Dover Athletic vs Forest Green Rovers Betting Tips & Predictions

A cheeky tweet from the official Dover Athletic compared the rise of Leicester City to that of Dover. They pointed out that when Leicester won their league in 2009 and 2014, on both occasions Dover were promoted. So the question is after Leicester’s historic Premier League title win, will the sequence continue?

The tie is already been described as the biggest in the White’s 33 year history and the part timers know that the rewards will only get bigger if they are able to conquer the league’s runners up. The last meeting between the two ended in a 1-0 victory for Forest Green just days ago after both managers decided to make several changes to their line ups.

Despite being on course for their best ever finish, Forest Green parted company with their manager Ady Pennock. Rovers were second in the league and were guaranteed a playoff place but after going seven games without a victory chairman Dale Vince took the shock decision to make the change. Entrusted with the role to lead Rovers to Wembley is the club’s Head of Youth Scott Bartlett.

With both clubs fighting for the opportunity to get into the Football League for the first time in their history neither side is in particularly inspiring form. With Dover conceding on average almost a goal a game and Forest Green having scored in every single away game this season you can get a Forest Green win with both teams scoring at 11/2 with Betfair. My concern is that playoffs are typically tight affairs and there isn’t much on paper to seperate the two teams, so I would perhaps play it safe and go with there being 2-3 total goals at evens with Betfair.