Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high expectations when Ebbsfleet United host Oxford City

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Competition: Sat 12.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)

Ebbsfleet United and Oxford City are both doing (very) nicely in the Vanarama National League South with their 5th and 3rd spots respectively. This could be a wonderful match!

Insights:
  • Ebbsfleet United have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in Vanarama National League South
  • Oxford City have the fewest conceded goals (11) away in Vanarama National League South

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Vanarama National League South game only four days ago. That game was also an away game, at St Albans City. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Ebbsfleet United form and stats

31 points is a decent return from 14 Vanarama National League South games here for Ebbsfleet United. The data says 10 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Louie Moulden not having conceded a league goal in 197 minutes.

Happy days for Ebbsfleet United in their previous game, a fixture away at Bath City (placed 19th) that ended with a 2-0 victory.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Eastbourne Borough in a game that was won 2-0.

Ebbsfleet are traveling soon after this match as the Vanarama National League South match at Braintree Town awaits in three days.

Ebbsfleet United can score goals in their home matches. After 14 league matches they have found the net 34 times. From these home matches, Ebbsfleet have conceded only 10 goals.

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Oxford City form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Vanarama National League South travels is 7 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats.

Oxford City are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at St Albans City (placed 6th).

Prior to that match, a home win 5-0 against Tonbridge Angels.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Oxford City when being an outsider away as they are today, we find six matches with the visitors losing four times, drawing one and winning one game.

Oxford are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 22 times in 14 away games so far. Oxford City are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 11 times in 14 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Oxford City - Ebbsfleet 1-0 was the outcome when these two teams previously did battle, some time ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Ebbsfleet United two wins, two draws and Oxford City two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Oxford CityJ. Iaciofano
J. Iaciofano
15 goals
Ebbsfleet UnitedD. Poleon
D. Poleon
14 goals
Oxford CityJ. Ashby
J. Ashby
8 goals

Ebbsfleet United missing players

Oxford City missing players

Ebbsfleet United Oxford City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
28 14 3 Played P 4 14 30
16 10 2 Won W 0 7 15
2 1 0 Drew D 2 5 9
10 3 1 Lost L 2 2 6
57 34 8 Scored S 2 22 56
40 10 3 Conceded C 4 11 32
93% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 93% 97%
75% 79% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 71% 83%
64% 64% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 50% 53%
46% 36% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 21% 33%
32% 29% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
46% 43% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 57%
39% 57% 67% Clean Sheets C S 25% 43% 37%
21% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 14% 10%
 
8.3 8.9 7.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 4.9 5.3
3.6 3.7 2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 6.4 5.4
2.5 2.4 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 1.9 1.9
5 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 4
 
13.4 15.2 14 Shots (avg) S ( 6 10.4 9.9
5.7 6.6 6.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 5 5.2
36% 37% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 31% 36%
 
8.4 7.3 7.7 Shots against (avg) S A 13.8 10.9 9.9
3.5 3.1 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.2 4.1 4.1
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • Ebbsfleet United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Ebbsfleet United have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in Vanarama National League South
  • Ebbsfleet United have the most clean sheets (8) at home in Vanarama National League South
  • Ebbsfleet United have the the best goal difference (+24) at home in Vanarama National League South
  • Ebbsfleet United have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Oxford City have the fewest conceded goals (11) away in Vanarama National League South

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dorking Wanderers 29 19 3 7 70 39 14 12 0 2 38 15 15 7 3 5 32 24 31 60
2 Maidstone United 29 18 6 5 54 27 15 11 1 3 30 14 14 7 5 2 24 13 27 60
3 Oxford City 30 15 9 6 56 32 16 8 4 4 34 21 14 7 5 2 22 11 24 54
4 Dartford 28 15 8 5 49 29 14 8 6 0 25 12 14 7 2 5 24 17 20 53
5 Ebbsfleet United 28 16 2 10 57 40 14 10 1 3 34 10 14 6 1 7 23 30 17 50
6 St Albans City 28 13 6 9 44 37 15 7 3 5 27 20 13 6 3 4 17 17 7 45
7 Dulwich Hamlet 29 12 8 9 53 42 15 6 4 5 25 20 14 6 4 4 28 22 11 44
8 Eastbourne Borough 29 12 7 10 54 44 14 7 3 4 30 22 15 5 4 6 24 22 10 43
9 Hungerford Town 28 13 3 12 48 42 14 7 2 5 22 19 14 6 1 7 26 23 6 42
10 Chippenham Town 30 10 10 10 45 37 15 6 3 6 28 24 15 4 7 4 17 13 8 40
11 Hemel Hempstead Town 29 11 6 12 37 51 15 4 4 7 19 33 14 7 2 5 18 18 -14 39
12 Havant & Waterlooville 28 10 7 11 38 44 14 4 4 6 21 20 14 6 3 5 17 24 -6 37
13 Slough Town 28 9 8 11 39 46 15 6 5 4 24 20 13 3 3 7 15 26 -7 35
14 Hampton & Richmond 28 9 6 13 43 45 13 5 2 6 21 19 15 4 4 7 22 26 -2 33
15 Chelmsford City 28 7 10 11 33 36 14 3 6 5 13 14 14 4 4 6 20 22 -3 31
16 Braintree Town 29 7 10 12 29 43 14 4 6 4 15 18 15 3 4 8 14 25 -14 31
17 Concord Rangers 27 8 6 13 35 51 12 6 2 4 15 20 15 2 4 9 20 31 -16 30
18 Tonbridge Angels 27 7 7 13 29 41 14 3 5 6 16 18 13 4 2 7 13 23 -12 28
19 Bath City 29 9 1 19 31 56 14 5 1 8 14 21 15 4 0 11 17 35 -25 28
20 Welling United 29 7 5 17 30 65 14 5 1 8 15 27 15 2 4 9 15 38 -35 26
21 Billericay Town 28 4 8 16 24 51 14 2 5 7 16 29 14 2 3 9 8 22 -27 20

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.