Match preview League One: Accrington Stanley - Swindon Town at Wham Stadium

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Competition: England League One
Competition: Sat 06.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Wham Stadium (5057 seats)

There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Accrington Stanley leading Swindon Town by 16 points.

Insights:
  • Swindon Town have the fewest clean sheets (2) in League One

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Accrington and Swindon Town.

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Accrington Stanley form and stats

Accrington Stanley have collected 25 points from their League One home games so far after 7-4-4.

Accrington Stanley's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Ipswich Town (placed 7th). 1-1 away at Fleetwood Town before that.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Accrington Stanley matches with similar probabilities have ended with one win, one draw and zero defeats (from two games).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Accrington as they are travelling to their away game against Bristol Rovers in the League One. That match is three days after this one.

Accrington are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 19 goals in 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Accrington Stanley are not conceding a lot of goals here at Wham Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 12 from 15 matches.

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Swindon Town form and stats

Swindon Town, who have the fewest clean sheets (2) in League One, have only collected 9 points from their away games in the League One, after 2-3-10 (15 played).

Swindon Town lost away at Sunderland (0-1) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Northampton Town.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Swindon when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing zero times, drawing one and winning one game.

After this away game Swindon Town return home for a League One game against Oxford United. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Swindon are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 19 away goals from 15 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For Swindon Town, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Swindon Town - Accrington Stanley 0-3 earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last seven meetings): Accrington Stanley won two games, one match ended with a draw and Swindon Town has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / four

Top Goalscorers

Accrington StanleyD. Charles
D. Charles
14 goals
Accrington StanleyC. Bishop
C. Bishop
7 goals
AccringtonJ. Pritchard
J. Pritchard
6 goals

Accrington Stanley missing players

Swindon Town missing players

Accrington Stanley Swindon Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 7 15 32
13 7 2 Won W 1 2 9
8 4 2 Drew D 1 3 4
9 4 0 Lost L 5 10 19
41 19 9 Scored S 7 19 38
33 12 3 Conceded C 13 33 58
90% 80% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 53% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 71% 87% 75%
43% 33% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 57% 67% 59%
20% 13% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 43% 47% 34%
10% 13% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 14% 27% 19%
43% 40% 75% BTTS BTTS 57% 67% 56%
40% 47% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 6%
27% 33% 25% Failed to Score F T 43% 33% 38%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2 2
6 4 1 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
13.8 14 14 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9.8 9.2
4.1 3.8 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3 3.2
33% 33% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 42% 38%
Key stats in League One this season:
  • Swindon Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Swindon Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Swindon Town have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in League One
  • Swindon Town have the fewest clean sheets (2) in League One
  • Swindon Town have the fewest points (9) away in League One
  • Swindon Town have the most conceded goals (33) away in League One
  • Swindon Town have the most matches over the total-line (19) in League One
  • Swindon Town have the the worst goal difference (-14) away in League One
  • Swindon 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 Peterborough United 31 19 5 7 51 26 15 12 2 1 34 11 16 7 3 6 17 15 25 62
2 Hull City 33 18 5 10 54 28 16 9 2 5 17 9 17 9 3 5 37 19 26 59
3 Lincoln City 31 17 6 8 48 31 16 7 3 6 24 21 15 10 3 2 24 10 17 57
4 Sunderland 31 14 12 5 47 26 16 7 5 4 21 16 15 7 7 1 26 10 21 54
5 Portsmouth 31 15 7 9 48 30 17 6 5 6 23 17 14 9 2 3 25 13 18 52
6 Doncaster Rovers 29 16 4 9 49 37 16 10 3 3 30 18 13 6 1 6 19 19 12 52
7 Ipswich Town 30 15 5 10 35 29 17 9 2 6 18 15 13 6 3 4 17 14 6 50
8 Accrington Stanley 30 13 8 9 41 33 15 7 4 4 19 12 15 6 4 5 22 21 8 47
9 Charlton Athletic 32 13 8 11 46 44 15 4 4 7 24 29 17 9 4 4 22 15 2 47
10 Oxford United 30 13 7 10 44 36 14 7 3 4 19 12 16 6 4 6 25 24 8 46
11 Crewe Alexandra 32 12 9 11 42 40 16 8 5 3 26 16 16 4 4 8 16 24 2 45
12 Plymouth Argyle 32 12 9 11 43 51 17 9 4 4 27 25 15 3 5 7 16 26 -8 45
13 Blackpool 28 13 5 10 34 27 12 7 2 3 15 11 16 6 3 7 19 16 7 44
14 Gillingham 32 13 5 14 42 44 17 7 2 8 22 25 15 6 3 6 20 19 -2 44
15 Milton Keynes Dons 32 11 9 12 47 44 15 5 7 3 24 19 17 6 2 9 23 25 3 42
16 Fleetwood Town 32 10 10 12 36 30 16 6 7 3 21 11 16 4 3 9 15 19 6 40
17 Shrewsbury Town 29 9 11 9 33 34 14 4 6 4 20 18 15 5 5 5 13 16 -1 38
18 Burton Albion 30 8 7 15 37 55 15 4 2 9 19 31 15 4 5 6 18 24 -18 31
19 Swindon Town 32 9 4 19 38 58 17 7 1 9 19 25 15 2 3 10 19 33 -20 31
20 Bristol Rovers 31 8 6 17 30 50 15 5 1 9 17 24 16 3 5 8 13 26 -20 30
21 AFC Wimbledon 30 7 8 15 31 54 13 3 2 8 15 26 17 4 6 7 16 28 -23 29
22 Northampton Town 32 7 8 17 26 49 16 4 4 8 10 20 16 3 4 9 16 29 -23 29
23 Rochdale 32 6 10 16 41 59 16 1 7 8 17 33 16 5 3 8 24 26 -18 28
24 Wigan Athletic 32 7 6 19 32 60 16 2 4 10 15 35 16 5 2 9 17 25 -28 27

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The English Football League One (usually referred to as League One) is the third highest division in English football. The League One league table has 24 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 552 fixtures. Seasons run from August to May. Three teams are promoted and four relegated.