Alfreton Town look to The Impact Arena supporters for inspiration before AFC Telford United match

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Sat 18.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Impact Arena (3600 seats)

The home team stadium regulars hope for three points in this match, as the home advantage could be decisive versus a struggling visitor. Alfreton Town are in 9th place while the guesting AFC Telford United sweat at 24th.

Insights:
  • Alfreton Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • AFC Telford United have the most conceded goals (55) in Vanarama National League North

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Vanarama National League North. That game was also an away game, at King's Lynn Town. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Alfreton Town form and stats

The story so far in the Vanarama National League North for Alfreton Town at their home stadium (The Impact Arena) is 7 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

The home team returns to The Impact Arena after drawing with Hereford (placed 15th) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Curzon Ashton (1-2).

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Alfreton Town matches with similar probabilities have ended with 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats (from 4 games).

Low on goals? In this team's last 12 league matches, 9 have had two goals or less.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Alfreton as they are travelling to their away game against Scarborough Athletic in the Vanarama National League North. That match is three days after this one.

Alfreton Town have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Impact Arena with 24 goals in 15 league matches. From these home matches, Alfreton have conceded only 13 goals.

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AFC Telford United form and stats

AFC Telford United have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Vanarama National League North, after 1-4-11 (16 played). The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Wilkin, the AFC Telford United manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

Flowers was the last player to score for the away team. AFC Telford United haven't scored a league goal in the last 256 minutes.

AFC Telford United play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-3 to King's Lynn Town (placed 2nd).

Preceding that, the 0-3 home loss versus Fylde.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Telford when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 5 matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 3 and winning 0 games.

Few goals the story here? 9 of this club's latest 12 league rounds have seen zero, one or two goals.

After this away game AFC Telford United return home for a Vanarama National League North game against Leamington. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 10 goals from 16 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. AFC Telford United have conceded 30 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Alfreton Town have won every one of the 4 most recent fixtures versus this opponent. Can they do it again?

AFC Telford United - Alfreton 1-2 was the end result in these participants' last head-to-head fixture, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

Alfreton TownM. Rhead
M. Rhead
7 goals
Alfreton TownB. Hobson
B. Hobson
6 goals
AFC Telford UnitedB. Daniels
B. Daniels
6 goals

Alfreton Town missing players

AFC Telford United missing players

Alfreton Town AFC Telford United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 15 5 Played P 5 16 32
10 7 4 Won W 0 1 3
12 5 1 Drew D 2 4 10
7 3 0 Lost L 3 11 19
37 24 9 Scored S 3 10 22
28 13 1 Conceded C 10 30 55
79% 93% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 94% 94%
69% 80% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 75% 75%
45% 47% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 50% 47%
28% 27% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 25% 19%
3% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 6% 6%
48% 47% 20% BTTS BTTS 40% 38% 50%
41% 47% 80% Clean Sheets C S 20% 12% 12%
31% 13% 20% Failed to Score F T 60% 56% 44%
 
3.9 4 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.7 4.3
4.3 4.1 2.6 Corners against (avg) C A 4.8 5.3 4.9
1.8 2 2.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.4 2.1 1.8
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 3 6
 
10 11.1 11 Shots (avg) S ( 5.4 9 9.6
4 4.5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.8 3.3 3.6
32% 35% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 16% 18%
 
9.1 7.4 7.6 Shots against (avg) S A 9.2 11.6 11.6
3.6 3.1 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 5.4 4.6
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • AFC Telford United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • AFC Telford United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • AFC Telford United have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Vanarama National League North
  • AFC Telford United have the fewest points (7) away in Vanarama National League North
  • AFC Telford United have the most conceded goals (55) in Vanarama National League North
  • AFC Telford United have the the worst goal difference (-20) away in Vanarama National League North
  • AFC Telford United have the the worst goal difference (-33) in Vanarama National League North
  • Alfreton Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Alfreton Town have scored at least twice as many goals at home as AFC Telford United have scored 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 Fylde 28 18 5 5 48 25 14 10 2 2 29 12 14 8 3 3 19 13 23 59
2 King's Lynn Town 29 17 7 5 53 27 14 12 1 1 30 10 15 5 6 4 23 17 26 58
3 Brackley Town 30 15 10 5 38 23 15 10 4 1 25 9 15 5 6 4 13 14 15 55
4 Darlington 30 16 6 8 57 41 16 8 4 4 28 22 14 8 2 4 29 19 16 54
5 Scarborough Athletic 31 14 8 9 53 48 16 7 5 4 32 27 15 7 3 5 21 21 5 50
6 Chester 30 12 13 5 45 29 15 5 6 4 19 14 15 7 7 1 26 15 16 49
7 Chorley 31 12 11 8 41 29 15 7 6 2 21 10 16 5 5 6 20 19 12 47
8 Kidderminster Harriers 32 13 7 12 34 34 16 4 4 8 15 18 16 9 3 4 19 16 0 46
9 Alfreton Town 29 10 12 7 37 28 15 7 5 3 24 13 14 3 7 4 13 15 9 42
10 Gloucester City 31 12 6 13 50 53 16 8 2 6 33 25 15 4 4 7 17 28 -3 42
11 Southport 30 11 8 11 39 39 13 6 4 3 20 16 17 5 4 8 19 23 0 41
12 Spennymoor Town 30 10 11 9 42 43 15 6 5 4 19 17 15 4 6 5 23 26 -1 41
13 Peterborough Sports 29 11 7 11 38 37 15 7 5 3 24 16 14 4 2 8 14 21 1 40
14 Banbury United 27 11 6 10 38 37 12 6 3 3 18 12 15 5 3 7 20 25 1 39
15 Hereford 31 11 6 14 36 35 15 6 4 5 21 15 16 5 2 9 15 20 1 39
16 Curzon Ashton 29 10 7 12 36 37 15 6 3 6 22 20 14 4 4 6 14 17 -1 37
17 Buxton 31 9 9 13 30 38 16 4 6 6 16 20 15 5 3 7 14 18 -8 36
18 Kettering Town 30 8 10 12 29 43 14 6 5 3 16 13 16 2 5 9 13 30 -14 34
19 Bradford Park Avenue 31 8 9 14 32 44 15 6 3 6 16 16 16 2 6 8 16 28 -12 33
20 Farsley Celtic 29 8 7 14 34 51 14 5 4 5 18 20 15 3 3 9 16 31 -17 31
21 Boston United 30 8 6 16 44 53 16 6 3 7 28 27 14 2 3 9 16 26 -9 30
22 Leamington 29 5 14 10 22 30 16 5 5 6 14 15 13 0 9 4 8 15 -8 29
23 Blyth Spartans 31 6 9 16 31 50 16 3 7 6 17 20 15 3 2 10 14 30 -19 27
24 AFC Telford United 32 3 10 19 22 55 16 2 6 8 12 25 16 1 4 11 10 30 -33 19

Read more about Vanarama National League North

The National League North, formerly known as Conference North, is the sixth highest division in English football. It contains teams located in Northern England, Norfolk, the English Midlands and North Wales. The league table has 22 teams playing two fixtures against each other (home and away).