Match Preview: New Salamis v Witham Town (Saturday, 3pm)

Witham Town travel to New Salamis on Saturday in the Isthmian League Division One North.

The visitors come into the game on the back of a defeat in their last match, having lost to Basildon United 4-0 away.

New Salamis, meanwhile, won their last match, 3-2 against Grays Athletic.

With 31 goals in 23 games so far this season, Witham are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.3 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 43 goals at a rate of 1.9 per game.

New Salamis are also below average scorers, with 1.6 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.7. They have conceded 2.3 goals per game.

The home side are in mixed form in the Isthmian League Division One North, with three wins and a draw from their last six games.

With two wins and four losses over that period, Town’s form is worse – they have taken six points from 18, compared to New Salamis’s 10.

The visitors are 13th in the table after 23 games, of which they have won six and drawn six, earning 24 points.

New Salamis are one place ahead of Witham in 12th, with six wins and seven draws putting them on 25 points.

In the last three years, New Salamis and Witham have played each other on three occasions. New Salamis won one of them and they drew the other.

Their last meeting was on October 21, when they played out a 2-2 draw.

New Salamis v Witham Town
Isthmian League Division One – North | Coles Park
Saturday, 17 February 2024 @ 3.00pm

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