Premier League match prediction: Little separates Bala Town and Connah's Quay in quality

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Competition: Wales Premier League
Competition: Fri 31.March
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Maes Tegid (1200 seats)

Bala Town have not won many points this season. Can the gang get some points when Connah's Quay come to visit Maes Tegid?

Insights:
  • Bala Town is in the worst form (0-4-2)
  • Connah's Quay have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premier League

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Bala Town form and stats

Bala Town are yet to win a home game, having collected 2 points from their first two Premier League games here at Maes Tegid.

Bala Town drew their last game, 2-2 away at Penybont (placed 3rd).

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Cardiff MU.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Bala Town at home in the league. 0 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

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Connah's Quay form and stats

Connah's Quay are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premier League, having played 2 games and collected 2 points (0 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses).

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Connah's Quay goalkeeper Andrew Firth is eager to challenge this, with his 189 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Kenny and Morris scored in Connah's's previous match, the home game against Newtown that ended 2-0.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against The New Saints.

Low on goals? 10 of this team's latest 12 league matches have seen zero, one or two goals.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Connah's Quay has managed {2 goals} and let in 2 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

Bala Town have pulled off a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (1-3-0) when playing Connah's Quay.

The fixture lists shows this result when the participants faced each other previously this campaign; Connah's Quay - Bala 1-1. The ref showed his red card when these teams last met, and the sinner was Franklin (Connah's Quay). The games between these clubs sometimes lean towards being ill-tempered, having seen 9 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Connah's QuayM. Wilde
M. Wilde
11 goals
Bala TownG. Newell
G. Newell
7 goals
Bala TownA. Roscrow
A. Roscrow
7 goals

Bala Town missing players

Connah's Quay missing players

Bala Town Connah's Quay
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
28 13 1 Played P 2 13 28
12 7 0 Won W 0 4 15
8 5 0 Drew D 2 5 9
8 1 1 Lost L 0 4 4
48 19 0 Scored S 1 15 40
29 8 5 Conceded C 1 11 18
89% 77% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 77% 86%
79% 69% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 69% 68%
54% 46% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 38% 32%
25% 8% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 8% 11%
21% 8% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 7%
43% 23% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 46% 39%
39% 69% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 46% 57%
29% 31% 100% Failed to Score F T 50% 31% 18%
 
4.9 5.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 6 6.2 5.4
4.5 4.7 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 4.4 4.5
1.7 1.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 1.7
7 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
10.1 8.8 1 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 10.5 10.1
4.2 3.2 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.6 3.6
41% 46% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 32% 40%
 
8.6 6.8 16 Shots against (avg) S A 7.5 8 7.2
3.3 2 8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.8 3
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Bala Town have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Bala Town have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Premier League
  • Bala Town have the fewest points (2) at home in Premier League
  • Bala Town have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Premier League
  • Bala Town is in the worst form (0-4-2)
  • Connah's Quay have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Connah's Quay have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Connah's Quay have the fewest matches over the total-line (9) in Premier League
  • Connah's Quay have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Premier League
  • Connah's Quay have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premier League
  • Connah's Quay have the most matches under the total-line (19) in Premier League

  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 6 3 2 1 96 14 4 3 1 0 11 3 2 0 1 1 2 3 82 71
2 Connah's Quay 6 2 4 0 40 18 4 2 2 0 5 2 2 0 2 0 2 2 22 54
3 Penybont 6 2 4 0 44 24 3 1 2 0 5 4 3 1 2 0 2 1 20 51
4 Cardiff MU 6 1 2 3 35 42 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 0 1 3 3 11 -7 46
5 Bala Town 6 0 4 2 48 29 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 2 2 6 8 19 44
6 Newtown 6 1 2 3 45 46 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 0 1 2 0 3 -1 38