Match Preview: Pontefract Collieries v Grantham Town (Saturday, 3pm)

Grantham Town travel to Pontefract Collieries on Saturday in the Northern Premier League Division One East.

The visitors come into the game on the back of a defeat in their last match, having lost to Grimsby Borough 2-1 at home.

Pontefract Collieries, meanwhile, drew their last match, 0-0 against Stockton Town.

Grantham are 19th in the table after 26 games, of which they have won four and drawn eight, earning 20 points.

Pontefract Collieries are 11 places ahead of Town in eighth, with 11 wins and six draws putting them on 39 points.

With 41 goals in 22 games so far this season, the hosts are scoring more than average in the league with 1.9 goals per game. And they are conceding fewer than average, letting in 27 goals at a rate of 1.2 per game.

The away team, meanwhile, are below average scorers, with 1.4 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.6. They have conceded 2.3 goals per game.

Pontefract Collieries are in mixed form in the Northern Premier League Division One East, with two wins and three draws from their last six games.

With a win and three draws over that period, Grantham’s form is worse – they have taken six points from 18, compared to Pontefract Collieries’s nine.

In the last three years, Pontefract Collieries and Grantham have played each other on three occasions. they drew all of them.

Their last meeting was on September 30, when they played out a 2-2 draw.

Pontefract Collieries v Grantham Town
Northern Premier League Division One – East
Saturday, 17 February 2024 @ 3.00pm

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