Match Preview: Heybridge Swifts v Brentwood Town (Saturday, 3pm)

Brentwood Town travel to the Scraley Road Stadium for Saturday’s match against Heybridge Swifts looking to bounce back from defeat last time out in the Isthmian League Division One North.

Brentwood, who sit fourth in the league after 24 games, fell to a 1-0 home defeat to Lowestoft Town on February 6.

They face a Heybridge Swifts side who picked up a win in their last match, a 2-1 victory against New Salamis, and who sit sixth in the table.

With 44 goals in 24 games so far this season, Brentwood are scoring more than average in the league with 1.8 goals per game. And they are conceding fewer than average, letting in 23 goals at a rate of 1.0 per game.

Heybridge Swifts are also above average scorers, with 1.8 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.7. They have conceded 1.2 goals per game.

The hosts are in mixed form in the Isthmian League Division One North, with two wins and two draws from their last six games.

With four wins and a draw over that period, Town’s form is better – they have taken 13 points from 18, compared to Heybridge Swifts’s eight.

In the last five years, Heybridge Swifts and Brentwood have played each other on five occasions. They won two each, and they drew once.

On average, Heybridge Swifts scored 1.0 goal and Brentwood 1.2 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on October 21, when Heybridge Swifts won 1-0 away.

Heybridge Swifts v Brentwood Town
Isthmian League Division One – North | Scraley Road Stadium
Saturday, 17 February 2024 @ 3.00pm

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