Stevenage vs Plymouth Argyle Prediction & Preview - League One
Stevenage lost 0-2 away to Bradford City on 17 October. Plymouth Argyle, the same day, lost 0-2 at home to Huddersfield Town. Two sides who could not lay a glove on anyone now meet in League One at the Lamex Stadium, 3 days later, and the one that shakes it off first probably wins.
- Fixture: Stevenage v Plymouth Argyle
- Competition: League One
- Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2026
- Kick-off: 19:45 BST
- Venue: the Lamex Stadium, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Match page: Stevenage vs Plymouth Argyle predictions
What the two 0-2 defeats showed
Neither 0-2 looks like a collapse so much as a flat night, and for Stevenage it fits a pattern: they have failed to score in 3 of their last 6 League One games, while Plymouth Argyle have drawn a blank in 2 of 6.
The difference is where the blanks happened. Stevenage have won 2 of 2 at home in that run, including 1-0 against Wigan Athletic on 10 October. Their problems are elsewhere: 1 win from 4 away games, a 0-1 at Leyton Orient and a 0-0 at Peterborough United.
Plymouth are the reverse. They have won 2 of 2 on the road.
What the last six games say
Plymouth Argyle have 12 points from their last 6, Stevenage 10. Argyle have scored 11 and conceded 6; Stevenage 8 and 5. That is a side scoring more and leaking a little more against a side built the other way round, with 2 clean sheets each.
The scoring gap is the real one. Plymouth have put 2 or more past the opposition in 4 of 6, Stevenage in only 2 of 6, and one of those was the 5-1 at Barnsley on 5 September that still looks like an outlier next to everything around it. Argyle also beat Barnsley, 3-0 at Home Park.
Leyton Orient is the sharper read. Stevenage went there and lost 0-1. Plymouth went there and won 2-0.
Argyle have no draws in these 6 games. Four wins, two defeats, nothing in between, and both defeats came at Home Park - 0-1 to Burton Albion and the Huddersfield result. Their away days have been 2-0 at Orient and 4-2 at Blackpool.
Team news for Stevenage vs Plymouth Argyle
Alex Revell's Stevenage squad is close to full, with Jasper Pattenden the only player listed as out, according to Stevenage FC News. Tom Cleverley's Plymouth Argyle, named as head coach for the 2026-27 campaign by Wikipedia, have four unavailable: Julio Pleguezuelo and Malachi Boateng with knee injuries, Michael Baidoo with an Achilles problem and Owen Oseni with an ankle injury, per the list updated on 18 October by Plymouth FC News.
Stevenage vs Plymouth Argyle prediction
Our prediction for Stevenage vs Plymouth Argyle in League One on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 is a 1-2 away win for Argyle at the Lamex Stadium. Plymouth have won both of their last 2 away League One games and scored 2 or more in 4 of their last 6, which is the single biggest difference between these teams.
Stevenage's home record makes it closer than that gap suggests - 2 wins from 2 at the Lamex in this run, and only 1 game in 6 where they shipped 2 or more. But they have gone scoreless in half of their last six, and a side struggling for goals is a bad match for one that has not drawn in six.
Our prediction: Stevenage 1-2 Plymouth Argyle
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