Kevin Nolan’s guided Leyton Orient to 19 points (W6-D1-L3) from his first 10 matches in management to put the O’s in top-seven contention once more.
The Londoners are outside the play-off positions on goal difference and will hope to strike another blow in their battle for an immediate return to League One by seeing off Morecambe this weekend.
The hosts are too short to back for a side that’s lost three of their last for at Brisbane Road. With Morecambe ending their 10-match winless streak with an excellent away success at Wimbledon, I’m more than happy to walk away from the Match Odds.
Instead, it’s Both Teams To Score that catches the eye here at 1.91, a kind quote that when comparing the two teams’ goals and shot data in 2015/16.
Between them, Orient and Morecambe have played 72 league fixtures this term and accumulatively they’ve notched in 61/72 (85%) of those matches. The duo have recorded just 15/72 (21%) clean sheets and that’s led to 48/72 (67%) winning Both Teams To Score selections.
If we drill down to respective home and away records, the O’s and Shrimps have scored in 28/36 (78%) outings, shutting out their opposition in only 8/36 (22%) – 22/36 (61%) of those matches featured successful BTTS bets.
Both clubs feature in the top-10 of League Two’s shots-on-target table in the offensive stakes whilst only Notts County have faced more efforts on-target than Morecambe.
The visiting Shrimps haven’t kept a clean sheet since January, shipping 23 goals in 13 but have managed to score in 63 of their past 82 away days.