Enfield Town welcome Margate for another interesting Non League Premier: Isthmian fixture here at Goldsdown Road.
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 Enfield Town and Margate.
Enfield Town form and stats
This is expected to be a close game, with Enfield Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Enfield as a small favourite), we find eight games. Enfield Town has won three of these, drawn one and lost four.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Enfield as they are travelling to their away game against Carshalton Athletic in the Non League Premier: Isthmian. That match is four days after this one.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Enfield Town, who have participated in two training matches. Enfield Town have won 1 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 0 games.
Last season, Enfield Town's league statistics were 16 wins, 8 draws and 8 losses, resulting in a 7th position in the Non League Premier: Isthmian. Over these 32 matches they scored 61 goals and conceded 51. Playing at home last season Enfield Town managed 7-5-4 (win-draw-lost) with 33 goals and 28 conceded.
Margate form and stats
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Margate playing away and similar expectations, we found seven relevant matches. Results were four Margate wins, two draws and one defeat.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Margate manager J. Saunders as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Bognor Regis Town.
Just as the home team, Margate have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 0 Margate wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.
Let's have a look at how Margate performed last season in the Non League Premier: Isthmian: They landed a 12th position in the league table after playing out 11 victories, 10 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 47 and conceded 54 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 4 and lost 6 with 23/24 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Enfield five wins, two draws and Margate two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Enfield Town missing players
Margate missing players
| Enfield Town | Margate | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 13 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 86% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 71% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 67% | 43% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 0.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | 18 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 15 | 27 |
| 13 | 10 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 69% | 60% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 25% |
- Enfield Town have won all their matches at home so far.
- Enfield Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Worthing | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 72 | 41 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 43 | 27 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 29 | 14 | 31 | 71 |
| 2 | Cray Wanderers | 33 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 63 | 45 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 34 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 24 | 18 | 64 |
| 3 | AFC Hornchurch | 33 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 62 | 28 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 27 | 18 | 34 | 62 |
| 4 | Folkestone Invicta | 32 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 60 | 34 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 26 | 62 |
| 5 | Carshalton Athletic | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 59 | 38 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 21 | 62 |
| 6 | Horsham | 33 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 51 | 35 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 57 |
| 7 | Enfield Town | 32 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 61 | 51 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 33 | 28 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 23 | 10 | 56 |
| 8 | Bognor Regis Town | 32 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 58 | 46 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 25 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 21 | 12 | 53 |
| 9 | Leatherhead | 31 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 48 | 42 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 27 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 26 | 6 | 52 |
| 10 | Kingstonian | 31 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 42 | 36 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 20 | 6 | 47 |
| 11 | East Thurrock United | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 47 | 40 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 22 | 7 | 46 |
| 12 | Margate | 33 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 47 | 54 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 30 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 24 | -7 | 43 |
| 13 | Potters Bar Town | 32 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 47 | 56 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 36 | -9 | 41 |
| 14 | Bowers & Pitsea | 33 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 49 | 42 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 24 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 23 | 7 | 40 |
| 15 | Haringey Borough | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 44 | 47 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 31 | -3 | 39 |
| 16 | Lewes | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 35 | 55 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 32 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 23 | -20 | 31 |
| 17 | Bishop's Stortford | 32 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 37 | 63 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 18 | 31 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 32 | -26 | 28 |
| 18 | Cheshunt | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 39 | 59 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 23 | 40 | -20 | 27 |
| 19 | Corinthian-Casuals | 31 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 33 | 44 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 26 | -11 | 26 |
| 20 | Wingate & Finchley | 33 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 34 | 58 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 32 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 26 | -24 | 25 |
| 21 | Merstham | 33 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 34 | 70 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 35 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 35 | -36 | 25 |
| 22 | Brightlingsea Regent | 33 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 24 | 62 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 38 | -38 | 24 |