Oxford City manager D. Oldfield looking for three points in Slough Town showdown

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Competition: Sat 26.December
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Court Place Farm

With their 7 point advantage in the league table, Oxford City fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Slough Town.

Insights:
  • Oxford City has the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Vanarama National League South
  • Slough Town is in the worst form (0-2-4)

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!

It should be mentioned that Slough Town play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Slough Town on grass are 16 victories, 11 draws and 13 defeats from 40 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 61-57. You can compare this with overall results below.

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Oxford City form and stats

The story so far in the Vanarama National League South for Oxford City, who have the most clean sheets (4) at home in Vanarama National League South, at their home stadium (Court Place Farm) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.

Oxford are confident in defense, having played 245 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Happy days for Oxford in their previous game, a Fa Trophy match away at Welling United (placed 20th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Ahead of that match, Oxford won a home game hosting Dulwich Hamlet (1-0).

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Oxford matches with similar probabilities have ended with four wins, two draws and one defeat (from seven games).

Oxford City are traveling soon after this match as the Vanarama National League South match at Hemel Hempstead Town awaits in two days.

Oxford City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 7 games. Oxford are not conceding a lot of goals here at Court Place Farm in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.

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Slough Town form and stats

The visitors, who have the fewest points (2) away in Vanarama National League South, are W0-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Vanarama National League South. Visiting Slough has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

Slough's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Dartford (after extra-time, 5-6 on penalties) that finished 2-2. Before that, Slough travelled to Havant & Waterlooville and returned home with a draw after the Vanarama National League South game finished 0-0.

Drawing 2-2 against Dartford (after extra-time, 5-6 on penalties) after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager J. Underwood needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Slough when being an outsider away as they are today, we find one match with the visitors losing zero times, drawing one and winning zero games.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting St Albans City in just two days.

The visitors have scored 3 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As for defending, Slough Town rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 9 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Oxford City-Slough Town H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Oxford two wins, Slough Town two wins, zero draws. two of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

OxfordJ. Ashby
J. Ashby
4 goals
Slough TownM. Worsfold
M. Worsfold
3 goals
Slough TownP. Hodges
P. Hodges
3 goals

Oxford City missing players

Slough Town missing players

Oxford City Slough Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 7 1 Played P 1 5 10
4 3 1 Won W 0 0 2
4 3 0 Drew D 1 2 3
3 1 0 Lost L 0 3 5
17 9 2 Scored S 2 3 13
11 4 0 Conceded C 2 9 20
91% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 90%
82% 71% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 80%
36% 14% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 40% 60%
27% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 40% 50%
18% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
55% 29% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 40% 60%
36% 57% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 20%
18% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 60% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.4 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2 1.8
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.5 10 12 Shots (avg) S ( 21 13.4 13.7
6 5.7 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 3.4 4.3
26% 22% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 18% 30%
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • Oxford City has the most clean sheets (4) at home in Vanarama National League South
  • Oxford City has the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Vanarama National League South
  • Oxford City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Oxford City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Slough Town have scored away.
  • Slough Town has the fewest points (2) away in Vanarama National League South
  • Slough Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Slough Town have yet to win a game away.
  • Slough Town is in the worst form (0-2-4)

  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 12 8 1 3 18 11 6 4 0 2 8 5 6 4 1 1 10 6 7 25
3 Dorking Wanderers 11 7 2 2 26 13 6 3 2 1 13 8 5 4 0 1 13 5 13 23
4 Hungerford Town 13 7 1 5 18 15 7 3 0 4 8 10 6 4 1 1 10 5 3 22
5 Eastbourne Borough 13 5 5 3 23 17 7 3 2 2 11 8 6 2 3 1 12 9 6 20
6 Hampton & Richmond 11 6 1 4 15 10 5 1 1 3 2 7 6 5 0 1 13 3 5 19
7 Havant & Waterlooville 9 5 2 2 18 11 6 3 2 1 12 8 3 2 0 1 6 3 7 17
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 Hemel Hempstead Town 13 5 1 7 20 27 6 0 1 5 5 15 7 5 0 2 15 12 -7 16
11 Ebbsfleet United 10 4 3 3 14 13 5 1 2 2 4 7 5 3 1 1 10 6 1 15
12 Chippenham Town 12 4 3 5 12 17 6 1 2 3 6 10 6 3 1 2 6 7 -5 15
13 Dulwich Hamlet 11 3 4 4 13 14 4 1 1 2 3 7 7 2 3 2 10 7 -1 13
14 Tonbridge Angels 11 4 1 6 12 19 5 1 1 3 5 8 6 3 0 3 7 11 -7 13
15 Concord Rangers 11 2 4 5 13 21 5 1 3 1 8 9 6 1 1 4 5 12 -8 10
16 Chelmsford City 11 2 3 6 11 15 6 1 1 4 5 10 5 1 2 2 6 5 -4 9
17 Bath City 10 3 0 7 13 19 3 1 0 2 4 6 7 2 0 5 9 13 -6 9
18 Slough Town 10 2 3 5 13 20 5 2 1 2 10 11 5 0 2 3 3 9 -7 9
19 Billericay Town 9 2 2 5 13 18 5 1 0 4 6 12 4 1 2 1 7 6 -5 8
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 10 2 1 7 9 21 6 1 1 4 6 14 4 1 0 3 3 7 -12 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.