Open game expected at Privett Park: Gosport Borough vs Taunton Town preview

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Competition: England Non League Premier: Southern South
Competition: Sat 26.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Privett Park (4500 seats)

A important fixture in Non League Premier: Southern South as both sides are battling for the top league positions. With Gosport Borough in 7th position and Taunton Town placed 4th, this has all the looks of a thriling fight. Read on to learn more!

Insights:
  • Gosport Borough have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Taunton Town have the most scored goals in the first half (34) in Non League Premier: Southern South

Gosport Borough and Taunton Town should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Gosport Borough form and stats

The story so far in the Non League Premier: Southern South for Gosport Borough at their home stadium (Privett Park) is 10 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats. Gosport have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

A strong away win for Gosport Borough against Merthyr Town the last match.

In the match before that, Gosport Borough hosted Hendon and drew the game 1-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with Gosport Borough perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Gosport Borough as a small favourite), we find eight games. Gosport Borough has won four of these, drawn two and lost two.

A decent goal production from Gosport in their home games so far, with 33 goals from 18 league matches. More than 50 % of these goals (17 in total) were scored after at least 60 minutes had been played. 21 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Taunton Town form and stats

Playing away, Taunton Town have won 7 games, drawn 5 and suffered 5 defeats in the Non League Premier: Southern South this season.

Taunton Town had fun at their own home (Privett Park) last time out, beating Chesham United 3-1.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Hayes & Yeading United.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Taunton Town in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Taunton Town, four draws and four defeats.

Taunton Town are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 24 away goals from 17 games (in the league). 20 goals have been conceded by Taunton in these games.

Head 2 Head

This was the result when the contenders played each other previously this campaign; Taunton Town - Gosport Borough 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Gosport Borough three wins, one draw and Taunton Town five victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Gosport Borough missing players

Taunton Town missing players

Gosport Borough Taunton Town
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
36 18 4 Played P 4 17 35
17 10 2 Won W 0 7 22
8 4 0 Drew D 1 5 7
11 4 2 Lost L 3 5 6
59 33 5 Scored S 4 24 72
47 21 3 Conceded C 8 20 36
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 97%
75% 83% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 76% 86%
56% 56% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 47% 63%
31% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 24% 31%
17% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 18% 14%
61% 67% 25% BTTS BTTS 75% 59% 71%
31% 28% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 20%
11% 6% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 18% 11%
 
2 2.4 1.7 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2.6 1.9
1.7 1.9 1.7 Corners against (avg) C A 0 2.1 1.1
0.8 0.7 0.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.1 0.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
4.1 6 7 Shots (avg) S ( 0 6.3 4.6
1.7 2.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.3 2.4
86% 60% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 88% 111%
 
5.2 6.4 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 0 4 2.9
2.4 3.4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 1.6 1.3
Key stats in Non League Premier: Southern South this season:
  • Gosport Borough have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Gosport Borough haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Taunton Town have the most scored goals in the first half (34) in Non League Premier: Southern South
  • Taunton Town have won significantly more corners away than 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 Hayes & Yeading United 36 23 6 7 88 34 17 13 1 3 48 16 19 10 5 4 40 18 54 75
2 Farnborough 35 23 6 6 67 39 18 13 2 3 36 16 17 10 4 3 31 23 28 75
3 Metropolitan Police FC 37 22 8 7 63 37 18 9 6 3 26 16 19 13 2 4 37 21 26 74
4 Taunton Town 35 22 7 6 72 36 18 15 2 1 48 16 17 7 5 5 24 20 36 73
5 Weston-super-Mare 36 18 9 9 53 35 19 9 5 5 29 21 17 9 4 4 24 14 18 63
6 Chesham United 36 17 11 8 64 44 18 11 6 1 41 18 18 6 5 7 23 26 20 62
7 Gosport Borough 36 17 8 11 59 47 18 10 4 4 33 21 18 7 4 7 26 26 12 59
8 Yate Town 34 16 10 8 53 35 18 7 6 5 26 24 16 9 4 3 27 11 18 58
9 Poole Town 36 16 7 13 60 58 18 11 3 4 32 26 18 5 4 9 28 32 2 55
10 Truro City 34 15 9 10 52 44 16 8 4 4 22 17 18 7 5 6 30 27 8 54
11 Walton Casuals 35 15 8 12 48 50 17 9 6 2 30 22 18 6 2 10 18 28 -2 53
12 Beaconsfield Town 36 13 6 17 60 73 17 7 4 6 37 29 19 6 2 11 23 44 -13 45
13 Harrow Borough 35 14 3 18 55 69 18 9 2 7 30 31 17 5 1 11 25 38 -14 45
14 Tiverton Town 34 12 8 14 48 48 17 7 5 5 25 18 17 5 3 9 23 30 0 44
15 Hendon 36 12 6 18 47 54 18 8 1 9 24 29 18 4 5 9 23 25 -7 42
16 Swindon Supermarine 36 11 9 16 50 59 18 9 4 5 33 25 18 2 5 11 17 34 -9 42
17 Salisbury 34 11 8 15 47 64 18 4 5 9 20 33 16 7 3 6 27 31 -17 41
18 Hartley Wintney 36 10 4 22 46 68 18 8 1 9 19 23 18 2 3 13 27 45 -22 34
19 Dorchester Town 36 9 4 23 35 55 18 6 2 10 22 25 18 3 2 13 13 30 -20 31
20 Kings Langley 36 7 8 21 41 61 18 4 5 9 26 23 18 3 3 12 15 38 -20 29
21 Merthyr Town 35 4 7 24 35 75 18 2 2 14 18 40 17 2 5 10 17 35 -40 19
22 Wimborne Town 34 3 6 25 28 86 16 2 3 11 16 41 18 1 3 14 12 45 -58 15