Open game expected at Roots Hall Stadium: Southend United vs Woking preview

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Tue 04.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Roots Hall Stadium (12392 seats)

Both participants are in good shape, Woking holding a 4 point advantage on Southend United in the standings. Game on!

Insights:
  • Southend United have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Woking haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

It's no vacation for neither Southend nor Woking as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Southend United form and stats

The story so far in the National League for Southend United at their home stadium (Roots Hall Stadium) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Collin Andeng Ndi not having conceded a league goal in 292 minutes.

Southend United's previous game was also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Yeovil Town (placed 19th). The home side are looking to build on that result.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Wealdstone.

This is expected to be a close game, with Southend United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Southend United as a small favourite), we find 5 games. Southend United has won 2 of these, drawn 1 and lost 2.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Southend as they are travelling to their away game against Dagenham & Redbridge in the National League. That match is four days after this one.

Southend United aren't scoring a lot here at Roots Hall Stadium in the league, with only 5 goals from 6 games. Southend United are not conceding a lot of goals here at Roots Hall Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 6 matches.

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Woking form and stats

2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Woking playing as the away team in the National League this season.

The Woking goalkeeper Craig Ross is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 196 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

It's the second away game in a row for Woking, but there's smiles all around after the 4-0 victory versus Halifax Town (placed 24th) last time out. As you can tell from the results above, Woking was very dominant against Halifax Town, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with Grego-Cox (2) and Daly providing the goals.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Solihull Moors.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Woking in our archives, and the results are: 0 wins for Woking, 3 draws and 6 defeats.

A new game in only four days for Woking, the National League home match versus Notts County. Busy days.

The visiting Woking have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 8 goals from 6 games. As opposed to that, Woking have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Southend United-Woking H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Southend United one win, Woking one win, zero draws. one of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

WokingJ. Daly
J. Daly
5 goals
WokingR. Grego-Cox
R. Grego-Cox
4 goals
Southend UnitedC. Powell
C. Powell
3 goals

Southend United missing players

Woking missing players

Southend United Woking
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 6 2 Played P 3 6 11
4 3 0 Won W 0 2 6
3 1 1 Drew D 0 1 1
4 2 1 Lost L 3 3 4
10 5 0 Scored S 0 8 19
9 3 1 Conceded C 5 7 10
82% 83% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
45% 33% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 83% 91%
27% 17% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 36%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 27%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
36% 17% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 27%
55% 67% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 45%
27% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 27%
 
5.6 7.3 9 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4.2 3.8
4.7 2.7 2 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 2.3 3.6
1.8 1.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.7 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.6 18.8 13 Shots (avg) S ( 12.7 10.7 11.4
4.5 5.3 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 4 5
20% 16% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 35%
 
6.9 6.2 5 Shots against (avg) S A 8.3 7.2 7.5
3 2.2 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.2 2.9
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Southend United have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Southend United have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Woking 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 Wrexham 11 8 2 1 31 9 5 5 0 0 20 3 6 3 2 1 11 6 22 26
2 Notts County 11 7 3 1 27 11 5 4 1 0 11 3 6 3 2 1 16 8 16 24
3 Chesterfield 11 7 3 1 22 13 5 4 0 1 10 5 6 3 3 0 12 8 9 24
4 Boreham Wood 11 6 4 1 18 9 5 2 2 1 8 6 6 4 2 0 10 3 9 22
5 Bromley 11 6 2 3 17 12 6 5 1 0 10 1 5 1 1 3 7 11 5 20
6 Solihull Moors 11 5 4 2 25 14 6 2 4 0 13 6 5 3 0 2 12 8 11 19
7 Woking 11 6 1 4 19 10 5 4 0 1 11 3 6 2 1 3 8 7 9 19
8 Wealdstone 11 5 4 2 12 9 6 2 3 1 6 5 5 3 1 1 6 4 3 19
9 York City 11 5 3 3 16 10 5 2 1 2 6 6 6 3 2 1 10 4 6 18
10 Dorking Wanderers 11 5 1 5 22 25 6 3 1 2 13 14 5 2 0 3 9 11 -3 16
11 Southend United 11 4 3 4 10 9 6 3 1 2 5 3 5 1 2 2 5 6 1 15
12 Eastleigh 11 4 3 4 13 14 5 3 2 0 6 3 6 1 1 4 7 11 -1 15
13 Barnet 11 4 2 5 18 22 5 3 0 2 7 7 6 1 2 3 11 15 -4 14
14 Dagenham & Redbridge 11 4 2 5 19 26 6 4 1 1 16 13 5 0 1 4 3 13 -7 14
15 Maidenhead United 11 4 1 6 9 13 6 3 1 2 7 5 5 1 0 4 2 8 -4 13
16 Gateshead 11 2 5 4 14 16 6 1 4 1 9 7 5 1 1 3 5 9 -2 11
17 Oldham Athletic 11 3 2 6 11 19 6 3 0 3 10 11 5 0 2 3 1 8 -8 11
18 Maidstone United 11 3 2 6 13 25 5 2 1 2 7 8 6 1 1 4 6 17 -12 11
19 Yeovil Town 11 1 6 4 10 13 6 1 3 2 6 7 5 0 3 2 4 6 -3 9
20 Aldershot Town 11 3 0 8 14 19 6 2 0 4 11 12 5 1 0 4 3 7 -5 9
21 Scunthorpe United 11 2 3 6 14 21 6 2 1 3 9 12 5 0 2 3 5 9 -7 9
22 Torquay United 11 2 3 6 7 19 5 0 2 3 3 9 6 2 1 3 4 10 -12 9
23 Altrincham 11 1 5 5 11 22 5 1 3 1 7 7 6 0 2 4 4 15 -11 8
24 Halifax Town 11 2 2 7 7 19 5 1 1 3 3 9 6 1 1 4 4 10 -12 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.