Aldershot Town vs Gateshead Prediction

Form: two clubs pulling in opposite directions

Aldershot's wider form sample shows ten wins from twenty games, with 29 goals scored and 20 conceded. That's a healthy return, even allowing for a few cup and friendly results mixed in there.

Aldershot Town: 20 completed matches; Gateshead: 20 completed matches.

Aldershot Town

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

20% 4 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

29

Conceded

26

Difference

+3

Gateshead

20 matches

Win

5% 1 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

70% 14 / 20

Scored

17

Conceded

46

Difference

-29

Gateshead's numbers tell a very different story. Just two wins in twenty matches, with 22 scored and 43 conceded, is a heavy defensive record for any level of football.

Gateshead's away form in particular has been shaky, with several defeats on the road in recent weeks.

Comparative Team Statistics: Aldershot Town vs Gateshead

Head-to-head: recent meetings have favoured the home side

These two have met plenty of times over the years, and it's been fairly even across the long run, with wins shared both ways. The most recent meeting in April ended 1-0 to Aldershot at home.

Before that, Gateshead held out for a 3-3 draw at their own ground, and the meeting before that saw Aldershot win 3-1 at home again. So the last few visits for Gateshead haven't been easy ones.

Standings: a big points gap this season

Aldershot sit fifth with 18 points from ten games, a solid platform built on five wins and only two defeats so far.

Gateshead are down in 24th with just four points from the same number of matches, having won only once. Their goal difference, six for and 24 against, underlines how often they've been on the back foot.

That gap in the table lines up with everything the form figures are already showing.

How this one might play out

Put the form and the table together and this looks like a mismatch on paper. Aldershot are winning regularly at a decent level, while Gateshead have been leaking goals in most matches this season.

None of that guarantees anything once the game kicks off. Gateshead have shown they can dig in for a point, like that 3-3 draw at home to Aldershot last season, so a backs-to-the-wall display isn't out of the question.