The betting markets expect effortless win for The New Saints when Haverfordwest County visit

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Competition: Wales Premier League
Competition: Sat 07.January
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Park Hall Stadium (2048 seats)

The New Saints get ready for another match after their 1-0 result versus Caernarfon Town, a game that produced some answers. How will they do against Haverfordwest County?

Insights:
  • The New Saints have the most scored goals (69) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have scored more than double the goals of Haverfordwest County.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Haverfordwest County 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 2-1-5 (win-draw-loss) from eight matches.

Saints have less rest than Haverfordwest County in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Premier League game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Caernarfon Town, so at least The New Saints are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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The New Saints form and stats

The New Saints have been outstanding at home so far in the Premier League with 9 wins, 0 draws and only 0 losses. After failing to beat Penybont here at Park Hall Stadium, The New Saints has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with nine wins in a row.

The Saints goalkeeper Connor Roberts is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 310 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.

A good away victory last time out for The New Saints, who won 1-0 against Caernarfon Town (placed 8th). The victory against Caernarfon Town came after McManus's winning goal. The The New Saints manager Harrison was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 65th minute.

Before that match, a win away at Airbus UK.

It would be a shock if the hosts fail to win this game. Let's see how Saints have performed as huge favourites like they are today: 22 games found in the database showing 21 The New Saints wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.

It should be taken into account that a look at the 11 most recent league matches reveals that 9 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored).

The manager Harrison will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Flint Town United in only three days.

With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of The New Saints is on fire here. A stunning 40 from 9 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 22 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Defensively The New Saints have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (4 in 9 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Haverfordwest County form and stats

There's been little loot from Haverfordwest County's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 10 away games in the Premier League. Haverfordwest County only have 2 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 1 draw. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Richards, the Haverfordwest County manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

There were no winners in Haverfordwest's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Pontypridd Town AFC (placed 10th).

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Pontypridd Town AFC wasn't a success with a 2-3 loss.

Haverfordwest County are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 4 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. Of the defeats, 1 game were lost by at least two goals margin.

In the opposite end, Haverfordwest County have conceded 17 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Haverfordwest County - Saints 1-3. The New Saints-Haverfordwest County H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: The New Saints nine wins, Haverfordwest County one win, zero draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

The New SaintsD. McManus
D. McManus
14 goals
The New SaintsR. Brobbel
R. Brobbel
10 goals
Haverfordwest CountyJ. Davies
J. Davies
9 goals

The New Saints missing players

Haverfordwest County missing players

The New Saints Haverfordwest County
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 3 10 20
16 9 3 Won W 0 2 7
3 0 0 Drew D 1 1 3
0 0 0 Lost L 2 7 10
69 40 8 Scored S 1 10 26
6 4 1 Conceded C 4 17 31
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
79% 89% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 80% 80%
58% 78% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 55%
47% 56% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 30%
37% 44% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 20%
26% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 60% 65%
74% 67% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 20%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 30% 15%
 
8.1 8.5 9.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.9 5.1
2.3 2.6 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 2.3 4.8 4.6
0.8 0.9 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.3 1.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
15.2 18.8 19 Shots (avg) S ( 3 7.1 8.2
7.6 9.4 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0.7 3 3.6
46% 45% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 33% 34%
 
3.2 3.1 2.7 Shots against (avg) S A 6 7 7.9
0.9 0.8 0.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.3 3.2 3.4
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Haverfordwest County haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • The New Saints have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • The New Saints have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • The New Saints have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • The New Saints have scored more than double the goals of Haverfordwest County.
  • The New Saints have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the most clean sheets (14) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the most scored goals (40) at home in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the most scored goals (69) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the most scored goals in the first half (31) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the most scored goals in the second half (32) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the the best goal difference (+36) at home in Premier League
  • The New Saints have the the best goal difference (+63) in Premier League
  • The New Saints have won all their matches at home so far.
  • The New Saints have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • The New Saints haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 19 16 3 0 69 6 9 9 0 0 40 4 10 7 3 0 29 2 63 51
2 Connah's Quay 19 13 3 3 32 12 11 9 2 0 20 5 8 4 1 3 12 7 20 42
3 Bala Town 19 11 3 5 39 18 9 6 2 1 16 8 10 5 1 4 23 10 21 36
4 Cardiff MU 20 11 2 7 24 28 10 7 1 2 13 12 10 4 1 5 11 16 -4 35
5 Penybont 19 9 5 5 26 18 9 5 2 2 14 9 10 4 3 3 12 9 8 32
6 Newtown 20 10 2 8 41 36 10 5 1 4 18 13 10 5 1 4 23 23 5 32
7 Haverfordwest County 20 7 3 10 26 31 10 5 2 3 16 14 10 2 1 7 10 17 -5 24
8 Caernarfon Town 19 7 1 11 28 34 11 6 0 5 19 17 8 1 1 6 9 17 -6 22
9 Flint Town United 19 5 5 9 18 27 8 2 4 2 7 9 11 3 1 7 11 18 -9 20
10 Pontypridd Town AFC 20 6 2 12 21 35 11 5 0 6 12 19 9 1 2 6 9 16 -14 20
11 Aberystwyth Town 19 6 0 13 20 53 9 5 0 4 12 17 10 1 0 9 8 36 -33 18
12 Airbus UK 19 0 1 18 12 58 9 0 1 8 8 34 10 0 0 10 4 24 -46 -2