The Impact Arena: Alfreton Town vs Spennymoor Town Vanarama National League North full preview

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Tue 28.March
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: The Impact Arena (3600 seats)

Vanarama National League North: The average league table placements tell a story of the journey Alfreton Town and Spennymoor Town have been on so far. Both squads are eager to play; bring it!

Insights:
  • Alfreton Town have the fewest conceded goals (33) in Vanarama National League North
  • Spennymoor Town have the most points from losing position (24) in Vanarama National League North

It's no vacation for neither Alfreton Town nor Spennymoor Town as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Alfreton Town form and stats

Alfreton Town have collected 33 points from their Vanarama National League North home games so far after 9-6-4.

Alfreton Town are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 303 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Salam). Nothing to worry about in defence for Alfreton, as their goalkeeper George Willis has completely shut out the opponents for 190 minutes in the Vanarama National League North.

An away draw last time out for Alfreton Town, facing Kidderminster Harriers in a game that ended 0-0.

A 0-0 draw away before that, with Southport the opponent.

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 Alfreton Town 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 4 and lost 0.

It should be added that a glance at the 10 latest league matches shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Leamington are coming to town in four days.

Alfreton have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Impact Arena with 29 goals in 19 league matches. Alfreton Town are not conceding a lot of goals here at The Impact Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 16 from 19 matches.

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Spennymoor Town form and stats

As the visiting team in Vanarama National League North matches, Spennymoor Town have produced an overall stat of 5-6-7 so far.

There were no winners in Spennymoor's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Brackley Town (placed 4th).

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Leamington.

Spennymoor Town are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

Sports betting fact: Both sides have scored at least once in 16 of this club's last 20 league games.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Spennymoor Town manager Ainsley as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Buxton.

The visiting Spennymoor have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 25 goals from 18 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Spennymoor Town have conceded 32 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Alfreton have pulled off a streak of 4 consecutive games without defeat (2-2-0) when playing Spennymoor Town.

Spennymoor Town - Alfreton Town 0-0 was the scoreline in these teams' latest head-to-head match, earlier this season. Taylor loves to face Alfreton Town and have scored 10 goals in these encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Spennymoor TownG. Taylor
G. Taylor
14 goals
AlfretonM. Rhead
M. Rhead
9 goals
Spennymoor TownP. Blackett
P. Blackett
7 goals

Alfreton Town missing players

Spennymoor Town missing players

Alfreton Town Spennymoor Town
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
37 19 6 Played P 3 18 38
13 9 2 Won W 0 5 13
15 6 3 Drew D 2 6 14
9 4 1 Lost L 1 7 11
43 29 12 Scored S 5 25 53
33 16 6 Conceded C 8 32 56
78% 95% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
62% 74% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 79%
38% 42% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 61%
24% 26% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 39% 32%
3% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 17% 16%
41% 42% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 72% 66%
46% 47% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 18%
35% 16% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 21%
 
4 4.3 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 7.3 6.2 5.7
4.4 4.4 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.8 5.1
1.8 1.9 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 1.9 2.1
4 2 2 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
9.9 11.2 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 9.9 10.7
3.9 4.6 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.1 4
29% 33% 48% Goal Efficiency G E 56% 34% 35%
 
8.6 7.7 6.3 Shots against (avg) S A 11.7 10.1 9.1
3.4 3 3.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.3 4.4 3.8
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • Alfreton Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Alfreton Town have the fewest conceded goals (33) in Vanarama National League North
  • Alfreton Town have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (15) in Vanarama National League North
  • Spennymoor Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Spennymoor Town have the most points from losing position (24) in Vanarama National League North
  • Spennymoor Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 38 24 8 6 66 36 19 13 3 3 41 21 19 11 5 3 25 15 30 80
2 King's Lynn Town 40 21 12 7 69 39 20 14 3 3 39 17 20 7 9 4 30 22 30 75
3 Chester 40 18 16 6 61 37 20 8 7 5 28 19 20 10 9 1 33 18 24 70
4 Brackley Town 39 17 13 9 48 34 20 12 6 2 33 14 19 5 7 7 15 20 14 64
5 Darlington 38 17 10 11 67 52 19 9 6 4 32 23 19 8 4 7 35 29 15 61
6 Chorley 40 15 14 11 54 41 20 10 7 3 29 15 20 5 7 8 25 26 13 59
7 Scarborough Athletic 39 16 11 12 65 60 20 9 5 6 38 32 19 7 6 6 27 28 5 59
8 Gloucester City 40 16 9 15 63 61 20 10 4 6 39 27 20 6 5 9 24 34 2 57
9 Buxton 40 14 13 13 48 47 20 7 7 6 23 23 20 7 6 7 25 24 1 55
10 Alfreton Town 37 13 15 9 43 33 19 9 6 4 29 16 18 4 9 5 14 17 10 54
11 Curzon Ashton 38 15 8 15 50 47 19 9 3 7 30 23 19 6 5 8 20 24 3 53
12 Spennymoor Town 38 13 14 11 53 56 20 8 8 4 28 24 18 5 6 7 25 32 -3 53
13 Peterborough Sports 38 14 10 14 48 48 19 9 5 5 29 20 19 5 5 9 19 28 0 52
14 Kidderminster Harriers 40 13 12 15 36 41 20 4 7 9 16 21 20 9 5 6 20 20 -5 51
15 Southport 38 13 11 14 43 44 18 7 7 4 23 19 20 6 4 10 20 25 -1 50
16 Hereford 40 14 7 19 42 46 20 7 5 8 23 20 20 7 2 11 19 26 -4 49
17 Boston United 40 13 9 18 57 60 20 8 4 8 31 29 20 5 5 10 26 31 -3 48
18 Banbury United 37 12 9 16 48 54 18 6 6 6 24 22 19 6 3 10 24 32 -6 45
19 Kettering Town 39 10 14 15 34 50 19 8 8 3 21 16 20 2 6 12 13 34 -16 44
20 Farsley Celtic 39 10 13 16 44 62 19 6 8 5 23 23 20 4 5 11 21 39 -18 43
21 Leamington 40 8 18 14 35 47 20 7 6 7 20 19 20 1 12 7 15 28 -12 42
22 Blyth Spartans 39 9 11 19 37 59 20 4 8 8 19 26 19 5 3 11 18 33 -22 38
23 Bradford Park Avenue 39 8 10 21 35 61 19 6 4 9 18 23 20 2 6 12 17 38 -26 34
24 AFC Telford United 40 5 13 22 31 62 20 3 7 10 19 30 20 2 6 12 12 32 -31 28

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).