Football match preview: Tonbridge Angels vs Dover Athletic

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Competition: England Vanarama National League South
Competition: Tue 13.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Longmead Stadium (5000 seats)

Tonbridge Angels are prepared for a new challenge after their 0-5 against Weymouth previously. Dover Athletic are coming to town!

Insights:
  • Tonbridge Angels have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dover Athletic have won significantly less corners away then at home.

Little time to rest for the hosts, as they featured in a Vanarama National League South game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Weymouth, was also a home game here at Longmead Stadium. The away team is better rested.

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Tonbridge Angels form and stats

4-2-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Vanarama National League South numbers at home for Tonbridge Angels so far this season.

The Tonbridge Angels club members got no joy from their last match, also played here at Longmead Stadium: A 0-5 defeat against Weymouth (placed 22nd). The first loss after going undefeated through three league games. Tonbridge Angels were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Eastbourne Borough.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Tonbridge handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 1 draw and 5 defeats.

Tonbridge Angels are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 10 games. Tonbridge have conceded 18 from these games.

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Dover Athletic form and stats

3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Dover Athletic playing as the away team in the Vanarama National League South this season.

Two away games in a row for Dover Athletic, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Cheshunt.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against St Albans City.

We have checked recent matches where Dover Athletic have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 4 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Dover Athletic have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 11 goals have been scored. As for defending, Dover rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two teams involved encountered each other earlier this campaign: Dover Athletic - Tonbridge Angels 1-2. Tonbridge Angels-Dover Athletic H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Tonbridge three wins, Dover Athletic six wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Dover AthleticA. Pavey
A. Pavey
6 goals
Dover AthleticL. Wanadio
L. Wanadio
6 goals
Tonbridge AngelsL. Collins
L. Collins
4 goals

Tonbridge Angels missing players

Dover Athletic missing players

Tonbridge Angels Dover Athletic
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 4 Played P 4 11 21
10 5 2 Won W 2 3 7
3 2 0 Drew D 1 3 6
10 4 2 Lost L 1 5 8
33 17 7 Scored S 5 11 27
38 18 7 Conceded C 4 17 29
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 95%
83% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 82% 86%
61% 73% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 36% 48%
35% 36% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 27% 29%
22% 18% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 5%
61% 64% 75% BTTS BTTS 50% 45% 52%
17% 27% 25% Clean Sheets C S 50% 36% 33%
22% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 27% 19%
 
5.4 4.2 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 3.5 4.3
5 4.5 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 7.2 5.4 5
1.5 1.4 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.4 9.4 9.8 Shots (avg) S ( 12 9.9 9.8
4.4 4.8 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 4 4
31% 29% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 25% 29%
 
12.6 12.8 11.2 Shots against (avg) S A 11.2 12.4 11.1
6.1 6.4 6.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.2 5.3 4.6
Key stats in Vanarama National League South this season:
  • Dover Athletic have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Tonbridge Angels have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Tonbridge Angels have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Tonbridge Angels haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Havant & Waterlooville 21 14 4 3 48 27 11 7 1 3 24 14 10 7 3 0 24 13 21 43
2 Ebbsfleet United 18 14 3 1 43 15 10 8 1 1 29 7 8 6 2 0 14 8 28 48
3 Dartford 22 13 3 6 41 23 11 8 1 2 25 10 11 5 2 4 16 13 18 44
4 Chelmsford City 20 12 4 4 28 15 11 7 2 2 19 9 9 5 2 2 9 6 13 40
5 St Albans City 22 10 6 6 34 19 11 4 4 3 13 8 11 6 2 3 21 11 15 33
6 Worthing 20 9 8 3 33 22 10 3 5 2 14 14 10 6 3 1 19 8 11 35
7 Oxford City 22 9 7 6 34 28 11 5 5 1 24 14 11 4 2 5 10 14 6 34
8 Braintree Town 20 10 4 6 34 26 9 6 3 0 17 7 11 4 1 6 17 19 8 35
9 Eastbourne Borough 21 10 3 8 39 31 12 6 1 5 23 16 9 4 2 3 16 15 8 32
10 Tonbridge Angels 22 9 3 10 30 38 10 4 2 4 14 18 12 5 1 6 16 20 -8 33
11 Bath City 20 8 6 6 31 28 9 4 1 4 14 11 11 4 5 2 17 17 3 29
12 Dover Athletic 20 7 6 7 27 27 10 4 3 3 16 12 10 3 3 4 11 15 0 27
13 Welling United 20 6 8 6 27 31 10 3 3 4 15 15 10 3 5 2 12 16 -4 26
14 Hemel Hempstead Town 21 6 6 9 23 30 10 3 3 4 11 13 11 3 3 5 12 17 -7 27
15 Farnborough 18 6 5 7 18 19 9 3 3 3 10 9 9 3 2 4 8 10 -1 26
16 Hampton & Richmond 20 6 4 10 26 34 10 2 3 5 10 19 10 4 1 5 16 15 -8 22
17 Taunton Town 17 5 7 5 15 16 8 4 4 0 11 4 9 1 3 5 4 12 -1 22
18 Concord Rangers 19 6 3 10 19 31 11 4 3 4 14 16 8 2 0 6 5 15 -12 22
19 Slough Town 21 5 4 12 22 42 11 3 1 7 13 23 10 2 3 5 9 19 -20 20
20 Dulwich Hamlet 17 5 3 9 24 31 8 3 0 5 11 14 9 2 3 4 13 17 -7 21
21 Chippenham Town 18 4 4 10 13 26 8 4 1 3 6 7 10 0 3 7 7 19 -13 16
22 Weymouth 19 4 3 12 20 36 10 1 2 7 4 16 9 3 1 5 16 20 -16 12
23 Cheshunt 20 4 1 15 21 42 9 2 0 7 13 24 11 2 1 8 8 18 -21 16
24 Hungerford Town 20 3 3 14 15 28 10 2 2 6 6 9 10 1 1 8 9 19 -13 12

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.