Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Grays Athletic (10th, 66 pts) held a 41-point advantage over Basildon United (22nd, 25 pts). Recent form flatters Grays Athletic's table spot — 1st league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 10th. In league terms the two rates read 1.45/1.17 for Grays Athletic and 0.81/1.95 for Basildon United (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.41.
Grays Athletic had won four straight. Defeat had followed defeat for Basildon United — four in succession. From the last five rounds, Grays Athletic held 13 points of 15 and Basildon United 1.
GioScore's database holds 4 meetings between the two: 1 for Grays Athletic, 2 for Basildon United and 1 drawn, at 2 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 75% of the meetings. Historically tight: 25% of the meetings went beyond two goals.
Chadfields in Tilbury staged the fixture, a ground that holds 4,000. Grays Athletic led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-0.
Goal scorers
Grays Athletic: 1 goal with no recorded scorer