Delightful dogfight as daring Margate duel with determined Bowers & Pitsea

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Competition: England Non League Premier: Isthmian
Competition: Sat 16.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Hartsdown Park (2100 seats)

It's time for Margate - Bowers & Pitsea! Never mind the highs and lows so far, this fixture should be immense!

Insights:
  • Margate have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

Margate can neither be promoted or relegated from Non League Premier: Isthmian. For Bowers & Pitsea most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

It's no vacation for neither Margate nor Bowers & Pitsea 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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Margate form and stats

The story so far in the Non League Premier: Isthmian for Margate at their home stadium (Hartsdown Park) is 12 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats.

The Margate supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Bowers & Pitsea and win 3-2.

A 0-0 draw away before that, with Carshalton Athletic the opponent.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Margate handle that role? We have found 16 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are nine wins, one draw and six defeats.

Margate have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Hartsdown Park with 36 goals in 20 league matches. 27 goals have been conceded.

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Bowers & Pitsea form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Non League Premier: Isthmian travels is 7 wins, 6 draws and 7 defeats. Recent form does not give Bowers & Pitsea much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Margate will be a tough nut to crack.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Bowers & Pitsea, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 2-3 versus Margate (placed 8th).

Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Worthing.

Bowers are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is five wins, four draws and five defeats. From a total of 14 matches.

Bowers & Pitsea are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 29 away goals from 20 games (in the league). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Bowers have conceded 32 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Margate and Bowers & Pitsea have duelled already this season: Margate - Bowers & Pitsea 3-2. As for the last four games between these two teams, there's four Margate victories, zero draws and zero Bowers & Pitsea wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Margate missing players

Bowers & Pitsea missing players

Margate Bowers & Pitsea
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
40 20 7 Played P 6 20 40
17 12 6 Won W 2 7 11
8 3 0 Drew D 3 6 8
15 5 1 Lost L 1 7 21
57 36 15 Scored S 9 29 50
61 27 6 Conceded C 6 32 69
88% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 90% 92%
75% 75% 86% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 80% 75%
60% 65% 57% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 55%
40% 40% 29% Over 3.5 O 3.5 17% 45% 42%
18% 20% 14% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 25% 22%
57% 60% 57% BTTS BTTS 33% 45% 52%
22% 25% 29% Clean Sheets C S 50% 35% 22%
32% 25% 14% Failed to Score F T 33% 30% 32%
 
1.7 1.1 0.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 2.9 2.6
1.8 1.6 1.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.8 3.4
0.9 0.6 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1 0.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
4.9 3.9 4 Shots (avg) S ( 5 5.8 5.3
2.5 2.5 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2.6 2.2
62% 75% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 55% 57%
 
6 2.6 3.5 Shots against (avg) S A 7.2 6.9 6.5
2.3 1.1 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 3.3 3.1
Key stats in Non League Premier: Isthmian this season:
  • Margate have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Margate have won significantly less 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 Worthing 40 30 4 6 98 42 20 17 1 2 55 17 20 13 3 4 43 25 56 94
2 Bishop's Stortford 40 24 12 4 86 31 20 13 6 1 54 18 20 11 6 3 32 13 55 84
3 AFC Hornchurch 40 25 6 9 87 38 20 13 3 4 43 17 20 12 3 5 44 21 49 81
4 Enfield Town 40 24 6 10 88 57 20 15 2 3 41 20 20 9 4 7 47 37 31 78
5 Cheshunt 40 21 9 10 69 39 20 8 5 7 30 20 20 13 4 3 39 19 30 72
6 Folkestone Invicta 40 20 11 9 81 57 20 11 7 2 44 20 20 9 4 7 37 37 24 71
7 Lewes 40 20 9 11 87 60 20 10 4 6 42 28 20 10 5 5 45 32 27 69
8 Margate 40 17 8 15 57 61 20 12 3 5 36 27 20 5 5 10 21 34 -4 59
9 Kingstonian 40 17 7 16 65 67 20 10 4 6 37 28 20 7 3 10 28 39 -2 58
10 Bognor Regis Town 40 14 14 12 61 57 20 7 6 7 32 33 20 7 8 5 29 24 4 56
11 Carshalton Athletic 40 14 12 14 62 54 20 10 3 7 39 27 20 4 9 7 23 27 8 54
12 Potters Bar Town 40 16 5 19 54 70 20 8 2 10 28 36 20 8 3 9 26 34 -16 53
13 Horsham 40 14 9 17 60 55 20 7 6 7 35 30 20 7 3 10 25 25 5 51
14 Corinthian-Casuals 40 12 12 16 48 56 20 5 6 9 19 24 20 7 6 7 29 32 -8 48
15 Wingate & Finchley 40 11 10 19 56 72 20 6 6 8 32 29 20 5 4 11 24 43 -16 43
16 Bowers & Pitsea 40 11 8 21 50 69 20 4 2 14 21 37 20 7 6 7 29 32 -19 41
17 Haringey Borough 40 9 14 17 53 74 20 5 10 5 38 36 20 4 4 12 15 38 -21 41
18 Brightlingsea Regent 40 10 6 24 41 91 20 6 2 12 21 46 20 4 4 12 20 45 -50 36
19 East Thurrock United 40 9 8 23 41 91 20 6 6 8 22 34 20 3 2 15 19 57 -50 35
20 Cray Wanderers 40 9 9 22 59 81 20 4 4 12 33 43 20 5 5 10 26 38 -22 33
21 Merstham 40 10 3 27 41 80 20 6 3 11 27 33 20 4 0 16 14 47 -39 33
22 Leatherhead 40 8 8 24 39 81 20 2 4 14 14 37 20 6 4 10 25 44 -42 32

Read more about Non League Premier: Isthmian

The Isthmian League has four divisions. The Premier Division is at the seventh highest division level in England while the North, South Central and South East Division are at the eight level. The Isthmian League covers London, East and South East England and holds mostly semi-professional teams.