Soccer match guide: Home fans with big hopes before Gateshead - Dorking Wanderers

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Tue 18.April
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Gateshead International Stadium (11800 seats)

With their 0 point advantage in the league standings, Gateshead followers hope to see their side collect all points from this fixture hosting Dorking Wanderers.

Insights:
  • Gateshead have the most dropped points from leading position (31) in National League
  • Dorking Wanderers have the most conceded goals in the first half (42) in National League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Gateshead and Dorking Wanderers.

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Gateshead form and stats

Gateshead have collected 26 points from their National League home games so far after 6-8-7.

The Gateshead crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-3 to Bromley here at Gateshead International Stadium. Up until that fixture this team had gone eight consecutive league matches without being beaten.

In the preceding match a 5-2 victory visiting Eastleigh.

There will be little rest for Gateshead after this match as they are travelling to Woking for a National League game in only four days.

Gateshead are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 30 goals in 21 games. Gateshead's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 29 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Dorking Wanderers form and stats

There's been little loot from Dorking Wanderers's travels as they have only collected 15 points from 21 away games in the National League. Dorking Wanderers only have 4 wins to counter their 14 defeats and 3 draws. Dorking Wanderers has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

The followers enjoyed Wanderers's previous game versus Altrincham (placed 15th), a 3-2 win played at home. Dorking Wanderers can call themselves comeback kings after the match against Altrincham. Buried deep in trouble at 0-2, the troops rallied and completely turned the match around to a 3-2 victory. Prior scored the final goal. Which player has beaten the opponent goalie four matches in a row for the away side? The correct answer is Prior and that is quite the feat!

Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Yeovil Town.

Wanderers have another fixture that requires travelling in just four sleeps, a National League game vs Wealdstone. A hard timetable for them!

The visiting Dorking Wanderers have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 25 goals from 21 games. For Dorking Wanderers, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Dorking Wanderers - Gateshead 2-1 was the score in these contenders' last head to head fixture, earlier this season. One of the players to grab the headlines has been McShane with 2 goals scored against Gateshead in these 1 matches.

Top Goalscorers

Dorking WanderersJ. McShane
J. McShane
17 goals
Dorking WanderersR. Seager
R. Seager
11 goals
GatesheadA. Campbell
A. Campbell
9 goals

Gateshead missing players

Dorking Wanderers missing players

Gateshead Dorking Wanderers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
42 21 6 Played P 6 21 43
13 6 3 Won W 1 4 15
14 8 2 Drew D 0 3 7
15 7 1 Lost L 5 14 21
60 30 13 Scored S 6 25 63
60 29 6 Conceded C 15 47 88
98% 95% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 98%
88% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 86%
55% 57% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 70%
33% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 52% 53%
7% 5% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 29% 33%
64% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 57% 65%
19% 19% 33% Clean Sheets C S 17% 14% 14%
19% 24% 17% Failed to Score F T 33% 29% 23%
 
4.5 4.2 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 4.6 4.7
5 4.9 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 6.5 5.7
1.7 1.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.1 2.2
3 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
11.9 13.6 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 8.2 8.9
5.1 5.2 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.3 4
28% 27% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 36% 37%
 
9.4 9 7.3 Shots against (avg) S A 13.2 14.3 12.5
4 3.8 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 5.8 5.4
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Dorking Wanderers have the most conceded goals in the first half (42) in National League
  • Dorking Wanderers haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Gateshead have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gateshead have the most dropped points from leading position (31) in National League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Wrexham 43 32 8 3 109 41 21 20 1 0 68 18 22 12 7 3 41 23 68 104
2 Notts County 44 31 10 3 111 39 22 17 4 1 53 11 22 14 6 2 58 28 72 103
3 Chesterfield 43 23 9 11 72 49 21 13 2 6 39 26 22 10 7 5 33 23 23 78
4 Woking 43 22 10 11 68 46 21 10 7 4 36 22 22 12 3 7 32 24 22 76
5 Barnet 43 20 10 13 73 64 21 11 5 5 34 28 22 9 5 8 39 36 9 70
6 Boreham Wood 43 18 15 10 50 35 21 8 8 5 21 17 22 10 7 5 29 18 15 69
7 Bromley 43 17 15 11 64 51 22 8 10 4 33 23 21 9 5 7 31 28 13 66
8 Eastleigh 44 19 8 17 55 56 22 14 4 4 33 22 22 5 4 13 22 34 -1 65
9 Southend United 43 18 9 16 52 41 22 11 4 7 30 18 21 7 5 9 22 23 11 63
10 Dagenham & Redbridge 43 17 7 19 57 70 22 10 4 8 33 34 21 7 3 11 24 36 -13 58
11 Solihull Moors 42 15 12 15 62 61 22 9 7 6 36 26 20 6 5 9 26 35 1 57
12 Wealdstone 42 15 11 16 51 67 20 9 5 6 30 29 22 6 6 10 21 38 -16 56
13 Halifax Town 42 15 10 17 46 46 21 11 4 6 31 21 21 4 6 11 15 25 0 55
14 Oldham Athletic 43 14 12 17 57 63 21 10 5 6 34 29 22 4 7 11 23 34 -6 54
15 Altrincham 43 14 11 18 63 77 21 10 3 8 31 27 22 4 8 10 32 50 -14 53
16 Gateshead 42 13 14 15 60 60 21 6 8 7 30 29 21 7 6 8 30 31 0 52
17 Dorking Wanderers 43 15 7 21 63 88 22 11 4 7 38 41 21 4 3 14 25 47 -25 52
18 York City 44 13 10 21 52 60 22 7 6 9 25 30 22 6 4 12 27 30 -8 49
19 Maidenhead United 44 13 10 21 46 61 22 8 7 7 26 25 22 5 3 14 20 36 -15 49
20 Aldershot Town 43 13 9 21 60 73 22 6 5 11 30 35 21 7 4 10 30 38 -13 48
21 Torquay United 43 12 10 21 54 72 22 6 6 10 35 40 21 6 4 11 19 32 -18 46
22 Yeovil Town 43 7 19 17 35 53 22 6 8 8 18 22 21 1 11 9 17 31 -18 40
23 Scunthorpe United 44 8 10 26 47 82 22 7 3 12 32 40 22 1 7 14 15 42 -35 34
24 Maidstone United 44 5 10 29 43 95 22 3 8 11 22 39 22 2 2 18 21 56 -52 25

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The National League is the fifth highest level of the English football league system. 24 professional and semi-professional teams play a total of 552 fixtures to top the league table. The National League is the top division of the National League System which contains division levels five to eleven.