Football match betting preview: Braintree Town vs Slough Town

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Competition: Sat 24.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cressing Road Stadium

Braintree Town reset their brains and bodies for this game following their 2-1 result vs Heybridge Swifts, a game that produced some answers. Will they show it against Slough Town?

Insights:
  • Braintree Town have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Slough Town have scored in all their away matches so far.

4-7-12 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Slough Town when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 23 matches are 21-48 (scored/conceded).

The hosts Braintree Town saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the FA Cup. Thankfully the previous game, versus Heybridge Swifts, was also a home game here at Cressing Road Stadium. The away team is better rested.

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Braintree Town form and stats

Braintree Town have collected seven points from their first three Vanarama National League South games here at Cressing Road Stadium, a promising start.

Braintree Town's previous fixture was a FA Cup game also played at their own stadium, finishing 2-1 against Heybridge Swifts. The home team are looking to repeat that performance. The first setback in the shape of a defeat after going unbeaten through three league rounds.

In the match before, 1-1 away to Heybridge Swifts (FA Cup). The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Braintree handle that role? We have found 4 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Braintree Town as they have a new game in only three days, a Vanarama National League South match thankfully also at home. St Albans City are visiting.

Braintree Town are not conceding a lot of goals here at Cressing Road Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.

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Slough Town form and stats

Things could have gone better for Slough Town in their Vanarama National League South away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a FA Cup home loss versus Worthing with 1-3 on the scoreboard.

Before that, Slough Town secured a home win against Taunton Town with the score 1-0.

Slough are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.

The schedule is very tough for Slough Town now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Vanarama National League South game at Chippenham Town is waiting in only three days.

Slough Town are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 3 games (in the league).

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Braintree Town three wins, zero draws and Slough Town four victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Braintree TownA. Blair
A. Blair
5 goals
Braintree TownL. Amantchi
L. Amantchi
3 goals
BraintreeL. Reynolds
L. Reynolds
3 goals

Braintree Town missing players

Slough Town missing players

Braintree Town Slough Town
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
8 3 0 Played P 2 3 8
4 2 0 Won W 0 1 4
1 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
3 0 0 Lost L 2 2 3
16 6 0 Scored S 2 4 11
12 2 0 Conceded C 8 9 14
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 88%
75% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 62%
62% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 38%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 33% 12%
62% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 75%
25% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 12%
12% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 12%
 
4 5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.7 5
6.2 6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 1.5 3.3 4
1.8 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.3 2.2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9 13 0 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 8.7 11.3
5.5 7.7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5.3 4.5
36% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 25% 26%
 
10.4 10.3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 13 13.3 11.8
4.4 3.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8 6.7 4.3
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • All of Braintree Town's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Slough Town's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Braintree Town have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Braintree Town have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Braintree Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Slough Town have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Slough Town 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 Ebbsfleet United 8 8 0 0 25 8 5 5 0 0 17 3 3 3 0 0 8 5 17 24
2 Havant & Waterlooville 8 7 1 0 22 11 4 4 0 0 12 4 4 3 1 0 10 7 11 22
3 Worthing 8 5 3 0 15 7 4 1 3 0 5 4 4 4 0 0 10 3 8 18
4 Chelmsford City 8 5 2 1 13 7 5 3 1 1 9 6 3 2 1 0 4 1 6 17
5 Welling United 8 5 1 2 16 10 4 2 0 2 10 7 4 3 1 0 6 3 6 16
6 Bath City 8 5 1 2 17 12 4 3 0 1 10 5 4 2 1 1 7 7 5 16
7 Braintree Town 8 4 1 3 16 12 3 2 1 0 6 2 5 2 0 3 10 10 4 13
8 Tonbridge Angels 8 4 1 3 13 13 4 2 0 2 7 8 4 2 1 1 6 5 0 13
9 Slough Town 8 4 1 3 11 14 5 3 1 1 7 5 3 1 0 2 4 9 -3 13
10 Dartford 8 4 0 4 13 10 3 1 0 2 4 5 5 3 0 2 9 5 3 12
11 Oxford City 8 4 0 4 11 10 3 2 0 1 8 3 5 2 0 3 3 7 1 12
12 Taunton Town 8 3 2 3 6 5 3 2 1 0 5 2 5 1 1 3 1 3 1 11
13 Chippenham Town 8 3 2 3 5 8 4 3 1 0 4 1 4 0 1 3 1 7 -3 11
14 Eastbourne Borough 8 3 1 4 14 14 5 2 0 3 10 10 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 10
15 St Albans City 7 2 3 2 5 5 4 0 2 2 0 2 3 2 1 0 5 3 0 9
16 Hampton & Richmond 8 2 2 4 12 13 4 1 2 1 5 5 4 1 0 3 7 8 -1 8
17 Hemel Hempstead Town 8 2 2 4 8 14 3 1 0 2 3 5 5 1 2 2 5 9 -6 8
18 Farnborough 8 2 1 5 6 10 3 1 1 1 2 2 5 1 0 4 4 8 -4 7
19 Dover Athletic 8 2 1 5 11 16 4 2 0 2 7 5 4 0 1 3 4 11 -5 7
20 Concord Rangers 7 2 1 4 5 12 4 1 1 2 4 6 3 1 0 2 1 6 -7 7
21 Hungerford Town 8 1 2 5 4 9 4 1 1 2 3 3 4 0 1 3 1 6 -5 5
22 Dulwich Hamlet 8 1 2 5 9 15 4 1 0 3 5 8 4 0 2 2 4 7 -6 5
23 Cheshunt 8 1 0 7 9 20 4 1 0 3 4 10 4 0 0 4 5 10 -11 3
24 Weymouth 8 0 2 6 6 17 5 0 1 4 3 11 3 0 1 2 3 6 -11 2

Read more about Vanarama National League South

The National League South, formerly known as Conference South, is the sixth highest division in English football. It consists of teams located in the South West and South East of England, London and the southern parts of Wales, the Midlands and the East of England. 22 teams make up the league table.