Delightful dogfight as daring Salford City duel with determined Colchester United

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Sat 15.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Peninsula Stadium (1400 seats)

The League Two match summary, better known as a league table, tells a story about these participants so far, with Salford City leading Colchester United by 24 points. Here's the Tipsway preview:

Insights:
  • Salford City have the most scored goals in the second half (35) in League Two
  • Colchester United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both contenders have had enough rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's trust this will be an animated game!

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Salford City form and stats

9-5-6 (win-draw-lost) are the League Two numbers at home for Salford City so far this season.

Happy days for Salford City in their previous game, a fixture away at AFC Wimbledon (placed 17th) that ended with a 3-2 victory. A late climax in the match against AFC Wimbledon as the winning goal came six minutes into overtime; scored by Hendry. The striker Hendry outperformed all the other players in that fixture and got a match rating of 8.04 out of 10. Hendry scored two goals.

Ahead of that match, Salford City lost 0-2 at home to Leyton Orient.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Salford have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 17 games) they have won 11 times, drawn 4 and lost 2.

Betting people might want to know that 10 of the latest 11 league games from these players have had at least one goal from each side.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Salford City, as the League Two home game vs Hartlepool United is only three days away.

Salford City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 26 goals in 20 games. Salford's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 21 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Colchester United form and stats

There's been little loot from Colchester United's travels as they have only collected 18 points from 20 away games in the League Two. Colchester United only have 5 wins to counter their 12 defeats and 3 draws. Two points from the last two away games for Colchester United, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Impressive finishing from Akinde (2), Tovide and Chilvers secured the home win 4-0 against Crewe Alexandra in their previous game. Hooray; their first three points in the league after nine games not winning. As mentioned above, Colchester was the only team on the pitch versus Crewe Alexandra in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. The attacker Akinde got a match rating of 8.12 in that game. Akinde scored two goals and hit one key pass.

A 1-1 draw at Stevenage's stadium before that.

Colchester United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 4 draws and 13 defeats. From a total of 19 matches.

A tale of few goals? 10 of this club's last 12 league rounds have seen zero, one or two goals.

Colchester United have another fixture that requires travelling in just three nights, a League Two match versus Crawley Town. A back-breaking calendar for them!

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Colchester United as they have only managed to score 18 times from 20 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Colchester have seen the ball go into their own net 27 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved played each other before this season: Colchester United - Salford City 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Salford City one win, two draws and Colchester United four victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less. The games between these sides have had a tendency to be hostile, having seen 4 sending-offs from the last seven encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Salford CityC. McAleny
C. McAleny
10 goals
Salford CityC. Hendry
C. Hendry
10 goals
Salford CityM. Smith
M. Smith
9 goals

Salford City missing players

Colchester United missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Salford City Colchester United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
41 20 5 Played P 7 20 41
19 9 2 Won W 0 5 10
9 5 3 Drew D 2 3 12
13 6 0 Lost L 5 12 19
64 26 8 Scored S 6 18 39
48 21 5 Conceded C 12 27 47
95% 95% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
73% 75% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 71% 60% 61%
46% 40% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 43% 40% 34%
29% 20% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 29% 20% 17%
20% 5% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 14% 5% 2%
56% 50% 80% BTTS BTTS 57% 50% 49%
27% 30% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 20%
22% 25% 20% Failed to Score F T 43% 40% 37%
 
4.5 5.1 6.4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 3.3 4.8
4.8 4.5 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.3 5 5.1
1.7 1.8 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.9 2 1.9
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
12.4 13.2 16.8 Shots (avg) S ( 6.9 7.2 9.1
4.1 4 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 1.4 1.7
38% 32% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 62% 57%
 
12.5 11.1 10.4 Shots against (avg) S A 13.6 12 11.1
3.5 3 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.2 3.7
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Colchester United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Colchester United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Colchester United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Salford City have the most scored goals in the second half (35) in League Two

