League One match preview: Southend United versus Wycombe Wanderers

Competition: England League One
Date: Sat 13.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Roots Hall Stadium (12392 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the League One, Southend United holding 21st place and Wycombe Wanderers lying 20th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

The visiting Wycombe Wanderers played their last game only four days ago, a League One match.

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Southend United form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories so far this season. Southend United have only managed 6 wins, 2 draws and 12 losses so far from their games here at Roots Hall Stadium. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 13 attempts. Southend United are slowly digging their own grave here at Roots Hall Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Gillingham match.

Southend United manager K. Bond and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Fleetwood Town in the League One. Preceding that match was a defeat to Shrewsbury Town (0-2).

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 Southend United have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won 1n Drawn 0 Lost 4.

Southend United are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home, having created 27 goals in 20 matches. Southend United have conceded 29 in these home matches.

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Wycombe Wanderers form and stats

There's been little loot from Wycombe Wanderers's travels as they have only collected 15 points from 20 away games. Wycombe Wanderers only has 3 wins to counter their 11 defeats and 6 draws. Wycombe Wanderers are desperate to end a twelve-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Plymouth Argyle fixture. five defeats in a row for Wycombe Wanderers in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Blackpool.

Wycombe Wanderers failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Charlton Athletic that ended with defeat 0-1. The game before that, was lost at home, a 2-3 defeat against Portsmouth.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 22 similar matches played by Wycombe Wanderers in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Wycombe Wanderers, 6 draws and 12 defeats.

Wycombe Wanderers are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 24 away goals from 20 games. In the opposite end, Wycombe Wanderers have conceded 38 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Wycombe Wanderers - Southend United 2-3. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 4 Southend United victories, 4 draws and 2 Wycombe Wanderers wins.

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Southend United Wycombe Wanderers
Total Home Statistic Away Total
41 20 Played 20 41
49 27 Scored 24 50
61 29 Conceded 38 64
98% 95% Over 0.5 100% 93%
80% 80% Over 1.5 85% 73%
51% 60% Over 2.5 70% 59%
22% 20% Over 3.5 35% 32%
15% 20% Over 4.5 15% 20%
44% 45% Both teams to score 75% 63%
27% 35% Clean Sheet 5% 20%
32% 25% Failed To Score 20% 24%
Key stats this season:
  • Wycombe Wanderers hasn't played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Wycombe Wanderers is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
  • Southend United is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Luton Town 41 25 12 4 80 34 21 15 6 0 52 16 20 10 6 4 28 18 46 87
2 Sunderland 40 21 17 2 70 36 20 11 9 0 39 19 20 10 8 2 31 17 34 80
3 Barnsley 41 22 13 6 68 33 20 12 8 0 32 12 21 10 5 6 36 21 35 79
4 Portsmouth 40 22 11 7 71 43 19 10 6 3 33 16 21 12 5 4 38 27 28 77
5 Charlton Athletic 41 22 10 9 59 37 20 13 5 2 30 14 21 9 5 7 29 23 22 76
6 Doncaster Rovers 41 18 12 11 69 52 20 11 7 2 40 19 21 7 5 9 29 33 17 66
7 Peterborough United 40 17 10 13 62 54 21 8 6 7 27 26 19 9 4 6 35 28 8 61
8 Blackpool 41 14 16 11 47 45 20 7 8 5 26 21 21 7 8 6 21 24 2 58
9 Coventry City 41 16 10 15 45 45 21 8 6 7 21 19 20 8 4 8 24 26 0 58
10 Burton Albion 41 15 12 14 57 48 21 10 5 6 32 20 20 5 7 8 25 28 9 57
11 Fleetwood Town 40 15 11 14 52 43 20 8 7 5 30 25 20 7 4 9 22 18 9 56
12 Oxford United 41 13 13 15 50 56 20 10 2 8 30 24 21 3 11 7 20 32 -6 52
13 Gillingham 41 13 9 19 54 66 20 6 4 10 24 31 21 7 5 9 30 35 -12 48
14 Shrewsbury Town 41 11 14 16 45 53 21 8 8 5 23 22 20 3 6 11 22 31 -8 47
15 Plymouth Argyle 41 12 11 18 51 65 21 8 6 7 33 33 20 4 5 11 18 32 -14 47
16 Bristol Rovers 41 11 13 17 41 45 20 4 6 10 19 24 21 7 7 7 22 21 -4 46
17 Accrington Stanley 41 11 12 18 41 60 20 5 6 9 19 28 21 6 6 9 22 32 -19 45
18 Scunthorpe United 41 12 9 20 49 70 20 6 6 8 29 36 21 6 3 12 20 34 -21 45
19 Rochdale 41 12 9 20 50 79 21 6 4 11 23 37 20 6 5 9 27 42 -29 45
20 Wycombe Wanderers 41 11 11 19 50 64 21 8 5 8 26 26 20 3 6 11 24 38 -14 44
21 Southend United 41 12 7 22 49 61 20 6 2 12 27 29 21 6 5 10 22 32 -12 43
22 AFC Wimbledon 41 12 7 22 37 59 21 5 4 12 21 35 20 7 3 10 16 24 -22 43
23 Walsall 41 11 9 21 44 67 21 6 4 11 26 36 20 5 5 10 18 31 -23 42
24 Bradford City 41 10 6 25 43 69 21 7 2 12 24 30 20 3 4 13 19 39 -26 36

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