{"id":889068,"date":"2026-01-31T01:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/bradford-vs-port-vale\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:22:26","slug":"bradford-vs-port-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/bradford-vs-port-vale\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford vs Port Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bradford City<\/a> welcome Port Vale<\/a> to Valley Parade for their 22nd games of the 2025-26 League One campaign.<\/p>\n

The Bantams struck late to beat Wigan Athletic on Boxing Day, while the Valiants were put to the sword by Huddersfield Town, losing 5-0 at the John Smith’s Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Match preview<\/h2>\n

After being promoted from League Two last season, Bradford are flying high so far this campaign, currently sat third in the league table<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Graham Alexander<\/a>‘s side trail Lincoln City, who occupy the second automatic promotion place, by only one point and also have a game in hand on the Imps.<\/p>\n

Following a loss away to Leyton Orient, Bradford returned to winning ways on Boxing Day as a 90th-minute Joe Wright<\/a> header was enough to give the Bantams all three points at Valley Parade.<\/p>\n

A win would make it four home league victories in a row for Bradford and with Lincoln facing a difficult away trip to Barnsley, there is every chance that they could be in the league’s top two on Monday night.<\/p>\n

However, although they are clearly the better team on current form, Bradford have only won two of their previous ten encounters with Port Vale and fell to a 2-0 defeat when these sides last met in January.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Like Monday’s opponents, Port Vale achieved promotion to League One last season, finishing second on 80 points, two ahead of Bradford in third.<\/p>\n

However, their fortunes since have certainly differed since as the Valiants currently sit rock bottom of the division with only 15 points, ten adrift of safety after only 21 matches.<\/p>\n

Port Vale remain without a league victory since September 27, when they defeated Barnsley 2-0 at Oakwell Stadium, and\u00a0Friday’s thumping 5-0 loss away to Huddersfield made it consecutive defeats for Darren Moore<\/a>‘s side.<\/p>\n

Despite that result, their defensive record is not what has held them back this campaign having conceded only 29 goals, one fewer than Barnsley who currently sit ninth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In front of goal is certainly where they have faltered, scoring only 13, which is the worst total of anyone in the division and a huge eight fewer than the second-worst tally.<\/p>\n

However, if there is any confidence that Port Vale will take into Monday’s contest, it is that they have earned nine of their 15 points so far when on their travels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bradford City League One form:<\/p>\n

Bradford City form (all competitions):<\/p>\n

Port Vale League One form:<\/p>\n

Port Vale form (all competitions):<\/p>\n

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Team News<\/h2>\n
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\u00a9 Imago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Matthew Pennington (hamstring), Nick Powell (hamstring) and Lewis Richards<\/a> (hamstring) will all be unavailable for Monday’s game, although the latter is expected to make a return in the not so distant future.<\/p>\n

The home side will also be without midfielder Max Power, who will serve a suspension after picking up his 10th yellow card of the season against Wigan on Friday.<\/p>\n

Liam Gordon<\/a> has been out since September for the visitors, while Funso Ojo was confirmed to have sustained a long-term injury against Luton Town two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

After a disappointing result on Friday, it is anticipated that Moore could well shuffle up his lineup to face Bradford.<\/p>\n

Bradford City possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walker; Wright, Baldwin, Kelly; Halliday, Metcalfe, Neufville, Touray; Sarcevic, Pointon, Humphrys<\/p>\n

Port Vale possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amos; Clark, Debrah, Heneghan, Humphreys, Headley; Shipley, Walters, Byers, Waine, Stockley<\/p>\n

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We say: Bradford City 3-0 Port Vale<\/h2>\n

Looking at the recent record between the two sides, Port Vale have had much of the bragging rights in recent years, winning four of their last seven against Bradford.<\/p>\n

However, with their current poor form in front of goal and Friday’s match showing that they can be vulnerable in defence too, it would be a surprise to see them take anything from Monday’s match.<\/p>\n

For data analysis of the most likely results, scorelines and more for this match please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bradford City welcome Port Vale to Valley Parade for their 22nd games of the 2025-26 League One campaign. The Bantams struck late to beat Wigan Athletic on Boxing Day, while the Valiants were put to the sword by Huddersfield Town, losing 5-0 at the John Smith’s Stadium. Match preview After being promoted from League Two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32949,28724],"tags":[126383,9201],"class_list":{"0":"post-889068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bradford","8":"category-prediction","9":"tag-bradford","10":"tag-prediction"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}