Betting preview: Aberystwyth Town faced with a tough challenge when Bala Town visits

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Competition: Wales Premier League
Competition: Wed 09.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)

The visiting Bala Town side should be favourites in this visit to Aberystwyth Town, as the away team holds a 19 point advantage from their 14 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Aberystwyth Town has the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Premier League
  • Bala Town has the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Premier League

Bala Town could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premier League game only four sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Cardiff MU. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Bala Town have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 3-1-7 (win-draw-loss) from eleven matches.

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Aberystwyth Town form and stats

1 victory, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Aberystwyth Town have to build on here in the Premier League. Aberystwyth Town has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager G. Allen and the players.

The Aberystwyth fans got no joy from their last match, a Premier League game also here: A 1-3 defeat against Connah's Quay (placed 2nd). A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Haverfordwest County.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Aberystwyth, as the Premier League home game vs Newtown is only three days away.

Aberystwyth have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Aberystwyth are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (11 from 5 played).

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Bala Town form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 3 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. In general it has been a productive period now for Bala as they haven't lost any of their last ten games. Bala are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played seven in a row without losing.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Cardiff MU (placed 7th) in their previous outing. The Premier League match ended in a draw 1-1. A 1-1 draw at Caernarfon Town's stadium before that.

The draw against Cardiff MU came from a losing position. The Bala Town manager C. Caton brought on H. Jones as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Cardiff MU in just three days.

Bala Town has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 13 goals from 7 games. It's not easy to score on Bala as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Bala Town - Aberystwyth 5-2. Last ten meetings between the teams: Aberystwyth Town won three, Bala Town won six and one draw. eight games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Bala TownC. Venables
C. Venables
13 goals
Bala TownW. Evans
W. Evans
9 goals
AberystwythS. Davies
S. Davies
4 goals

Aberystwyth Town missing players

Bala Town missing players

Aberystwyth Town Bala Town
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 5 3 Played P 2 7 14
2 1 0 Won W 2 3 8
4 1 1 Drew D 0 4 5
7 3 2 Lost L 0 0 1
19 9 4 Scored S 4 13 33
27 11 7 Conceded C 1 6 14
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 29% 57%
54% 80% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 36%
23% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 21%
77% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 86% 86%
8% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 14% 14%
15% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.4 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.5 3.4 2.6
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.2 11 10.3 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 11.9 14.1
4.3 5.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 4.1 6.1
34% 32% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 45% 38%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Aberystwyth Town has the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Premier League
  • Aberystwyth Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Aberystwyth Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Aberystwyth Town have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Aberystwyth Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Aberystwyth Town's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • All of Bala Town's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Bala Town has the most points from losing position (15) in Premier League
  • Bala Town has the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Premier League
  • Bala Town have not yet lost a game away.
  • Bala Town have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Bala Town have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Bala 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 The New Saints 14 12 2 0 43 7 7 7 0 0 24 4 7 5 2 0 19 3 36 38
2 Connah's Quay 14 11 2 1 30 9 7 6 1 0 14 4 7 5 1 1 16 5 21 35
3 Bala Town 14 8 5 1 33 14 7 5 1 1 20 8 7 3 4 0 13 6 19 29
4 Barry Town United 13 6 3 4 18 19 7 4 2 1 12 8 6 2 1 3 6 11 -1 21
5 Penybont 12 5 3 4 20 18 6 2 2 2 11 12 6 3 1 2 9 6 2 18
6 Haverfordwest County 14 4 5 5 19 23 8 1 4 3 8 16 6 3 1 2 11 7 -4 17
7 Cardiff MU 14 4 4 6 12 17 9 2 3 4 7 11 5 2 1 2 5 6 -5 16
8 Caernarfon Town 13 3 3 7 16 30 7 1 2 4 7 15 6 2 1 3 9 15 -14 12
9 Newtown 13 2 4 7 16 22 6 2 2 2 11 10 7 0 2 5 5 12 -6 10
10 Aberystwyth Town 13 2 4 7 19 27 5 1 1 3 9 11 8 1 3 4 10 16 -8 10
11 Flint Town United 14 3 0 11 15 35 5 1 0 4 2 6 9 2 0 7 13 29 -20 9
12 Cefn Druids 12 1 3 8 9 29 6 0 1 5 2 18 6 1 2 3 7 11 -20 6