National League game preview and numbers: Boreham Wood fight Southend United

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 30.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Meadow Park (4502 seats)

We are looking at a pronounced gulf in form between these sides based on the matches played so far, with Boreham Wood ahead of Southend United by 19 points.

Insights:
  • Boreham Wood have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in National League
  • Southend United have the fewest scored goals (2) away in National League

These are hustling days for the hosts, as they played only four days ago in the National League. That game was an away game at King's Lynn Town, so at least Boreham are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Boreham Wood form and stats

Boreham Wood are steadily winning National League games and points here at Meadow Park. 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 6 games. Boreham are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Boreham enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at King's Lynn Town's place. The match ended 1-0 with S. Boden scoring.

Prior to that, an away loss at Chesterfield.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Boreham have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won three times, drawn four and lost one.

Boreham have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Meadow Park with 9 goals in 6 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Boreham Wood have only let in 3 goals at home.

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Southend United form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Southend United so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose). Bitter travels for Southend as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Wealdstone match.

N. Ferguson was the last player to score for the away team. Southend haven't scored a league goal in the last 201 minutes.

Southend play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-3 to Dagenham & Redbridge (placed 7th).

Prior to that match, a home win 4-1 against Chertsey Town in the FA Cup.

We have checked recent matches where Southend have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 14 games were three victories, six draws and five defeats.

After this away game Southend United return home for a National League game against Dover Athletic. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Southend are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 2 goals from 6 away games. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Southend have conceded 9 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Boreham WoodS. Boden
S. Boden
5 goals
BorehamJ. Rees
J. Rees
4 goals
Southend UnitedR. Murphy
R. Murphy
3 goals

Boreham Wood missing players

Southend United missing players

Boreham Wood Southend United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 3 6 11
8 4 1 Won W 0 1 2
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
2 0 0 Lost L 3 4 7
19 9 1 Scored S 1 2 7
11 3 0 Conceded C 8 9 19
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 91%
69% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 55%
38% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 33% 45%
23% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 17% 36%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
46% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 17% 27%
54% 67% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 27%
8% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 67% 55%
 
5.5 6.2 9 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 5 5.1
5 5.7 6 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 6.8 6.3
1.8 1.5 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 3.2 2.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.8 8.2 3 Shots (avg) S ( 8 7.7 8.6
4.5 4.2 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 2.2 2.5
32% 36% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 15% 26%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Boreham Wood have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Boreham Wood have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Boreham Wood have scored more than double the goals of Southend United.
  • Boreham Wood have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in National League
  • Southend United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Southend United have the fewest scored goals (2) away in National League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Grimsby Town 13 9 2 2 27 12 6 6 0 0 18 4 7 3 2 2 9 8 15 29
2 Chesterfield 13 8 4 1 25 11 6 4 2 0 13 7 7 4 2 1 12 4 14 28
3 Boreham Wood 13 8 3 2 19 11 6 4 2 0 9 3 7 4 1 2 10 8 8 27
4 Halifax Town 13 8 2 3 21 11 7 6 0 1 15 5 6 2 2 2 6 6 10 26
5 Solihull Moors 13 7 4 2 20 16 7 4 2 1 14 9 6 3 2 1 6 7 4 25
6 Bromley 11 7 2 2 24 13 6 5 0 1 15 4 5 2 2 1 9 9 11 23
7 Dagenham & Redbridge 13 7 1 5 27 17 6 4 1 1 20 10 7 3 0 4 7 7 10 22
8 Notts County 13 6 4 3 23 17 7 4 2 1 12 11 6 2 2 2 11 6 6 22
9 Altrincham 12 6 1 5 21 17 6 4 0 2 13 8 6 2 1 3 8 9 4 19
10 Stockport County 12 5 2 5 11 15 6 2 1 3 5 9 6 3 1 2 6 6 -4 17
11 Wrexham 11 4 4 3 17 14 4 2 2 0 4 2 7 2 2 3 13 12 3 16
12 Woking 11 5 0 6 20 16 4 2 0 2 6 5 7 3 0 4 14 11 4 15
13 Eastleigh 12 4 3 5 16 19 6 3 2 1 13 10 6 1 1 4 3 9 -3 15
14 Yeovil Town 11 4 2 5 11 12 7 2 2 3 5 7 4 2 0 2 6 5 -1 14
15 Torquay United 12 4 2 6 18 22 6 3 0 3 10 10 6 1 2 3 8 12 -4 14
16 Maidenhead United 12 4 2 6 17 21 7 3 1 3 14 14 5 1 1 3 3 7 -4 14
17 Wealdstone 13 3 5 5 12 19 7 2 3 2 6 6 6 1 2 3 6 13 -7 14
18 Barnet 13 3 4 6 15 26 6 1 2 3 4 12 7 2 2 3 11 14 -11 13
19 Weymouth 13 3 3 7 16 24 6 1 3 2 7 8 7 2 0 5 9 16 -8 12
20 King's Lynn Town 12 2 2 8 11 21 7 0 1 6 2 9 5 2 1 2 9 12 -10 8
21 Southend United 11 2 2 7 7 19 5 1 1 3 5 10 6 1 1 4 2 9 -12 8
22 Aldershot Town 12 2 1 9 13 22 6 0 0 6 4 12 6 2 1 3 9 10 -9 7
23 Dover Athletic 11 0 3 8 6 22 6 0 2 4 2 6 5 0 1 4 4 16 -16 -9

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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.