📊 Form Guide

Forest Green Rovers

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Forest Green Rovers enter this game coming off the back of a 1-1 National League stalemate vs Truro City.

The only scorer from Forest Green Rovers was Tom Knowles (75'). Luke Jephcott (84') scored for Truro City.

In their last 6 fixtures, Robbie Savage's Forest Green Rovers have scored a combined total of 11 times resulting in an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.83.

Taking a look at their past results, Forest Green Rovers:

• haven't won against Braintree Town in their previous 2 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 home league matches.

Braintree Town

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In their last fixture, Braintree Town drew 0-0 in the National League match with Woking.

Looking at their form, and Braintree Town have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 10 goals overall. Defensively, Braintree Town certainly have room for improvement. Historical results aside, it remains to be seen if such a trend might continue on in this next game or not.

Their past results show that Braintree Town:

• have not emerged victorious against Forest Green Rovers when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 09/04/2016 shows that Forest Green Rovers have won 2 of them and Braintree Town 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 3.

A combined sum of 10 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 5 of them for The Green Devils and 5 for The Iron. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.67.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was National League match day 6 on 30/08/2025 when the final score was Braintree Town 0-0 Forest Green Rovers.

The referee was Richard Eley.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Braintree Town will manage to put one past this Forest Green Rovers side, although that might not be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re going for a 2-1 winning score for Forest Green Rovers after the 90. It really should be an interesting one.

Peter Guest, 09:07 08/04/2026