Memorial Playing Fields: Ruthin Town vs Holywell FAW Championship preview

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Competition: Wales FAW Championship
Competition: Fri 25.November
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Memorial Playing Fields (2000 seats)

Ruthin Town will plan to operate their home advantage to help in closing the gap to today’s opponents. The host team are currently 12 points behind Holywell.

Insights:
  • Ruthin Town have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Holywell have the most clean sheets (5) in FAW Championship

Both contenders have had plenty of rest since their previous match. Let's trust this will be an in-your-face match!

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Ruthin Town form and stats

When playing at home in the FAW Championship, Ruthin Town have managed 3 wins, 0 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 5 games. Ruthin are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

The Ruthin Town goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 183 minutes without conceding a goal in the FAW Championship.

Happy days for Ruthin Town in their previous game, a fixture away at Llandudno (placed 2nd) that ended with a 1-0 victory.

Preceding that fixture, a home defeat in the Welsh Cup against Pontypridd Town AFC.

Some goal stats: A review of the 12 latest league matches highlights that 9 of them had goals from both teams.

Ruthin Town have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Memorial Playing Fields with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Ruthin's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Holywell form and stats

The away performances of Holywell have been very solid so far with 5 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat in the FAW Championship. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. In general it has been a productive period now for Holywell as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.

The Holywell goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 233 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Two away games in a row for Holywell, whose coach Haseldin could celebrate last time after the Welsh Cup win against Hakin United.

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Chirk AAA.

Observe that 9 of this side's 12 most recent league fixtures have ended with three goals or more.

As opposed to that, Holywell have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head to head data (for the prior ten meetings): Ruthin won three games, three matches ended in a draw and Holywell got four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / two.

Ruthin Town missing players

Holywell missing players

Ruthin Town Holywell
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 5 1 Played P 2 6 13
6 3 0 Won W 2 5 10
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
6 2 1 Lost L 0 1 2
18 9 1 Scored S 5 12 24
19 6 2 Conceded C 3 7 16
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
77% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 92%
62% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 69%
31% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 17% 23%
15% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 17% 15%
69% 60% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 54%
23% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 38%
8% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 15%
 
8 9 13 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.3 5.2
3 3.3 1 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.7 3.8
1.2 1.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.2 11 9 Shots (avg) S ( 20 14.3 12.8
4.2 5.3 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 5.3 5
43% 44% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 44% 45%
 
5.6 5 5 Shots against (avg) S A 6 7 7.2
3.6 3.3 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.3 3
Key stats in FAW Championship this season:
  • All of Holywell's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Holywell have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Holywell have the most clean sheets (5) in FAW Championship
  • Holywell haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Ruthin Town have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Ruthin Town 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 12 11 1 0 44 11 5 5 0 0 16 2 7 6 1 0 28 9 33 34
2 Llandudno 14 10 1 3 28 10 7 4 1 2 14 6 7 6 0 1 14 4 18 31
3 Holywell 13 10 1 2 24 16 7 5 1 1 12 9 6 5 0 1 12 7 8 31
4 Cefn Druids 14 8 1 5 23 26 8 5 0 3 16 17 6 3 1 2 7 9 -3 25
5 Buckley Town 14 7 1 6 22 26 8 5 1 2 13 11 6 2 0 4 9 15 -4 22
6 Prestatyn Town 12 6 1 5 23 15 6 3 1 2 14 7 6 3 0 3 9 8 8 19
7 Ruthin Town 13 6 1 6 18 19 5 3 0 2 9 6 8 3 1 4 9 13 -1 19
8 Porthmadog 12 5 1 6 17 16 5 1 1 3 6 7 7 4 0 3 11 9 1 16
9 Mold Alexandra 13 5 1 7 18 24 6 4 0 2 14 8 7 1 1 5 4 16 -6 16
10 Guilsfield 12 4 3 5 18 15 7 2 1 4 14 12 5 2 2 1 4 3 3 15
11 Llanidloes Town 14 4 3 7 24 28 8 3 1 4 14 13 6 1 2 3 10 15 -4 15
12 Conwy Borough 13 3 4 6 17 23 6 0 2 4 3 10 7 3 2 2 14 13 -6 13
13 Chirk AAA 13 2 5 6 10 17 6 2 3 1 5 5 7 0 2 5 5 12 -7 11
14 Gresford Athletic 12 2 3 7 10 18 6 1 1 4 4 9 6 1 2 3 6 9 -8 9
15 Holyhead Hotspur 11 1 5 5 8 17 5 1 2 2 7 8 6 0 3 3 1 9 -9 8
16 Penrhyncoch 12 1 2 9 11 34 7 1 2 4 8 16 5 0 0 5 3 18 -23 5