Match Report
St Ives Town (19th, 39 pts) visited Stourbridge (15th, 50 pts) with 11 points between them. Stourbridge had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 6th in the league over the last five rounds against 15th overall. Against a league average of 1.49 goals per team per game, Stourbridge ran at 1.38 scored and 1.62 conceded, St Ives Town at 1.19 and 1.74.
St Ives Town had gone 12 games without a win. The last-five ledger: Stourbridge 10/15, St Ives Town 2/15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 2 Stourbridge wins, 2 for St Ives Town, 1 draw, at 3.4 goals per meeting. History backs the host here — 80% of the meetings won by the home side. Goals tend to flow: 60% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 60%.
War Memorial Athletic Ground staged the fixture, a ground that holds 2,626. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 2-2 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 4-3.
Goal scorers
Stourbridge: Jai Verma (35'), Liam Brazier (42'), Jack Fletcher (90'), Tom Edge (90') · St Ives Town: Ben Hart (16'), Duncan Idehen (45'), Theo Alexandrou (56')