Slough Town vs Taunton Town in Fa Trophy preview: Key statistics and predictions

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Competition: England Fa Trophy
Competition: Sat 17.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Arbour Park (2000 seats)

Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Slough Town & Taunton Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Slough Town form and stats

Slough Town have reached this Fa Trophy stage through battling and winning against Hanwell Town. Slough Town participated in Fa Trophy the last season, where they reached the 4th round.

Slough's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-3 versus Havant & Waterlooville.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Concord Rangers that ended 0-0.

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 Slough Town have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 16 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 4 and lost 7.

Slough Town have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and four practice matches played. These training games have ended with 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Slough Town scored {9 goals} and let in {5 goals} during these four games.

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Taunton Town form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Dulwich Hamlet in order to reach 3rd round of Fa Trophy. They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 3rd round qualifying.

Taunton Town played 0-0 against Braintree Town in their previous match.

Ahead of that match was the Vanarama National League South away draw versus Hemel Hempstead Town that ended 1-1.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Taunton Town playing away and similar expectations, we found 9 relevant matches. Results were 2 Taunton wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

Just as the home team, Taunton Town have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 0 Taunton Town wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Slough TownJ. Jackman
J. Jackman
3 goals
SloughB. Harris
B. Harris
3 goals
Slough TownE. Benyon
E. Benyon
3 goals

Slough Town missing players

Taunton Town missing players

Slough Town Taunton Town
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   11 25
7 3   Won W   1 9
5 2   Drew D   4 9
13 8   Lost L   6 7
31 14   Scored S   4 21
45 26   Conceded C   18 25
92% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   82% 76%
84% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   45% 44%
64% 62%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   27% 32%
40% 46%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   18% 16%
16% 15%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   18% 12%
60% 69%   BTTS BTTS   27% 36%
24% 15%   Clean Sheets C S   27% 44%
24% 23%   Failed to Score F T   64% 44%
 
4.6 4.5   Corners for (avg) C F   3.6 3.4
5.2 4.5   Corners against (avg) C A   5.1 4.5
1.5 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.6
1 1   Red cards R C   0 0
 
10.8 12.5   Shots (avg) S (   7.4 8.1
3.7 3.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.5 2.9
29% 23%   Goal Efficiency G E   14% 29%
 
12.3 10.5   Shots against (avg) S A   11.4 9.9
5.2 4.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.3 3.7