ROCHDALEVSWINDONTOWN

Match insight

On paper this looks straightforward, but Rochdale's recent form against a struggling Swindon Town makes it more of a puzzle than the table suggests. Rochdale currently sit 7 places and 3 points above Swindon Town in the table — 10th against 17th. Rochdale have taken 11 points from their last 5, against 1 for Swindon Town over the same stretch. Rochdale are outperforming our metrics by some distance — about 8 places higher in the actual table than their underlying rating alone would suggest.