FC Halifax Town vs Gateshead Prediction & Betting Tips

Contrasting form lines

Halifax's recent games are a mixed bag on paper but there's more good than bad in there. They've beaten Sutton, Hornchurch, Hartlepool and Tamworth in the league recently, with defeats mixed in away at Wealdstone and Aldershot.

FC Halifax Town: 20 completed matches; Gateshead: 20 completed matches.

FC Halifax Town

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

5% 1 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

42

Conceded

35

Difference

+7

Gateshead

20 matches

Win

10% 2 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

65% 13 / 20

Scored

22

Conceded

45

Difference

-23

Gateshead's form reads very differently. They've lost seven of their last nine league matches, including a heavy 6-1 home defeat to Southend, and have managed just one win and one draw in that spell.

Halifax go into this with far more confidence behind them.

Comparative Team Statistics: FC Halifax Town vs Gateshead

A history of tight contests

These two have faced each other regularly over the years, and it's rarely been one-sided. A lot of these meetings have finished level, and Gateshead actually won the last one, 2-1 at Halifax back in February.

Older meetings between the clubs stretch back over a decade and include plenty of draws too, so this isn't a fixture where one side has traditionally dominated at this ground.

The head-to-head record doesn't automatically back the current form book.

Where they sit in the table

Both sides have played nine league games this season, and the table shows how differently things have gone. Halifax sit 13th with 13 points, having scored 14 and conceded 11.

Gateshead are down in 24th with only four points from the same number of matches, and they've already shipped 20 goals.

That's a big early-season gap for a fixture this early in the campaign.

How it could play out

On the numbers, Halifax look the stronger side by some distance right now, both in form and in the table. Their home form has had the odd blip, like the loss to Boreham Wood, but nothing close to Gateshead's current run.

Gateshead's away form this season has been poor, but they've shown before that they can turn up at Halifax and get something, including that win back in February. Whether that resilience shows up again with such a gap in form is another matter.