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Leyton Orient 40 23 12 5 54 27 21 14 6 1 30 10 19 9 6 4 24 17 27 81
2 Northampton Town 41 20 13 8 55 38 21 11 6 4 27 17 20 9 7 4 28 21 17 73
3 Stockport County 41 20 10 11 57 33 21 10 8 3 30 15 20 10 2 8 27 18 24 70
4 Carlisle United 41 19 13 9 60 37 20 11 6 3 30 16 21 8 7 6 30 21 23 70
5 Stevenage 40 19 13 8 54 37 20 14 2 4 35 15 20 5 11 4 19 22 17 70
6 Bradford City 40 18 14 8 51 35 21 9 8 4 30 20 19 9 6 4 21 15 16 68
7 Salford City 41 19 9 13 64 48 20 9 5 6 26 21 21 10 4 7 38 27 16 66
8 Mansfield Town 40 18 11 11 64 49 20 8 8 4 34 27 20 10 3 7 30 22 15 65
9 Barrow 41 18 7 16 46 47 21 12 3 6 29 17 20 6 4 10 17 30 -1 61
10 Sutton United 41 15 12 14 42 45 20 11 4 5 24 16 21 4 8 9 18 29 -3 57
11 Tranmere Rovers 41 14 11 16 39 42 21 9 6 6 25 19 20 5 5 10 14 23 -3 53
12 Swindon Town 40 13 12 15 52 50 19 7 5 7 28 22 21 6 7 8 24 28 2 51
13 Walsall 41 11 18 12 42 40 21 8 9 4 24 15 20 3 9 8 18 25 2 51
14 Grimsby Town 40 13 12 15 44 51 19 4 9 6 19 24 21 9 3 9 25 27 -7 51
15 Doncaster Rovers 41 15 6 20 41 57 21 10 1 10 25 27 20 5 5 10 16 30 -16 51
16 Crewe Alexandra 40 11 15 14 39 51 20 8 6 6 25 23 20 3 9 8 14 28 -12 48
17 AFC Wimbledon 42 11 14 17 45 51 21 7 6 8 24 24 21 4 8 9 21 27 -6 47
18 Newport County 40 11 14 15 41 47 19 5 6 8 20 23 21 6 8 7 21 24 -6 47
19 Gillingham 41 12 11 18 29 44 20 10 4 6 17 17 21 2 7 12 12 27 -15 47
20 Colchester United 41 10 12 19 39 47 21 5 9 7 21 20 20 5 3 12 18 27 -8 42
21 Harrogate Town 40 9 14 17 47 59 20 5 8 7 25 29 20 4 6 10 22 30 -12 41
22 Hartlepool United 41 8 15 18 48 70 21 4 10 7 24 33 20 4 5 11 24 37 -22 39
23 Crawley Town 41 9 11 21 43 68 20 8 5 7 29 29 21 1 6 14 14 39 -25 38
24 Rochdale 41 8 9 24 39 62 20 4 4 12 23 32 21 4 5 12 16 30 -23 33

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Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Leyton Orient 40 23 12 5 54 27 21 14 6 1 30 10 19 9 6 4 24 17 27 81
2 Northampton Town 41 20 13 8 55 38 21 11 6 4 27 17 20 9 7 4 28 21 17 73
3 Stockport County 41 20 10 11 57 33 21 10 8 3 30 15 20 10 2 8 27 18 24 70
4 Carlisle United 41 19 13 9 60 37 20 11 6 3 30 16 21 8 7 6 30 21 23 70
5 Stevenage 40 19 13 8 54 37 20 14 2 4 35 15 20 5 11 4 19 22 17 70
6 Bradford City 40 18 14 8 51 35 21 9 8 4 30 20 19 9 6 4 21 15 16 68
7 Salford City 41 19 9 13 64 48 20 9 5 6 26 21 21 10 4 7 38 27 16 66
8 Mansfield Town 40 18 11 11 64 49 20 8 8 4 34 27 20 10 3 7 30 22 15 65
9 Barrow 41 18 7 16 46 47 21 12 3 6 29 17 20 6 4 10 17 30 -1 61
10 Sutton United 41 15 12 14 42 45 20 11 4 5 24 16 21 4 8 9 18 29 -3 57
11 Tranmere Rovers 41 14 11 16 39 42 21 9 6 6 25 19 20 5 5 10 14 23 -3 53
12 Swindon Town 40 13 12 15 52 50 19 7 5 7 28 22 21 6 7 8 24 28 2 51
13 Walsall 41 11 18 12 42 40 21 8 9 4 24 15 20 3 9 8 18 25 2 51
14 Grimsby Town 40 13 12 15 44 51 19 4 9 6 19 24 21 9 3 9 25 27 -7 51
15 Doncaster Rovers 41 15 6 20 41 57 21 10 1 10 25 27 20 5 5 10 16 30 -16 51
16 Crewe Alexandra 40 11 15 14 39 51 20 8 6 6 25 23 20 3 9 8 14 28 -12 48
17 AFC Wimbledon 42 11 14 17 45 51 21 7 6 8 24 24 21 4 8 9 21 27 -6 47
18 Newport County 40 11 14 15 41 47 19 5 6 8 20 23 21 6 8 7 21 24 -6 47
19 Gillingham 41 12 11 18 29 44 20 10 4 6 17 17 21 2 7 12 12 27 -15 47
20 Colchester United 41 10 12 19 39 47 21 5 9 7 21 20 20 5 3 12 18 27 -8 42
21 Harrogate Town 40 9 14 17 47 59 20 5 8 7 25 29 20 4 6 10 22 30 -12 41
22 Hartlepool United 41 8 15 18 48 70 21 4 10 7 24 33 20 4 5 11 24 37 -22 39
23 Crawley Town 41 9 11 21 43 68 20 8 5 7 29 29 21 1 6 14 14 39 -25 38
24 Rochdale 41 8 9 24 39 62 20 4 4 12 23 32 21 4 5 12 16 30 -23 33

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The English Football League Two (usually referred to as League Two) is the fourth highest division in English football. The League Two league table has 24 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 552 fixtures. Seasons run from August to May. Four teams are promoted and four relegated.