This week FootyMad's match preview focuses on the game between Rochdale and Yeovil Town at 15:00 on 17th December 2011 in the League One.

History of the Rochdale v Yeovil Town fixture

Yeovil Town face a trip to Rochdale at Spotland on Saturday afternoon, determined to keep up their impressive record at the venue, having come through the challenge on 2 of the previous 3 occasions.

The most recent encounter between these two sides was just last season, in October 2010, with Yeovil Town inflicting a narrow 0-1 defeat upon the Dale in a League One match.

Recent encounters between the teams

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Recent respective form guides

Rochdale will be hoping to improve on their poor home form, collecting just 4 draws from the last six contests. While Dale have scored 6, a worringly large 9 have been leaked at the other end.

Yeovil Town's away form is none too clever either, unbeaten in the last six, but with four of them resulting in draws. The games have constituted a decent return of 10 goals for the Glovers, and 10 goals against.

Rochdale are stuck down in the relegation zone of npower League One with a return of just 17 points from their 20 games thus far.

Yeovil Town are hovering perilously just above the relegation zone, with 19 points from 20 matches.

Current overall team form

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FootyMad's prediction ...

Yeovil Town are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win

Sequence statistics

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