Cambridge United vs MK Dons Predictions

• Cambridge were amongst the worst performing home sides in League One last term.
• Only promoted Wigan picked up more away points than MK Dons last season.
• MK Dons won with a 1-0 scoreline in their last two league visits to Cambridge.

A long, hard campaign awaits Cambridge

Opening games don’t come much tougher than this for Cambridge, who must welcome a side that missed out on promotion only via a play-off semi-final defeat last season, MK Dons. 

Meanwhile, Cambridge battled it out for a bottom-half finish and with a lack of major improvement during the off season, this could be a battling campaign for the hosts to avoid relegation.

A return of one home win across the last six games of 2021/22 hardly inspires confidence that Cambridge can dispatch what is one of the best sides in the division and that is not to mention the fact that Cambridge lost all four historical H2Hs by a combined scoreline of 12-1!

The Dons can keep it tight

That 12-1 aggregated H2H scoreline can be a little misleading as both of the away games in the history of this fixture ended with much more modest 1-0 wins, the same scoreline that they posted in seven of their 26 league victories last season.

Just one place better will be enough for MK Dons to achieve automatic promotion and this seems like the perfect place to begin. As such, we are sticking with the favourites to come up trumps on the opening day with a small stake going the way of a 1-0 correct score.