About Match
4 points for Gateshead (22nd), 13 for Southend United (3rd): a 9-point gap. Gateshead rank 18th in the league on five-round form, well above their 22nd table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Gateshead 0.83 scored and 1.5 conceded per game, Southend United 2 and 1.33, with the league averaging 1.53. If Gateshead win, their total rises to 7 and up to 15th, assuming the rest of the results stand.
From the last five rounds, Gateshead hold 4 points of 15 and Southend United 10.
Across 6 recorded meetings, Gateshead have 2 wins to Southend United's 1, with 3 draws, at 2 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 0% of those meetings. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
Gateshead International Stadium in Gateshead, capacity 11,800, hosts the game.