Dover Athletic vs Dagenham & Redbridge: Match guide and preview

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 26.December
Match begins: 17:20 (UTC)
Venue: The Perrys Crabble Stadium (6500 seats)

Dover Athletic are welcoming Dagenham & Redbridge for another important game after their 1-2 result against 8th-placed Woking.

Insights:
  • Dover Athletic has the fewest scored goals (6) in National League
  • Dagenham & Redbridge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

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Dover Athletic form and stats

The story so far in the National League for Dover Athletic, who have the fewest scored goals (6) in National League, at their home stadium (The Perrys Crabble Stadium) is 2 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Dover has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager A. Hessenthaler and the players. The Dover manager A. Hessenthaler might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.

Dover lost their last game at Woking (placed 8th) after a 1-2 scoreline. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting King's Lynn Town (0-2).

Dover Athletic are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 5 games. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Dover have allowed the opposition to score 13 goals here at The Perrys Crabble Stadium.

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Dagenham & Redbridge form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of Dagenham & Redbridge playing as the away team in the National League this season. Momentum is building for Redbridge in their away games, having won their two previous outings.

Dagenham & Redbridge had fun at their own home (The Perrys Crabble Stadium) last time out, beating Ebbsfleet United 5-2. Á. Balanta, P. McCallum, C. Reynolds and D. McQueen (2) scored. Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Torquay United.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Redbridge, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

After this away game Redbridge return home for a National League game against Bromley. That game is only two sleeps after this.

Dagenham & Redbridge are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 8 games (in the league). Redbridge have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Dover Athletic two wins, zero draws and Dagenham & Redbridge five victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Dagenham & RedbridgeP. McCallum
P. McCallum
3 goals
Dagenham & RedbridgeM. Brundle
M. Brundle
2 goals
Dagenham & RedbridgeÁ. Balanta
Á. Balanta
2 goals

Dover Athletic missing players

Dagenham & Redbridge missing players

Dover Athletic Dagenham & Redbridge
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 5 1 Played P 2 8 13
2 2 0 Won W 1 3 4
0 0 0 Drew D 0 1 3
7 3 1 Lost L 1 4 6
6 5 0 Scored S 4 8 10
24 13 5 Conceded C 4 11 14
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 85%
78% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 54%
56% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 38% 31%
44% 60% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 12% 8%
44% 60% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 12% 8%
33% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 38%
11% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 38%
56% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 38%
 
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 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 2.1
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
6.9 7.8 7 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 8.2 8.4
2.8 3.6 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 3.4 3.1
24% 28% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 30% 25%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Dagenham & Redbridge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Dagenham & Redbridge haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Dover Athletic has the fewest scored goals (6) in National League
  • Dover Athletic has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) 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 14 10 2 2 27 11 7 5 1 1 11 5 7 5 1 1 16 6 16 32
2 Sutton United 13 8 2 3 23 14 7 4 1 2 14 5 6 4 1 1 9 9 9 26
3 Notts County 13 7 2 4 19 12 7 5 0 2 14 7 6 2 2 2 5 5 7 23
4 Bromley 14 6 4 4 23 17 8 2 2 4 12 13 6 4 2 0 11 4 6 22
5 Hartlepool United 14 6 3 5 19 17 8 3 2 3 10 10 6 3 1 2 9 7 2 21
6 Altrincham 14 6 3 5 13 13 6 2 1 3 6 7 8 4 2 2 7 6 0 21
7 Wealdstone 14 6 3 5 22 26 7 4 1 2 16 16 7 2 2 3 6 10 -4 21
8 Woking 13 6 2 5 20 14 7 4 2 1 12 4 6 2 0 4 8 10 6 20
9 Wrexham 13 6 2 5 17 14 6 3 1 2 7 3 7 3 1 3 10 11 3 20
10 Maidenhead United 13 6 2 5 17 21 5 2 1 2 9 11 8 4 1 3 8 10 -4 20
11 Solihull Moors 11 6 1 4 16 11 6 5 0 1 11 2 5 1 1 3 5 9 5 19
12 Stockport County 11 6 1 4 17 13 4 2 1 1 6 3 7 4 0 3 11 10 4 19
13 Boreham Wood 12 5 3 4 13 10 5 2 1 2 4 4 7 3 2 2 9 6 3 18
14 Eastleigh 9 5 2 2 19 13 5 2 2 1 7 5 4 3 0 1 12 6 6 17
15 Halifax Town 13 4 4 5 22 14 6 2 2 2 10 7 7 2 2 3 10 7 8 16
16 Chesterfield 13 5 1 7 24 18 7 2 1 4 15 9 6 3 0 3 9 9 6 16
17 Aldershot Town 13 4 3 6 18 19 6 2 1 3 6 10 7 2 2 3 12 9 -1 15
18 Dagenham & Redbridge 13 4 3 6 10 14 5 1 2 2 2 3 8 3 1 4 8 11 -4 15
19 King's Lynn Town 13 4 2 7 17 30 7 2 2 3 10 14 6 2 0 4 7 16 -13 14
20 Barnet 13 2 3 8 11 32 7 1 2 4 4 12 6 1 1 4 7 20 -21 9
21 Yeovil Town 11 1 5 5 11 17 6 0 1 5 5 12 5 1 4 0 6 5 -6 8
22 Weymouth 12 2 1 9 13 23 7 1 0 6 8 16 5 1 1 3 5 7 -10 7
23 Dover Athletic 9 2 0 7 6 24 5 2 0 3 5 13 4 0 0 4 1 11 -18 6

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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.