Wealdstone vs Southend Prediction

Recent form: contrasting patterns

Southend's last 20 matches across all competitions show 8 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses, with 39 goals scored and 30 conceded. There's been a 6-1 win at Gateshead in there, but also a 2-4 home defeat to Barrow, so it's not been one-way traffic.

Wealdstone: 20 completed matches; Southend: 20 completed matches.

Wealdstone

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

30

Conceded

29

Difference

+1

Southend

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

39

Conceded

27

Difference

+12

Wealdstone's last 20 have produced 8 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses, with 31 scored and 25 conceded. A 4-0 league win over Gateshead sits alongside home defeats like 1-4 to Kidderminster and 0-1 to FC Halifax Town, so their output has been up and down.

Both teams have shown they can score goals, but neither has been consistent defensively.

Comparative Team Statistics: Wealdstone vs Southend

Head-to-head: Southend with the edge

Looking back over the last dozen meetings between these two, Southend have won five, Wealdstone three, with four draws. Southend's wins include a 3-0 and a couple of 2-1 results, while Wealdstone's victories have mostly come at home, including a 3-2 win last September.

This history stretches back several seasons, so it's not a guide to current form on its own, but it does suggest Southend have generally had the upper hand in this fixture.

Wealdstone's head-to-head wins have tended to come on their own patch, which matters given this one's at their ground.

League table: a clear points gap

Southend sit second in the National League with 20 points from 10 games, built on six wins, two draws and two defeats.

Wealdstone are down in 17th with 11 points from the same number of matches, having won three, drawn two and lost five.

That's a nine-point gap between two sides who've played the same number of fixtures.

How this one could play out

Southend go into this with a much stronger league position and a head-to-head record that leans their way. Their recent matches have shown they can score goals freely, including big away wins, though they've also had the odd shaky day defensively.

Wealdstone, despite sitting well below Southend in the table, have shown flashes of quality at home, including that 4-0 win over Gateshead. Their inconsistency means they're capable of making this harder than the table suggests, but their home results this season have leaned more towards defeats than wins.