Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Stockport County welcomes Maidenhead United

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 17.April
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: Edgeley Park (10832 seats)

A home win is expected from this fixture if the league table is anything to judge by. The Stockport County fans are optimistic that the difference between 4th and Maidenhead United's 17th place in the table will show on the pitch.

Insights:
  • Stockport County have the fewest conceded goals (26) in National League
  • Maidenhead United have the most points from losing position (16) in National League

The hosts Stockport County saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the National League. This match was also played here at Edgeley Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Maidenhead United have had more rest.

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Stockport County form and stats

When playing at home in the National League, Stockport County, who have the fewest conceded goals (26) in National League, have managed 8 wins, 7 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 17 games.

Stockport are confident in defense, having played 286 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Before that match, a win away at Wrexham.

As mentioned above, Stockport County "killed" King's Lynn Town in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.

Stockport are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found three matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won two, drew zero and lost one.

Stockport has scored 24 league goals at home this season, in 17 matches. From these home matches, Stockport County have conceded only 10 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Maidenhead United form and stats

The visitors are W5-D4-L5 on the road this term. That's in the National League. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Maidenhead are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

The attacking players of Maidenhead have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 220 minutes.

Maidenhead United delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Barnet (placed 22nd) in their previous match; a National League game. A 0-1 loss hosting Eastleigh before that.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Maidenhead United played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win two times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected zero times.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The National League trip to Wealdstone.

Maidenhead find the net regularly in their away games. 16 goals from 14 away fixtures in the league. 19 goals have been conceded by Maidenhead in these games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Maidenhead United - Stockport County 0-0, played this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two Stockport victories, two draws and one Maidenhead United win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Stockport CountyJ. Rooney
J. Rooney
14 goals
Stockport CountyA. Reid
A. Reid
14 goals
Maidenhead UnitedS. Barratt
S. Barratt
11 goals

Stockport County missing players

Maidenhead United missing players

Stockport County Maidenhead United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
34 17 5 Played P 5 14 29
17 8 4 Won W 3 5 11
10 7 0 Drew D 0 4 7
7 2 1 Lost L 2 5 11
53 24 11 Scored S 7 16 41
26 10 3 Conceded C 8 19 40
85% 76% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 86%
71% 71% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 71% 69%
44% 41% 80% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 57% 59%
18% 12% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 21% 38%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 14% 21%
38% 35% 40% BTTS BTTS 60% 57% 52%
44% 59% 60% Clean Sheets C S 20% 29% 28%
32% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 20% 29% 34%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.1 1 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.4 1.9 1.9
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
10.2 9.8 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.9 8.2
4.7 4.5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.5 3.6
33% 31% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 33% 39%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Maidenhead United have the most points from losing position (16) in National League
  • Stockport County have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Stockport County have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in National League
  • Stockport County have the fewest conceded goals (26) in National League
  • Stockport County have the most clean sheets (10) at home in National League
  • Stockport County have the the best goal difference (+27) in National League

  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 34 20 6 8 55 31 17 10 3 4 27 14 17 10 3 4 28 17 24 66
2 Hartlepool United 35 18 10 7 47 31 18 12 3 3 27 14 17 6 7 4 20 17 16 64
3 Sutton United 32 18 9 5 51 27 16 9 4 3 31 13 16 9 5 2 20 14 24 63
4 Stockport County 34 17 10 7 53 26 17 8 7 2 24 10 17 9 3 5 29 16 27 61
5 Wrexham 34 15 8 11 47 34 17 8 5 4 25 13 17 7 3 7 22 21 13 53
6 Chesterfield 31 16 4 11 43 29 15 8 2 5 24 11 16 8 2 6 19 18 14 52
7 Notts County 32 15 7 10 42 30 17 9 2 6 25 15 15 6 5 4 17 15 12 52
8 Bromley 34 14 10 10 54 46 19 7 6 6 31 27 15 7 4 4 23 19 8 52
9 Halifax Town 32 14 8 10 49 41 15 7 4 4 26 22 17 7 4 6 23 19 8 50
10 Aldershot Town 33 14 5 14 48 44 15 6 2 7 21 23 18 8 3 7 27 21 4 47
11 Eastleigh 34 12 11 11 38 36 17 7 6 4 18 12 17 5 5 7 20 24 2 47
12 Boreham Wood 34 10 16 8 41 35 16 4 8 4 18 17 18 6 8 4 23 18 6 46
13 Solihull Moors 32 13 6 13 36 35 15 9 2 4 21 13 17 4 4 9 15 22 1 45
14 Altrincham 35 12 8 15 38 42 15 5 3 7 17 16 20 7 5 8 21 26 -4 44
15 Dagenham & Redbridge 34 12 7 15 32 41 17 6 5 6 17 18 17 6 2 9 15 23 -9 43
16 Yeovil Town 32 12 6 14 48 50 16 8 2 6 27 21 16 4 4 8 21 29 -2 42
17 Maidenhead United 29 11 7 11 41 40 15 6 3 6 25 21 14 5 4 5 16 19 1 40
18 Woking 32 9 8 15 36 40 16 5 6 5 22 18 16 4 2 10 14 22 -4 35
19 Wealdstone 32 9 6 17 42 66 15 7 2 6 29 26 17 2 4 11 13 40 -24 33
20 Weymouth 33 8 6 19 36 52 18 6 2 10 22 30 15 2 4 9 14 22 -16 30
21 King's Lynn Town 32 8 6 18 38 64 17 5 5 7 25 27 15 3 1 11 13 37 -26 30
22 Barnet 31 3 5 23 23 75 16 2 2 12 8 32 15 1 3 11 15 43 -52 14
23 Dover Athletic 15 3 1 11 12 35 9 3 1 5 9 18 6 0 0 6 3 17 -23 10

Read more about National League

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.