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| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darlington | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3/15 | 4-9 |
| Merthyr Town | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 6/15 | 7-7 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2025-11-01 – 2026-01-31) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | Darlington | 3-1 | Merthyr Town |
| 2025-11-01 | Merthyr Town | 3-1 | Darlington |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darlington | 20 | 7 | 6 | -5 | LLLWL | 21 | -1 |
| Merthyr Town | 14 | 7 | 9 | 1 | DDDLW | 13 | +1 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2026-10-10
Darlington go into the game 20th in the table on 6 points; Merthyr Town sit 14th on 9 — a 3-point gap. Per game in the league, Darlington score 1.14 and conceding 1.86, Merthyr Town 1.43 and 1.29, against a competition average of 1.31 goals per team per game. A win here leaves Darlington on 9 points and up to 13th, overtaking Merthyr Town, other results permitting.
Blackwell Meadows in Darlington stages the fixture, a ground that holds 25,000.
