Delightful dogfight as daring Margate duel with determined Potters Bar Town

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Competition: England Non League Premier: Isthmian
Competition: Sat 22.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Hartsdown Park (2100 seats)

Club members at Hartsdown Park haven’t witnessed many home wins this season, with Margate languishing in the 17th spot. The opposing Potters Bar Town will hope to guard their higher league spot in this match.

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

Margate are done competing for places this season; they will remain in 17th place whatever happens now. Potters is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

Not much time to rest for the hosts, as they had a Kent Senior Cup match only four days back. This match was also played here at Hartsdown Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Potters Bar Town have had more rest.

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Margate form and stats

When playing at home in the Non League Premier: Isthmian, Margate have managed 5 wins, 7 draws and suffered 8 defeats from 20 games. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Margate to get some points in this home game.

Margate are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 340 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Junior).

Margate's previous fixture was a Kent Senior Cup game also played at their home, ending 3-1 versus Ramsgate. The home side hope to to build on that result.

Prior to that, an away loss at Billericay Town in the Non League Premier: Isthmian.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Margate have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 12 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 1 and lost 3.

It should be considered that a look at the 16 latest league fixtures shows that 12 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored).

The Margate fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 28 in 20 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Margate have conceded 29 in these home matches.

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Potters Bar Town form and stats

7 wins, 2 draws and 11 losses. That’s the product of Potters Bar Town playing as the away team in the Non League Premier: Isthmian this season. A depressing four defeats in a row for Potters in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Brightlingsea Regent.

Potters Bar Town had fun at their own home (Hartsdown Park) last time out, beating Carshalton Athletic 3-1. Those three points felt sweet as this club had gone five league matches without victory.

A 0-2 defeat away at Wingate & Finchley before that.

We have checked recent matches where Potters Bar Town have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 5 victories, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Potters have scored 25 goals in 20 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For Potters Bar Town, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Potters Bar Town - Margate 0-1 was the story when these two squads last met, earlier this season. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's three Margate victories, one draw and four Potters Bar Town wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Margate missing players

Potters Bar Town missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Margate Potters Bar Town
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
41 20 6 Played P 7 20 41
11 5 0 Won W 4 7 15
11 7 3 Drew D 1 2 5
19 8 3 Lost L 2 11 21
46 28 5 Scored S 10 25 53
62 29 8 Conceded C 8 47 84
93% 95% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 86% 95% 98%
68% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 86% 95% 85%
44% 45% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 57% 75% 63%
32% 35% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 29% 50% 44%
12% 15% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 35% 29%
41% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 57% 65% 59%
27% 25% 17% Clean Sheets C S 14% 5% 10%
39% 30% 50% Failed to Score F T 43% 35% 34%
 
1.2 0.8 1.6 Corners for (avg) C F 2.9 1.8 2.6
1.8 1.4 2.8 Corners against (avg) C A 2.1 2.1 2.2
0.8 0.4 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.6 1.1 1.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
2 1 2 Shots (avg) S ( 6.1 4 4.8
0.8 0.3 0.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.9 1.9 1.9
111% 300% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 57% 57%
 
