St Albans City vs Chelmsford City match preview: Even contest expected at Clarence Park

Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Date: Sat 06.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Clarence Park (4500 seats)

St Albans City will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 11 points behind Chelmsford City.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Vanarama National League South. That game was also an away game, at Torquay United. 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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St Albans City form and stats

When playing at home, St Albans City have managed 10 wins, 4 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 18 games.

St Albans City manager I. Allinson and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Slough Town in the Vanarama National League South. Before that game, the home loss against Gloucester City with the scoreline 1-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with St Albans City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with St Albans City as a small favourite), we find three games. St Albans City has won 3 of these, drawn 0 and lost 0.

A decent goal production from St Albans City in their home games so far, with 29 goals from 18 matches. St Albans City have conceded 20 in these home matches.

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Chelmsford City form and stats

8-4-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Chelmsford City in their matches away.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Chelmsford City, facing their second straight away game. Especially as that game, in the Vanarama National League South, ended a defeat 1-3 versus Torquay United. Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Oxford City.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 22 similar matches played by Chelmsford City in our archives, and the results are: 11 wins for Chelmsford City, 4 draws and 7 defeats.

Chelmsford City has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches this season, 31 goals from 18 games. Chelmsford City have conceded 22 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Chelmsford City - St Albans City 2-4. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 5 - 2 - 3 (St Albans City wins - draws - Chelmsford City wins).

Top Goalscorers

R. Murphy
22 goals
D. Moyo
11 goals
T. Wraight
10 goals

St Albans City missing players

Chelmsford City missing players

Playername Goals Assist Starts % Started

St Albans City Chelmsford City
Total Home Statistic Away Total
37 18 Played 18 37
58 29 Scored 31 64
56 20 Conceded 22 42
92% 94% Over 0.5 94% 92%
81% 83% Over 1.5 78% 73%
59% 44% Over 2.5 50% 51%
41% 28% Over 3.5 33% 35%
30% 22% Over 4.5 17% 19%
65% 56% Both teams to score 44% 49%
27% 39% Clean Sheet 28% 32%
16% 11% Failed To Score 33% 27%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Torquay United 37 25 6 6 83 35 19 14 2 3 51 22 18 11 4 3 32 13 48 81
2 Woking 37 22 8 7 68 39 18 12 1 5 33 18 19 10 7 2 35 21 29 74
3 Welling United 37 20 7 10 61 41 18 12 4 2 37 21 19 8 3 8 24 20 20 67
4 Chelmsford City 37 19 9 9 64 42 19 11 5 3 33 20 18 8 4 6 31 22 22 66
5 Bath City 37 18 10 9 54 31 19 11 4 4 32 15 18 7 6 5 22 16 23 64
6 Concord Rangers 37 16 13 8 60 43 19 10 7 2 37 17 18 6 6 6 23 26 17 61
7 Dartford 37 17 10 10 48 45 19 11 6 2 30 19 18 6 4 8 18 26 3 61
8 Billericay Town 37 17 8 12 64 56 18 9 3 6 29 27 19 8 5 6 35 29 8 59
9 Wealdstone 37 15 12 10 52 44 18 7 5 6 25 27 19 8 7 4 27 17 8 57
10 St Albans City 37 15 10 12 58 56 18 10 4 4 29 20 19 5 6 8 29 36 2 55
11 Slough Town 37 14 10 13 46 44 19 8 6 5 24 18 18 6 4 8 22 26 2 52
12 Chippenham Town 37 14 7 16 51 57 18 9 4 5 31 24 19 5 3 11 20 33 -6 49
13 Oxford City 37 14 5 18 58 57 18 8 2 8 32 23 19 6 3 10 26 34 1 47
14 Hemel Hempstead Town 37 12 11 14 48 58 19 6 6 7 26 33 18 6 5 7 22 25 -10 47
15 Dulwich Hamlet 37 10 9 18 42 58 19 7 4 8 24 27 18 3 5 10 18 31 -16 39
16 Hampton & Richmond 37 10 9 18 40 58 19 5 3 11 16 30 18 5 6 7 24 28 -18 39
17 Eastbourne Borough 37 9 11 17 43 58 18 5 6 7 25 30 19 4 5 10 18 28 -15 38
18 Hungerford Town 37 10 7 20 41 66 18 6 4 8 22 28 19 4 3 12 19 38 -25 37
19 Truro City 37 9 9 19 55 76 18 5 3 10 25 35 19 4 6 9 30 41 -21 36
20 Gloucester City 37 8 11 18 25 45 19 2 10 7 13 20 18 6 1 11 12 25 -20 35
21 East Thurrock United 37 9 6 22 34 53 19 7 4 8 20 21 18 2 2 14 14 32 -19 33
22 Weston-super-Mare 37 5 10 22 41 74 18 1 6 11 15 32 19 4 4 11 26 42 -33 25

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