Vanarama National League South match prediction: Little separates Hemel Hempstead Town and Slough Town in quality

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Date: Sat 28.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Vauxhall Ground (3152 seats)

Hemel Hempstead Town will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 10 points behind Slough Town.

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.

This stadium uses grass, unlike Slough Town's home stadium. The visitors last 43 games on grass have ended in 23 wins, 8 draws and 12 losses.

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Hemel Hempstead Town form and stats

Hemel Hempstead Town have played 9 Vanarama National League South games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The fans are hoping that Hemel Hempstead Town will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Vanarama National League South game against St Albans City (placed 19th). The points were shared before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Tonbridge Angels.

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 Hemel Hempstead Town have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found seven matches with the results: Won 4 Drawn 2 Lost 1.

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

A decent goal production from Hemel Hempstead Town in their home games so far, with 14 goals from 9 league matches. Hemel Hempstead Town's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Slough Town form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Vanarama National League South travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Slough Town won their last game, 2-1 versus Wealdstone played at home. Before that, Slough Town secured a home win against Braintree Town with the score 1-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Slough Town in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Slough Town, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

The schedule is very tough for Slough Town now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Vanarama National League South game at Wealdstone is waiting in only four days.

Slough Town are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 14 times in 8 away games so far. Slough Town have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Slough Town - Hemel Hempstead Town 2-0 earlier this season. Numbers for the last three meetings between these two teams are: 0 wins for Hemel Hempstead Town, 1 draw and 2 wins for Slough Town. Over 2,5 goals: 0 times; under 2,5 goals: 3 games.

Top Goalscorers

Hemel Hempstead TownL. Nash
L. Nash
9 goals
 M. Lench
M. Lench
8 goals
 B. Harris
B. Harris
8 goals

Hemel Hempstead Town missing players

Slough Town missing players

Hemel Hempstead Town Slough Town
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 3 8 20
9 5 1 Won W 1 4 12
3 2 0 Drew D 1 1 4
7 2 1 Lost L 1 3 4
25 14 2 Scored S 5 14 33
26 10 4 Conceded C 5 10 19
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
95% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 75%
53% 56% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 50%
16% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 25%
5% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 25% 15%
53% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 60%
21% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 30%
26% 22% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 15%
 
4.6 5.3 4 Corners For (avg) C F 2.3 5.5 6.2
4.2 2.9 4 Corners Against (avg) C A 5.3 3.8 3.5
1.1 1.2 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1.3 0.8 0.9
5 1 1 Red Cards R C 0 0 2
 
195 95 18 Total Shots T S 28 89 245
73 37 7 Shots on Target S O 14 43 109
34% 38% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 33% 29%
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • Hemel Hempstead Town has the fewest scored goals in the first half (7)
  • Hemel Hempstead Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hemel Hempstead Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Hemel Hempstead Town is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Slough Town has the fewest conceded goals (19)
  • Slough Town has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8)
  • Slough Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Slough Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Slough Town is in the best form (5-1-0)

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

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.