Match preview Vanarama National League South: Braintree Town - Dartford at Ironmongery Direct Stadium

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Competition: Sat 09.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ironmongery Direct Stadium (4151 seats)

Struggling Braintree Town will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Dartford in the upcoming league round. It’s 21st vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Braintree Town has the most conceded goals (28) in Vanarama National League South
  • Dartford have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Braintree Town form and stats

With 1 Vanarama National League South win, 1 draw and 4 defeats from their home games, Braintree Town, who have the most conceded goals (28) in Vanarama National League South, are certainly not brimming with confidence.

Prior to that, an away loss at Billericay Town.

Did Braintree get overconfident in their match against Chelmsford City? We'll let you decide, but they did lose a 2-0 lead to end up with a 2-4 defeat. A goal frenzy last time out for Braintree Town, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Chelmsford City. Fun stuff to watch!

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Oxford City are coming to town in three days.

Braintree has scored 6 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Braintree have conceded 14 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Dartford form and stats

Dartford have an excellent away record in the Vanarama National League South so far with 4-1-1 from 6 games.

Dartford played 0-0 against Ebbsfleet United in their previous match. A loss against Haringey Borough was the result prior to that, in a Fa Trophy home game.

A quick return to home after this game, as Dartford are hosting Billericay Town in the Vanarama National League South only three days away.

The travelling fans enjoy Dartford's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. As opposed to that, Dartford have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Braintree Town-Dartford H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Braintree Town five wins, Dartford two wins, three draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

DartfordJ. Berkeley-Agyepong
J. Berkeley-Agyepong
4 goals
BraintreeT. Derry
T. Derry
3 goals
Braintree TownR. Dunne
R. Dunne
2 goals

Braintree Town missing players

Dartford missing players

Braintree Town Dartford
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
12 6 2 Played P 0 6 13
2 1 0 Won W 0 4 8
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
9 4 2 Lost L 0 1 3
12 6 1 Scored S 0 10 18
28 14 6 Conceded C 0 6 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 83% 85%
83% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 83% 62%
67% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 46%
42% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 23%
17% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
50% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 46%
17% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 46%
33% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 23%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 1.3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.3 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.5 8.7 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10 9.5
4 2.8 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5.5 4
25% 35% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 35%
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • Braintree Town has the most conceded goals (28) in Vanarama National League South
  • Braintree Town has the most conceded goals in the second half (16) in Vanarama National League South
  • Braintree Town has the the worst goal difference (-16) in Vanarama National League South
  • Braintree Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Braintree Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Dartford have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 St Albans City 11 8 3 0 17 5 6 5 1 0 12 4 5 3 2 0 5 1 12 27
2 Dartford 13 8 2 3 18 11 7 4 1 2 8 5 6 4 1 1 10 6 7 26
3 Hungerford Town 15 8 1 6 22 19 7 3 0 4 8 10 8 5 1 2 14 9 3 25
4 Dorking Wanderers 13 7 3 3 27 15 7 3 2 2 13 9 6 4 1 1 14 6 12 24
5 Hampton & Richmond 14 7 2 5 18 13 7 1 2 4 4 10 7 6 0 1 14 3 5 23
6 Havant & Waterlooville 10 6 2 2 22 13 7 4 2 1 16 10 3 2 0 1 6 3 9 20
7 Eastbourne Borough 13 5 5 3 23 17 7 3 2 2 11 8 6 2 3 1 12 9 6 20
8 Maidstone United 10 4 4 2 20 12 5 3 1 1 13 5 5 1 3 1 7 7 8 16
9 Oxford City 11 4 4 3 17 11 7 3 3 1 9 4 4 1 1 2 8 7 6 16
10 Ebbsfleet United 11 4 4 3 14 13 5 1 2 2 4 7 6 3 2 1 10 6 1 16
11 Dulwich Hamlet 12 4 4 4 15 15 4 1 1 2 3 7 8 3 3 2 12 8 0 16
12 Chippenham Town 13 4 4 5 13 18 7 1 3 3 7 11 6 3 1 2 6 7 -5 16
13 Hemel Hempstead Town 13 5 1 7 20 27 6 0 1 5 5 15 7 5 0 2 15 12 -7 16
14 Concord Rangers 12 3 4 5 14 21 5 1 3 1 8 9 7 2 1 4 6 12 -7 13
15 Tonbridge Angels 11 4 1 6 12 19 5 1 1 3 5 8 6 3 0 3 7 11 -7 13
16 Chelmsford City 12 3 3 6 15 17 7 2 1 4 9 12 5 1 2 2 6 5 -2 12
17 Billericay Town 11 3 2 6 16 20 7 2 0 5 9 14 4 1 2 1 7 6 -4 11
18 Bath City 12 3 1 8 14 22 4 1 0 3 4 8 8 2 1 5 10 14 -8 10
19 Slough Town 10 2 3 5 13 20 5 2 1 2 10 11 5 0 2 3 3 9 -7 9
20 Welling United 9 1 4 4 12 18 3 0 1 2 2 7 6 1 3 2 10 11 -6 7
21 Braintree Town 12 2 1 9 12 28 6 1 1 4 6 14 6 1 0 5 6 14 -16 7

Read more about Vanarama National League South

The National League South, formerly known as Conference South, is the sixth highest division in English football. It consists of teams located in the South West and South East of England, London and the southern parts of Wales, the Midlands and the East of England. 22 teams make up the league table.