Wycombe Wanderers vs Notts County Prediction & Preview

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Wycombe Wanderers vs Notts County prediction and preview, League One

Wycombe Wanderers vs Notts County prediction, form and team news for Saturday's League One fixture at Adams Park, kick-off 15:00 BST.

Eleven goals in six games for Wycombe Wanderers, five in six for Notts County. That is the honest gap between these two before they meet in League One at Adams Park, High Wycombe, on Saturday, 17 October 2026, kick-off 15:00 BST. Wycombe have taken 8 points from their last six against Notts County's 5, and they have scored more than twice as often. Both sides lost at home 7 days before this fixture.

How Wycombe Wanderers have been playing

Wycombe Wanderers have won 2, drawn 2 and lost 2 of their last six League One games, scoring 11 and conceding 13. That is a side involved in football matches rather than one controlling them: three or more goals in the game in 5 of those 6, and both sides scoring in 5 of 6.

The defending is the problem. Wycombe have conceded two or more in 5 of their last 6, the latest a 1-4 home defeat by Luton Town 7 days before this match. Before that came a 2-2 home draw with Reading and, 42 days before this fixture, a 3-3 at home with Milton Keynes Dons.

Strangest of all is the home record. Wycombe have won 0 of their last 4 at Adams Park. Both of their wins in this run came on the road - 1-0 at Wigan Athletic, which is their only clean sheet in six, and 3-2 at Leyton Orient. Won 2 of 2 away, won 0 of 4 at home. That is not a small quirk.

Notts County have stopped scoring

One win, two draws, three defeats, 5 points. Notts County have scored five goals in their last six League One games and conceded eight, and they have managed two or more just once in those six - the 2-1 home win over Burton Albion 49 days before this match. Since then: 1-1, 1-1, 0-1, 0-2, 1-2.

They have failed to score in 2 of 6, at Reading and at home to Bradford City. They have also kept no clean sheets in six, so the pattern is not a team that defends well and can't finish. It is a team that concedes a bit and finishes very little.

Away from Meadow Lane, Notts County have won 0 of their last 3, drawing at Huddersfield Town and Doncaster Rovers before the 0-2 at Reading.

Where these two runs collide

Wycombe cannot keep the ball out and Notts cannot put it in. Something has to give, and the more interesting number is Notts County's: they have conceded two or more in only 2 of 6, against a Wycombe side that has seen three or more goals in the game in 5 of 6. One of those habits breaks on Saturday.

If it is Notts County's, Wycombe win comfortably. If it is Wycombe's, this turns into the kind of 1-0 or 1-1 Notts have spent six weeks playing in. The home side's four-game winless run at Adams Park says the second is live, but Notts have not won on their travels in three attempts and have scored once or not at all in all three.

Team news for Wycombe Wanderers vs Notts County

Wycombe head coach Tom Hounsell is without Danny Ings, who pulled up with a hamstring problem after 15 minutes of the EFL Trophy tie with Bristol Rovers - "you can't really tell with hamstrings until they settle down a little bit," Hounsell said at the time (The72), and Ings is the only name on the club's current injury list (Wycombe FC News). Jack Grimmer and Cauley Woodrow, both on at half-time against Luton Town, are expected to start, with Jayden Wareham leading the line. Notts County manager Martin Paterson could bring Max Sanders, Nick Tsaroulla and Rory Finneran in for Matt Palmer, James Gibbons and Ollie Cooper, with Daniel Kanu up front behind Conor Grant and Callum Roberts; Emile Acquah, Beck-Ray Enoru, Lewis Macari, Dean Campbell and Matthew Platt all remain unavailable (Sports Mole).

Wycombe Wanderers vs Notts County prediction

Wycombe Wanderers to beat Notts County 2-1 in League One at Adams Park on Saturday, 17 October 2026. Notts County have scored two or more once in their last six and have not won away in three, which is a thin platform for a first win at a ground where goals keep arriving. Wycombe will probably concede - they have in all but one of their last six - but they have scored in every one of those games, and Notts County's defending has not produced a clean sheet in six attempts.

Our prediction: Wycombe Wanderers 2-1 Notts County

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