Wrexham vs Halifax Town previews for sports fans

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Tue 22.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Racecourse Ground, Wrexham (15500 seats)

The Wrexham & Halifax Town bosses Parkinson and Wild are both afraid of and looking forward to this key match in the top regions of the National League league table.

Insights:
  • Wrexham have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Halifax Town have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in National League

It's no vacation for neither Wrexham nor Halifax Town 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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Wrexham form and stats

29 points is a decent return from 14 National League games here at Racecourse Ground, Wrexham for Wrexham. The data says 8 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Wrexham, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.

An away draw last time out for Wrexham, facing Bromley in a game that ended 0-0.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Wrexham's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played seven games, won five matches, drawn one and lost one.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Wrexham as they have a new game in only four days, a National League match thankfully also at home. Dover Athletic are visiting.

Wrexham are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 20 goals in 14 games. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Wrexham are not conceding a lot of goals here at Racecourse Ground, Wrexham in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 14 matches.

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Halifax Town form and stats

The visitors are W7-D6-L3 on the road this term. That's in the National League. Halifax have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Halifax Town goalkeeper Sam Johnson is eager to challenge this, with his 260 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Halifax Town won their last game, 2-0 versus Torquay United played at home.

A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Bromley.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Halifax manager Wild as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against King's Lynn Town.

Halifax Town find the net regularly in their away games. 21 goals from 16 away fixtures in the league. Halifax Town are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 14 times in 16 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The squads have met each other already this season, with the result Halifax Town - Wrexham 1-2 written in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Wrexham three wins, four draws and Halifax Town three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Halifax TownB. Waters
B. Waters
16 goals
WrexhamP. Mullin
P. Mullin
15 goals
WrexhamJ. Davies
J. Davies
9 goals

Wrexham missing players

Halifax Town missing players

Wrexham Halifax Town
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
32 14 3 Played P 4 16 32
18 8 1 Won W 0 7 20
8 5 2 Drew D 3 6 6
6 1 0 Lost L 1 3 6
56 20 6 Scored S 4 21 50
30 9 4 Conceded C 5 14 23
94% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
75% 64% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 56% 62%
44% 14% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 31% 38%
28% 14% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 31% 25%
16% 14% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 9%
50% 43% 100% BTTS BTTS 75% 50% 41%
44% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 31% 47%
12% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 31% 19%
 
5.7 7.1 7.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4.2 4.1 4.6
4.4 4.1 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.2 7.1 5.9
1.4 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 1.4 1.5
5 3 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
12.1 13.4 11.7 Shots (avg) S ( 5 8.2 9.9
4.8 4.8 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 3.4 3.8
37% 30% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 38% 42%
 
8 7.1 8.7 Shots against (avg) S A 11 10.4 9.5
3.1 2.1 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 3.6 3.1
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Halifax Town have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Halifax Town have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in National League
  • Wrexham have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Wrexham have won significantly more corners at home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Stockport County 33 23 4 6 69 29 17 11 3 3 34 15 16 12 1 3 35 14 40 73
2 Chesterfield 34 18 12 4 60 33 18 10 6 2 32 19 16 8 6 2 28 14 27 66
3 Halifax Town 32 20 6 6 50 23 16 13 0 3 29 9 16 7 6 3 21 14 27 66
4 Wrexham 32 18 8 6 56 30 14 8 5 1 20 9 18 10 3 5 36 21 26 62
5 Solihull Moors 32 16 10 6 57 35 18 10 5 3 40 21 14 6 5 3 17 14 22 58
6 Boreham Wood 31 16 10 5 40 23 17 10 7 0 24 7 14 6 3 5 16 16 17 58
7 Notts County 33 16 9 8 59 41 16 10 4 2 34 19 17 6 5 6 25 22 18 57
8 Grimsby Town 33 17 5 11 48 31 16 11 2 3 29 11 17 6 3 8 19 20 17 56
9 Bromley 31 15 8 8 45 34 16 10 3 3 28 15 15 5 5 5 17 19 11 53
10 Dagenham & Redbridge 33 16 4 13 60 43 17 8 3 6 35 25 16 8 1 7 25 18 17 52
11 Torquay United 33 13 8 12 48 48 16 7 4 5 24 21 17 6 4 7 24 27 0 47
12 Southend United 33 13 8 12 37 44 16 8 3 5 22 21 17 5 5 7 15 23 -7 47
13 Yeovil Town 33 11 9 13 30 35 16 4 5 7 12 19 17 7 4 6 18 16 -5 42
14 Woking 34 12 4 18 46 48 16 6 0 10 21 26 18 6 4 8 25 22 -2 40
15 Altrincham 34 11 7 16 52 56 16 7 2 7 31 22 18 4 5 9 21 34 -4 40
16 Wealdstone 33 10 8 15 38 52 16 6 5 5 17 18 17 4 3 10 21 34 -14 38
17 Barnet 33 10 8 15 41 58 17 6 4 7 21 29 16 4 4 8 20 29 -17 38
18 Eastleigh 33 10 7 16 36 53 16 8 5 3 26 19 17 2 2 13 10 34 -17 37
19 Maidenhead United 33 9 8 16 35 56 17 7 4 6 25 29 16 2 4 10 10 27 -21 35
20 Aldershot Town 32 8 7 17 33 53 17 2 5 10 13 31 15 6 2 7 20 22 -20 31
21 Weymouth 33 5 7 21 32 64 17 3 5 9 17 26 16 2 2 12 15 38 -32 22
22 King's Lynn Town 33 5 6 22 32 62 16 2 2 12 14 29 17 3 4 10 18 33 -30 21
23 Dover Athletic 33 1 5 27 23 76 16 1 2 13 10 29 17 0 3 14 13 47 -53 -4

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.