St. James' Park: Exeter City vs Walsall League Two full preview

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Competition: England League Two
Competition: Sat 02.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: St. James' Park (8830 seats)

Welcome to St. James' Park and the match featuring Exeter City and Walsall in the League Two. Here's all you should know!

Insights:
  • Exeter City have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Walsall have yet to win a game away.

Exeter City and Walsall should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Exeter City form and stats

The League Two statistics playing at home this season for Exeter City are 2-2-0 (wins-draws-losses).

Exeter drew their last game, 1-1 away at Hartlepool United (placed 7th). Midfield player Jake Caprice got a match rating of 7.12 in that game, the max score being 10. Caprice served one assist and hit two key passes.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Sutton United.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Exeter as they are travelling to their away game against Cheltenham Town in the EFL Trophy. That match is three days after this one.

Exeter have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at St. James' Park with 6 goals in 4 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Exeter have only let in 1 goal at home.

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Walsall form and stats

0-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Walsall in their League Two matches away.

Walsall failed to get anything from their last game, a League Two home match vs Bristol Rovers (placed 18th) that ended with defeat 1-2. Walsall were so close to getting something from the game against Bristol Rovers, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal one minutes into overtime. Midfielder Kieran Phillips was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.65. Phillips scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Newport County wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

Walsall have another game that requires travelling in just three nights, a EFL Trophy fixture against Northampton Town. A back-breaking diary for the visiting team!

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Walsall's away games in the league this season with only 2 goals from 4 matches. Walsall have conceded 6 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

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

Top Goalscorers

Exeter CityM. Jay
M. Jay
4 goals
Exeter CityJ. Key
J. Key
2 goals
Exeter CityS. Nombe
S. Nombe
2 goals

Exeter City missing players

Walsall missing players

Exeter City Walsall
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 1 4 9
3 2 1 Won W 0 0 2
5 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
1 0 0 Lost L 1 3 5
12 6 4 Scored S 0 2 9
6 1 1 Conceded C 2 6 13
67% 50% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 78%
33% 25% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 44%
22% 25% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 22%
11% 25% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 25% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 67%
56% 75% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 11%
44% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 22%
 
4.1 3.8 3 Corners for (avg) C F 3 5.2 4.9
7 6.8 4 Corners against (avg) C A 2 6.5 6.2
1.4 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.6 14.2 18 Shots (avg) S ( 7 10 10.3
4.2 4.8 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.2 2.3
32% 32% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 22% 43%
Key stats in League Two this season:
  • Exeter City have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Exeter City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Exeter City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Walsall have scored away.
  • Walsall have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Walsall have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Walsall have yet to win a game away.
  • Walsall 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 Forest Green Rovers 9 6 2 1 18 8 5 3 1 1 9 6 4 3 1 0 9 2 10 20
2 Leyton Orient 9 4 4 1 16 7 5 3 1 1 9 2 4 1 3 0 7 5 9 16
3 Harrogate Town 9 4 4 1 15 11 5 2 3 0 8 6 4 2 1 1 7 5 4 16
4 Port Vale 9 4 3 2 10 6 4 1 2 1 4 3 5 3 1 1 6 3 4 15
5 Northampton Town 9 4 3 2 9 7 4 2 1 1 5 4 5 2 2 1 4 3 2 15
6 Exeter City 9 3 5 1 12 6 4 2 2 0 6 1 5 1 3 1 6 5 6 14
7 Hartlepool United 9 4 2 3 9 7 5 4 1 0 7 2 4 0 1 3 2 5 2 14
8 Crawley Town 9 4 2 3 12 13 5 3 2 0 8 5 4 1 0 3 4 8 -1 14
9 Swindon Town 9 3 4 2 9 7 5 1 2 2 3 4 4 2 2 0 6 3 2 13
10 Barrow 9 3 3 3 13 11 5 2 2 1 8 7 4 1 1 2 5 4 2 12
11 Bradford City 9 3 3 3 12 11 4 2 2 0 8 4 5 1 1 3 4 7 1 12
12 Rochdale 9 3 3 3 12 11 5 1 2 2 3 4 4 2 1 1 9 7 1 12
13 Tranmere Rovers 9 3 3 3 4 3 4 3 0 1 4 1 5 0 3 2 0 2 1 12
14 Sutton United 8 3 2 3 10 8 4 3 0 1 8 3 4 0 2 2 2 5 2 11
15 Newport County 9 3 2 4 10 13 3 1 1 1 4 4 6 2 1 3 6 9 -3 11
16 Colchester United 8 2 4 2 7 7 3 0 1 2 1 3 5 2 3 0 6 4 0 10
17 Carlisle United 9 2 4 3 9 13 4 1 3 0 5 4 5 1 1 3 4 9 -4 10
18 Bristol Rovers 9 3 1 5 8 14 4 2 0 2 3 5 5 1 1 3 5 9 -6 10
19 Salford City 9 2 3 4 9 10 6 2 3 1 7 4 3 0 0 3 2 6 -1 9
20 Mansfield Town 9 2 3 4 10 14 5 2 1 2 8 9 4 0 2 2 2 5 -4 9
21 Stevenage 9 2 3 4 7 13 4 1 2 1 3 6 5 1 1 3 4 7 -6 9
22 Walsall 9 2 2 5 9 13 5 2 1 2 7 7 4 0 1 3 2 6 -4 8
23 Scunthorpe United 9 1 4 4 6 14 5 1 1 3 3 9 4 0 3 1 3 5 -8 7
24 Oldham Athletic 9 2 1 6 5 14 4 0 1 3 1 6 5 2 0 3 4 8 -9 7

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