Blyth Spartans manager Fenton looking for three points in Bishop's Stortford showdown

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Sat 14.Oct
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Croft Park (4450 seats)

Blyth Spartans have won 16 points running out as the home team. Bishop's Stortford have gained 10 points from their away games. Will this be a home win?

Insights:
  • Blyth Spartans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Bishop's Stortford have yet to win a game away.

This has all the signs of an engrossing fixture with lots of action and energy as both sides are well recovered since they last played a game. Let's start!

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Blyth Spartans form and stats

4 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Blyth Spartans have to build on here at Croft Park in the Vanarama National League North.

The Blyth Spartans manager Fenton and his gang return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Banbury United (placed 13th).

Before that game, a loss in the away fixture against Worksop Town in the FA Cup. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Spartans handle that role? We have found 6 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Goals are plentiful at Croft Park in the league this season as Blyth Spartans has scored 13 goals here in 5 home games. Blyth Spartans's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Bishop's Stortford form and stats

0-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Bishop's Stortford in their Vanarama National League North matches away. Bitter travels for Bishop's Stortford as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Gloucester City match.

This game can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Southport with 2-3 on the scoreboard.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Hereford wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Stortford are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats. From a total of 4 matches.

Bishop's Stortford are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {2 goals} from 5 away games. 6 goals have been conceded by Bishop's Stortford in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Blyth Spartans one win, one draw and Bishop's Stortford zero victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Blyth SpartansJ. Hooper
J. Hooper
3 goals
SpartansW. McGowan
W. McGowan
3 goals
Blyth SpartansC. Main
C. Main
3 goals

Blyth Spartans missing players

Bishop's Stortford missing players

Blyth Spartans Bishop's Stortford
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 5 1 Played P 2 5 11
5 4 1 Won W 0 0 3
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
5 1 0 Lost L 2 4 7
17 13 4 Scored S 0 2 9
15 6 2 Conceded C 2 6 14
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
82% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 40% 45%
64% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 27%
36% 60% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 18%
9% 20% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 18%
45% 60% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 36%
36% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 27%
27% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 36%
 
4.5 4.4 8 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.8 3.4
5.1 4.4 7 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 3.6 4.3
1.4 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.5
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.5 11.8 17 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 7.4 8.4
4.3 6 11 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 2.6 2.7
36% 43% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 15% 30%
 
10.2 8.2 9 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 12 10.5
4.3 3.8 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 5 4.2
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • All of Blyth Spartans's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Bishop's Stortford have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Bishop's Stortford have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Bishop's Stortford have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Bishop's Stortford have yet to win a game away.
  • Bishop's Stortford haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Blyth Spartans have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Blyth Spartans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Blyth Spartans have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Bishop's Stortford have scored away.
  • Blyth Spartans have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Blyth Spartans haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Tamworth 11 7 2 2 23 7 6 4 0 2 14 4 5 3 2 0 9 3 16 23
2 Spennymoor Town 11 7 2 2 23 11 6 4 1 1 13 6 5 3 1 1 10 5 12 23
3 South Shields 11 6 3 2 22 12 6 5 1 0 13 1 5 1 2 2 9 11 10 21
4 Scunthorpe United 11 6 3 2 21 11 6 4 1 1 13 6 5 2 2 1 8 5 10 21
5 Curzon Ashton 11 5 4 2 17 9 6 2 2 2 6 5 5 3 2 0 11 4 8 19
6 Chorley 11 5 4 2 14 8 5 2 2 1 7 5 6 3 2 1 7 3 6 19
7 Buxton 11 5 3 3 20 8 5 2 2 1 10 4 6 3 1 2 10 4 12 18
8 Alfreton Town 11 5 3 3 20 14 6 3 2 1 14 8 5 2 1 2 6 6 6 18
9 Boston United 11 5 2 4 13 13 5 4 0 1 9 4 6 1 2 3 4 9 0 17
10 Brackley Town 11 4 4 3 13 10 5 3 1 1 5 3 6 1 3 2 8 7 3 16
11 Blyth Spartans 11 5 1 5 17 15 5 4 0 1 13 6 6 1 1 4 4 9 2 16
12 Farsley Celtic 11 4 4 3 10 12 5 0 4 1 4 5 6 4 0 2 6 7 -2 16
13 Banbury United 11 4 3 4 8 14 6 2 2 2 4 6 5 2 1 2 4 8 -6 15
14 Chester 11 4 2 5 12 11 6 4 1 1 11 5 5 0 1 4 1 6 1 14
15 Warrington Town 11 4 2 5 12 17 5 2 1 2 6 9 6 2 1 3 6 8 -5 14
16 Hereford 11 4 2 5 8 13 5 3 0 2 3 2 6 1 2 3 5 11 -5 14
17 Southport 11 4 2 5 13 20 5 1 1 3 3 9 6 3 1 2 10 11 -7 14
18 Scarborough Athletic 11 4 1 6 13 17 6 4 1 1 9 4 5 0 0 5 4 13 -4 13
19 Rushall Olympic 11 3 2 6 11 18 5 2 1 2 6 8 6 1 1 4 5 10 -7 11
20 Bishop's Stortford 11 3 1 7 9 14 6 3 0 3 7 8 5 0 1 4 2 6 -5 10
21 Gloucester City 11 1 5 5 8 16 6 1 2 3 3 6 5 0 3 2 5 10 -8 8
22 King's Lynn Town 11 1 5 5 11 21 6 1 3 2 9 13 5 0 2 3 2 8 -10 8
23 Peterborough Sports 11 2 2 7 9 20 5 1 1 3 4 10 6 1 1 4 5 10 -11 8
24 Darlington 11 1 4 6 8 24 5 0 4 1 5 7 6 1 0 5 3 17 -16 7

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).