Harrogate Town vs Bromley Prediction, Preview & Betting Tips

Harrogate Town are in a bad rut of form recently, without a win in nine games and failing to even score in the last three games.

However, despite Harrogate’s poor scoring form, there have been over 2.5 goals in their last three games. Similarly, Bromley’s last three games have also met the over 2.5 goal market, making that a likely outcome for this weekend.

Micheal Cheek was a standout star for Bromley last season scoring 23 goals and averaging 1.1 shots on target a game. This makes him a potential for a goal or at least two shots on target this weekend.

Joshua Passley was in the book the most for Bromley last season, picking up eight yellow cards and averaging 0.9 fouls a game making him a potential for a yellow card or two fouls.

Harrogate 1 - 2 Bromley

Harrogate Town take on Bromley in their first game of the League Two season at Wetherby Road on Saturday. Bromley will be looking to make a big splash in their first game in League Two.

Date: 10/08/2024

Kick-off time: 15:00

Location: Wetherby Road

After a positive season last time out, Harrogate Town will be looking to assert their dominance over the new kids on the block in Bromley in their first time in the fourth tier of English football.

Harrogate Town finished last season in 13th after 38 games. In those games, Harrogate picked up 17 wins, 12 draws and 17 losses which left them on 63 points, only seven points from the Play-offs and just one point from a finish in the top half of the table.

This summer Harrogate have been busy in the transfer window in preparation for a potential Play-off push. Winger Ellis Taylor and midfielder Stephen Duke-McKenna have arrived from Sunderland and QPR respectively alongside Zico Asare and Finn O’Boyle.

Bromley finished third in the National League last season. In 46 games, Bromley managed 22 wins, 15 draws and nine losses - the least losses in the league. This left them on 81 points, 17 points from promotion but they were victorious through the Play-off route.

The Lillywhites have also brought in reinforcements for their journey in League Two. Taylor Foran, Sam Long, Marcus Dinanga, Omar Sowunmi, Lewis Leigh, Karmarl Grant and Danny Imray have all made the move to Bromley.

Harrogate Town and Bromley have met four times in their histories, with the first meeting coming back in 2018. A draw is the most common outcome in this fixture happening on three occasions, however, Harrogate have won once in comparison to Bromley’s zero wins.

This fixture does usually promise goals with only one game not having both sides on the scoresheet, the 1 - 0 win for Harrogate. The highest scoring clash between the two came in 2019 in a 3 - 3 draw.

Harrogate Town vs Bromley will be shown on Sky Sports+ in the UK.

Harrogate Town Team News

Simon Weaver will likely call upon those with the most minutes in preseason like Matty Daly, Sam Folarin, Josh March and Stephen Dooley.

Bromley Team News

Andy Woodman could call upon his usual suspects of Cheek, Corey Whitely and Ashely Charles.

In their last five games in preseason Harrogate Town have two draws and three losses.

In the first of their many preseason games, Harrogate took on Championship side Leeds at home. Junior Firpo opened the scoring for Leeds early on to give them the lead at halftime. Georginio Rutter volleyed home his own effort in the early stages of the second half and Sam Chambers made it 3 - 0 in the last minute of the game.

Harrogate Town were behind again early with the goal from Sheffield United’s Andre Brooks but Jack Muldoon drew Harrogate level just minutes later. Callum O’Hare regained the lead for Sheffield United just before halftime. In the second half both Louie Marsh and Owen Hampson scored to give United the 4 -1 win.

Dylan Duffy scored the opener for Lincoln City in just the sixth minute and Sean Roughan doubled the lead for The Imps before the ten minute mark. Freddie Draper and Rob Street also found the back of the net in the second half to give Lincoln the 4 - 0 win over Harrogate.
The next time out saw Harrogate take on Middlesbrough. Harrogate managed to hold the Championship side to a cagey 0 - 0 draw.

The last time out for Harrogate was against Darlington. Neither side managed to find the back of the net and Harrogate had to settle for another 0 - 0 draw.

In their last five games in preseason Bromley have four wins and one loss.

Hornchurch opened the scoring in the fourth minute through Darren McQueen which saw them take the lead into halftime. However, in the second half Deji Elerewe, Olufela Olomola, Levi Amantchi, Jude Arthurs and Nathan Paul Lavaly all scored to give Bromley the 5 -1 win.

Bromley were once again behind at halftime with a goal from Joe Tyrie for Tonbridge. Amantchi, Lewis Leigh and a trialist put Bromley ahead and even with a late goal from a Tonbridge trialist, Bromley held on for the 3 - 2 win.

Sam Woods opened the scoring early on for Bromley in the third minute and Amantchi grabbed another goal before halftime. Jerry Lawrence did score late on for Rovers but Bromley held on for the 2 - 1 win.

Cheek was back on the scoresheet after his heroics last season scoring the only goal of the game just after the hour mark to give Bromley the 1 - 0 win.

The most recent outing for Bromley was against Aldershot Town. Haydon Vaughan scored the only goal of the game in the 78th minute to give Aldershot the 1 - 0 win.

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