Yeovil Town vs Scunthorpe United preview

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 10.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Huish Park Stadium (9565 seats)

Yeovil Town are receiving Scunthorpe United for yet another very important fixture after their 1-0 result against 10th-placed Halifax Town.

Insights:
  • Yeovil Town have the fewest scored goals (17) in National League
  • Scunthorpe United have the fewest clean sheets (0) in National League

This should be an engrossing match with lots of action and bustle as both contenders are well renewed since they last played a game. Let's go!

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Yeovil Town form and stats

Yeovil Town have played 11 National League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-4-3 (wins-draws-losses). When Yeovil Town hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Gateshead, Yeovil Town, Torquay United, Dorking Wanderers, Oldham Athletic, York City and Maidstone United), they have won 1 of 2 matches! The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Huish Park Stadium.

Yeovil Town are confident in defense, having played 245 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Yeovil's previous game was also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Halifax Town (placed 10th). The home side are looking to build on that result.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Notts County that finished 0-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Yeovil Town handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Not much happening? In this team's last 12 league games, 11 have produced zero, one or two goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Yeovil as they are travelling to their away game against Barnet in the National League. That match is three days after this one.

Yeovil Town have only conceded 10 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Scunthorpe United form and stats

Scunthorpe United have only collected 4 points from their away games in the National League, after 0-4-7 (11 played). The loyal fans travelling with their beloved Scunthorpe United have enjoyed the stadium food more than the matches as the visitors have gone eleven consecutive matches without winning on the road.

Scunthorpe United might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Notts County proved too strong as Scunthorpe United slumped to a 1-4 defeat in front of their own fans at Glanford Park.

A 1-3 defeat away at Wealdstone before that.

Scunthorpe 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, 6 draws and 7 defeats. From a total of 14 matches.

Sports betting statistic: Both teams have scored in 12 of this club's last 15 league games.

A new game in only three days for Scunthorpe United, the National League home match versus Woking. Busy days.

The attacking power of Scunthorpe when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 11 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Scunthorpe United - Yeovil Town 2-1 was the outcome when this pair of contenders previously met, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Yeovil victories, three draws and five Scunthorpe United wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Scunthorpe UnitedJ. Nuttall
J. Nuttall
9 goals
Yeovil TownA. Fisher
A. Fisher
4 goals
Scunthorpe UnitedC. Lavery
C. Lavery
4 goals

Yeovil Town missing players

Scunthorpe United missing players

Yeovil Town Scunthorpe United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 11 2 Played P 2 11 22
4 4 1 Won W 0 0 3
10 4 0 Drew D 2 4 6
7 3 1 Lost L 0 7 13
17 11 3 Scored S 3 10 27
21 10 2 Conceded C 3 22 47
86% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
57% 55% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 95%
24% 27% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 55% 59%
14% 18% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 36% 45%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 23%
48% 45% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 64% 68%
29% 36% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
38% 27% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 36% 32%
 
3.6 3.2 2 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.2 4.2
5.2 4.8 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 6.6 6.1
2.3 2.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.7 2.1
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
6.8 6.9 5.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 8.5 9
3 3.7 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 2.8 3.5
27% 27% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 32% 36%
 
11.1 7.9 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 7.5 13.9 13
4.2 3.5 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 6.4 5.8
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Scunthorpe United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Scunthorpe United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Scunthorpe United have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in National League
  • Scunthorpe United have the fewest clean sheets (0) in National League
  • Scunthorpe United have the most conceded goals in the first half (23) in National League
  • Scunthorpe United have yet to win a game away.
  • Scunthorpe United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Scunthorpe United is in the worst form (0-0-6)
  • Yeovil Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Yeovil Town have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in National League
  • Yeovil Town have the fewest scored goals (17) in National League
  • Yeovil Town have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) 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 Notts County 21 14 6 1 53 18 10 7 3 0 20 4 11 7 3 1 33 14 35 48
2 Wrexham 21 14 5 2 53 19 10 10 0 0 37 9 11 4 5 2 16 10 34 47
3 Woking 21 12 4 5 37 20 11 7 2 2 22 11 10 5 2 3 15 9 17 40
4 Chesterfield 20 12 4 4 40 24 10 8 0 2 21 11 10 4 4 2 19 13 16 40
5 Barnet 21 11 3 7 40 38 11 7 1 3 17 15 10 4 2 4 23 23 2 36
6 Southend United 22 9 7 6 30 20 11 5 4 2 15 8 11 4 3 4 15 12 10 34
7 Solihull Moors 21 9 6 6 35 24 11 5 4 2 20 12 10 4 2 4 15 12 11 33
8 Boreham Wood 21 8 7 6 25 21 10 3 4 3 12 12 11 5 3 3 13 9 4 31
9 Eastleigh 22 9 4 9 26 27 11 8 2 1 17 8 11 1 2 8 9 19 -1 31
10 Halifax Town 22 9 4 9 21 27 11 7 1 3 13 11 11 2 3 6 8 16 -6 31
11 Bromley 20 8 5 7 28 26 10 5 3 2 13 8 10 3 2 5 15 18 2 29
12 Dagenham & Redbridge 20 8 5 7 34 36 11 6 3 2 24 18 9 2 2 5 10 18 -2 29
13 Wealdstone 21 8 5 8 23 30 10 3 4 3 11 14 11 5 1 5 12 16 -7 29
14 Maidenhead United 22 8 4 10 22 27 11 5 3 3 12 10 11 3 1 7 10 17 -5 28
15 Aldershot Town 21 8 2 11 30 33 10 4 1 5 16 15 11 4 1 6 14 18 -3 26
16 Altrincham 22 6 8 8 30 40 11 5 3 3 16 13 11 1 5 5 14 27 -10 26
17 Dorking Wanderers 22 7 5 10 38 49 11 5 2 4 20 22 11 2 3 6 18 27 -11 26
18 York City 22 6 7 9 24 24 11 3 4 4 11 13 11 3 3 5 13 11 0 25
19 Yeovil Town 21 4 10 7 17 21 11 4 4 3 11 10 10 0 6 4 6 11 -4 22
20 Maidstone United 22 5 6 11 26 47 11 3 5 3 12 15 11 2 1 8 14 32 -21 21
21 Torquay United 22 4 6 12 25 43 11 1 5 5 20 26 11 3 1 7 5 17 -18 18
22 Gateshead 21 3 8 10 25 36 11 2 5 4 15 17 10 1 3 6 10 19 -11 17
23 Oldham Athletic 20 4 5 11 19 31 9 4 1 4 14 15 11 0 4 7 5 16 -12 17
24 Scunthorpe United 22 3 6 13 27 47 11 3 2 6 17 25 11 0 4 7 10 22 -20 15

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.