FAW Championship news and guide: Ruthin Town moderate front runner to overpower Holywell

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Competition: Wales FAW Championship
Competition: Sat 30.October
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Memorial Playing Fields (2000 seats)

The FAW Championship match summary, better known as a league table, tells the truth about these teams to this date, with Ruthin Town ahead of Holywell by 10 points. Here's our preview:

Insights:
  • Ruthin Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Holywell have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in FAW Championship

This promises to be an entertaining game with lots of fun and excitement as both participants are well refreshed since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's get started!

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Ruthin Town form and stats

The total FAW Championship results at home this season for Ruthin Town are 3-0-1 (wins-draws-losses). The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.

The Ruthin supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Gresford Athletic in FAW Championship and win 1-0.

Before that match, a win away at Bangor City.

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 Ruthin have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found one game) they have won one time, drawn zero and lost zero.

Goals decide football matches and Ruthin are scoring many of them at home; 8 on target from 4 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Ruthin defense is not exactly impregnable. 7 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Holywell form and stats

1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Holywell playing as the away team in the FAW Championship this season.

Holywell won their last game, 5-1 versus Llangefni Town played at home. As mentioned above, Holywell was the only team on the pitch versus Llangefni Town in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Airbus UK wasn't a success with a 1-6 loss.

We have checked recent matches where Holywell have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those one game were zero victories, one draw and zero defeats.

Holywell has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games. For Holywell, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Holywell - Ruthin 1-1 was the outcome when this pair of teams formerly met, also in this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Ruthin victories, three draws and three Holywell wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Ruthin Town missing players

Holywell missing players

Ruthin Town Holywell
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 4 2 Played P 1 4 11
6 3 2 Won W 0 1 2
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 4
4 1 0 Lost L 1 2 5
15 8 4 Scored S 1 6 21
18 7 0 Conceded C 6 8 22
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 91%
67% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 91%
50% 75% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 82%
25% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 55%
25% 50% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 25% 36%
50% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 82%
33% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 18%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 9%
 
3.4 4 3 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.5 4.5
5.2 3 4 Corners against (avg) C A 0 1 1
1.2 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3.5 3.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
10.2 13 15 Shots (avg) S ( 0 12.5 12.5
5.4 7.7 12 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.5 2.5
19% 22% 8% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 20%
Key stats in FAW Championship this season:
  • Holywell have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in FAW Championship
  • Holywell have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Ruthin Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ruthin Town have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • 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 Airbus UK 12 11 0 1 46 13 8 7 0 1 32 9 4 4 0 0 14 4 33 33
2 Llandudno 13 10 2 1 27 12 6 6 0 0 13 0 7 4 2 1 14 12 15 32
3 Guilsfield 11 9 2 0 26 7 7 5 2 0 16 6 4 4 0 0 10 1 19 29
4 Buckley Town 12 7 2 3 25 19 5 3 0 2 10 6 7 4 2 1 15 13 6 23
5 Ruthin Town 12 6 2 4 15 18 4 3 0 1 8 7 8 3 2 3 7 11 -3 20
6 Conwy Borough 13 5 4 4 20 22 8 3 3 2 13 14 5 2 1 2 7 8 -2 19
7 Colwyn Bay 12 5 1 6 19 16 5 2 0 3 8 9 7 3 1 3 11 7 3 16
8 Holyhead Hotspur 12 4 4 4 14 12 6 3 2 1 10 3 6 1 2 3 4 9 2 16
9 Bangor City 12 4 3 5 26 22 5 2 1 2 13 8 7 2 2 3 13 14 4 15
10 Prestatyn Town 13 4 3 6 23 25 7 2 3 2 9 9 6 2 0 4 14 16 -2 15
11 Gresford Athletic 12 4 2 6 11 14 6 2 1 3 7 6 6 2 1 3 4 8 -3 14
12 Llanidloes Town 13 2 5 6 18 27 7 1 3 3 10 15 6 1 2 3 8 12 -9 11
13 Penrhyncoch 12 2 5 5 16 25 6 0 2 4 3 11 6 2 3 1 13 14 -9 11
14 Holywell 11 2 4 5 21 22 7 1 3 3 15 14 4 1 1 2 6 8 -1 10
15 Llanrhaeadr 13 0 4 9 8 28 6 0 2 4 4 13 7 0 2 5 4 15 -20 4
16 Llangefni Town 13 1 1 11 9 42 5 1 0 4 6 17 8 0 1 7 3 25 -33 4