Saturday’s match at Bracken Moor sees two relegation candidates play each other, as 17th-ranked Stocksbridge Park Steels host bottom of the table Winterton Rangers.
Stocksbridge have picked up 24 points from their first 24 Northern Premier League Division One – East games, with five wins and nine draws.
That is four points more than Winterton have collected, having won six and drawn two.
Stocksbridge are in mixed form in the Northern Premier League Division One East, with one win and five draws from their last six games.
With a win and a draw over that period, Winterton’s form is worse – they have taken four points from 18, compared to the Steels’s eight.
With 26 goals in 26 games so far this season, Rangers are the league’s second-lowest scorers with 1.0 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 59 goals at a rate of 2.3 per game.
The hosts are also below average scorers, with 1.2 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.6. They have conceded 1.3 goals per game.
Stocksbridge’s last match was on Tuesday, a 1-1 draw against Ashington AFC.
Winterton lost 2-1 against Newton Aycliffe last time out, on February 10.
Stocksbridge Park Steels v Winterton Rangers
Northern Premier League Division One – East | Bracken Moor
Saturday, 17 February 2024 @ 3.00pm
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