Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier: Tipsway are previewing an intriguing and highly important game featuring Varndeanians and East Preston at Withdean Stadium. Both need the points!
- Varndeanians haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- East Preston have the fewest scored goals (26) in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
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.
Varndeanians form and stats
Varndeanians's struggle is real here at Withdean Stadium with only 12 points collected from 16 Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-3-10. When Varndeanians hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Varndeanians, Loxwood, Steyning Town, Hassocks, Uckfield Town and Horsham YMCA), they have won 2 of 5 matches! Hopes of three in a row are alive for Varndeanians after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Varndeanians are returning here after visiting Lingfield and winning with a 4-1 scoreline.
Before that, Varndeanians had a home game versus Loxwood which ended with a victory 2-1.Varndeanians have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Withdean Stadium with 28 goals in 16 league matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Varndeanians have allowed the opposition to score 42 goals here at Withdean Stadium. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
East Preston form and stats
There's been little loot from East Preston's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 15 away games in the Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier. East Preston only have 0 wins to counter their 12 defeats and 3 draws. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for East Preston, who have now gone 17 games without a victory. The Hassocks game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.
There might be some fixture complaints from East Preston as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 2-11 against Crawley Down Gatwick.
A loss against Eastbourne United was the result prior to that, in a home game.Many goals are not expected from the visiting East Preston as they have only managed to score 11 times from 15 away games in the league. Preston can't defend away. 56 goals have been scored by the opposition in 15 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
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| Varndeanians | East Preston | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 16 | 5 | Played | P | 5 | 16 | 33 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| 46 | 28 | 7 | Scored | S | 6 | 13 | 28 |
| 84 | 42 | 9 | Conceded | C | 10 | 67 | 132 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 94% | 97% |
| 97% | 94% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 88% | 88% |
| 81% | 81% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 75% | 76% |
| 56% | 62% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 56% | 61% |
| 47% | 50% | 40% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 56% | 48% |
| 75% | 88% | 80% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 44% | 52% |
| 6% | 6% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 6% | 3% |
| 19% | 6% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 56% | 48% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- East Preston have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- East Preston have the fewest points (3) away in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
- East Preston have the fewest scored goals (11) away in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
- East Preston have the fewest scored goals (26) in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
- East Preston have the most conceded goals (121) in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
- East Preston have the most conceded goals (56) away in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
- East Preston have the the worst goal difference (-45) away in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
- East Preston have the the worst goal difference (-95) in Counties Leagues: Southern Combination League Premier
- East Preston have yet to win a game away.
- Varndeanians have scored at least twice as many goals at home as East Preston have scored away.
- Varndeanians 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 | Littlehampton Town | 32 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 113 | 42 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 56 | 21 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 57 | 21 | 71 | 76 |
| 2 | Saltdean United | 33 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 92 | 29 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 39 | 21 | 63 | 74 |
| 3 | Newhaven | 33 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 83 | 29 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 39 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 44 | 16 | 54 | 72 |
| 4 | Bexhill United | 33 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 75 | 32 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 40 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 17 | 43 | 67 |
| 5 | Eastbourne United | 33 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 70 | 38 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 41 | 22 | 32 | 60 |
| 6 | Eastbourne Town | 32 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 65 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 20 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 37 | 19 | 26 | 57 |
| 7 | Pagham | 32 | 17 | 5 | 10 | 56 | 45 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 24 | 11 | 56 |
| 8 | Broadbridge Heath | 32 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 62 | 39 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 33 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 18 | 23 | 53 |
| 9 | Peacehaven & Telscombe | 33 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 59 | 40 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 38 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 25 | 19 | 49 |
| 10 | Crawley Down Gatwick | 32 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 67 | 55 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 38 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 29 | 31 | 12 | 47 |
| 11 | Little Common | 32 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 50 | 54 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 23 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 31 | -4 | 42 |
| 12 | Lingfield | 32 | 11 | 3 | 18 | 45 | 65 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 29 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 26 | 36 | -20 | 36 |
| 13 | Alfold | 33 | 10 | 6 | 17 | 40 | 63 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 35 | -23 | 36 |
| 14 | Horsham YMCA | 33 | 10 | 6 | 17 | 39 | 65 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 37 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 28 | -26 | 36 |
| 15 | Uckfield Town | 33 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 31 | 41 | 18 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 20 | -10 | 35 |
| 16 | Hassocks | 33 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 41 | 67 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 36 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 31 | -26 | 32 |
| 17 | Steyning Town | 34 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 35 | 91 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 45 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 46 | -56 | 30 |
| 18 | Loxwood | 32 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 31 | 84 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 45 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 39 | -53 | 23 |
| 19 | Varndeanians | 31 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 42 | 83 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 28 | 42 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 41 | -41 | 19 |
| 20 | East Preston | 32 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 121 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 65 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 56 | -95 | 9 |