Premier League preview: Can Bala Town edge out victory against Newtown?

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Competition: Wales Premier League
Competition: Fri 07.April
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Maes Tegid (1200 seats)

Bala Town - Newtown: Premier League dungeon dwellers scrapping for points and greatness. Read all the available numbers and information before the match!

Insights:
  • Bala Town have the fewest points (2) at home in Premier League
  • Newtown have the most conceded goals (51) in Premier League

Both participants have had enough rest since their last game. Let's hope for an enthusiastic game!

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Bala Town form and stats

Three Premier League home games done for Bala Town, who are not happy collecting 2 points from these matches.

Bala's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Connah's Quay (placed 2nd).

Before that, Bala Town played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Penybont.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Bala handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats.

The lack of attacking qualities in Bala Town means that they have only scored {1 goals} in 3 league home games, less than half a goal per match. From these home matches, Bala Town have conceded only 2 goals.

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Newtown form and stats

Still no away game victory in the Premier League for Newtown with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts.

Newtown are looking to quickly end their 360 minutes long goal drought in the Premier League.

Newtown's previous game was their home loss versus The New Saints (0-5). Newtown lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one.

Prior to that match, the Newtown manager Hughes faced defeat when travelling to Connah's Quay and losing 0-2.

We have checked recent matches where Newtown have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 1 victory, 4 draws and 4 defeats.

{0 goals} so far away for Newtown, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 3. All from 3 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Fancy a gamble on both teams to score (or not)? Curiously enough, the previous time both teams scored in one of the away team's league games was the last time they faced today's opposition Bala Town! Newtown - Bala Town 3-2, five matches ago. Sutton (Newtown) was given a red card by the ref when these teams met earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's eight Bala victories, one draw and one Newtown win. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

NewtownA. Williams
A. Williams
14 goals
NewtownL. Robles
L. Robles
10 goals
Bala TownG. Newell
G. Newell
8 goals

Bala Town missing players

Newtown missing players

Bala Town Newtown
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 0 Played P 0 14 29
12 7 0 Won W 0 5 11
8 5 0 Drew D 0 2 5
9 2 0 Lost L 0 7 13
49 20 0 Scored S 0 23 45
31 10 0 Conceded C 0 29 51
90% 79% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 93% 90%
79% 71% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 86% 79%
55% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 79% 62%
24% 7% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 41%
21% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 43% 38%
45% 29% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 64% 55%
38% 64% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 14%
28% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 36% 41%
 
5 5.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 4.4
4.6 4.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.3 5.9
1.6 1.4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.3 1.7
7 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 6
 
10.1 8.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7.4 7.8
4.2 3.1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.2 3.3
40% 45% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 51% 46%
 
8.7 7 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 10.4 10.8
3.3 2.1 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.9 4.7
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Bala Town have the fewest points (2) at home in Premier League
  • Bala Town have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Premier League
  • Newtown have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Newtown have the fewest clean sheets (1) away in Premier League
  • Newtown have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premier League
  • Newtown have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Premier League
  • Newtown have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Premier League
  • Newtown have the most conceded goals (51) in Premier League
  • Newtown have the most conceded goals in the first half (29) in Premier League
  • Newtown have the most matches over the total-line (18) 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 7 4 2 1 101 14 4 3 1 0 11 3 3 1 1 1 7 3 87 74
2 Connah's Quay 7 3 4 0 42 19 4 2 2 0 5 2 3 1 2 0 4 3 23 57
3 Penybont 7 3 4 0 47 26 3 1 2 0 5 4 4 2 2 0 5 3 21 54
4 Cardiff MU 7 1 2 4 37 45 3 1 1 1 5 5 4 0 1 3 3 11 -8 46
5 Bala Town 7 0 4 3 49 31 3 0 2 1 1 2 4 0 2 2 6 8 18 44
6 Newtown 7 1 2 4 45 51 4 1 1 2 4 9 3 0 1 2 0 3 -6 38