Delightful dogfight as daring Scunthorpe United duel with determined Maidstone United

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 12.November
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sands Venue Stadium (9088 seats)

Victories have not come easily for Scunthorpe United so far, and that also applies to Maidstone United. These brave battlers hope for some much needed points here.

Insights:
  • Scunthorpe United have the fewest clean sheets (0) in National League
  • Maidstone United have the most conceded goals (42) in National League

Maidstone United play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Maidstone United when playing on grass are 12 wins, 8 draws and 12 defeats from 32 matches. They have scored {52 goals} and conceded 57 times on these occasions.

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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Scunthorpe United form and stats

3 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Scunthorpe United, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) in National League, have to build on here at Sands Venue Stadium in the National League. When Scunthorpe United hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Aldershot Town, Gateshead, Yeovil Town, Scunthorpe United, Altrincham, Torquay United and Oldham Athletic), they have won 2 of 3 matches!

Scunthorpe United suffered an unexpected defeat 1-3 against Wrexham in their previous outing, also played in front of their own fans.

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Eastleigh.

Sports bettors, take note: A review of the 11 latest league matches shows that 9 of them had at least one goal scored by each team.

A decent goal production from Scunthorpe United in their home games so far, with 16 goals from 9 league matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Scunthorpe with 19 goals conceded in these matches.

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Maidstone United form and stats

Maidstone United have only collected 4 points from their away games in the National League, after 1-1-7 (9 played). Bitter travels for Maidstone United as they have lost six games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Aldershot Town match.

There might be some fixture complaints from Maidstone United as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 2-5 against Eastleigh. A bonkers fixture with lots of goals last time out for Maidstone, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that fixture, will this game be as enjoying?

A draw for Maidstone United before that, at their own venue hosting Solihull Moors (0-0).

Maidstone United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.

The visiting Maidstone have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 11 goals from 9 games. Maidstone United can't defend away. 29 goals have been scored by the opposition in 9 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above. When Maidstone United is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Aldershot Town, Gateshead, Yeovil Town, Altrincham, Torquay United, Oldham Athletic and Maidstone United.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Scunthorpe UnitedJ. Nuttall
J. Nuttall
9 goals
Scunthorpe UnitedR. Apter
R. Apter
4 goals
ScunthorpeJ. Butterfield
J. Butterfield
3 goals

Scunthorpe United missing players

Maidstone United missing players

Scunthorpe United Maidstone United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 3 9 18
3 3 2 Won W 1 1 3
6 2 1 Drew D 1 1 5
9 4 0 Lost L 1 7 10
24 16 8 Scored S 5 11 20
36 19 5 Conceded C 6 29 42
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
94% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 89%
56% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 89% 67%
44% 56% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 67% 39%
22% 33% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 44% 28%
67% 78% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 67%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 11%
33% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 28%
 
4.4 4.7 4 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4 5.4
5.7 5.3 5.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 7.8 6.3
1.9 1.2 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.1 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
9.1 10.2 12 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 7.6 10.3
3.6 4.6 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3 4.3
38% 39% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 41% 26%
 
13.3 13.2 14 Shots against (avg) S A 15 15.6 12.5
6.1 5.7 5.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 6.8 5.2
Key stats in National League this season:
  • All of Maidstone United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Scunthorpe United's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Maidstone United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Maidstone United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Maidstone United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Maidstone United have the most conceded goals (29) away in National League
  • Maidstone United have the most conceded goals (42) in National League
  • Maidstone United have the the worst goal difference (-18) away in National League
  • Maidstone United have the the worst goal difference (-22) in National League
  • Maidstone United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Maidstone United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Scunthorpe United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Scunthorpe United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Scunthorpe United have the fewest clean sheets (0) in National League
  • Scunthorpe United have the most conceded goals in the first half (18) in National League
  • Scunthorpe United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 18 13 3 2 50 18 9 9 0 0 35 9 9 4 3 2 15 9 32 42
2 Notts County 18 12 5 1 47 17 9 7 2 0 20 4 9 5 3 1 27 13 30 41
3 Chesterfield 17 10 4 3 33 22 9 7 0 2 19 11 8 3 4 1 14 11 11 34
4 Woking 18 10 3 5 32 18 9 6 1 2 18 9 9 4 2 3 14 9 14 33
5 Solihull Moors 18 8 6 4 33 18 9 4 4 1 18 8 9 4 2 3 15 10 15 30
6 Southend United 18 8 6 4 25 13 9 4 3 2 11 6 9 4 3 2 14 7 12 30
7 Boreham Wood 17 7 7 3 23 17 8 2 4 2 10 10 9 5 3 1 13 7 6 28
8 Eastleigh 18 8 4 6 23 21 9 7 2 0 16 6 9 1 2 6 7 15 2 28
9 Barnet 18 8 3 7 35 38 9 5 1 3 14 15 9 3 2 4 21 23 -3 27
10 Bromley 18 7 4 7 24 23 9 5 2 2 12 7 9 2 2 5 12 16 1 25
11 York City 18 6 6 6 21 18 9 3 3 3 9 10 9 3 3 3 12 8 3 24
12 Dagenham & Redbridge 17 6 5 6 29 34 9 5 3 1 22 16 8 1 2 5 7 18 -5 23
13 Dorking Wanderers 17 6 4 7 33 40 9 4 2 3 17 19 8 2 2 4 16 21 -7 22
14 Wealdstone 17 6 4 7 18 26 8 2 3 3 8 13 9 4 1 4 10 13 -8 22
15 Maidenhead United 18 6 3 9 15 21 9 4 2 3 9 8 9 2 1 6 6 13 -6 21
16 Halifax Town 17 6 3 8 15 24 8 4 1 3 8 10 9 2 2 5 7 14 -9 21
17 Aldershot Town 17 6 2 9 25 29 8 3 1 4 13 13 9 3 1 5 12 16 -4 20
18 Altrincham 18 4 6 8 23 35 9 3 3 3 12 11 9 1 3 5 11 24 -12 18
19 Oldham Athletic 16 4 4 8 17 25 8 4 1 3 14 13 8 0 3 5 3 12 -8 16
20 Yeovil Town 18 2 9 7 13 20 9 2 4 3 7 9 9 0 5 4 6 11 -7 15
21 Scunthorpe United 18 3 6 9 24 36 9 3 2 4 16 19 9 0 4 5 8 17 -12 15
22 Torquay United 18 3 5 10 22 36 9 1 4 4 18 20 9 2 1 6 4 16 -14 14
23 Maidstone United 18 3 5 10 20 42 9 2 4 3 9 13 9 1 1 7 11 29 -22 14
24 Gateshead 17 2 7 8 20 29 9 1 5 3 12 14 8 1 2 5 8 15 -9 13

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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.