Proact Stadium: Chesterfield vs Boreham Wood National League preview

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 23.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Proact Stadium (10504 seats)

Fasten your seatbelt before the show! The starring roles are Chesterfield and Boreham Wood, victory is the main plot and 90 minutes the length.

Insights:
  • Chesterfield have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in National League
  • Boreham Wood have the fewest conceded goals (9) in National League

Chesterfield and Boreham Wood 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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Chesterfield form and stats

Chesterfield have played 4 National League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-0 (wins-draws-losses).

Chesterfield enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Curzon Ashton's place. The match ended 4-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Chesterfield played a great game against Curzon Ashton and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

In the game before, an away victory in the National League match versus Southend United with a 4-0 scoreline.

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 Chesterfield have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won four, drawn one and lost five.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Eastleigh are coming to town in three days.

Chesterfield are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (10 goals in 4 games). Chesterfield have conceded 6 from these games.

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Boreham Wood form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. That’s the product of Boreham Wood, who have the fewest conceded goals (9) in National League, playing as the away team in the National League this season.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Boreham Wood goalkeeper Nathan Ashmore is eager to challenge this, with his 239 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Two travels in a row for Boreham Wood, whose manager L. Garrard could celebrate last time after the FA Cup win against Barnet.

That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Dagenham & Redbridge in the National League.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Boreham Wood playing away and similar expectations, we found ten relevant matches. Results were four Boreham Wood wins, three draws and three defeats.

Boreham have another match that requires travelling in just three days, a National League match against King's Lynn Town. A back-breaking itinerary for them!

Boreham are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 8 times in 5 away games so far. As opposed to that, Boreham Wood have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Chesterfield one win, three draws and Boreham Wood one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ChesterfieldK. Tshimanga
K. Tshimanga
9 goals
ChesterfieldD. Rowe
D. Rowe
4 goals
Boreham WoodJ. Rees
J. Rees
4 goals

Chesterfield missing players

Boreham Wood missing players

Chesterfield Boreham Wood
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 4 1 Played P 1 5 11
6 2 0 Won W 1 3 7
4 2 1 Drew D 0 1 3
1 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
22 10 2 Scored S 3 8 17
10 6 2 Conceded C 2 6 9
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
91% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 73%
45% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 40% 36%
45% 75% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 40% 27%
9% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 20% 9%
45% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 45%
55% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 55%
9% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 9%
 
4.5 3.8 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5 5.6
5.6 4.8 3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.6 5.2
2.7 2.2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.8 1.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.4 11.2 15 Shots (avg) S ( 10 12.8 10.3
4.2 5.5 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5.6 4.8
48% 45% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 29% 32%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • All of Chesterfield's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Boreham Wood have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Boreham Wood have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Boreham Wood have the fewest conceded goals (9) in National League
  • Boreham Wood have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in National League
  • Boreham Wood have the most matches under the total-line (7) in National League
  • Boreham Wood haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Chesterfield have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Chesterfield have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Chesterfield have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Chesterfield have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Chesterfield have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in National League
  • Chesterfield 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 Grimsby Town 11 8 2 1 25 11 5 5 0 0 16 4 6 3 2 1 9 7 14 26
2 Boreham Wood 11 7 3 1 17 9 6 4 2 0 9 3 5 3 1 1 8 6 8 24
3 Halifax Town 11 7 2 2 20 10 6 5 0 1 14 5 5 2 2 1 6 5 10 23
4 Chesterfield 11 6 4 1 22 10 4 2 2 0 10 6 7 4 2 1 12 4 12 22
5 Bromley 9 6 1 2 20 10 6 5 0 1 15 4 3 1 1 1 5 6 10 19
6 Dagenham & Redbridge 11 6 1 4 24 16 5 3 1 1 17 10 6 3 0 3 7 6 8 19
7 Altrincham 10 6 1 3 19 13 5 4 0 1 12 6 5 2 1 2 7 7 6 19
8 Solihull Moors 11 5 4 2 17 15 6 3 2 1 13 9 5 2 2 1 4 6 2 19
9 Notts County 11 5 3 3 20 15 5 3 1 1 9 9 6 2 2 2 11 6 5 18
10 Stockport County 10 5 2 3 9 11 5 2 1 2 4 7 5 3 1 1 5 4 -2 17
11 Woking 9 5 0 4 18 11 4 2 0 2 6 5 5 3 0 2 12 6 7 15
12 Wrexham 9 3 4 2 12 11 4 2 2 0 4 2 5 1 2 2 8 9 1 13
13 Eastleigh 10 3 3 4 14 17 5 2 2 1 11 9 5 1 1 3 3 8 -3 12
14 Yeovil Town 9 3 2 4 9 10 6 1 2 3 3 7 3 2 0 1 6 3 -1 11
15 Torquay United 11 3 2 6 16 22 5 2 0 3 8 10 6 1 2 3 8 12 -6 11
16 Wealdstone 11 2 4 5 10 18 6 1 3 2 5 6 5 1 1 3 5 12 -8 10
17 Barnet 11 2 4 5 13 22 5 1 2 2 4 9 6 1 2 3 9 13 -9 10
18 Maidenhead United 10 2 2 6 11 17 5 1 1 3 8 10 5 1 1 3 3 7 -6 8
19 King's Lynn Town 10 2 2 6 11 18 6 0 1 5 2 8 4 2 1 1 9 10 -7 8
20 Southend United 10 2 2 6 7 16 5 1 1 3 5 10 5 1 1 3 2 6 -9 8
21 Weymouth 11 2 2 7 13 23 5 1 2 2 6 7 6 1 0 5 7 16 -10 8
22 Aldershot Town 10 2 1 7 11 17 4 0 0 4 2 7 6 2 1 3 9 10 -6 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.