Vanarama National League South match prediction: Little separates Braintree Town and Dartford in quality

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Competition: Sat 18.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cressing Road Stadium

Action is expected at Cressing Road Stadium when Braintree Town host Dartford in what looks to be a wonderful game. Read more!

Insights:
  • Braintree Town have the most points from losing position (15) in Vanarama National League South
  • Dartford haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

Braintree have less rest than Dartford in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Vanarama National League South game only four days ago. This match was also played here at Cressing Road Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Dartford have had more rest.

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Braintree Town form and stats

Braintree Town are steadily winning Vanarama National League South games and points here at Cressing Road Stadium. 9 wins, 7 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 16 games. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Cressing Road Stadium.

The Braintree Town club members enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Dulwich Hamlet and win 3-2.

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Concord Rangers.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Braintree Town have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 11 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 4 and lost 1.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Braintree as they are travelling to their away game against Welling United in the Vanarama National League South. That match is three days after this one.

Braintree Town have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Cressing Road Stadium with 27 goals in 16 league matches. Braintree have only conceded 14 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Dartford form and stats

The visitors are W8-D3-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Vanarama National League South.

Dartford are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the fixture against Chippenham Town (placed 21st). Those three points felt nice as this club had gone three league rounds without victory.

A loss, in the Kent Senior Cup away at Ebbsfleet United, earlier. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Dartford in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Dartford, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

Take note that 13 of this club's 17 latest league games have ended with at least three goals.

After this away game Dartford return home for a Vanarama National League South game against Slough Town. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Dartford has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 28 goals from 16 games. 21 goals have been conceded by Dartford in these games.

Head 2 Head

Braintree Town and Dartford have faced off already this season: Dartford - Braintree Town 4-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - three - two (Braintree wins - draws - Dartford wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

DartfordS. Carruthers
S. Carruthers
9 goals
DartfordP. Fonkeu
P. Fonkeu
8 goals
Braintree TownA. Blair
A. Blair
7 goals

Braintree Town missing players

Dartford missing players

Braintree Town Dartford
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 16 5 Played P 6 16 31
14 9 2 Won W 2 8 19
9 7 3 Drew D 2 3 4
8 0 0 Lost L 2 5 8
47 27 6 Scored S 9 28 62
39 14 4 Conceded C 8 21 34
87% 88% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
77% 75% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 94% 94%
58% 44% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 69% 71%
39% 31% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 38% 35%
16% 19% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 6% 10%
61% 69% 60% BTTS BTTS 67% 75% 68%
29% 31% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 26%
23% 12% 20% Failed to Score F T 33% 12% 10%
 
4.2 4.4 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 3.9 4.4
5.3 5 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 5.6 5
1.8 1.5 0.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 1.7 2.2
2 2 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
8.9 11.3 13.4 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 8.1 8.9
4 4.8 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.1 4.6
38% 35% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 43% 43%
 
9.1 9.4 9.8 Shots against (avg) S A 11.2 9.9 8.9
3.8 3.2 3.4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 4.8 4
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • Braintree Town have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Braintree Town have the most points from losing position (15) in Vanarama National League South
  • Dartford 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 Ebbsfleet United 31 22 4 5 70 31 16 12 1 3 42 15 15 10 3 2 28 16 39 70
2 Dartford 31 19 4 8 62 34 15 11 1 3 34 13 16 8 3 5 28 21 28 61
3 Havant & Waterlooville 29 17 5 7 60 39 16 9 2 5 33 21 13 8 3 2 27 18 21 56
4 Oxford City 32 15 10 7 56 41 16 9 5 2 38 22 16 6 5 5 18 19 15 55
5 Worthing 31 14 10 7 56 45 16 6 5 5 29 33 15 8 5 2 27 12 11 52
6 St Albans City 30 15 6 9 50 34 14 6 4 4 19 13 16 9 2 5 31 21 16 51
7 Braintree Town 31 14 9 8 47 39 16 9 7 0 27 14 15 5 2 8 20 25 8 51
8 Chelmsford City 31 15 6 10 38 30 16 9 2 5 23 13 15 6 4 5 15 17 8 51
9 Tonbridge Angels 31 14 5 12 48 48 16 7 4 5 26 23 15 7 1 7 22 25 0 47
10 Farnborough 27 13 6 8 35 25 12 5 3 4 16 12 15 8 3 4 19 13 10 45
11 Eastbourne Borough 31 14 3 14 51 49 16 7 1 8 27 25 15 7 2 6 24 24 2 45
12 Hemel Hempstead Town 30 11 8 11 35 38 15 6 4 5 17 17 15 5 4 6 18 21 -3 41
13 Bath City 30 10 9 11 41 41 15 5 3 7 21 21 15 5 6 4 20 20 0 39
14 Welling United 29 9 10 10 39 47 14 4 4 6 22 24 15 5 6 4 17 23 -8 37
15 Dover Athletic 31 9 9 13 34 44 15 6 3 6 21 20 16 3 6 7 13 24 -10 36
16 Slough Town 30 8 9 13 37 55 15 4 4 7 20 29 15 4 5 6 17 26 -18 33
17 Taunton Town 24 8 8 8 24 22 12 5 5 2 14 8 12 3 3 6 10 14 2 32
18 Dulwich Hamlet 30 9 5 16 46 58 15 5 1 9 20 28 15 4 4 7 26 30 -12 32
19 Cheshunt 30 7 6 17 33 54 16 5 3 8 23 31 14 2 3 9 10 23 -21 27
20 Hampton & Richmond 29 6 8 15 34 48 13 2 5 6 11 21 16 4 3 9 23 27 -14 26
21 Chippenham Town 27 6 8 13 23 38 11 4 3 4 7 9 16 2 5 9 16 29 -15 26
22 Concord Rangers 27 7 5 15 26 45 14 4 4 6 16 20 13 3 1 9 10 25 -19 26
23 Weymouth 29 7 3 19 33 57 15 3 2 10 11 25 14 4 1 9 22 32 -24 24
24 Hungerford Town 29 5 6 18 25 41 16 4 5 7 14 15 13 1 1 11 11 26 -16 21

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.