📏 Form Guide

Newport County

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Newport County will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-3 League Two success against Salford City.

For Newport County, goals were scored by Ryan Delaney (13'), Ben Lloyd (56') and Nathan Opoku (59'). Ben Woodburn (94') was the scorer for Salford City.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Newport County have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Newport County have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 11 goals during that time.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Newport County:

• have not emerged victorious against Cambridge United in their last 5 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league matches.

Cambridge United

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In the game prior to this, Cambridge United drew 1-1 in the League Two match with Colchester United.

The only player to score from Cambridge United was Kelland Watts (3'). Jack Payne (30') was the scorer for Colchester United.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Cambridge United, a minimum of three goals have gone in. The overall average number of goals per match within that spell is 3.33, with the average number of goals for Cambridge United equalling 2.5. Regardless, it remains to be seen if such a trend might continue on here in this game.

Going into this encounter, Cambridge United remain undefeated by Newport County in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings dating back to 10/08/2019 shows us that Newport County have won 1 of these & Cambridge United 4, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

8 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 2 for The Exiles and 6 for The U's. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.33.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was League Two match day 6 on 30/08/2025 when it finished Cambridge United 2-0 Newport County.

The match was refereed by Gareth Rhodes.

📰 Team News: Cambridge United

From a largely available squad, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Cambridge United boss Neil Harris to contend with. Shayne Lavery (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

In our opinion, Newport County may find it difficult to score against this Cambridge United team who we reckon should do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

Therefore, we predict a very even match with a 0-1 win for Cambridge United at the end of the match.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Renata Leite, 14:07 21/02/2026