A brief glance at the Premier League table indicate an edge to The New Saints when they travel to Bala Town. Even so; let's play the game before we hand out the points!
- Bala Town have the fewest points (2) at home in Premier League
- The New Saints have the most scored goals (106) in Premier League
Bala Town's stadium, Maes Tegid, has a grass surface. The New Saints have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for The New Saints when playing on grass; 25 wins, 11 draws and 3 losses from 39 matches. They have scored {85 goals} in these games and conceded 27.
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.
Bala Town form and stats
0 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Bala Town have to build on here at Maes Tegid in the Premier League. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Bala Town, their manager Caton and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
The Bala followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at Maes Tegid: A 1-2 defeat against Newtown (placed 6th). Heartbreak for Bala Town in their last match as Newtown's Ismail scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Connah's Quay (1-2).The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Bala Town here at Maes Tegid in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (2 from 4 games).
The New Saints form and stats
Playing away, The New Saints, who have the most scored goals (106) in Premier League, have won 2 games, drawn 1 and suffered 1 defeat in the Premier League this season. Saints has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
Two away matches in a row for The New Saints, whose manager Harrison could celebrate last time after the win against Penybont. As you can tell from the result, the match against Penybont was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today? Which player has scored three matches in a row for the away team? The answer is McManus and that is impressive stuff!
Preceding that game was the away victory against Newtown with the score of 5-0.As opposed to that, The New Saints have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The New Saints have put together a sequence of 13 consecutive games without defeat (9-4-0) when facing Bala.This isn't the first time these teams face each other this season, as the results database show this recent match: The New Saints - Bala Town 2-1.
Top Goalscorers
  D. McManus 26 goals | R. Brobbel 14 goals | B. Clark 13 goals |
Bala Town missing players
The New Saints missing players
| Bala Town | The New Saints | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 30 | 15 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| 12 | 7 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 10 | 24 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 10 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 50 | 21 | 1 | Scored | S | 5 | 49 | 106 |
| 33 | 12 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 16 |
| 90% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 80% | 90% |
| 80% | 73% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 73% | 80% |
| 57% | 53% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 53% | 63% |
| 23% | 7% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 53% | 50% |
| 20% | 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 47% | 40% |
| 47% | 33% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 40% |
| 37% | 60% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 60% |
| 27% | 27% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 20% | 10% |
| 5 | 5.4 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9.5 | 7.5 | 8 |
| 4.5 | 4.7 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| 1.6 | 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.2 | 9 | 5.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 21 | 13.7 | 16.6 |
| 4.2 | 3.3 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 6.5 | 7.7 |
| 40% | 43% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 51% | 45% |
| 8.7 | 7.2 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 3.3 | 2.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
- Bala Town have the fewest points (2) at home in Premier League
- Bala Town have the fewest scored goals (2) at home in Premier League
- The New Saints have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- The New Saints have scored more than double the goals of Bala Town.
- The New Saints have the fewest conceded goals (16) in Premier League
- The New Saints have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6) in Premier League
- The New Saints have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in Premier League
- The New Saints have the most clean sheets (10) away in Premier League
- The New Saints have the most clean sheets (18) in Premier League
- The New Saints have the most scored goals (106) in Premier League
- The New Saints have the most scored goals (12) away in Premier League
- The New Saints have the most scored goals in the first half (53) in Premier League
- The New Saints have the most scored goals in the second half (53) in Premier League
- The New Saints have the the best goal difference (+7) away in Premier League
- The New Saints have the the best goal difference (+90) in Premier League
- The New Saints have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
| 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 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 106 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 90 | 77 |
| 2 | Connah's Quay | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 44 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 60 |
| 3 | Penybont | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 49 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 54 |
| 4 | Cardiff MU | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 37 | 47 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -10 | 46 |
| 5 | Bala Town | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 50 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 44 |
| 6 | Newtown | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 47 | 52 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -5 | 41 |
