National League match preview and statistics: Dover Athletic fight Chesterfield

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 05.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Perrys Crabble Stadium (6500 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the National League, Dover Athletic holding 22nd place and Chesterfield lying 16th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Dover Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-18) in National League
  • Chesterfield has the most dropped points from leading position (15) in National League

Chesterfield could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a National League game only four sleeps ago.

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Dover Athletic form and stats

Dover Athletic, who have the the worst goal difference (-18) in National League, have played 5 National League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-0-3 (wins-draws-losses). With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Dover to get some points in this home game. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Dover, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.

No payout for Dover in their previous match, an away game at King's Lynn Town that ended in defeat 0-2. Before that game, the home loss against Woking with the scoreline 1-5.

The Dover fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 5 matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Dover Athletic have allowed the opposition to score 13 goals here at The Perrys Crabble Stadium.

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Chesterfield form and stats

The visitors are W2-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the National League.

Chesterfield's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Aldershot Town that finished 0-0. Prior to that result Chesterfield won their away game at Weymouth. The scoreline was 2-1.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Chesterfield manager J. Pemberton as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Sutton United.

The travelling fans enjoy Chesterfield's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 league matches away. In the opposite end, Chesterfield have conceded 9 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Last four meetings between the teams: Dover Athletic won one, Chesterfield won zero and three draws. one game with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

ChesterfieldT. Denton
T. Denton
7 goals
ChesterfieldS. Boden
S. Boden
2 goals
ChesterfieldJ. Cropper
J. Cropper
2 goals

Dover Athletic missing players

Chesterfield missing players

Dover Athletic Chesterfield
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 5 0 Played P 2 5 11
2 2 0 Won W 2 2 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
7 3 0 Lost L 0 3 7
6 5 0 Scored S 3 8 17
24 13 0 Conceded C 1 9 18
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
78% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 80% 82%
56% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 80% 82%
44% 60% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 36%
44% 60% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 27%
33% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 80% 73%
11% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 27%
56% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 9%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 1.6
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
6.9 7.8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 10 9.9
2.8 3.6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 5.4 4.7
24% 28% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 30% 33%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Chesterfield has the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in National League
  • Chesterfield has the most dropped points from leading position (15) in National League
  • Chesterfield has the most matches over the total-line (9) in National League
  • Chesterfield have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Chesterfield have scored more than double the goals of Dover Athletic.
  • Chesterfield haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Dover Athletic has the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in National League
  • Dover Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-18) in National League
  • Dover Athletic has the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in National League
  • Dover Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Dover Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dover Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 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 Torquay United 10 8 1 1 22 8 4 3 1 0 6 2 6 5 0 1 16 6 14 25
2 Sutton United 11 7 2 2 19 12 5 3 1 1 10 3 6 4 1 1 9 9 7 23
3 Bromley 11 5 4 2 21 13 6 2 2 2 11 9 5 3 2 0 10 4 8 19
4 Altrincham 13 5 3 5 12 13 6 2 1 3 6 7 7 3 2 2 6 6 -1 18
5 Eastleigh 8 5 2 1 19 10 4 2 2 0 7 4 4 3 0 1 12 6 9 17
6 Woking 11 5 2 4 17 13 6 3 2 1 9 4 5 2 0 3 8 9 4 17
7 Wrexham 11 5 2 4 13 9 6 3 1 2 7 3 5 2 1 2 6 6 4 17
8 Maidenhead United 11 5 2 4 15 19 5 2 1 2 9 11 6 3 1 2 6 8 -4 17
9 Wealdstone 12 5 2 5 20 25 6 3 1 2 14 15 6 2 1 3 6 10 -5 17
10 Solihull Moors 8 5 1 2 13 5 4 4 0 0 9 0 4 1 1 2 4 5 8 16
11 Notts County 9 5 1 3 17 11 4 3 0 1 12 6 5 2 1 2 5 5 6 16
12 Hartlepool United 10 4 3 3 12 12 5 1 2 2 3 8 5 3 1 1 9 4 0 15
13 Stockport County 7 4 1 2 13 7 4 2 1 1 6 3 3 2 0 1 7 4 6 13
14 King's Lynn Town 11 4 1 6 17 28 6 2 1 3 10 14 5 2 0 3 7 14 -11 13
15 Aldershot Town 10 3 3 4 13 12 4 1 1 2 3 6 6 2 2 2 10 6 1 12
16 Chesterfield 11 3 1 7 17 18 6 1 1 4 9 9 5 2 0 3 8 9 -1 10
17 Boreham Wood 9 2 3 4 7 7 4 1 1 2 1 2 5 1 2 2 6 5 0 9
18 Dagenham & Redbridge 8 2 2 4 5 9 3 1 1 1 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 7 -4 8
19 Barnet 9 2 2 5 8 19 5 1 1 3 3 10 4 1 1 2 5 9 -11 8
20 Halifax Town 9 1 4 4 6 8 5 1 2 2 5 5 4 0 2 2 1 3 -2 7
21 Weymouth 8 2 1 5 7 10 4 1 0 3 3 5 4 1 1 2 4 5 -3 7
22 Dover Athletic 9 2 0 7 6 24 5 2 0 3 5 13 4 0 0 4 1 11 -18 6
23 Yeovil Town 10 0 5 5 9 16 6 0 1 5 5 12 4 0 4 0 4 4 -7 5

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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.