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

The Heybridge Swifts will visit Basildon United on Saturday in Division One North of the Isthmian League.

On March 23, Basildon’s most recent league game ended in a 2-1 away loss to the Suffolk Wanderers.

On February 3, the Heybridge Swifts defeated the New Salamis 2-1 at home.

Basildon has scored 46 goals in 23 games this season, which is greater than the league average of 2.0 goals per game. Furthermore, they are giving up fewer goals than usual—35 goals at a pace of 1.5 per game.

With 1.8 goals per game against the league average of 1.7, Heybridge Swifts score more goals than usual as well. Every game, they have given up 1.2 goals.

Heybridge Swifts and Basildon have faced off six times in the past ten years. The Heybridge Swifts tied twice and won four of them.

In those games, Heybridge Swifts scored 2.0 goals and Basildon scored 0.5 on average.

They played to a 1-1 draw in their most recent match, which took place on December 9.

After 24 games, the away team is sixth in the standings with 44 points, having won 13 and drawn five.

United has 12 victories, 3 draws, and 39 points, which puts them one spot behind Heybridge Swifts in seventh position.

With three victories and three defeats in their previous six games, the hosts’ record in the Isthmian League Division One North is mixed.

Heybridge Swifts’ record during that time has been marginally poorer, having taken eight points from 18 games as opposed to Basildon’s nine, with two victories and two draws.

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