Latimer Park: Kettering Town vs Gateshead Vanarama National League North preview

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Sat 09.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Latimer Park

Kettering Town hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 14 points and a 18th position in the Vanarama National League North table. Visiting Gateshead holds 11th place with 18 pts.

Insights:
  • Gateshead have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Vanarama National League North. That game was an away game at Boston United, so at least Kettering are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Kettering Town form and stats

Kettering Town have played 6 Vanarama National League North games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). Kettering are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of four drawn games in a row.

Kettering Town shared the glory with Boston United in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Before that, Kettering played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Brackley Town.

A disappointing finish for Kettering in their match versus Boston United as their 2-0 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 2-2 full time score.

Kettering are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. On the other hand, Kettering Town have conceded 6 goals.

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Gateshead form and stats

2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Gateshead playing as the away team in the Vanarama National League North this season. Visiting Gateshead has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Vanarama National League North home defeat versus Spennymoor Town with 1-3 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Blyth Spartans that ended 2-2.

Gateshead are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 6 games (in the league). 7 goals have been conceded by Gateshead in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's three Kettering victories, two draws and three Gateshead wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

KetteringC. Kennedy
C. Kennedy
5 goals
Kettering TownC. Powell
C. Powell
5 goals
GatesheadG. Olley
G. Olley
4 goals

Kettering Town missing players

Gateshead missing players

Kettering Town Gateshead
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 6 1 Played P 2 6 13
3 2 0 Won W 1 2 5
6 2 1 Drew D 1 2 3
5 2 0 Lost L 0 2 5
21 7 0 Scored S 4 7 16
23 6 0 Conceded C 3 7 15
93% 83% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
86% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 54%
57% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 46%
43% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 17% 31%
21% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
71% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 54%
14% 17% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 15%
21% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.8 1.8
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
9.2 9.7 3 Shots (avg) S ( 17 13.3 10.5
3.9 4.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.5 6.2 4.6
38% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 19% 27%
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • Gateshead have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Gateshead have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Gateshead haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Gloucester City 16 9 4 3 32 19 8 5 2 1 21 10 8 4 2 2 11 9 13 31
2 Kidderminster Harriers 13 7 3 3 20 12 7 3 2 2 9 6 6 4 1 1 11 6 8 24
3 Chester 15 7 3 5 28 21 7 5 0 2 18 10 8 2 3 3 10 11 7 24
4 Fylde 13 7 3 3 21 15 7 6 1 0 16 6 6 1 2 3 5 9 6 24
5 Boston United 11 6 3 2 17 7 5 2 2 1 6 5 6 4 1 1 11 2 10 21
6 York City 11 6 3 2 19 12 6 4 2 0 9 3 5 2 1 2 10 9 7 21
7 Brackley Town 13 5 6 2 18 16 7 3 3 1 10 9 6 2 3 1 8 7 2 21
8 Spennymoor Town 13 5 5 3 18 14 6 3 2 1 11 9 7 2 3 2 7 5 4 20
9 Leamington 14 4 7 3 20 19 8 2 5 1 10 12 6 2 2 2 10 7 1 19
10 Chorley 14 5 4 5 15 18 5 2 1 2 6 6 9 3 3 3 9 12 -3 19
11 Gateshead 13 5 3 5 16 15 7 3 1 3 9 8 6 2 2 2 7 7 1 18
12 AFC Telford United 15 5 3 7 16 20 7 3 1 3 8 5 8 2 2 4 8 15 -4 18
13 Farsley Celtic 15 4 6 5 18 23 7 2 4 1 9 10 8 2 2 4 9 13 -5 18
14 Hereford 12 4 5 3 18 16 6 2 2 2 10 10 6 2 3 1 8 6 2 17
15 Southport 14 4 4 6 16 19 8 1 3 4 6 10 6 3 1 2 10 9 -3 16
16 Bradford Park Avenue 14 4 4 6 22 26 7 2 1 4 9 11 7 2 3 2 13 15 -4 16
17 Curzon Ashton 16 4 4 8 17 25 8 3 1 4 8 12 8 1 3 4 9 13 -8 16
18 Kettering Town 13 3 5 5 19 21 6 2 2 2 7 6 7 1 3 3 12 15 -2 14
19 Darlington 9 4 1 4 17 8 5 1 1 3 8 6 4 3 0 1 9 2 9 13
20 Guiseley 13 3 3 7 17 20 7 2 1 4 13 14 6 1 2 3 4 6 -3 12
21 Alfreton Town 15 2 6 7 15 27 7 1 4 2 9 11 8 1 2 5 6 16 -12 12
22 Blyth Spartans 14 1 3 10 10 36 7 0 3 4 4 14 7 1 0 6 6 22 -26 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).