The New Oval: Holyhead Hotspur vs Porthmadog FAW Championship news and facts

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Competition: Wales FAW Championship
Competition: Fri 20.January
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: The New Oval (2000 seats)

Season ticket holders at The New Oval haven’t seen many home wins this season, with Holyhead Hotspur rotting in the 15th place. The visiting Porthmadog will hope to protect their higher league position in this match.

Insights:
  • Holyhead Hotspur have the fewest scored goals (12) in FAW Championship
  • Porthmadog have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in FAW Championship

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Holyhead Hotspur form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the FAW Championship this season. Holyhead Hotspur have only managed 1 win, 3 draws and 4 losses from their games here at The New Oval.

The spoils were shared in Holyhead's previous game, also at home. Visiting Chirk AAA (placed 14th) travelled back with a draw after a 0-0 scoreline.

Prior to that, an away loss at Prestatyn Town.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Holyhead Hotspur as they have a new game in only four days, a FAW Championship match thankfully also at home. Llandudno are visiting.

Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 14 goals have been conceded.

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Porthmadog form and stats

Playing away, Porthmadog have won 4 games, drawn 0 and suffered 5 defeats in the FAW Championship this season. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Porthmadog's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Porthmadog's previous game was their home loss versus Mold Alexandra (0-1).

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Llandudno.

Porthmadog have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 9 league away games 11 goals have been scored. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Porthmadog struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 17 goals conceded from these games. It's worth mentioning that 11 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Porthmadog have won at least one point in the last 4 fixtures (3-1-0) versus Holyhead Hotspur.

The squads have played each other before in this season, with the result Porthmadog - Holyhead Hotspur 1-1 logged in the official records.

Holyhead Hotspur missing players

Porthmadog missing players

Holyhead Hotspur Porthmadog
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 8 3 Played P 4 9 18
1 1 0 Won W 3 4 6
6 3 1 Drew D 0 0 1
9 4 2 Lost L 1 5 11
12 8 3 Scored S 9 11 21
32 14 6 Conceded C 4 17 30
81% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
81% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 83%
44% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 67% 56%
38% 38% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 44% 33%
19% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 11% 11%
44% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 44%
25% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 22%
50% 38% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 33%
 
4.8 5.8 2 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.7 4.5
5.5 5.2 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.7 5.8
1.3 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.3 2.5
3 3 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.2 7.2 8 Shots (avg) S ( 10 9.7 11.3
3.3 3 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.7 4.5
15% 17% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 18% 15%
 
13.7 10.8 10 Shots against (avg) S A 12 14.3 11.8
6.2 3.8 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.7 6.2
Key stats in FAW Championship this season:
  • Holyhead Hotspur have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Holyhead Hotspur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Holyhead Hotspur have the fewest scored goals (12) in FAW Championship
  • Holyhead Hotspur have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in FAW Championship
  • Porthmadog have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Porthmadog have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in FAW Championship
  • Porthmadog 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 Colwyn Bay 17 16 1 0 65 14 6 6 0 0 22 2 11 10 1 0 43 12 51 49
2 Llandudno 19 13 2 4 43 16 9 5 1 3 20 10 10 8 1 1 23 6 27 41
3 Holywell 16 13 1 2 34 17 9 7 1 1 18 9 7 6 0 1 16 8 17 40
4 Cefn Druids 19 11 2 6 36 31 10 6 0 4 22 19 9 5 2 2 14 12 5 35
5 Buckley Town 19 10 1 8 33 35 10 7 1 2 19 15 9 3 0 6 14 20 -2 31
6 Ruthin Town 20 9 2 9 28 35 9 4 1 4 15 18 11 5 1 5 13 17 -7 29
7 Prestatyn Town 17 9 1 7 38 26 9 5 1 3 25 13 8 4 0 4 13 13 12 28
8 Guilsfield 17 7 4 6 29 26 9 4 1 4 21 14 8 3 3 2 8 12 3 25
9 Mold Alexandra 17 8 1 8 24 27 7 5 0 2 16 8 10 3 1 6 8 19 -3 25
10 Porthmadog 18 6 1 11 21 30 9 2 1 6 10 13 9 4 0 5 11 17 -9 19
11 Gresford Athletic 17 5 3 9 16 24 9 2 1 6 6 14 8 3 2 3 10 10 -8 18
12 Llanidloes Town 20 4 5 11 31 41 11 3 3 5 18 18 9 1 2 6 13 23 -10 17
13 Conwy Borough 19 4 5 10 27 39 9 1 2 6 9 17 10 3 3 4 18 22 -12 17
14 Chirk AAA 19 2 8 9 14 32 10 2 5 3 8 14 9 0 3 6 6 18 -18 14
15 Holyhead Hotspur 16 1 6 9 12 32 8 1 3 4 8 14 8 0 3 5 4 18 -20 9
16 Penrhyncoch 16 2 3 11 17 43 9 2 2 5 12 21 7 0 1 6 5 22 -26 9