Match preview: Home crowd has big expectations when Brackley Town host Boston United

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Tue 25.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: St. James' Park (3500 seats)

Brackley Town are ready for Boston United with faith in picking up all three points. Can they? Open our preview!

Insights:
  • Brackley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Boston United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

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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Brackley Town form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at St. James' Park as Brackley Town have scored 9 goals to get 13 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the Vanarama National League North are 4-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Brackley's last game was hosting Buxton (placed 19th) and winning 2-0.

A 2-2 draw away before that, with Darlington the opponent.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Brackley Town matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats (from 4 games).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Brackley as they are travelling to their away game against Bradford Park Avenue in the Vanarama National League North. That match is four days after this one.

A decent goal production from Brackley Town in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. Brackley Town have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Boston United form and stats

The visitors are W2-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Vanarama National League North. Boston United has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Boston's previous game was their home loss versus Curzon Ashton (0-1).

A loss against Hereford was the result prior to that, in a home game.

After this away game Boston United return home for a Vanarama National League North game against Chester. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Boston are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 6 games (in the league). Boston United have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Previous ten meetings between these sides: Brackley won five, Boston United triumphed in three and we saw two draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Boston UnitedS. Pollock
S. Pollock
7 goals
Brackley TownC. Stead
C. Stead
5 goals
Boston UnitedJ. Crawford
J. Crawford
5 goals

Brackley Town missing players

Boston United missing players

Brackley Town Boston United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 6 3 Played P 4 6 12
6 4 2 Won W 0 2 3
3 1 0 Drew D 2 2 3
4 1 1 Lost L 2 2 6
14 9 4 Scored S 3 7 17
12 5 4 Conceded C 6 7 22
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 83% 92%
69% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 83% 83%
31% 33% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 33% 50%
8% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 17% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 17% 33%
31% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 58%
46% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 25% 33% 25%
31% 17% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 25%
 
5.5 5.3 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2.2 2.3 4.2
2.7 2.5 1.7 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 5.5 4.2
1.1 0.7 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.7 1.8
1 1 1 Red cards R C 3 3 3
 
10 10.8 11.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 7.5 9.6
3.7 4.8 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.2 3.7
29% 31% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 37% 39%
 
6.5 4 4.3 Shots against (avg) S A 10.2 12.5 10.4
3.2 2.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.2 6 5.2
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • All of Brackley Town's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Boston United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Boston United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Brackley Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Brackley Town have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Brackley Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 King's Lynn Town 12 8 3 1 24 10 6 5 1 0 13 4 6 3 2 1 11 6 14 27
2 Darlington 13 7 3 3 19 14 7 5 1 1 13 7 6 2 2 2 6 7 5 24
3 Scarborough Athletic 12 7 2 3 22 14 6 4 2 0 13 5 6 3 0 3 9 9 8 23
4 Gloucester City 13 7 1 5 23 19 7 5 0 2 16 8 6 2 1 3 7 11 4 22
5 Banbury United 12 6 3 3 20 14 6 4 2 0 12 5 6 2 1 3 8 9 6 21
6 Fylde 12 6 3 3 17 14 6 4 1 1 11 7 6 2 2 2 6 7 3 21
7 Brackley Town 13 6 3 4 14 12 6 4 1 1 9 5 7 2 2 3 5 7 2 21
8 Leamington 14 5 5 4 14 10 8 5 1 2 12 6 6 0 4 2 2 4 4 20
9 Southport 13 6 1 6 19 19 5 3 1 1 6 4 8 3 0 5 13 15 0 19
10 Chorley 13 4 6 3 16 11 7 2 5 0 8 4 6 2 1 3 8 7 5 18
11 Alfreton Town 13 4 6 3 20 16 7 2 3 2 11 9 6 2 3 1 9 7 4 18
12 Curzon Ashton 12 5 3 4 14 10 5 2 1 2 6 5 7 3 2 2 8 5 4 18
13 Peterborough Sports 12 5 3 4 21 18 7 4 2 1 15 9 5 1 1 3 6 9 3 18
14 Kidderminster Harriers 12 5 3 4 13 10 7 2 2 3 7 7 5 3 1 1 6 3 3 18
15 Chester 12 4 4 4 18 14 7 3 1 3 10 6 5 1 3 1 8 8 4 16
16 Spennymoor Town 13 3 7 3 15 17 6 1 4 1 4 4 7 2 3 2 11 13 -2 16
17 Hereford 12 4 3 5 17 16 5 2 2 1 9 6 7 2 1 4 8 10 1 15
18 Boston United 12 3 3 6 17 22 6 1 1 4 10 15 6 2 2 2 7 7 -5 12
19 Buxton 12 2 6 4 9 15 6 1 4 1 6 6 6 1 2 3 3 9 -6 12
20 Kettering Town 13 3 3 7 11 24 6 3 1 2 7 8 7 0 2 5 4 16 -13 12
21 Blyth Spartans 12 2 4 6 10 19 6 1 3 2 7 7 6 1 1 4 3 12 -9 10
22 Farsley Celtic 13 2 4 7 13 25 7 0 3 4 6 14 6 2 1 3 7 11 -12 10
23 Bradford Park Avenue 12 2 3 7 9 18 6 2 0 4 4 7 6 0 3 3 5 11 -9 9
24 AFC Telford United 13 1 4 8 9 23 5 1 1 3 3 8 8 0 3 5 6 15 -14 7

Read more about Vanarama National League North

The National League North, formerly known as Conference North, is the sixth highest division in English football. It contains teams located in Northern England, Norfolk, the English Midlands and North Wales. The league table has 22 teams playing two fixtures against each other (home and away).