Full preview: Truro City favourite to win against Salisbury at Manadon Sports Hub

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Competition: England Non League Premier: Southern South
Competition: Wed 19.April
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Manadon Sports Hub (1000 seats)

Truro City have excelled Salisbury so far this season, but every game begins at 0-0. Here's all the data you require before kickoff:

Insights:
  • Truro City have the fewest conceded goals (11) at home in Non League Premier: Southern South
  • Salisbury have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

For Salisbury most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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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Truro City form and stats

Truro City are steadily winning Non League Premier: Southern South games and points here at Manadon Sports Hub. 15 wins, 5 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 21 games. There’s a good atmosphere here at Manadon Sports Hub after three straight home wins.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 270 minutes.

The Truro City fans enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Salisbury and win 4-0. As mentioned above, Truro City "killed" Salisbury in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Bracknell Town in a game that was won 1-0.

Truro are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 7 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 5, drew 1 and lost 1.

Lots of goals and action? Nobody knows about this one, but we do know that 9 of the 12 latest league games with this side has seen three goals or more.

Truro City can score goals in their home matches. After 21 league matches they have found the net 47 times. Truro City are not conceding a lot of goals here at Manadon Sports Hub in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 21 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Salisbury form and stats

9 wins, 2 draws and 10 losses. That’s the product of Salisbury playing as the away team in the Non League Premier: Southern South this season. Three has not been a lucky number for Salisbury as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Hendon match.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Salisbury, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-4 versus Truro City (placed 2nd). Salisbury lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.

A 1-3 defeat away at Chesham United before that.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 8 of this team's 10 latest league rounds have ended with at least three goals.

Salisbury have scored 31 goals on their travels this season, from 21 away games in the league. Salisbury have conceded 35 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date reported match between these contenders is the Truro - Salisbury 4-0 played earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last six meetings: five - zero - one (Truro City wins - draws - Salisbury wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.

Truro City missing players

Salisbury missing players

Truro City Salisbury
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
41 21 6 Played P 6 21 41
26 15 3 Won W 1 9 14
8 5 2 Drew D 0 2 6
7 1 1 Lost L 5 10 21
86 47 11 Scored S 5 31 54
40 11 6 Conceded C 15 35 70
95% 90% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 95% 93%
76% 71% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 71% 73%
63% 52% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 66%
44% 43% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 48% 41%
20% 14% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 19% 17%
51% 38% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 48% 54%
44% 62% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 24%
10% 10% 17% Failed to Score F T 33% 29% 29%
 
2.9 3.9 3.2 Corners for (avg) C F 1.3 1.5 1.4
1.9 2.5 2.2 Corners against (avg) C A 1.7 1.3 1.1
0.7 0.9 0.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 0.8 0.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
6.3 7.9 8.4 Shots (avg) S ( 3.3 3.1 2.8
2.7 3.5 2.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 1.4 1
81% 64% 54% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 88% 118%
 
3.4 4.4 5 Shots against (avg) S A 6 3.9 3.2
1.6 2 2.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.7 1.7 1.4
Key stats in Non League Premier: Southern South this season:
  • Salisbury have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Truro City have created more than twice as many corners as Salisbury.
  • Truro City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Truro City have the fewest conceded goals (11) at home in Non League Premier: Southern South
  • Truro City have the most clean sheets (13) at home in Non League Premier: Southern South
  • Truro City have the the best goal difference (+36) at home in Non League Premier: Southern South
  • Truro City have won significantly more corners at home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Weston-super-Mare 41 28 8 5 88 31 21 16 2 3 51 18 20 12 6 2 37 13 57 92
2 Truro City 41 26 8 7 86 40 21 15 5 1 47 11 20 11 3 6 39 29 46 86
3 Bracknell Town 40 26 6 8 96 52 21 13 4 4 50 28 19 13 2 4 46 24 44 84
4 Chesham United 41 23 10 8 85 52 21 13 6 2 45 23 20 10 4 6 40 29 33 79
5 Poole Town 41 22 11 8 82 51 21 11 7 3 42 27 20 11 4 5 40 24 31 77
6 Swindon Supermarine 41 22 8 11 83 63 20 13 4 3 42 26 21 9 4 8 41 37 20 74
7 Hayes & Yeading United 40 20 7 13 77 57 21 13 4 4 46 24 19 7 3 9 31 33 20 67
8 Metropolitan Police FC 40 18 7 15 60 55 19 10 2 7 26 24 21 8 5 8 34 31 5 61
9 Merthyr Town 41 18 6 17 72 61 20 8 1 11 38 35 21 10 5 6 34 26 11 60
10 Beaconsfield Town 41 15 12 14 73 70 21 9 4 8 43 40 20 6 8 6 30 30 3 57
11 Plymouth Parkway 40 16 9 15 61 58 19 11 5 3 42 19 21 5 4 12 19 39 3 57
12 Tiverton Town 40 15 9 16 60 73 19 9 5 5 30 26 21 6 4 11 30 47 -13 54
13 Dorchester Town 41 15 6 20 54 78 21 11 1 9 35 38 20 4 5 11 19 40 -24 51
14 Salisbury 41 14 6 21 54 70 20 5 4 11 23 35 21 9 2 10 31 35 -16 48
15 Hanwell Town 41 13 8 20 52 63 20 8 3 9 29 29 21 5 5 11 23 34 -11 47
16 Winchester City 41 11 12 18 52 70 21 5 7 9 25 33 20 6 5 9 27 37 -18 45
17 Gosport Borough 40 12 5 23 54 76 19 7 3 9 27 33 21 5 2 14 27 43 -22 41
18 Hendon 40 9 11 20 55 76 20 5 7 8 27 30 20 4 4 12 28 46 -21 38
19 Harrow Borough 41 8 10 23 41 79 20 5 2 13 17 37 21 3 8 10 24 42 -38 34
20 Yate Town 41 9 7 25 49 89 21 4 5 12 29 45 20 5 2 13 20 44 -40 34
21 North Leigh 40 9 6 25 48 83 20 6 3 11 26 36 20 3 3 14 22 47 -35 33
22 Hartley Wintney 41 8 8 25 38 73 21 5 6 10 26 37 20 3 2 15 12 36 -35 32