A total of 28 league matches are finished and Walsall are 7 points ahead of Newport County. Who wins the prize?
- Walsall have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Newport County have won significantly less corners away then at home.
It's no vacation for neither Walsall nor Newport County as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Walsall form and stats
When playing at home in the League Two, Walsall have managed 7 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 13 games. The last three games played by Walsall, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
Walsall shared the glory with Colchester United in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Midfield player Comley got a match rating of 7.42 in that game, the max score being 10. Comley dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Leyton Orient that ended 1-1.This is expected to be a close game, with Walsall perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Walsall as a small favourite), we find 11 games. Walsall has won 4 of these, drawn 2 and lost 5.
Trench warfare? In this team's last 12 league matches, 9 have had zero, one or two goals.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Walsall as they have a new game in only three days, a League Two match thankfully also at home. Crewe Alexandra are visiting.
Walsall have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Poundland Bescot Stadium with 20 goals in 13 league matches. From these home matches, Walsall have conceded only 12 goals.
Newport County form and stats
The visitors are W4-D5-L5 on the road this term. That's in the League Two.
Newport County delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Stevenage (placed 2nd) in their previous match. The attacker Bogle got a match rating of 8.85 in that game. Bogle scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Prior to that result Newport County won their away game at Barrow. The scoreline was 1-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Newport in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Newport County, 4 draws and 6 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Newport County manager Coughlan as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Hartlepool United.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Newport County has managed {14 goals} and let in 14 from 14 matches.
Head 2 Head
The squads have played each other already this season, with the match result Newport County - Walsall 0-1 registered in the official records. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's one Walsall victory, four draws and three Newport County wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  O. Bogle 9 goals |   T. Knowles 3 goals |  O. Zanzala 3 goals |
Walsall missing players
Newport County missing players
| Walsall | Newport County | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 13 | 5 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 29 |
| 10 | 7 | 4 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 31 | 20 | 11 | Scored | S | 3 | 14 | 29 |
| 24 | 12 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 14 | 33 |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 93% |
| 64% | 77% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 71% | 69% |
| 36% | 46% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 34% |
| 11% | 23% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 7% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| 54% | 62% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 48% |
| 32% | 23% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 21% | 21% |
| 29% | 15% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 36% | 38% |
| 4.6 | 4.8 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
| 4.4 | 3.8 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.2 | 4.2 |
| 1.9 | 1.8 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.9 | 12.4 | 17.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 11.5 | 12 |
| 2.9 | 3.9 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| 39% | 39% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 58% | 53% |
| 10.9 | 10.6 | 7.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10.7 | 10.1 |
| 2.7 | 3 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3 | 3.1 |
- Newport County have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Walsall have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Walsall haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Leyton Orient | 32 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 42 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 23 | 67 |
| 2 | Stevenage | 29 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 43 | 23 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 20 | 57 |
| 3 | Carlisle United | 31 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 48 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 16 | 52 |
| 4 | Northampton Town | 30 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 43 | 29 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 14 | 52 |
| 5 | Mansfield Town | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 47 | 37 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 10 | 49 |
| 6 | Salford City | 31 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 41 | 31 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 49 |
| 7 | Stockport County | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 44 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 48 |
| 8 | Bradford City | 29 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 37 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 48 |
| 9 | Doncaster Rovers | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 36 | 40 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 23 | -4 | 46 |
| 10 | Sutton United | 31 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 32 | 38 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 25 | -6 | 44 |
| 11 | Swindon Town | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 38 | 34 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 4 | 42 |
| 12 | Tranmere Rovers | 31 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 32 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 41 |
| 13 | AFC Wimbledon | 30 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 30 | 29 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 41 |
| 14 | Barrow | 31 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 34 | 40 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 26 | -6 | 41 |
| 15 | Walsall | 28 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 31 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 40 |
| 16 | Colchester United | 32 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 31 | 38 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 21 | -7 | 35 |
| 17 | Crewe Alexandra | 29 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 25 | 36 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 17 | -11 | 35 |
| 18 | Newport County | 29 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 29 | 33 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 14 | -4 | 33 |
| 19 | Grimsby Town | 27 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 30 | 35 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 19 | -5 | 33 |
| 20 | Harrogate Town | 29 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 35 | 45 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 24 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 21 | -10 | 28 |
| 21 | Gillingham | 29 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 21 | -17 | 27 |
| 22 | Crawley Town | 28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 32 | 46 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 25 | -14 | 26 |
| 23 | Hartlepool United | 31 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 31 | 56 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 31 | -25 | 26 |
| 24 | Rochdale | 31 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 25 | 47 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 25 | -22 | 21 |
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