Football tips: Dover Athletic vs Aldershot Town - predictions and betting guide

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Competition: England Vanarama National League
Date: Fri 19.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Perrys Crabble Stadium (6500 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Vanarama National League, Dover Athletic holding 19th place and Aldershot Town lying 22nd. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Dover Athletic form and stats

The story so far for Dover Athletic at their home stadium (The Perrys Crabble Stadium) is 7 wins, 5 draws and 9 defeats.

Dover Athletic are returning here after visiting Barrow in a Vanarama National League game and winning with a 3-2 scoreline. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Chesterfield that ended 0-0.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Dover Athletic have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 4 and lost 2.

Dover Athletic are traveling soon after this match as the Vanarama National League match at Ebbsfleet United awaits in three days.

Dover Athletic are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home, having created 27 goals in 21 matches. 30 goals have been conceded.

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Aldershot Town form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Aldershot Town, who have the fewest scored goals (34) in Vanarama National League, so far with only 14 points returning home. The records show 3-5-13 (win-draw-lose). Aldershot Town have had a generous will to share for some time now, running a streak of three draws in a row.

Aldershot Town delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Hartlepool United in their previous match; a Vanarama National League game. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Bromley that ended 2-2.

Aldershot Town are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 12 wins, 14 draws and 22 defeats. From a total of 48 matches.

After this away game Aldershot Town return home for a Vanarama National League game against Havant & Waterlooville. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The attacking power of Aldershot Town when travelling is not overwhelming with 17 goals scored in 21 matches. In the opposite end, Aldershot Town have conceded 40 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Aldershot Town - Dover Athletic 2-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Dover Athletic won 4 games, 1 match ended with a draw and Aldershot Town has 5 wins.

Dover Athletic missing players

Aldershot Town missing players

Dover Athletic Aldershot Town
Total Home Statistic Away Total
43 21 Played 21 43
53 27 Scored 17 34
64 30 Conceded 40 66
91% 90% Over 0.5 90% 86%
77% 86% Over 1.5 81% 74%
56% 52% Over 2.5 57% 44%
33% 19% Over 3.5 24% 16%
12% 14% Over 4.5 10% 7%
56% 62% Both teams to score 48% 40%
21% 19% Clean Sheet 19% 26%
33% 29% Failed To Score 43% 49%
 
5.6 6.5 Corners For (avg) 4 4.4
5.4 5.3 Corners Against (avg) 5.9 5
1.4 1 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.8 1.7
6 3 Red Cards (total) 1 2
Key stats this season:
  • Aldershot Town is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.

  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 Leyton Orient 43 24 12 7 71 35 21 13 5 3 37 15 22 11 7 4 34 20 36 84
2 Salford City 43 24 10 9 72 39 22 14 5 3 43 20 21 10 5 6 29 19 33 82
3 Solihull Moors 43 24 9 10 70 42 22 12 7 3 38 17 21 12 2 7 32 25 28 81
4 Wrexham 43 23 9 11 54 36 21 15 3 3 33 12 22 8 6 8 21 24 18 78
5 Fylde 43 20 15 8 70 39 21 14 4 3 44 19 22 6 11 5 26 20 31 75
6 Harrogate Town 43 20 11 12 75 53 22 10 6 6 39 27 21 10 5 6 36 26 22 71
7 Eastleigh 43 21 7 15 57 58 22 10 5 7 26 25 21 11 2 8 31 33 -1 70
8 Ebbsfleet United 43 18 12 13 60 41 22 10 3 9 32 22 21 8 9 4 28 19 19 66
9 Sutton United 43 17 13 13 53 54 22 9 8 5 28 26 21 8 5 8 25 28 -1 64
10 Gateshead 43 18 9 16 51 44 21 8 7 6 24 18 22 10 2 10 27 26 7 63
11 Barrow 43 15 12 16 48 50 22 8 6 8 28 28 21 7 6 8 20 22 -2 57
12 Chesterfield 43 13 17 13 52 48 22 7 8 7 25 23 21 6 9 6 27 25 4 56
13 Bromley 43 15 11 17 62 65 21 10 5 6 35 27 22 5 6 11 27 38 -3 56
14 Barnet 43 15 11 17 42 48 22 7 7 8 23 25 21 8 4 9 19 23 -6 56
15 Halifax Town 43 11 20 12 39 40 22 7 11 4 21 12 21 4 9 8 18 28 -1 53
16 Hartlepool United 43 13 14 16 51 58 21 7 6 8 26 27 22 6 8 8 25 31 -7 53
17 Dagenham & Redbridge 43 14 10 19 47 53 21 7 7 7 28 28 22 7 3 12 19 25 -6 52
18 Boreham Wood 43 12 15 16 46 56 21 7 6 8 21 28 22 5 9 8 25 28 -10 51
19 Dover Athletic 43 13 12 18 53 64 21 7 5 9 27 30 22 6 7 9 26 34 -11 51
20 Maidenhead United 43 15 5 23 42 67 21 8 3 10 24 33 22 7 2 13 18 34 -25 50
21 Havant & Waterlooville 43 9 12 22 59 77 21 7 5 9 34 27 22 2 7 13 25 50 -18 39
22 Aldershot Town 43 9 11 23 34 66 22 6 6 10 17 26 21 3 5 13 17 40 -32 38
23 Braintree Town 43 9 7 27 44 78 22 5 3 14 23 44 21 4 4 13 21 34 -34 34
24 Maidstone United 43 9 6 28 35 76 21 3 4 14 17 35 22 6 2 14 18 41 -41 33

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