Evenly matched teams: King's Lynn Town vs Maidenhead United match preview

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 26.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Walks (5733 seats)

This game stars two contenders residing in the carpet of the National League, King's Lynn Town holding 22nd place and Maidenhead United lying 19th. A decent opportunity for one of the squads to upgrade their situation.

Insights:
  • King's Lynn Town have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in National League
  • Maidenhead United have the fewest scored goals (6) away in National League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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King's Lynn Town form and stats

King's Lynn Town's struggle is real here at The Walks with only 7 points collected from 13 National League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-10.

Barrett was the last player to score a league goal for King's and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as King's Lynn Town haven't scored in 286 minutes.

The King's Lynn Town coach Widdrington and his gang return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Barnet (placed 16th).

Before that game, the home loss against Altrincham with the scoreline 0-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with King's Lynn Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with King's Lynn Town as a small favourite), we find four games. King's Lynn Town has won four of these, drawn zero and lost zero.

There will be little rest for King's after this match as they are travelling to Wrexham for a National League game in only three days.

King's Lynn Town aren't scoring a lot here at The Walks in the league, with only 11 goals from 13 games. King's Lynn Town have conceded 22 from these games. King's has at home met teams with this table position (low), six times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 4 of 6 times.

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Maidenhead United form and stats

Maidenhead United have only collected 7 points from their away games in the National League, after 1-4-7 (12 played). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in eleven away games in a row.

There were no winners in Maidenhead United's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Yeovil Town (placed 13th).

Before that, Maidenhead United secured a home win against Boreham Wood with the score 2-0.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Maidenhead manager Devonshire as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Dagenham & Redbridge.

Maidenhead United are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 6 goals from 12 away games. Maidenhead struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 21 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

This isn't the first time these two sides meet on the pitch this campaign, as the statistics show this recent match: Maidenhead United - King's Lynn Town 2-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): King's Lynn Town two wins, two draws and Maidenhead United one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Maidenhead UnitedJ. Kelly
J. Kelly
10 goals
Maidenhead UnitedK. Ferdinand
K. Ferdinand
6 goals
King'sM. Clunan
M. Clunan
5 goals

King's Lynn Town missing players

Maidenhead United missing players

King's Lynn Town Maidenhead United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
27 13 6 Played P 4 12 27
4 2 2 Won W 0 1 8
4 1 1 Drew D 1 4 7
19 10 3 Lost L 3 7 12
24 11 6 Scored S 2 6 31
51 22 5 Conceded C 9 21 48
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 96%
63% 54% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 81%
48% 38% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 42% 48%
30% 15% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 17% 37%
26% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 22%
44% 38% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 42% 52%
11% 8% 17% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 19%
52% 54% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 58% 33%
 
4.1 4.8 6 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5.2 5.4
6.1 5.6 5.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.8 5.4
2.1 1.9 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 1.8 1.5
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
8.5 9.2 10.8 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 7.2 9.4
3.1 3 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 2.6 4
28% 28% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 18% 19% 29%
 
10 8.7 6.5 Shots against (avg) S A 11 10.6 10.9
4.5 4.2 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.8 5.1
Key stats in National League this season:
  • King's Lynn Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • King's Lynn Town have the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in National League
  • King's Lynn Town have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in National League
  • King's Lynn Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Maidenhead United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Maidenhead United have the fewest scored goals (6) away 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 Stockport County 29 19 4 6 59 27 14 8 3 3 26 13 15 11 1 3 33 14 32 61
2 Chesterfield 29 15 10 4 52 29 14 7 5 2 25 16 15 8 5 2 27 13 23 55
3 Boreham Wood 26 15 8 3 36 17 14 9 5 0 22 6 12 6 3 3 14 11 19 53
4 Solihull Moors 28 15 7 6 46 26 15 9 3 3 30 13 13 6 4 3 16 13 20 52
5 Wrexham 28 15 7 6 46 27 11 5 5 1 10 6 17 10 2 5 36 21 19 52
6 Halifax Town 27 15 6 6 42 22 12 9 0 3 23 8 15 6 6 3 19 14 20 51
7 Bromley 28 15 6 7 45 33 15 10 2 3 28 15 13 5 4 4 17 18 12 51
8 Notts County 27 14 7 6 50 30 15 10 3 2 33 18 12 4 4 4 17 12 20 49
9 Grimsby Town 28 14 4 10 42 29 15 10 2 3 28 11 13 4 2 7 14 18 13 46
10 Dagenham & Redbridge 28 13 4 11 50 38 15 7 3 5 31 23 13 6 1 6 19 15 12 43
11 Torquay United 29 12 6 11 44 43 15 7 3 5 24 21 14 5 3 6 20 22 1 42
12 Southend United 28 11 6 11 31 38 12 6 2 4 18 17 16 5 4 7 13 21 -7 39
13 Yeovil Town 28 10 8 10 27 28 14 4 5 5 12 14 14 6 3 5 15 14 -1 38
14 Eastleigh 29 9 7 13 29 42 15 7 5 3 22 18 14 2 2 10 7 24 -13 34
15 Woking 29 10 3 16 43 45 14 5 0 9 20 24 15 5 3 7 23 21 -2 33
16 Barnet 29 8 8 13 34 55 14 4 4 6 14 27 15 4 4 7 20 28 -21 32
17 Aldershot Town 29 8 7 14 32 44 15 2 5 8 13 26 14 6 2 6 19 18 -12 31
18 Wealdstone 28 8 7 13 29 41 14 5 4 5 13 15 14 3 3 8 16 26 -12 31
19 Maidenhead United 27 8 7 12 31 48 15 7 3 5 25 27 12 1 4 7 6 21 -17 31
20 Altrincham 29 8 6 15 40 54 13 4 2 7 19 22 16 4 4 8 21 32 -14 30
21 Weymouth 29 5 7 17 30 53 16 3 5 8 17 24 13 2 2 9 13 29 -23 22
22 King's Lynn Town 27 4 4 19 24 51 13 2 1 10 11 22 14 2 3 9 13 29 -27 16
23 Dover Athletic 29 1 5 23 21 63 14 1 2 11 9 24 15 0 3 12 12 39 -42 -4

Read more about National League

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.