Solihull Moors v Wealdstone
National League | ARMCO Arena
Saturday, 28 October 2023 @ 3.00pm
Solihull Moors host Wealdstone on Saturday at the ARMCO Arena in National League.
In their last league match, on Tuesday, Solihull Moors drew with Barnet 1-1 away, with their goal scored by Joseph Neil Newton.
Wealdstone won, 3-1 at home against Oxford City, with Sam Bowen (two) and Kyle Ray Smith on the scoresheet.
Solihull Moors are fourth in the table after 17 games, of which they have won eight and drawn seven, earning 31 points.
Wealdstone are 11 places behind the Moors in 15th, with five wins and five draws putting them on 20 points.
With 20 goals in 17 games so far this season, the away team are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.2 goals per game. But they are conceding fewer than average too, letting in 24 goals at a rate of 1.4 per game.
The hosts, meanwhile, are average scorers, with 1.5 goals per game. They have conceded 1.1 goals per game.
In Tommy Simkim, Solihull Moors can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept five clean sheets in his 17 appearances this season, and only three other 'keepers – Kidderminster Harriers's Christian Dibble, Woking's William Jääskeläinen and Halifax Town's Samuel William Johnson – have been able to prevent the opposition scoring on more occasions in National League.
In Wealdstone's net, Jed Ward has three clean sheets in 17 games. He has conceded a goal every 67 minutes, 30% more often than the 90 minutes between goals for Simkim.
Solihull Moors are in mixed form in National League, with two wins and two draws from their last six games.
With two wins and two draws over that period, Wealdstone's form is identical – they have both taken eight points from 18.
Over the last two years, Solihull Moors and Wealdstone have played each other on three occasions. Solihull Moors won two of them and Wealdstone one.
Their last meeting was on April 25, when Wealdstone won 3-0 at home.