National League duel: Close contest expected between Dover Athletic and Barnet

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 09.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Perrys Crabble Stadium (6500 seats)

Dover Athletic are unlocking their away locker room to Barnet for another crucial game following their 1-2 result versus 21st-placed Aldershot Town.

Insights:
  • Dover Athletic have the fewest scored goals (5) in National League
  • Barnet have yet to win a game away.

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 Dover Athletic and Barnet.

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Dover Athletic form and stats

Dover Athletic have collected 2 points from their National League home games so far after 0-2-3. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 13 attempts.

Dover Athletic's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Aldershot Town (placed 21st).

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-6 away at Grimsby Town.

This is expected to be a close game, with Dover Athletic perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Dover as a small favourite), we find eight games. Dover Athletic has won four of these, drawn three and lost one.

Dover have scored 1 goal here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. From these home matches, Dover have conceded only 4 goals.

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Barnet form and stats

The visitors are W0-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the National League.

Barnet are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at King's Lynn Town (placed 19th).

A draw for Barnet before that, at their own venue hosting Halifax Town (0-0).

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

Barnet are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 5 games (in the league). The Barnet manager D. Brennan has some worries about the defense as 12 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the preceeding five meetings between these two contenders are: one win for Dover, one draw and three wins for Barnet. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

Dover AthleticA. Cosgrove
A. Cosgrove
3 goals
DoverK. Arthur
K. Arthur
2 goals
BarnetM. Enigbokan-Bloomfield
M. Enigbokan-Bloomfield
2 goals

Dover Athletic missing players

Barnet missing players

Dover Athletic Barnet
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 5 10
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
3 2 0 Drew D 1 2 4
7 3 1 Lost L 0 3 5
5 1 1 Scored S 1 7 11
20 4 2 Conceded C 1 12 21
80% 60% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
60% 20% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 90%
40% 20% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 40%
30% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 40%
30% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 30%
40% 20% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 60%
20% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 10%
60% 80% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 40%
 
3.6 4 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.6 5.9
5.7 5.4 2 Corners against (avg) C A 10 5.8 5.8
1.6 1.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.8 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
7.9 9 11 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.6 7.3
3.1 3.2 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.4 3.4
16% 6% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 41% 32%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • All of Barnet's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Barnet have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Barnet have scored more than double the goals of Dover Athletic.
  • Barnet have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Barnet have yet to win a game away.
  • Barnet haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Dover Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Dover Athletic have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the fewest scored goals (5) in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the the worst goal difference (-15) in National League
  • Dover Athletic have yet to win a 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 Grimsby Town 10 7 2 1 24 11 5 5 0 0 16 4 5 2 2 1 8 7 13 23
2 Boreham Wood 10 6 3 1 15 9 5 3 2 0 7 3 5 3 1 1 8 6 6 21
3 Halifax Town 10 6 2 2 18 10 5 4 0 1 12 5 5 2 2 1 6 5 8 20
4 Dagenham & Redbridge 10 6 1 3 24 14 5 3 1 1 17 10 5 3 0 2 7 4 10 19
5 Chesterfield 10 5 4 1 18 10 4 2 2 0 10 6 6 3 2 1 8 4 8 19
6 Bromley 8 5 1 2 18 10 5 4 0 1 13 4 3 1 1 1 5 6 8 16
7 Solihull Moors 10 4 4 2 16 15 6 3 2 1 13 9 4 1 2 1 3 6 1 16
8 Woking 8 5 0 3 18 10 3 2 0 1 6 4 5 3 0 2 12 6 8 15
9 Altrincham 8 5 0 3 16 12 4 3 0 1 10 6 4 2 0 2 6 6 4 15
10 Notts County 10 4 3 3 18 15 5 3 1 1 9 9 5 1 2 2 9 6 3 15
11 Stockport County 9 4 2 3 8 11 4 1 1 2 3 7 5 3 1 1 5 4 -3 14
12 Wrexham 9 3 4 2 12 11 4 2 2 0 4 2 5 1 2 2 8 9 1 13
13 Torquay United 10 3 2 5 16 20 5 2 0 3 8 10 5 1 2 2 8 10 -4 11
14 Yeovil Town 7 3 1 3 8 7 4 1 1 2 2 4 3 2 0 1 6 3 1 10
15 Wealdstone 10 2 4 4 9 16 5 1 3 1 4 4 5 1 1 3 5 12 -7 10
16 Eastleigh 9 2 3 4 12 16 5 2 2 1 11 9 4 0 1 3 1 7 -4 9
17 Maidenhead United 9 2 2 5 11 15 5 1 1 3 8 10 4 1 1 2 3 5 -4 8
18 Southend United 9 2 2 5 7 12 4 1 1 2 5 6 5 1 1 3 2 6 -5 8
19 King's Lynn Town 9 2 2 5 11 17 5 0 1 4 2 7 4 2 1 1 9 10 -6 8
20 Weymouth 10 2 2 6 13 21 5 1 2 2 6 7 5 1 0 4 7 14 -8 8
21 Aldershot Town 9 2 1 6 11 16 4 0 0 4 2 7 5 2 1 2 9 9 -5 7
22 Barnet 10 1 4 5 11 21 5 1 2 2 4 9 5 0 2 3 7 12 -10 7
23 Dover Athletic 10 0 3 7 5 20 5 0 2 3 1 4 5 0 1 4 4 16 -15 -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.