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

Heybridge Swifts travel to Walthamstow on Saturday in the Isthmian League Division One North.

The visitors come into the game on the back of a win in their last match, having beaten New Salamis 2-1 at home.

Walthamstow also won their last match, 2-0 against Wroxham.

With 33 goals in 22 games so far this season, Walthamstow are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.5 goals per game. But they are conceding fewer than average too, letting in 33 goals at a rate of 1.5 per game.

Heybridge Swifts, meanwhile, are 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 away side are sixth in the table after 24 games, of which they have won 13 and drawn five, earning 44 points.

The hosts are three places behind Heybridge Swifts in ninth, with nine wins and seven draws putting them on 34 points.

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

With two wins and two draws over that period, Heybridge Swifts’s form is slightly worse – they have taken eight points from 18, compared to Walthamstow’s nine.

Walthamstow v Heybridge Swifts
Isthmian League Division One – North | Wadham Lodge
Saturday, 24 February 2024 @ 3.00pm

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