Eastleigh vs Southend Prediction & Betting Tips

Form guide

Southend have been on a strong run through August and September, winning most of their league games home and away and scoring freely along the way. That's a real change of pace from earlier in the year and it's put them right up near the top of the table.

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Eastleigh to win

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Eastleigh: 20 completed matches; Southend: 20 completed matches.

Eastleigh

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

55% 11 / 20

Scored

19

Conceded

30

Difference

-11

Southend

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

30% 6 / 20

Scored

44

Conceded

31

Difference

+13

Eastleigh's picture is messier. They've mixed home wins over Carlisle, Scunthorpe, Kidderminster and Gateshead with away defeats at Sutton and Altrincham, plus a couple of draws thrown in. It's a side capable of good results but not yet consistent.

Southend's recent form is the clearer signal of the two, but Eastleigh have shown they can win games at home.

Comparative Team Statistics: Eastleigh vs Southend

Head-to-head

These two have faced each other regularly in recent seasons and there's no obvious pattern. Southend won the most recent meeting 4-1 back in January, but before that Eastleigh had taken two of the previous three, including a cup win. Go back further and it's much the same story, wins shared roughly evenly.

Where they stand

Southend sit second with 20 points from nine games, having scored 23 and conceded just 12. Eastleigh are down in 12th on 14 points from the same number of matches, with a much tighter goal difference of 11 for and 10 against. That gap in points reflects Southend's stronger season overall, even if it doesn't tell the whole story of how each game might go.

The table clearly favours Southend, though Eastleigh's numbers aren't disastrous.

How this one could play out

Eastleigh have actually been solid at home this year, picking up wins against sides around and above them in the table. Southend, though, have shown they can score on the road too, with wins at Gateshead, Solihull and Altrincham among their recent away trips.

That combination points to a game that could be closer than the league positions suggest, with goals possible at both ends given how open some of these recent matches have been.