National League news and data: Boreham Wood odds-on front runner to beat Halifax Town

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 18.February
Match begins: 17:20 (UTC)
Venue: Meadow Park (4502 seats)

Boreham Wood prepare for this game after their 1-1 result against Solihull Moors, a fixture that produced some answers. Will they show it against Halifax Town?

Insights:
  • Boreham Wood have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Halifax Town have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in National League

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 Boreham Wood and Halifax Town.

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Boreham Wood form and stats

When playing at home in the National League, Boreham Wood have managed 4 wins, 6 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 13 games.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Boreham Wood, who played 1-1 against Solihull Moors. That match was also played at this venue (Meadow Park).

Preceding that game was the away draw at Woking that finished 2-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Boreham handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat.

Low on goals? In this club's last 16 league games, 13 have contained less than three goals (under 2.5).

Boreham Wood are traveling soon after this match as the National League match at York City awaits in three days.

The Boreham Wood fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 15 in 13 matches. 14 goals have been conceded.

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Halifax Town form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Halifax Town so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 3-3-10 (win-draw-lose).

It might be tough going out on the road again for Halifax, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-2 versus Southend United (placed 6th).

Before that, 0-0 away against Maidenhead United in the Fa Trophy. Halifax Town are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.

A new game in only three days for Halifax Town, the National League home match versus Solihull Moors. Busy days.

The attacking power of Halifax Town when travelling is not overwhelming with 11 goals scored from 16 league matches away. As opposed to that, Halifax have seen the ball go into their own net 22 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Boreham Wood and Halifax Town have duelled earlier this season: Halifax Town - Boreham Wood 1-0. Numbers for the former ten meetings involving these two participants are: five wins for Boreham Wood, three draws and two wins for Halifax Town. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.

Top Goalscorers

Halifax TownE. Dieseruvwe
E. Dieseruvwe
8 goals
Boreham WoodL. Ndlovu
L. Ndlovu
7 goals
Boreham WoodT. Marsh
T. Marsh
6 goals

Boreham Wood missing players

Halifax Town missing players

Boreham Wood Halifax Town
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
29 13 4 Played P 5 16 30
11 4 1 Won W 0 3 10
11 6 2 Drew D 1 3 5
7 3 1 Lost L 4 10 15
35 15 4 Scored S 3 11 27
28 14 4 Conceded C 9 22 39
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
72% 77% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 56% 57%
28% 31% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 25% 33%
14% 15% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 12% 23%
3% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 7%
59% 69% 75% BTTS BTTS 60% 44% 40%
24% 15% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 19% 30%
17% 15% 0% Failed to Score F T 40% 38% 33%
 
5.1 5.5 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.8 3.6 4.3
4.7 4.2 3 Corners against (avg) C A 7.6 6.3 4.7
2 1.8 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 1.6
5 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
9.9 10.8 14.8 Shots (avg) S ( 4.6 7 9.2
4.1 4.2 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.4 2.9 3.6
29% 27% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 24% 25%
 
9.9 8.5 8.2 Shots against (avg) S A 13.4 9.6 8.4
4.1 3.5 3.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.2 4.4 3.7
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Boreham Wood have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Boreham Wood haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Halifax Town have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in National League
  • Halifax Town have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Halifax Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Notts County 32 23 8 1 80 29 15 11 4 0 32 7 17 12 4 1 48 22 51 77
2 Wrexham 30 22 6 2 77 27 14 13 1 0 49 13 16 9 5 2 28 14 50 72
3 Woking 31 17 7 7 55 32 15 8 4 3 29 17 16 9 3 4 26 15 23 58
4 Chesterfield 29 16 5 8 53 37 15 11 0 4 31 18 14 5 5 4 22 19 16 53
5 Barnet 29 16 5 8 56 47 14 9 2 3 23 17 15 7 3 5 33 30 9 53
6 Southend United 29 13 8 8 40 26 16 8 4 4 23 13 13 5 4 4 17 13 14 47
7 Boreham Wood 29 11 11 7 35 28 13 4 6 3 15 14 16 7 5 4 20 14 7 44
8 Bromley 30 11 11 8 44 38 16 6 8 2 24 16 14 5 3 6 20 22 6 44
9 Eastleigh 30 13 5 12 37 36 15 10 2 3 22 12 15 3 3 9 15 24 1 44
10 Dagenham & Redbridge 30 12 6 12 44 48 16 8 3 5 28 24 14 4 3 7 16 24 -4 42
11 Wealdstone 29 11 8 10 35 41 14 6 4 4 19 19 15 5 4 6 16 22 -6 41
12 Solihull Moors 31 11 7 13 46 45 15 5 4 6 23 20 16 6 3 7 23 25 1 40
13 Aldershot Town 32 11 5 16 43 50 17 5 3 9 21 25 15 6 2 7 22 25 -7 38
14 Altrincham 30 9 9 12 42 54 16 7 3 6 23 22 14 2 6 6 19 32 -12 36
15 Halifax Town 30 10 5 15 27 39 14 7 2 5 16 17 16 3 3 10 11 22 -12 35
16 Maidenhead United 30 9 6 15 33 44 14 5 4 5 16 16 16 4 2 10 17 28 -11 33
17 Yeovil Town 28 6 14 8 25 28 15 5 7 3 15 12 13 1 7 5 10 16 -3 32
18 York City 30 8 8 14 35 39 15 4 4 7 18 22 15 4 4 7 17 17 -4 32
19 Oldham Athletic 29 8 8 13 39 46 15 7 3 5 27 24 14 1 5 8 12 22 -7 32
20 Dorking Wanderers 29 8 6 15 44 69 15 6 3 6 25 33 14 2 3 9 19 36 -25 30
21 Gateshead 29 6 11 12 37 47 13 2 6 5 17 22 16 4 5 7 20 25 -10 29
22 Torquay United 29 6 8 15 32 52 15 3 6 6 24 29 14 3 2 9 8 23 -20 26
23 Scunthorpe United 30 5 8 17 35 59 16 4 3 9 23 33 14 1 5 8 12 26 -24 23
24 Maidstone United 31 5 7 19 35 68 15 3 5 7 16 25 16 2 2 12 19 43 -33 22

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The National League is the fifth highest level of the English football league system. 24 professional and semi-professional teams play a total of 552 fixtures to top the league table. The National League is the top division of the National League System which contains division levels five to eleven.