5 National League Tips for Tuesday Night's Action - 5/10/21

On Tuesday night, Altrincham host Grimsby Town at Moss Lane in a battle of sixth versus first in the National League standings.

The hosts come into this match in good form, having won four out of five National League fixtures, having defeated relegation candidates DoverAthletic 3-2, King’s Lynn Town 4-1 and also earned impressive victories against Notts County and Dagenham & Redbridge via 1-0 and 3-2 scorelines, with Josh Hancock and Dan Mooney scoring in the 87th and 90th minute in the latter to seal a last gasp victory.

Grimsby are 20 points from nine matches, having won six, drawn two and lost just once, scoring 21 and conceding nine and come into this game having won three of their last five games, beating the likes of Wrexham 3-1, Eastleigh 2-0, before drawing 1-1 away at Maidenhead United and losing 3-1 to an in-form Bromley side, but, last time out they hammered Dover Athletic 6-0 at Blundell Park to put themselves back on track as Luke Waterfall and Ryan Taylor braces, as well as goals from John McAtee and Will Bapaga put the Mariners on their way to three points on Saturday to put them top of the league standings.

11th place Woking host second in the table Dagenham & Redbridge at Kingfield Stadium on Tuesday, with the away side looking to reclaim top spot.

Woking come into this match with back to back wins against high-flyers Chesterfield 3-1 and Notts County 4-1 having lost their previous two matches to Eastleigh and Wrexham 3-2 and 1-0.

Meanwhile, the Daggers were beaten late on against Altrincham last time out as mentioned above, following a good run of three wins in their last four matches, that saw them defeat King’s Lynn Town 2-1, Weymouth 4-2 and Solihull Moors 5-1 at home, of which Paul McCallum (2), Josh Walker, Scott Wilson and Mauro Vilhete all got on the scoresheet in the latter.

Dagenham & Redbridge come in as favourites to win this match having scored 24 goals in nine games, but, this is expected to be a closely fought contest against an in-form side, hence why the score range of 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1 is priced at 5/2.

FC Halifax Town take on Notts County at The Shay Stadium in what will be a closely contested game.

The hosts have won three and drawn two of their last five matches, having beaten Southend United 3-1, Stockport County 3-0, as well as Aldershot Town 1-0 thanks to a strike from Bill Waters against the Shots. Their draws have included 2-2 and 0-0 scorelines against Boreham Wood and Barnet.

Notts County come into this game with just two wins in their last five matches, following a 1-1 draw with Weymouth, before beating Wealdstone and Maidenhead 3-2 and 1-0 at Meadow Lane, before losing back-to-back games against both Altrincham 1-0 and Woking 4-1 last time out.

The Shaymen have scored 15 and conceded eight times in nine outings, whilst Notts County have fired in 16 but leaked 12 in the same amount of league fixtures.

An in-form Bromley side face Weymouth on Tuesday night at Hayes Lane in a game that the hosts will expect to take all three points from.

Bromley are currently 10th in the National League but have only played seven league matches, winning their last three against Barnet 2-0, Dover Athletic 1-0 and Grimsby Town 3-1, with Michael Cheek, James Alabi and Corey Whitely all getting on the scoresheet.

The visitors, Weymouth, are 17th in the league standings coming into this match and haven’t won any of their last five league matches, not since they defeated Solihull Moors 4-3 on 4th September in a game where they actually took a 4-1 lead through Josh Leslie-Smith, Bradley Ash (2) and Josh McQuoid. Since then they have drawn 1-1 with Notts County and Dover Athletic, as well as being beaten 4-1, 3-2 and 2-1 by Dagenham & Redbridge, Barnet and Stockport County.

Bromley have scored 15 and conceded 10 in seven games, whilst Weymouth have hit the back of the net 13 times, but leaked 18 in nine league fixtures.

The final tip on this list comes from Boreham Wood versus Torquay United at Meadow Park.

Boreham Wood come into this game in fourth place in the league standings, compared to Torquay United, who having lost the playoff final to Hartlepool United at Ashton Gate in dramatic circumstances are in 13th place following a slow start to the campaign for Gary Johnson’s men.

The Wood have won two of their last five matches, defeating Bromley 3-2 in early September, as well as Yeovil 2-1 later on that month thanks to a Josh Staunton own goal and Josh Rees effort in the latter.

On the other hand, Torquay have also won two of their last five league matches, beating both Wealdstone 5-0 and Southend United 1-0, as well as losing 2-1 and 3-1 to Grimsby Town and Solihull Moors, as well as drawing 2-2 away at Chesterfield in late September.

Boreham Wood have the second-best defence in the division, having conceded just nine times in nine matches, compared to Torquay’s torrid record of 18, which is the second-worst in the National League.