Open game expected at Clarence Park: St Albans City vs Oxford City preview

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Competition: Sat 15.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Clarence Park (4500 seats)

St Albans City hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 30 points and a 19th position in the Vanarama National League South table. Visiting Oxford City holds 12th place with 36 pts.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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St Albans City form and stats

St Albans City's results here at Clarence Park in the Vanarama National League South have been very modest with 3 victories, 5 draws and 7 defeats.

A strong away win for St Albans City against Bath City the last match, as S. Nwabuokei, J. Iaciofano and Z. Banton were on target. Ahead of that match, St Albans City lost 1-2 at home to Welling United.

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 five games. St Albans City has won four of these, drawn zero and lost one.

The St Albans City fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 15 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the St Albans City defense is not exactly impregnable. 25 goals conceded from 15 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Oxford City form and stats

The visitors are W5-D3-L6 on the road this term. That's in the Vanarama National League South.

Oxford City play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Slough Town (placed 2nd). Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Maidstone United's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Oxford City in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Oxford City, three draws and one defeat.

A new game in only three days for Oxford City, the Vanarama National League South home match versus Dorking Wanderers. Busy days.

Oxford City has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 21 goals from 14 games. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Oxford City have conceded 21 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Oxford City - St Albans City 3-3, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three St Albans City victories, two draws and five Oxford City wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

St Albans CityJ. Iaciofano
J. Iaciofano
14 goals
Oxford CityZ. McEachran
Z. McEachran
8 goals
Oxford CityN. Owusu
N. Owusu
5 goals

St Albans City missing players

Oxford City missing players

St Albans City Oxford City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 5 Played P 6 14 28
7 3 3 Won W 1 5 10
9 5 2 Drew D 3 3 6
14 7 0 Lost L 2 6 12
36 16 7 Scored S 9 21 42
49 25 3 Conceded C 11 21 51
97% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
77% 80% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 71% 79%
57% 53% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 68%
30% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 21% 36%
17% 13% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 14% 29%
63% 67% 60% BTTS BTTS 83% 57% 64%
20% 20% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 11%
20% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 17% 29% 29%
 
4.4 4.5 3.2 Corners for (avg) C F 6 4.8 4.8
4.5 4.2 3.6 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 7.6 6.7
1.7 1.8 1.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.4 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
286 153 53 Total Shots T S 71 124 269
103 57 22 Shots on Target S O 30 53 116
32% 28% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 36% 32%
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • Oxford City 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 Wealdstone 28 20 2 6 63 31 14 13 0 1 34 9 14 7 2 5 29 22 32 62
2 Slough Town 29 16 7 6 44 28 15 9 4 2 21 11 14 7 3 4 23 17 16 55
3 Havant & Waterlooville 28 15 9 4 56 33 14 6 4 4 24 18 14 9 5 0 32 15 23 54
4 Weymouth 30 14 10 6 50 32 15 9 3 3 29 16 15 5 7 3 21 16 18 52
5 Bath City 29 14 8 7 43 33 15 9 4 2 25 13 14 5 4 5 18 20 10 50
6 Dorking Wanderers 29 13 8 8 50 43 15 8 4 3 26 15 14 5 4 5 24 28 7 47
7 Dartford 30 13 7 10 53 44 15 6 5 4 28 19 15 7 2 6 25 25 9 46
8 Hampton & Richmond 29 13 4 12 46 43 15 6 3 6 25 21 14 7 1 6 21 22 3 43
9 Maidstone United 27 11 9 7 43 30 14 6 6 2 25 14 13 5 3 5 18 16 13 42
10 Hemel Hempstead Town 30 10 7 13 33 41 15 6 3 6 17 17 15 4 4 7 16 24 -8 37
11 Chelmsford City 28 9 9 10 49 48 14 6 6 2 31 22 14 3 3 8 18 26 1 36
12 Oxford City 28 10 6 12 42 51 14 5 3 6 21 30 14 5 3 6 21 21 -9 36
13 Concord Rangers 27 10 5 12 40 39 15 6 3 6 25 19 12 4 2 6 15 20 1 35
14 Dulwich Hamlet 30 8 10 12 46 42 15 4 4 7 27 26 15 4 6 5 19 16 4 34
15 Eastbourne Borough 30 7 13 10 33 51 15 5 5 5 22 26 15 2 8 5 11 25 -18 34
16 Welling United 30 9 6 15 33 43 15 6 2 7 22 22 15 3 4 8 11 21 -10 33
17 Billericay Town 26 7 10 9 42 49 11 5 6 0 22 14 15 2 4 9 20 35 -7 31
18 Braintree Town 30 9 4 17 41 62 15 4 3 8 19 27 15 5 1 9 22 35 -21 31
19 St Albans City 30 7 9 14 36 49 15 3 5 7 16 25 15 4 4 7 20 24 -13 30
20 Chippenham Town 29 6 11 12 29 41 14 4 5 5 15 22 15 2 6 7 14 19 -12 29
21 Tonbridge Angels 26 7 7 12 37 47 12 6 2 4 25 22 14 1 5 8 12 25 -10 28
22 Hungerford Town 29 6 3 20 33 62 14 3 2 9 12 23 15 3 1 11 21 39 -29 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.