Soccer match preview: Notts County confident before travelling to Dover Athletic

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 08.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Perrys Crabble Stadium (6500 seats)

Preview: 46 points separate the sides until now, Notts County having performed best. Can Dover Athletic strike back?

Insights:
  • Dover Athletic have the most conceded goals (51) in National League
  • Notts County have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in National League

This could be an engaging fixture with lots of fun and energy as both teams are well recovered since they last played a game. Get this show on the road!

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Dover Athletic form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the National League this season. Dover Athletic have only managed 0 wins, 2 draws and 9 losses from their games here at The Perrys Crabble Stadium. All in all it has been a very rough period for Dover who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 25 attempts. Their previous win was against Fylde, 686 days ago.

In their previous game, the manager Hessenthaler led his Dover to a defeat in the National League match away at Dagenham & Redbridge. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at The Perrys Crabble Stadium.

A defeat was the result before that one, 2-3 away at Woking.

Dover aren't scoring a lot here at The Perrys Crabble Stadium in the league, with only 7 goals from 11 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 20 goals have been conceded.

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Notts County form and stats

Playing away, Notts County have won 3 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the National League this season.

Wootton (2) and Richardson scored in Notts County's previous match, the home game against Wrexham that ended 3-1.

Before that, Notts County secured a home win against Altrincham with the score 2-1.

County are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 13 away goals from 9 games (in the league). County have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Dover victories, two draws and zero Notts County wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Notts CountyK. Wootton
K. Wootton
12 goals
Notts CountyR. da Rocha Rodrigues
R. da Rocha Rodrigues
8 goals
Notts CountyC. Roberts
C. Roberts
5 goals

Dover Athletic missing players

Notts County missing players

Dover Athletic Notts County
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 6 Played P 2 9 20
0 0 0 Won W 0 3 11
4 2 1 Drew D 1 3 5
18 9 5 Lost L 1 3 4
18 7 1 Scored S 1 13 36
51 20 8 Conceded C 2 9 23
91% 82% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
77% 55% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 78% 85%
59% 45% 17% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 22% 45%
41% 27% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 35%
32% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 30%
64% 45% 17% BTTS BTTS 50% 44% 65%
9% 18% 17% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 25%
36% 55% 83% Failed to Score F T 50% 22% 10%
 
4.8 4.9 6.2 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.9 5.3
6 6.6 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3.4 3.6
1.7 1.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.3 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7.9 9 6.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11 9.6 11
3.6 3.9 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.7 4.9
23% 16% 8% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 39% 37%
 
12.5 12.7 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 10.3 9.9
5.7 5.5 4.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 4.1 4.2
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Dover Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Dover Athletic have the fewest points (2) at home in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the fewest points from losing position (0) in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the most conceded goals (51) in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the most conceded goals in the first half (32) in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the the worst goal difference (-13) at home in National League
  • Dover Athletic have the the worst goal difference (-33) in National League
  • Dover Athletic have yet to win a game.
  • Notts County have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in National League
  • Notts County have the most scored goals in the second half (24) in National League
  • Notts County 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 Chesterfield 20 12 7 1 38 16 10 6 4 0 21 10 10 6 3 1 17 6 22 43
2 Halifax Town 20 12 4 4 32 17 9 7 0 2 18 7 11 5 4 2 14 10 15 40
3 Wrexham 22 11 6 5 38 23 9 4 4 1 8 5 13 7 2 4 30 18 15 39
4 Boreham Wood 19 11 6 2 28 13 10 6 4 0 15 4 9 5 2 2 13 9 15 39
5 Dagenham & Redbridge 22 12 2 8 43 27 12 7 2 3 29 17 10 5 0 5 14 10 16 38
6 Notts County 20 11 5 4 36 23 11 8 2 1 23 14 9 3 3 3 13 9 13 38
7 Bromley 21 11 5 5 36 24 11 7 2 2 23 11 10 4 3 3 13 13 12 38
8 Stockport County 20 11 3 6 35 23 9 4 2 3 16 11 11 7 1 3 19 12 12 36
9 Solihull Moors 21 10 6 5 28 21 12 6 3 3 18 12 9 4 3 2 10 9 7 36
10 Grimsby Town 19 10 2 7 31 21 9 7 0 2 19 6 10 3 2 5 12 15 10 32
11 Yeovil Town 20 9 4 7 21 20 11 4 3 4 10 11 9 5 1 3 11 9 1 31
12 Eastleigh 20 9 4 7 26 27 12 7 3 2 21 16 8 2 1 5 5 11 -1 31
13 Torquay United 22 9 3 10 34 35 10 6 0 4 19 15 12 3 3 6 15 20 -1 30
14 Woking 22 9 1 12 36 36 11 4 0 7 16 20 11 5 1 5 20 16 0 28
15 Barnet 20 7 5 8 24 31 9 4 2 3 11 14 11 3 3 5 13 17 -7 26
16 Altrincham 21 7 4 10 34 36 10 4 1 5 15 14 11 3 3 5 19 22 -2 25
17 Aldershot Town 22 7 3 12 27 36 11 2 2 7 10 21 11 5 1 5 17 15 -9 24
18 Wealdstone 19 5 6 8 19 29 10 3 3 4 8 11 9 2 3 4 11 18 -10 21
19 Maidenhead United 19 5 3 11 20 38 10 4 1 5 16 22 9 1 2 6 4 16 -18 18
20 Southend United 19 4 4 11 16 31 8 2 2 4 10 14 11 2 2 7 6 17 -15 16
21 Weymouth 20 4 3 13 23 41 10 2 3 5 12 17 10 2 0 8 11 24 -18 15
22 King's Lynn Town 20 3 2 15 17 41 10 1 1 8 6 17 10 2 1 7 11 24 -24 11
23 Dover Athletic 22 0 4 18 18 51 11 0 2 9 7 20 11 0 2 9 11 31 -33 -8

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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.