Match Preview: Swindon Town v Harrogate Town (Saturday, 3pm)

Harrogate Town travel to Swindon Town on Saturday in League Two.

The visitors come into the game on the back of a defeat in their last match, having lost to Newport County 4-1 at home, with a goal from George Thomson.

The Robins, meanwhile, won their last match, 3-1 against Tranmere Rovers, with their goals scored by Rushian Hepburn-Murphy and Sean McGurk.

With 41 goals in 34 games so far this season, Harrogate are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.2 goals per game. And they are conceding at an average rate, letting in 52 goals at a rate of 1.5 per game.

Swindon, meanwhile, are above average scorers, with 1.7 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.5. They have conceded 1.8 goals per game.

In Daniel Kemp, Swindon Town have one of the league’s most on-form strikers so far this season. He has notched 17 goals in 35 appearances, to sit fourth in the scoring charts.

His goal rate of one every 176 minutes is quicker than that of Thomson, Harrogate Town’s top scorer with a goal every 248 minutes, and a total of 10 goals in 31 games.

The Robins are in disappointing form in League Two, with one win and three draws from their last six games.

With a win and two draws over that period, the visitors’ form is slightly worse – they have taken five points from 18, compared to the home team’s six.

Swindon are 17th in the table after 35 games, of which they have won 11 and drawn 10, earning 43 points.

Harrogate are five places ahead of Swindon in 12th, with 14 wins and six draws putting them on 48 points.

In the last five years, Swindon and Harrogate have played each other on five occasions. Swindon won two of them, Harrogate one, and they drew twice.

On average, the Robins scored 1.8 goals and Harrogate 1.2 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on November 18, when they played out a 1-1 draw.

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Swindon Town v Harrogate Town
League Two | The County Ground
Saturday, 2 March 2024 @ 3.00pm

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