Comments and predictions for Bradford City vs Wycombe: Home field is not enough

Latest Bradford City vs Wycombe team information

Bradford will be without defender Neill Byrne for the next few months due to a knee injury, while key striker Andy Cook will also miss the first round.

Given that situation, manager Graham Alexander is likely to use a three-man central defence with Joe Wright, Curtis Tilt and Matthew Pennington – two of whom are summer recruits.

Up front, the rookie duo Stephen Humphrys and Will Swan will likely be given the opportunity to start from the beginning.

On Wycombe's side, midfielder Josh Scowen is likely to miss the entire season after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in May.

Some of the new recruits like Mikki van Sas, Taylor Allen, Dan Casey, James Tilley and Armando Quitirna could make their debuts in this match.

Daniel Udoh is expected to lead the attack, while Richard Kone is on his way out of the club with interest from Swansea City and Preston North End.

Latest predicted lineup for Bradford City vs Wycombe

Bradford City:

Walker; Wright, Tilt, Pennington; Halliday, Pattison, Metcalfe, Power, Touray; Humphrys, Swan

Wycombe Wanderers:

Van Sas; Back, Allen, Casey, Harvie; Westergaard, Leahy; Quitirna, Mullins, Tilley; Udoh

Latest football commentary on Bradford City vs Wycombe

Bradford City are set to return to League One after a six-year absence, and they did so in dramatic fashion – with a 96th-minute goal in their final game against Fleetwood Town to leapfrog Walsall into third place and automatic promotion.

Manager Graham Alexander, who guided the team to promotion, has been very active in the summer transfer window, bringing in nine new players for the League One journey – notably Curtis Tilt, Matthew Pennington, Max Power, Will Swan and Stephen Humphrys.

Bradford have enjoyed a good run of form with four wins and two draws in pre-season, including an impressive 2-0 win over Championship side Middlesbrough on 23 July.

They ended the preparation period with a 1-0 victory over Oldham Athletic, thereby creating very good psychological momentum before the opening day of the new season.

Despite failing to win in their last four meetings with Wycombe, Bradford will be hoping to end that run and claim their first win against their opponents since March 2013.

On the other side of the battle line, Wycombe Wanderers coach Mike Dodds is under a lot of pressure, after being unable to maintain the impressive achievements left by his predecessor Matt Bloomfield.

Wycombe were second in League One when Dodds took over in February, but they have since slipped to fifth place after winning just seven, drawing four and losing six of their final 17 games of last season, before losing 1-0 over two legs to Charlton in the play-off semi-finals.

This summer, Wycombe witnessed a strong change in force, with 10 new contracts brought in to replace a series of names leaving.

Their friendly results have been inconsistent: losing to Sutton United, winning against Cheltenham Town, then drawing consecutively with Barnet and Tottenham Hotspur.

However, Wycombe still have reason to be confident on the opening day, as they have won all three of their most recent away games at Bradford, including a 1-0 victory in the EFL Trophy semi-final in February 2024.

Latest Bradford City vs Wycombe score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Bradford City vs Wycombeas follows:

• Sportsmole:Bradford City 2-1 Wycombe

• WhoScore:Bradford City 1-2 Wycombe
• Our newspaper predicts:Bradford City 1-2 Wycombe

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