Leamington vs Kettering Town match preview: Even contest expected at The Phillips 66 Community Stadium

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Sat 18.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Phillips 66 Community Stadium (2300 seats)

With their 4 point lead in the league table, Leamington supporters hope to see their beloved team get full points from this match hosting Kettering Town.

Insights:
  • Leamington have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kettering Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Leamington form and stats

17 points is a decent return from 8 Vanarama National League North games here at The Phillips 66 Community Stadium for Leamington. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.

The spoils were shared in Leamington's previous game, also at home. Visiting Bradford Park Avenue (placed 19th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Chester.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Leamington have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won four, drawn four and lost five.

Leamington have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Phillips 66 Community Stadium with 13 goals in 8 league matches. Leamington have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Kettering Town form and stats

3-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kettering Town in their Vanarama National League North matches away.

Kettering has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to AFC Telford United for a Vanarama National League North game that ended a draw (2-2). Drawing 2-2 against AFC Telford United after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager Cox needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result.

A 2-3 loss hosting Boston United before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Kettering in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Kettering Town, two draws and six defeats.

After this away game Kettering Town return home for a Vanarama National League North game against Southport. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Kettering Town have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 7 league away games 10 goals have been scored. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Kettering have conceded 12 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: seven - two - one (Leamington wins - draws - Kettering Town wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Kettering TownC. Powell
C. Powell
7 goals
LeamingtonK. Mooney
K. Mooney
4 goals
LeamingtonD. Turner
D. Turner
4 goals

Leamington missing players

Kettering Town missing players

Leamington Kettering Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 8 2 Played P 2 7 15
6 5 1 Won W 1 3 5
5 2 1 Drew D 0 1 4
6 1 0 Lost L 1 3 6
20 13 4 Scored S 2 10 21
18 7 1 Conceded C 4 12 22
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
88% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 87%
35% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 71% 60%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
53% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 57% 60%
24% 38% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 33%
24% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 14% 13%
 
4.6 4.9 4 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5.4 6
5 4.6 6 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.7 5.3
0.9 0.9 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.5 10.9 11 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 10.4 12.1
3.4 4.4 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.1 4.5
35% 37% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 45% 31%
 
10.6 10.2 7 Shots against (avg) S A 12 10.7 9.5
4.6 4.6 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.5 5.1 3.9
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • All of Kettering Town's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Leamington's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Kettering Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Kettering Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Leamington have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Leamington 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 Brackley Town 16 11 4 1 22 8 7 5 1 1 8 4 9 6 3 0 14 4 14 37
2 Fylde 17 11 3 3 32 16 8 7 1 0 17 6 9 4 2 3 15 10 16 36
3 Gateshead 14 10 2 2 30 18 6 6 0 0 15 4 8 4 2 2 15 14 12 32
4 Kidderminster Harriers 15 9 3 3 34 15 7 5 0 2 20 7 8 4 3 1 14 8 19 30
5 Chorley 17 8 6 3 29 14 9 6 2 1 23 7 8 2 4 2 6 7 15 30
6 Boston United 17 9 1 7 26 27 9 6 1 2 18 10 8 3 0 5 8 17 -1 28
7 Southport 16 7 5 4 29 20 9 5 4 0 20 9 7 2 1 4 9 11 9 26
8 Alfreton Town 17 7 3 7 28 25 9 3 3 3 15 13 8 4 0 4 13 12 3 24
9 Curzon Ashton 15 6 5 4 21 16 7 3 2 2 8 7 8 3 3 2 13 9 5 23
10 Leamington 17 6 5 6 20 18 8 5 2 1 13 7 9 1 3 5 7 11 2 23
11 York City 17 7 2 8 23 23 9 4 1 4 16 11 8 3 1 4 7 12 0 23
12 Hereford 17 6 5 6 18 19 9 4 2 3 11 10 8 2 3 3 7 9 -1 23
13 Spennymoor Town 17 7 2 8 26 28 8 4 1 3 18 13 9 3 1 5 8 15 -2 23
14 Darlington 17 6 4 7 29 26 9 4 2 3 17 11 8 2 2 4 12 15 3 22
15 Kettering Town 15 5 4 6 21 22 8 2 3 3 11 10 7 3 1 3 10 12 -1 19
16 Chester 17 5 4 8 28 31 9 5 2 2 20 13 8 0 2 6 8 18 -3 19
17 Farsley Celtic 16 4 4 8 15 30 8 3 3 2 10 10 8 1 1 6 5 20 -15 16
18 Gloucester City 17 3 5 9 20 33 8 3 2 3 12 9 9 0 3 6 8 24 -13 14
19 Bradford Park Avenue 16 3 5 8 15 29 7 2 2 3 8 12 9 1 3 5 7 17 -14 14
20 Guiseley 16 3 3 10 11 24 9 2 2 5 6 12 7 1 1 5 5 12 -13 12
21 Blyth Spartans 17 3 3 11 12 34 9 3 2 4 8 9 8 0 1 7 4 25 -22 12
22 AFC Telford United 15 2 4 9 15 28 7 2 3 2 9 7 8 0 1 7 6 21 -13 10

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).