Bristol City Vs Cheltenhan Town Match Analysis And Prediction

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Bristol City kick off their pre-season schedule with a contest against Cheltenham Town on Wednesday behind closed doors.

Meanwhile, the League One outfit are competing in their second friendly of the summer having already defeated non-league Evesham United last time out.

For much of last season, Bristol City performed underwhelmingly under Nigel Pearson, leading to constant speculation regarding the long-term future of the club’s manager.

However, despite a 17th-placed finish, Bristol City’s best form came during the final weeks, proving enough to hand Pearson another opportunity to right the wrongs at Ashton Gate.

So far, he has made three first-team additions with Kal Naismith, Kane Wilson and Mark Sykes having arrived from Luton Town, Forest Green Rovers and Oxford United respectively.

Other additional three players have made the step up from non-league, while Kasey Palmer, Callum O’Dowda and Robbie Cundy are all high-profile exits from last season.

Pearson will no doubt make more changes as the transfer window progresses, and the experienced manager will feel it is necessary to make progress up the standings.

This is the first of six domestic friendlies for the Robins before they kickstart their Championship campaign with a trip to Hull City on July 30.

On the other hand, Cheltenham Town began their preparations with an encounter with Evesham on Saturday, the EFL outfit cruising to a 4-0 victory in Wade Elliott’s first game in charge.

Liam Sercombe, George Lloyd, Ben Williams and Zac Guinan all scored a goal each for their side, as players look to impress under a figure who has been promoted from the backroom staff.

Cheltenham Town will be having fellow Championship fixtures with Cardiff City and Birmingham City to come later in the month, but boss Elliott will want to post a statement of the intent at the Robins High Performance Centre.

Bristol City vs Cheltenham Town head to head

The two teams have previously met on 12 occasions across all competitions, where Bristol have claimed nine victories while Cheltenham have won twice, and they have drawn once. Bristol have scored 31 goals and conceded 14. In their last meeting, Bristol claimed a 4-0 home victory in a friendly.

Cheltenham Town 1-3 Bristol City 08/10/14

Cheltenham Town 1-2 Bristol City 25/07/16

Cheltenham Town 0-3 Bristol City 25/07/17

Cheltenham Town 2-4 Bristol City 10/07/18

Bristol City 4-0 Cheltenham Town 21/08/20

Bristol City latest home form

Bristol City have recently been on a good run of form at home, having been unbeaten in their four most recent matches. They managed to defeat Hull City 5-0 in their last home game in the Championship. In their last five matches, they have scored 10 goals and conceded six.

Bristol City 1-2 Birmingham City 05/03/22

Bristol City 2-2 West Bromwich Albion 19/03/22

Bristol City 1-1 Peterborough United 09/04/22

Bristol City 1-1 Sheffield United 18/04/22

Bristol City 5-0 Hull City 30/04/22

Bristol City latest away form

Bristol City have recently failed to keep a good run of form on the road, having won just two of their five most recent matches. They lost 2-0 to Huddersfield Town in their last away game in the Championship. In their last five matches, they have scored six goals and conceded eight.

Barnsley 2-0 Bristol City 15/03/22

AFC Bournemouth 3-2 Bristol City 02/04/22

Stoke City 0-1 Bristol City 15/04/22

Derby County 1-3 Bristol City 23/04/22

Huddersfield Town 2-0 Bristol City 07/05/22

Cheltenham Town latest home form

Cheltenham Town lost their last home game 2-1 to Bolton Wanderers in League One. However, they have recently been on a good run of form at home, as they have been unbeaten in their previous four matches. In their last five matches, they have scored 10 goals and conceded five.

Cheltenham Town 4-0 Doncaster Rovers 05/03/22

Cheltenham Town 3-1 AFC Wimbledon 19/03/22

Cheltenham Town 1-0 Portsmouth 09/04/22

Cheltenham Town 2-2 Gillingham 15/04/22

Cheltenham Town 1-2 Bolton Wanderers 23/04/22

Cheltenham Town latest away form

Cheltenham Town have recently failed to keep a good run of form on the road, having won just one of their six most recent matches. They defeated Evesham United 4-0 in their last away game in a friendly. In their last five matches, they have scored 11 goals and conceded 13.

Sheffield Wednesday 4-1 Cheltenham Town 26/03/22

Accrington Stanley 4-4 Cheltenham Town 02/04/22

Lincoln City 3-0 Cheltenham Town 18/04/22

Cambridge United 2-2 Cheltenham Town 30/04/22

Evesham United 0-4 Cheltenham Town 02/07/22

Bristol City news

Bristol City will be without Alex Scott after he featured in the England U19 squad which won the European Championship on Friday.

Andreas Weimann will also miss out, while Pearson will look to give each of his available players some game time with less than four weeks remaining until the start of the season.

Cheltenham Town news

Cheltenham Town manager Wade Elliott will hope to have Tom Bradbury available after the new signing missed the Evesham United fixture due to illness.

Elliott changed his entire starting XI after an hour last time out, and some of the players who featured during the final 30 minutes may feature more heavily here.

Prediction and Odds

Having already played one pre-season game, Cheltenham Town will fancy their chances of causing the upset and pick up another positive result away from home.

However, Bristol City’s extra quality may still come to play at some stage, which leads us to predict a home win for the Championship side.

Odds: 1 1.88 X 2.05 2 2.20