Carlisle vs Bradford Predictions

• Just two of Carlisle United’s 10 home games have seen three or more goals.
• Six of the last eight meetings between these two have seen fewer than three goals.
• Bradford City’s away league matches are averaging 2.3 goals per game.

Carlisle’s home woes

Carlisle United come into this one off the back of a narrow 1-0 EFL Trophy loss away to Harrogate Town during the week. This will be their first match at Brunton Park since early December, but that doesn’t necessarily provide much confidence for the hosts considering they’ve won just two of their 10 matches on home soil so far this season. To make things worse, no side has scored fewer goals at home (six) than Carlisle.

Bradford City meanwhile are sitting in 12th spot in the table and are just six points off of a spot in the playoffs. If The Bantams can avoid defeat here it would extend their unbeaten run to four matches and given they’ve scored at least once in all of their previous five away league matches, it wouldn’t be too much of a surprise.

Avoiding defeat is the main target

We don’t see this one being a classic by any means and think the unders are the way to go. Neither side scores enough goals and we think both sides will be looking to avoid defeat, as such, we’re going with under 2.5 goals in the match. But we see this one possibly ending in a 1-1 draw.