Non League Premier: Southern: Needham Market expected to win home against Stratford Town

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Competition: England Non League Premier: Southern
Date: Sat 04.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Bloomfields (4000 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Non League Premier: Southern, Needham Market holding 15th place and Stratford Town lying 19th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Needham Market form and stats

Needham Market's struggle is real here at Bloomfields with only 12 points collected from 12 Non League Premier: Southern games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-6-4.

The fans are hoping that Needham Market will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Non League Premier: Southern game against Leiston (placed 18th). In the match before that, Needham Market hosted St Ives Town and drew the game 1-1.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Needham Market matches with similar probabilities have ended with 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from one game).

Needham Market are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 12 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Needham Market defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 12 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Stratford Town form and stats

Stratford Town have only collected 2 points from their away games in the Non League Premier: Southern, after 0-2-8 (10 played). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in ten away games in a row. It's looking increasingly bleak for Stratford Town who now has to deal with a five game losing streak. St Ives Town was the last time a defeat was avoided.

The manager T. Baillie was unhappy after their last game, a Non League Premier: Southern match played at their home ground The Arden Garages Stadium. Stratford Town suffered a 1-2 loss to Rushall Olympic (placed 7th). Preceding that game, the 0-5 loss visiting Banbury United's place.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Stratford Town when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 1 and winning 0 games.

The attacking power of Stratford Town when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 10 league matches away. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Stratford Town concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Stratford Town - Needham Market 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Needham Market 1 win, 0 draws and Stratford Town 2 victories. As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 0 games had two or less.

Needham Market missing players

Stratford Town missing players

Needham Market Stratford Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 12 5 Played P 2 10 23
7 2 1 Won W 0 0 5
7 6 4 Drew D 1 2 3
8 4 0 Lost L 1 8 15
28 16 8 Scored S 2 7 30
28 18 5 Conceded C 4 29 57
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
73% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 96%
50% 50% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 78%
18% 25% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 60% 57%
9% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 35%
59% 67% 80% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 70%
18% 8% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 4%
23% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 26%
 
5.2 5.4 6 Corners For (avg) C F 3 4.1 3.6
4.9 3.2 2.7 Corners Against (avg) C A 4 5.9 4.8
1.5 1.6 1.3 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1.2
3 2 1 Red Cards R C 0 1 3
 
124 70 30 Total Shots T S 10 42 97
56 35 14 Shots on Target S O 4 21 45
29% 31% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 14% 36%
Key stats in Non League Premier: Southern this season:
  • Needham Market have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Stratford Town have scored away.
  • Needham Market haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Stratford Town has the fewest points (2) away
  • Stratford Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Stratford Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Stratford Town have yet to win a game away.
  • Stratford Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Tamworth 20 14 2 4 42 19 11 7 1 3 24 12 9 7 1 1 18 7 23 44
2 Bromsgrove Sporting 23 12 6 5 58 28 11 4 4 3 19 13 12 8 2 2 39 15 30 42
3 Peterborough Sports 20 11 5 4 58 32 12 7 4 1 41 18 8 4 1 3 17 14 26 38
4 Coalville Town 21 10 8 3 40 22 9 5 3 1 21 11 12 5 5 2 19 11 18 38
5 Banbury United 23 10 8 5 34 20 11 6 3 2 18 9 12 4 5 3 16 11 14 38
6 Royston Town 20 10 6 4 38 22 10 6 3 1 21 9 10 4 3 3 17 13 16 36
7 Rushall Olympic 22 10 6 6 39 27 11 7 2 2 26 11 11 3 4 4 13 16 12 36
8 Nuneaton Town 23 10 6 7 41 32 12 8 2 2 27 12 11 2 4 5 14 20 9 36
9 Biggleswade Town 21 11 3 7 32 27 10 7 0 3 16 13 11 4 3 4 16 14 5 36
10 Hednesford Town 20 11 2 7 36 25 10 7 1 2 21 9 10 4 1 5 15 16 11 35
11 AFC Rushden & Diamonds 22 9 6 7 34 36 10 6 1 3 20 18 12 3 5 4 14 18 -2 33
12 Barwell 22 10 2 10 45 42 11 6 1 4 23 16 11 4 1 6 22 26 3 32
13 Stourbridge 18 9 4 5 34 31 9 5 2 2 16 12 9 4 2 3 18 19 3 31
14 Kings Langley 22 9 3 10 34 36 9 4 1 4 14 13 13 5 2 6 20 23 -2 30
15 Needham Market 22 7 7 8 28 28 12 2 6 4 16 18 10 5 1 4 12 10 0 28
16 Lowestoft Town 21 7 2 12 28 42 11 5 2 4 13 11 10 2 0 8 15 31 -14 23
17 Hitchin Town 21 5 6 10 25 35 11 3 3 5 14 16 10 2 3 5 11 19 -10 21
18 Leiston 23 5 4 14 31 73 12 2 3 7 16 36 11 3 1 7 15 37 -42 19
19 Stratford Town 23 5 3 15 30 57 13 5 1 7 23 28 10 0 2 8 7 29 -27 18
20 Alvechurch 19 4 4 11 22 38 8 2 3 3 13 13 11 2 1 8 9 25 -16 16
21 St Ives Town 23 4 4 15 24 46 11 3 2 6 13 23 12 1 2 9 11 23 -22 16
22 Redditch United 21 2 3 16 17 52 11 1 2 8 10 24 10 1 1 8 7 28 -35 9

Read more about Non League Premier: Southern

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.