About Match
Ilkeston Town (17th, 7 pts) visit Gainsborough Trinity (8th, 13 pts) with 6 points between them. Recent form tells a different story for Ilkeston Town: only 21st in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 17th. Scoring rates set the scale: Gainsborough Trinity 1.75 scored and 1.25 conceded per game, Ilkeston Town 0.63 and 2.25, with the league averaging 1.64. If Gainsborough Trinity win, their total rises to 16 and up to 5th, assuming the rest of the results stand.
Ilkeston Town have been beaten in three straight games. Over the last five, Gainsborough Trinity have taken 7 of 15 points to Ilkeston Town's 1.
The sides have met 6 times in the GioScore results database: 1 win for Gainsborough Trinity, 3 draws and 2 for Ilkeston Town, at 1.67 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 17% of meetings won. Only 33% of the meetings produced more than two goals.
The match takes place at The Northolme in Gainsborough (capacity 4,304).