Yeovil Town vs Boreham Wood match preview: Even contest expected at Huish Park Stadium

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Competition: England National League
Competition: Sat 17.April
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: Huish Park Stadium (9565 seats)

Yeovil Town hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 42 points and a 16th position in the National League table. Visiting Boreham Wood holds 12th place with 46 pts.

Insights:
  • Yeovil Town have the most matches over the total-line (21) in National League
  • Boreham Wood have the fewest points from losing position (3) in National League

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a National League game only four days ago. That game was also an away game, at Chesterfield. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Yeovil Town form and stats

8 victories, 2 draws and 6 defeats. That’s what Yeovil Town have to build on here at Huish Park Stadium in the National League.

Yeovil's previous game was a National League match also played at home, ending 3-1 versus Barnet (placed 22nd). The home side are looking to build on that result. In the match before that, Yeovil Town hosted Notts County and drew the game 2-2.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Yeovil Town have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won eight, drawn one and lost six.

Yeovil have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Huish Park Stadium with 27 goals in 16 league matches. Yeovil Town have conceded 21 in these home matches.

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Boreham Wood form and stats

6 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Boreham Wood playing as the away team in the National League this season. The awayteam now has four consecutive draws when travelling away from home.

Before that, Boreham Wood secured a home win against Wealdstone with the score 3-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Boreham Wood in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Boreham, three draws and two defeats.

After this away game Boreham return home for a National League game against Barnet. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Boreham Wood are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 23 away goals from 18 games (in the league). Boreham have conceded 18 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Boreham Wood - Yeovil Town 2-3 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Last three meetings between the teams: Yeovil won one, Boreham Wood won one and one draw. one game with over 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Boreham WoodK. Tshimanga
K. Tshimanga
15 goals
Yeovil TownR. Murphy
R. Murphy
12 goals
YeovilJ. Quigley
J. Quigley
7 goals

Yeovil Town missing players

Boreham Wood missing players

Yeovil Town Boreham Wood
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
32 16 5 Played P 6 18 34
12 8 3 Won W 3 6 10
6 2 0 Drew D 2 8 16
14 6 2 Lost L 1 4 8
48 27 8 Scored S 8 23 41
50 21 5 Conceded C 2 18 35
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 89% 82%
81% 81% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 59%
69% 75% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 39% 41%
38% 44% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 26%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 12%
66% 69% 40% BTTS BTTS 17% 50% 50%
16% 19% 60% Clean Sheets C S 67% 33% 35%
22% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 28% 32%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.7 1.6
3 1 1 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
10 10.4 12.2 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 9.1 9.1
4.5 5 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.8 3.7 3.5
33% 34% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 37% 36%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Boreham Wood have the fewest points from losing position (3) in National League
  • Yeovil Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Yeovil Town have the most matches over the total-line (21) in National League
  • Yeovil Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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

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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.