three draws, two of them 2-2. Go back further and the League Two meetings between them split a win apiece.

There's no real pattern of one side dominating this particular fixture, regardless of where either team has stood in the table at the time.

Given how tight this fixture has been historically, Forest Green's current table position doesn't guarantee an easy night for Southend.

Where they sit in the table

Southend are third in the National League with 27 points from 13 games, right in the promotion picture. Forest Green are down in 16th with 15 points from 12 games, well off that pace.

That's already a 12-point gap between the two, even with Forest Green having played one fewer match.