Vanarama National League North preview: Can Spennymoor Town edge out victory against Southport?

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Competition: England Vanarama National League North
Competition: Tue 25.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: The Brewery Field (6000 seats)

Spennymoor Town and Southport have both played out a "par" performance until now, to use a golf phrase. The teams both reside in mid-table positions in the Vanarama National League North.

Insights:
  • Spennymoor Town have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Vanarama National League North
  • Southport have the most scored goals (13) away in Vanarama National League North

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Spennymoor Town form and stats

The overall Vanarama National League North results at home this season for Spennymoor Town are 1-4-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Spennymoor Town's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Banbury United (placed 5th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Just what the doctor ordered, as that was the first league victory after playing, but not winning, six consecutive games.

Heartbreak before that as Spennymoor Town lost 1-2 at Kettering Town's place.

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 Spennymoor Town have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 17 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 6 and lost 5.

Spennymoor are traveling soon after this match as the Vanarama National League North match at Scarborough Athletic awaits in four days.

Spennymoor Town aren't scoring a lot here at The Brewery Field in the league, with only {4 goals} from 6 games. Spennymoor Town have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Southport form and stats

The visitors are W3-D0-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Vanarama National League North. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Southport, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Southport goalkeeper Antony McMillan is eager to challenge this, with his 182 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Southport play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Kidderminster Harriers (placed 14th).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Farsley Celtic with the score of 3-0.

Southport 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, 1 draw and 6 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

Observe: 9 of the latest 12 league games involving this team have seen only one (or no) side scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting).

A new game in only four days for Southport, the Vanarama National League North home match versus Buxton. Busy days.

Southport has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 13 goals from 8 games. As for defending, Southport rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Spennymoor Town four wins, five draws and Southport one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Spennymoor TownG. Taylor
G. Taylor
5 goals
SouthportJ. Archer
J. Archer
4 goals
Spennymoor TownJ. Thewlis
J. Thewlis
3 goals

Spennymoor Town missing players

Southport missing players

Spennymoor Town Southport
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 6 2 Played P 3 8 13
3 1 0 Won W 1 3 6
7 4 2 Drew D 0 0 1
3 1 0 Lost L 2 5 6
15 4 0 Scored S 2 13 19
17 4 0 Conceded C 5 15 19
85% 67% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
62% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 62%
46% 17% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 62% 54%
31% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 50% 38%
15% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 23%
62% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 38% 31%
31% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 38%
23% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 67% 38% 38%
 
6.3 6 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 5 5.9
5 3.5 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 5.1 4.5
2.2 2.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.9 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
12.3 13 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 4.7 6.1 7.2
4.2 3.3 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 3.4 3.7
27% 20% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 48% 40%
 
9.3 7.5 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10 11.4 10.1
3.8 2.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 5.5 4.5
Key stats in Vanarama National League North this season:
  • Southport have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Southport have scored at least twice as many goals away as Spennymoor Town have scored home.
  • Southport have the most scored goals (13) away in Vanarama National League North
  • Southport haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Spennymoor Town have the most dropped points from leading position (12) 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 King's Lynn Town 12 8 3 1 24 10 6 5 1 0 13 4 6 3 2 1 11 6 14 27
2 Darlington 13 7 3 3 19 14 7 5 1 1 13 7 6 2 2 2 6 7 5 24
3 Scarborough Athletic 12 7 2 3 22 14 6 4 2 0 13 5 6 3 0 3 9 9 8 23
4 Gloucester City 13 7 1 5 23 19 7 5 0 2 16 8 6 2 1 3 7 11 4 22
5 Banbury United 12 6 3 3 20 14 6 4 2 0 12 5 6 2 1 3 8 9 6 21
6 Fylde 12 6 3 3 17 14 6 4 1 1 11 7 6 2 2 2 6 7 3 21
7 Brackley Town 13 6 3 4 14 12 6 4 1 1 9 5 7 2 2 3 5 7 2 21
8 Leamington 14 5 5 4 14 10 8 5 1 2 12 6 6 0 4 2 2 4 4 20
9 Southport 13 6 1 6 19 19 5 3 1 1 6 4 8 3 0 5 13 15 0 19
10 Chorley 13 4 6 3 16 11 7 2 5 0 8 4 6 2 1 3 8 7 5 18
11 Alfreton Town 13 4 6 3 20 16 7 2 3 2 11 9 6 2 3 1 9 7 4 18
12 Curzon Ashton 12 5 3 4 14 10 5 2 1 2 6 5 7 3 2 2 8 5 4 18
13 Peterborough Sports 12 5 3 4 21 18 7 4 2 1 15 9 5 1 1 3 6 9 3 18
14 Kidderminster Harriers 12 5 3 4 13 10 7 2 2 3 7 7 5 3 1 1 6 3 3 18
15 Chester 12 4 4 4 18 14 7 3 1 3 10 6 5 1 3 1 8 8 4 16
16 Spennymoor Town 13 3 7 3 15 17 6 1 4 1 4 4 7 2 3 2 11 13 -2 16
17 Hereford 12 4 3 5 17 16 5 2 2 1 9 6 7 2 1 4 8 10 1 15
18 Boston United 12 3 3 6 17 22 6 1 1 4 10 15 6 2 2 2 7 7 -5 12
19 Buxton 12 2 6 4 9 15 6 1 4 1 6 6 6 1 2 3 3 9 -6 12
20 Kettering Town 13 3 3 7 11 24 6 3 1 2 7 8 7 0 2 5 4 16 -13 12
21 Blyth Spartans 12 2 4 6 10 19 6 1 3 2 7 7 6 1 1 4 3 12 -9 10
22 Farsley Celtic 13 2 4 7 13 25 7 0 3 4 6 14 6 2 1 3 7 11 -12 10
23 Bradford Park Avenue 12 2 3 7 9 18 6 2 0 4 4 7 6 0 3 3 5 11 -9 9
24 AFC Telford United 13 1 4 8 9 23 5 1 1 3 3 8 8 0 3 5 6 15 -14 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).