Open game expected at The Jakemans Stadium: Boston United vs Chester preview

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Sat 23.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Jakemans Stadium (6643 seats)

This is football, this is Vanarama National League North and this is Boston United - Chester. Check out our broad match preview!

Insights:
  • Boston United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Chester have the fewest scored goals (1) away in Vanarama National League North

Both teams have had a decent time to rest since their previous match. Let's wish for an animated fixture!

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Boston United form and stats

When playing at home in the Vanarama National League North, Boston United have managed 3 wins, 0 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 4 games. Two home wins in a row for Boston United bring valid hopes of a third.

Boston United haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 180 minutes ago. Mooney scored that one.

Boston's previous match was a FA Cup game also played at home, finishing 4-0 against Leamington. The home side are looking to repeat that performance.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Alfreton Town (0-4).

This is expected to be a close game, with Boston United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Boston United as a small favourite), we find 10 games. Boston United has won 3 of these, drawn 2 and lost 5.

Boston United has scored {8 goals} so far and conceded {4 goals} from 4 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Chester form and stats

As the visiting team in Vanarama National League North matches, Chester have produced an overall stat of 0-1-3 so far.

Two away games in a row for Chester, whose boss McIntyre could celebrate last time after the FA Cup win against Tadcaster Albion.

Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Blyth Spartans in the Vanarama National League North.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Chester in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Chester, 5 draws and 2 defeats.

Chester are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {1 goals} from 4 away games. 5 goals have been conceded by Chester in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (Boston wins - draws - Chester wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Boston UnitedK. Mooney
K. Mooney
4 goals
Boston UnitedJ. Knowles
J. Knowles
3 goals
Boston UnitedK. Ward
K. Ward
2 goals

Boston United missing players

Chester missing players

Boston United Chester
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 3 4 9
4 3 0 Won W 0 0 3
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
3 1 0 Lost L 3 3 4
11 8 0 Scored S 0 1 9
10 4 0 Conceded C 4 5 8
89% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
78% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 67%
33% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 33%
33% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 33%
33% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 33%
44% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 75% 44%
 
4.6 4.8 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.8 5.7
5 5.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.8 3.6
1.9 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 2.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
11.1 14.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 5.3 5.2 7.3
4.2 5.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.5 3.2
29% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 10% 31%
 
10.9 12.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 9.7 10.2 7.2
3.8 4.2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 3.5 2.7
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • All of Boston United's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Boston United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Boston United have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Chester have scored away.
  • Boston United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Chester have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Chester have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Chester have the fewest scored goals (1) away in Vanarama National League North
  • Chester have yet to win a game away.
  • Chester 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 Tamworth 9 6 1 2 19 7 5 3 0 2 10 4 4 3 1 0 9 3 12 19
2 Scunthorpe United 8 5 2 1 19 7 4 3 1 0 12 3 4 2 1 1 7 4 12 17
3 South Shields 9 5 2 2 18 10 5 5 0 0 13 1 4 0 2 2 5 9 8 17
4 Spennymoor Town 9 5 2 2 18 11 5 3 1 1 10 6 4 2 1 1 8 5 7 17
5 Brackley Town 9 4 4 1 13 7 4 3 1 0 5 1 5 1 3 1 8 6 6 16
6 Blyth Spartans 9 5 0 4 16 12 4 4 0 0 12 3 5 1 0 4 4 9 4 15
7 Chorley 9 4 3 2 11 7 4 2 1 1 6 4 5 2 2 1 5 3 4 15
8 Alfreton Town 9 4 2 3 16 12 5 3 1 1 13 7 4 1 1 2 3 5 4 14
9 Boston United 9 4 2 3 11 10 4 3 0 1 8 4 5 1 2 2 3 6 1 14
10 Curzon Ashton 9 3 4 2 12 8 5 1 2 2 3 4 4 2 2 0 9 4 4 13
11 Scarborough Athletic 9 4 1 4 10 11 5 4 1 0 8 2 4 0 0 4 2 9 -1 13
12 Farsley Celtic 9 3 4 2 8 10 4 0 4 0 4 4 5 3 0 2 4 6 -2 13
13 Buxton 8 3 3 2 14 5 4 2 2 0 10 2 4 1 1 2 4 3 9 12
14 Chester 9 3 2 4 9 8 5 3 1 1 8 3 4 0 1 3 1 5 1 11
15 Banbury United 9 3 2 4 7 14 5 2 1 2 4 6 4 1 1 2 3 8 -7 11
16 Bishop's Stortford 9 3 1 5 7 10 5 3 0 2 5 5 4 0 1 3 2 5 -3 10
17 Warrington Town 9 3 1 5 10 16 4 1 1 2 5 9 5 2 0 3 5 7 -6 10
18 Hereford 9 3 1 5 7 13 4 2 0 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 5 11 -6 10
19 Southport 9 3 1 5 10 18 4 1 0 3 3 9 5 2 1 2 7 9 -8 10
20 Rushall Olympic 9 2 2 5 7 13 4 1 1 2 2 6 5 1 1 3 5 7 -6 8
21 King's Lynn Town 9 1 5 3 10 17 5 1 3 1 8 10 4 0 2 2 2 7 -7 8
22 Peterborough Sports 9 2 2 5 5 13 4 1 1 2 2 6 5 1 1 3 3 7 -8 8
23 Gloucester City 9 1 4 4 7 13 5 1 2 2 3 4 4 0 2 2 4 9 -6 7
24 Darlington 9 1 3 5 7 19 4 0 3 1 4 6 5 1 0 4 3 13 -12 6

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).