4.3 3.2 6.4 Shots against (avg) S A 6.7 5.6 5.1
2 1.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.4 2.6 2.3
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.
  • Potters Bar Town have created more than twice as many corners as Margate.
  • Potters Bar Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Potters Bar Town have won significantly less corners away then 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 Bishop's Stortford 41 26 7 8 70 33 21 13 6 2 42 16 20 13 1 6 28 17 37 85
2 AFC Hornchurch 41 24 9 8 96 48 21 15 3 3 53 22 20 9 6 5 43 26 48 81
3 Canvey Island 41 24 9 8 79 41 20 12 4 4 44 24 21 12 5 4 35 17 38 81
4 Aveley 41 22 9 10 62 41 21 11 5 5 26 18 20 11 4 5 36 23 21 75
5 Cray Wanderers 41 20 13 8 76 46 21 12 5 4 45 24 20 8 8 4 31 22 30 73
6 Lewes 41 19 14 8 79 53 21 12 8 1 41 17 20 7 6 7 38 36 26 71
7 Enfield Town 41 19 12 10 72 47 20 9 8 3 32 19 21 10 4 7 40 28 25 69
8 Horsham 41 19 12 10 78 56 20 13 4 3 49 23 21 6 8 7 29 33 22 69
9 Hastings United 41 19 11 11 61 42 21 10 7 4 33 22 20 9 4 7 28 20 19 68
10 Billericay Town 41 18 8 15 64 58 21 14 2 5 44 28 20 4 6 10 20 30 6 62
11 Carshalton Athletic 41 17 10 14 50 52 20 12 3 5 27 21 21 5 7 9 23 31 -2 61
12 Folkestone Invicta 41 18 5 18 73 63 21 11 3 7 44 31 20 7 2 11 29 32 10 59
13 Haringey Borough 41 13 11 17 65 73 20 8 3 9 36 33 21 5 8 8 29 40 -8 50
14 Potters Bar Town 41 15 5 21 53 84 21 8 3 10 28 37 20 7 2 11 25 47 -31 50
15 Bognor Regis Town 41 14 7 20 68 72 20 8 4 8 28 30 21 6 3 12 40 42 -4 49
16 Wingate & Finchley 41 12 12 17 52 61 21 7 5 9 34 34 20 5 7 8 18 27 -9 48
17 Margate 41 11 11 19 46 62 20 5 7 8 28 29 21 6 4 11 18 33 -16 44
18 Kingstonian 41 10 9 22 42 75 20 5 4 11 20 38 21 5 5 11 22 37 -33 39
19 Bowers & Pitsea 41 8 9 24 44 76 20 6 6 8 22 29 21 2 3 16 22 47 -32 33
20 Herne Bay 41 8 9 24 60 96 20 5 5 10 31 42 21 3 4 14 29 54 -36 33
21 Corinthian-Casuals 41 7 5 29 36 85 20 4 3 13 19 38 21 3 2 16 17 47 -49 26
22 Brightlingsea Regent 41 5 9 27 40 102 21 5 5 11 23 42 20 0 4 16 17 60 -62 24

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bishop's Stortford 41 26 7 8 70 33 21 13 6 2 42 16 20 13 1 6 28 17 37 85
2 AFC Hornchurch 41 24 9 8 96 48 21 15 3 3 53 22 20 9 6 5 43 26 48 81
3 Canvey Island 41 24 9 8 79 41 20 12 4 4 44 24 21 12 5 4 35 17 38 81
4 Aveley 41 22 9 10 62 41 21 11 5 5 26 18 20 11 4 5 36 23 21 75
5 Cray Wanderers 41 20 13 8 76 46 21 12 5 4 45 24 20 8 8 4 31 22 30 73
6 Lewes 41 19 14 8 79 53 21 12 8 1 41 17 20 7 6 7 38 36 26 71
7 Enfield Town 41 19 12 10 72 47 20 9 8 3 32 19 21 10 4 7 40 28 25 69
8 Horsham 41 19 12 10 78 56 20 13 4 3 49 23 21 6 8 7 29 33 22 69
9 Hastings United 41 19 11 11 61 42 21 10 7 4 33 22 20 9 4 7 28 20 19 68
10 Billericay Town 41 18 8 15 64 58 21 14 2 5 44 28 20 4 6 10 20 30 6 62
11 Carshalton Athletic 41 17 10 14 50 52 20 12 3 5 27 21 21 5 7 9 23 31 -2 61
12 Folkestone Invicta 41 18 5 18 73 63 21 11 3 7 44 31 20 7 2 11 29 32 10 59
13 Haringey Borough 41 13 11 17 65 73 20 8 3 9 36 33 21 5 8 8 29 40 -8 50
14 Potters Bar Town 41 15 5 21 53 84 21 8 3 10 28 37 20 7 2 11 25 47 -31 50
15 Bognor Regis Town 41 14 7 20 68 72 20 8 4 8 28 30 21 6 3 12 40 42 -4 49
16 Wingate & Finchley 41 12 12 17 52 61 21 7 5 9 34 34 20 5 7 8 18 27 -9 48
17 Margate 41 11 11 19 46 62 20 5 7 8 28 29 21 6 4 11 18 33 -16 44
18 Kingstonian 41 10 9 22 42 75 20 5 4 11 20 38 21 5 5 11 22 37 -33 39
19 Bowers & Pitsea 41 8 9 24 44 76 20 6 6 8 22 29 21 2 3 16 22 47 -32 33
20 Herne Bay 41 8 9 24 60 96 20 5 5 10 31 42 21 3 4 14 29 54 -36 33
21 Corinthian-Casuals 41 7 5 29 36 85 20 4 3 13 19 38 21 3 2 16 17 47 -49 26
22 Brightlingsea Regent 41 5 9 27 40 102 21 5 5 11 23 42 20 0 4 16 17 60 -62 24

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