Darlington vs Kidderminster Harriers betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Blackwell Meadows (25000 seats)

Darlington will aim to utilise their home advantage to help in closing the gap to today’s opponents. The host team are currently 7 points behind Kidderminster Harriers.

Insights:
  • Darlington have the most matches over the total-line (13) in Vanarama National League North
  • Kidderminster Harriers have the the best goal difference (+20) 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.

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Darlington form and stats

4 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Darlington have to build on here at Blackwell Meadows in the Vanarama National League North.

It's back home for Darlington, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Farsley Celtic away with the result 6-0. Lambert (3), O'Neill, Santos and Rivers found the net in that victory. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Darlington played a great game against Farsley Celtic and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Lambert was absolutely essential when Darlington beat Farsley Celtic 6-0, scoring three goals.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Spennymoor Town that ended 1-1.

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

The Darlington fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 19 goals in 11 league matches. Darlington have conceded 15 in these home matches.

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Kidderminster Harriers form and stats

4-4-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kidderminster Harriers in their Vanarama National League North matches away.

The supporters enjoyed Kidderminster Harriers's previous game versus Farsley Celtic (placed 21st), a Vanarama National League North 2-1 win played at home.

Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Reading in the FA Cup.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Kidderminster in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Kidderminster Harriers, four draws and four defeats.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Kidderminster Harriers manager Penn as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Hereford.

Kidderminster Harriers are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 9 away games so far. Kidderminster Harriers have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: three - two - four (Darlington wins - draws - Kidderminster Harriers wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

DarlingtonL. Charman
L. Charman
11 goals
Kidderminster HarriersA. Hemmings
A. Hemmings
9 goals
Kidderminster HarriersS. Austin
S. Austin
7 goals

Darlington missing players

Kidderminster Harriers missing players

Darlington Kidderminster Harriers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 11 2 Played P 3 9 17
7 4 1 Won W 2 4 10
6 3 0 Drew D 1 4 4
8 4 1 Lost L 0 1 3
38 19 2 Scored S 7 15 37
31 15 3 Conceded C 3 9 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
90% 82% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 94%
71% 64% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 71%
43% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 22% 35%
14% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 18%
71% 73% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 89% 71%
19% 27% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 24%
10% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 12%
 
5.2 4.8 2.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5.8 5.8
4.6 3.9 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5.4 4.8
1.9 1.8 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.1 1.2
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
10.3 10.4 6.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 11.7 13.5
4.4 4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.7 4.9 6.2
41% 43% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 35% 34% 35%
 
10.1 9.5 11 Shots against (avg) S A 13.3 13 9.1
3.9 4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.7 3.5
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • Darlington have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Darlington have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Vanarama National League North
  • Darlington have the most matches over the total-line (13) in Vanarama National League North
  • Darlington haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kidderminster Harriers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Kidderminster Harriers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Vanarama National League North
  • Kidderminster Harriers have the the best goal difference (+20) in Vanarama National League North

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Brackley Town 21 14 4 3 28 14 9 7 1 1 10 4 12 7 3 2 18 10 14 46
2 Gateshead 19 13 2 4 40 24 8 7 0 1 17 5 11 6 2 3 23 19 16 41
3 Chorley 20 11 6 3 36 18 10 7 2 1 27 10 10 4 4 2 9 8 18 39
4 Fylde 19 11 4 4 35 20 9 7 1 1 18 8 10 4 3 3 17 12 15 37
5 Kidderminster Harriers 17 10 4 3 37 17 8 6 0 2 22 8 9 4 4 1 15 9 20 34
6 Southport 18 8 6 4 33 20 10 6 4 0 24 9 8 2 2 4 9 11 13 30
7 Boston United 20 9 2 9 29 33 11 6 1 4 21 16 9 3 1 5 8 17 -4 29
8 Curzon Ashton 19 7 7 5 28 23 10 4 4 2 12 10 9 3 3 3 16 13 5 28
9 Spennymoor Town 21 8 4 9 31 34 10 5 2 3 21 15 11 3 2 6 10 19 -3 28
10 Darlington 21 7 6 8 38 31 11 4 3 4 19 15 10 3 3 4 19 16 7 27
11 Alfreton Town 19 8 3 8 31 28 9 3 3 3 15 13 10 5 0 5 16 15 3 27
12 York City 18 8 2 8 24 23 10 5 1 4 17 11 8 3 1 4 7 12 1 26
13 Kettering Town 18 7 4 7 28 24 9 3 3 3 14 11 9 4 1 4 14 13 4 25
14 Leamington 21 6 7 8 22 25 11 5 3 3 15 14 10 1 4 5 7 11 -3 25
15 Chester 21 6 6 9 34 36 11 5 4 2 23 16 10 1 2 7 11 20 -2 24
16 Hereford 18 6 5 7 18 20 9 4 2 3 11 10 9 2 3 4 7 10 -2 23
17 Gloucester City 20 4 7 9 21 33 10 3 4 3 12 9 10 1 3 6 9 24 -12 19
18 Bradford Park Avenue 19 4 6 9 20 35 9 3 2 4 11 16 10 1 4 5 9 19 -15 18
19 Blyth Spartans 20 5 3 12 19 39 11 5 2 4 13 11 9 0 1 8 6 28 -20 18
20 Guiseley 20 4 5 11 15 28 11 2 4 5 8 14 9 2 1 6 7 14 -13 17
21 Farsley Celtic 20 4 5 11 16 42 9 3 3 3 10 16 11 1 2 8 6 26 -26 17
22 AFC Telford United 19 2 6 11 19 35 9 2 3 4 10 11 10 0 3 7 9 24 -16 12

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).