Walsall vs Oldham Athletic Prediction & Preview - League Two
League Two goes again on a Tuesday night, and at the Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium in Walsall it puts a side that has not lost any of its last six against one that has lost four of them. Walsall and Oldham Athletic kick off at 19:45 BST on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, three days after both played on the Saturday. Our call is a narrow Walsall win, and the reasoning is below.
- Fixture: Walsall v Oldham Athletic
- Competition: League Two
- Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2026
- Kick-off: 19:45 BST
- Venue: Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium, Walsall
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Walsall's unbeaten run is mostly draws
Walsall have taken 8 points from their last six League Two matches, winning one and drawing five. That is a solid defence and a blunt attack. They have kept 3 clean sheets in those six and conceded only 4 goals in total, but they have also failed to score twice and managed 2 or more in just 2 of 6.
The win was 2-0 at home to Port Vale on 19 September. Since then, Lee Grant's side have drawn 1-1 at Fleetwood Town on 10 October and 1-1 at Swindon Town on 17 October, three days before this game. Before the Port Vale win came goalless draws at home to Rochdale and away at Exeter City, and a 2-2 at Crewe Alexandra on 1 September.
The pattern that matters for Tuesday: Walsall have won 1 of 2 at home in this run, and 0 of 4 on the road.
Oldham Athletic are leaking goals
Oldham Athletic have 4 points from their last six, with one win, one draw and four defeats. They have conceded 11 goals in those games and shipped 2 or more in 4 of 6, which is the number that frames this fixture.
Saturday changed the mood, though. Micky Mellon's team beat Cheltenham Town 4-1 at Boundary Park on 17 October, their only win in the six and the only time in that stretch they scored more than once. The three games before it were a 0-0 at home to Accrington Stanley, a 1-4 home defeat by Salford City and a 0-2 loss at Rochdale.
They have failed to score in 3 of their last six and have won 0 of 2 away from home in that run.
Walsall vs Oldham Athletic team news
Lee Grant went into the Swindon trip with four Walsall players unavailable and no fresh problems reported: Alex Pattison and Antony Evans are both out with hamstring injuries, Harry Williams is still working back from an Achilles problem and Roman Dixon is short of fitness after a run of knocks, according to the Express & Star, which has also reported that Evans and Pattison face lengthy spells out (Express & Star). Micky Mellon is without Jack Stevens, who tore an anterior cruciate ligament in a pre-season friendly in July and had surgery in August (The Oldham Times), and defender Ryan Delaney, who needed surgery after a hamstring injury against Salford City and was given a timescale of around three months (The Oldham Times).
So the game pits the division's meanest recent defence against its leakiest, and a Walsall attack that has produced 6 goals in six games against an Oldham one that has produced 6 as well, four of them in a single afternoon.
Walsall vs Oldham Athletic prediction
We're calling Walsall 1-0 Oldham Athletic in League Two at the Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium on Tuesday, 20 October 2026. Walsall have conceded 4 goals in their last six and kept 3 clean sheets, and Oldham have failed to score in 3 of their own six while winning none of their two away matches in that run. The caution is obvious: five draws in six says Walsall struggle to finish teams off, and Oldham's 4-1 against Cheltenham Town showed what they can do when the front line clicks. One goal should settle it either way.
Our prediction: Walsall 1-0 Oldham Athletic
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