Welwyn Garden City vs Waltham Abbey full preview

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Competition: England Non League Div One: Southern Central
Competition: Tue 18.January
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Herns Way

The home team, Welwyn Garden City, should be front runners in this fixture, but Waltham Abbey have displayed both competence and spirit. Read more about the fixture!

Insights:
  • Welwyn Garden City is in the best form (4-0-1) in Non League Div One: Southern Central
  • Waltham Abbey have won significantly less corners away then at home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Welwyn and Waltham Abbey.

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Welwyn Garden City form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Herns Way as Welwyn Garden City have scored 17 goals to get 21 points from 10 games. The overall stats in the Non League Div One: Southern Central are 6-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). Two draws in a row at home now for Welwyn Garden City.

The home supporters saw a 0-0 draw versus Waltham Abbey in the Non League Div One: Southern Central last time out and are looking for a win here.

A strong away win before that one, visiting St Neots Town and winning 2-0.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Welwyn Garden City matches with similar probabilities have ended with zero wins, one draw and zero defeats (from one game).

Welwyn Garden City have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Herns Way with 17 goals in 10 league matches. From these home matches, Welwyn Garden City have conceded only 8 goals.

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Waltham Abbey form and stats

Waltham Abbey have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Non League Div One: Southern Central, after 2-3-5 (10 played).

Waltham Abbey are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Welwyn Garden City (placed 6th).

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-3 defeat against Ware.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Waltham Abbey playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, one draw and zero home wins.

Waltham Abbey are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 13 away goals from 10 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Waltham have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The participants have met each other already this season, with the match result Welwyn Garden City - Waltham Abbey null logged in the official records. Welwyn Garden City-Waltham Abbey H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Welwyn Garden City one win, Waltham Abbey zero wins, one draw. zero of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Welwyn Garden City missing players

Waltham Abbey missing players

Welwyn Garden City Waltham Abbey
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 10 1 Played P 4 10 23
13 6 0 Won W 1 2 8
3 3 1 Drew D 1 3 5
6 1 0 Lost L 2 5 10
42 17 1 Scored S 6 13 38
29 8 1 Conceded C 7 14 42
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 87%
82% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 70% 78%
55% 30% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 70% 74%
32% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 30% 48%
32% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 20% 30%
59% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 57%
32% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 40% 30%
14% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 30% 26%
 
4.4 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 4
4.6 4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 4
0.6 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.6 11 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 10
5 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 2
60% 25% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
7.4 5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 10
4 3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 5
Key stats in Non League Div One: Southern Central this season:
  • Waltham Abbey have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Welwyn Garden City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Welwyn Garden City have the most scored goals in the second half (9) in Non League Div One: Southern Central
  • Welwyn Garden City is in the best form (4-0-1) in Non League Div One: Southern Central

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bedford Town 22 16 3 3 56 19 12 10 1 1 36 11 10 6 2 2 20 8 37 51
2 Berkhamsted 20 15 3 2 36 10 11 10 0 1 23 3 9 5 3 1 13 7 26 48
3 AFC Dunstable 21 13 3 5 39 19 10 7 1 2 22 9 11 6 2 3 17 10 20 42
4 North Leigh 23 12 5 6 47 27 12 7 0 5 26 16 11 5 5 1 21 11 20 41
5 Ware 22 12 4 6 56 29 11 7 3 1 37 12 11 5 1 5 19 17 27 40
6 Welwyn Garden City 21 12 3 6 40 29 10 6 3 1 17 8 11 6 0 5 23 21 11 39
7 Harlow Town 19 10 4 5 36 23 10 5 3 2 18 12 9 5 1 3 18 11 13 34
8 Didcot Town 21 10 4 7 32 34 10 3 1 6 11 22 11 7 3 1 21 12 -2 34
9 Thame 21 9 6 6 38 30 11 4 3 4 22 17 10 5 3 2 16 13 8 33
10 Aylesbury United 21 9 4 8 43 37 10 4 2 4 16 15 11 5 2 4 27 22 6 31
11 FC Romania 21 10 1 10 39 38 11 5 1 5 19 17 10 5 0 5 20 21 1 31
12 Biggleswade 23 9 4 10 36 37 11 4 3 4 13 13 12 5 1 6 23 24 -1 31
13 Waltham Abbey 22 8 5 9 37 39 12 6 2 4 24 25 10 2 3 5 13 14 -2 29
14 St Neots Town 21 8 4 9 33 34 10 3 3 4 18 19 11 5 1 5 15 15 -1 28
15 Barton Rovers 21 7 2 12 30 39 11 4 0 7 13 20 10 3 2 5 17 19 -9 23
16 Hertford Town 22 5 5 12 34 47 8 3 1 4 11 17 14 2 4 8 23 30 -13 20
17 Kidlington 22 4 7 11 25 53 11 2 5 4 17 22 11 2 2 7 8 31 -28 19
18 AFC Kempston Rovers 21 4 3 14 29 58 12 4 2 6 20 28 9 0 1 8 9 30 -29 15
19 Wantage Town 22 2 3 17 23 67 9 0 3 6 13 25 13 2 0 11 10 42 -44 9
20 Colney Heath 22 2 1 19 18 58 12 2 0 10 12 28 10 0 1 9 6 30 -40 7

Read more about Non League Div One: Southern Central

The Southern Football League consists of four divisions: Central Division and South Division (at the seventh highest division level of English football) and Division One Central / Division One South (eight highest level). Teams come from the South West of England, southern Midlands and South Wales.