Match Preview: Plymouth Parkway v Merthyr Town (Saturday, 3pm)

Merthyr Town travel for Saturday’s match against Plymouth Parkway looking to bounce back from defeat last time out in the Southern League Premier South.

Merthyr, who sit fourth in the league after 30 games, fell to a 3-2 home defeat to Bracknell Town on February 10.

They face a Plymouth Parkway side who also lost their last match, a 1-0 defeat to Beaconsfield Town, and who sit 17th in the table.

With 64 goals in 30 games so far this season, Merthyr are the league’s highest scorers with 2.1 goals per game. And they are conceding fewer than average, letting in 44 goals at a rate of 1.5 per game.

Plymouth Parkway, meanwhile, are average scorers, with 1.7 goals per game. They have conceded 1.4 goals per game.

The hosts are in mixed form in the Southern League Premier South, with two wins and three draws from their last six games.

With a win and five losses over that period, Town’s form is much worse – they have taken three points from 18, compared to Plymouth Parkway’s nine.

In the last 10 years, Plymouth Parkway and Merthyr have played each other on six occasions. Plymouth Parkway won two of them, Merthyr three, and they drew once.

On average, Plymouth Parkway scored 0.5 goals and Merthyr 0.8 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on October 14, when they played out a 1-1 draw.

Plymouth Parkway v Merthyr Town
Southern League Premier – South
Saturday, 17 February 2024 @ 3.00pm

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