Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Margate 5th with 75 points, Herne Bay 12th with 55, 20 apart.
Momentum sat with Margate, winners of their last six, having scored in 15 consecutive games. Herne Bay arrived off four straight defeats. The five-game form split read 15/15 points for Margate against 3/15 for Herne Bay.
GioScore's database holds 5 meetings between the two: 3 for Margate, 1 for Herne Bay and 1 drawn, at 2.4 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 40% of meetings won. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 60%.


