Home advantage could prove decisive in Stratford Town - Hitchin Town battle

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Competition: England Non League Premier: Southern Central
Competition: Sat 19.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Arden Garages Stadium (2000 seats)

The stage is set for Non League Premier: Southern Central and Stratford Town - Hitchin Town. In this preview you'll get stats, previous results, data, tendencies and news!

Insights:
  • Stratford Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hitchin Town have the most dropped points from leading position (24) in Non League Premier: Southern Central

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Stratford Town form and stats

The Non League Premier: Southern Central stats at home this season for Stratford Town are 5-4-5 (wins-draws-losses). The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as Stratford Town has four draws from their last four matches.

Stratford Town shared the glory with Nuneaton Town in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 3-3 versus Biggleswade Town.

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

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Hednesford Town are coming to town in three days.

Stratford Town are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 19 goals in 14 games. 20 goals have been conceded.

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Hitchin Town form and stats

There's been little loot from Hitchin Town's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 15 away games in the Non League Premier: Southern Central. Hitchin Town only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 5 draws. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Hitchin have lost on their last two travels.

There were no winners in Hitchin Town's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Redditch United (placed 15th).

A 1-2 defeat away at Coalville Town before that.

We have checked recent matches where Hitchin Town have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 13 games were three victories, two draws and eight defeats.

The visiting Hitchin Town have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 15 games. As opposed to that, Hitchin have seen the ball go into their own net 22 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved met each other earlier on this season: Hitchin Town - Stratford Town 0-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - one - six (Stratford wins - draws - Hitchin Town wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Stratford Town missing players

Hitchin Town missing players

Stratford Town Hitchin Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 14 6 Played P 6 15 28
9 5 3 Won W 2 2 6
7 4 2 Drew D 1 5 6
12 5 1 Lost L 3 8 16
34 19 11 Scored S 9 17 34
45 20 8 Conceded C 8 22 46
89% 86% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 87% 93%
71% 64% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 67% 75%
54% 57% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 64%
29% 21% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 36%
14% 21% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
46% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 60% 57%
32% 36% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 27% 18%
32% 29% 17% Failed to Score F T 17% 27% 32%
 
3.4 3.8 7 Corners for (avg) C F 2.2 2.8 2.1
4.2 4.3 6 Corners against (avg) C A 3.6 4.1 3.2
1.4 1.4 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 0.7 0.6
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
6.9 6.7 10 Shots (avg) S ( 6.2 6.6 5.6
3.1 3.4 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 2.7 2.5
37% 41% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 41% 46%
 
9.3 8.2 8 Shots against (avg) S A 7.4 8.1 6.3
3.9 3.6 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.4 3.7 2.7
Key stats in Non League Premier: Southern Central this season:
  • Hitchin Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Hitchin Town have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Non League Premier: Southern Central
  • Hitchin Town have the fewest scored goals in the second half (11) in Non League Premier: Southern Central
  • Hitchin Town have the most dropped points from leading position (24) in Non League Premier: Southern Central
  • Hitchin Town have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Stratford Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals 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 Banbury United 31 24 5 2 68 23 16 12 3 1 37 14 15 12 2 1 31 9 45 77
2 Rushall Olympic 29 17 9 3 64 30 13 9 3 1 35 13 16 8 6 2 29 17 34 60
3 Coalville Town 29 18 6 5 64 31 15 13 2 0 43 9 14 5 4 5 21 22 33 60
4 Peterborough Sports 28 17 3 8 71 36 14 9 1 4 37 14 14 8 2 4 34 22 35 54
5 AFC Rushden & Diamonds 29 15 4 10 40 34 15 7 2 6 20 16 14 8 2 4 20 18 6 49
6 Alvechurch 31 13 8 10 41 34 16 9 2 5 26 17 15 4 6 5 15 17 7 47
7 Leiston 29 13 3 13 46 53 14 8 3 3 23 18 15 5 0 10 23 35 -7 42
8 Royston Town 31 11 8 12 49 42 16 4 6 6 25 21 15 7 2 6 24 21 7 41
9 Hednesford Town 26 9 10 7 46 41 14 5 6 3 28 21 12 4 4 4 18 20 5 37
10 Needham Market 26 8 11 7 46 39 14 4 7 3 24 19 12 4 4 4 22 20 7 35
11 Stourbridge 28 10 5 13 40 53 14 5 4 5 22 21 14 5 1 8 18 32 -13 35
12 Stratford Town 28 9 7 12 34 45 14 5 4 5 19 20 14 4 3 7 15 25 -11 34
13 Barwell 31 8 9 14 44 54 15 5 4 6 23 22 16 3 5 8 21 32 -10 33
14 St Ives Town 29 9 6 14 41 72 14 6 2 6 21 35 15 3 4 8 20 37 -31 33
15 Redditch United 30 7 11 12 29 41 15 4 5 6 15 20 15 3 6 6 14 21 -12 32
16 Tamworth 28 9 5 14 30 43 14 5 3 6 19 19 14 4 2 8 11 24 -13 32
17 Bromsgrove Sporting 28 7 10 11 27 46 14 6 1 7 16 25 14 1 9 4 11 21 -19 31
18 Nuneaton Town 30 7 8 15 41 51 16 3 7 6 18 21 14 4 1 9 23 30 -10 29
19 Lowestoft Town 28 7 5 16 35 66 14 5 4 5 21 25 14 2 1 11 14 41 -31 26
20 Biggleswade Town 29 5 9 15 36 46 13 5 4 4 26 17 16 0 5 11 10 29 -10 24
21 Hitchin Town 28 6 6 16 34 46 13 4 1 8 17 24 15 2 5 8 17 22 -12 24

Read more about Non League Premier: 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.