Salford City vs Port Vale

Salford host Port Vale for this English League Two round 30 clash at Peninsula Stadium early Wednesday Beijing time. This is the 4th tier of English football and the level of this league is on average considerable lower than that of The League One,not to mention The Championship. It is a physical league where most teams play pretty straightforward football. Fighting hard for every ball is more or less a must. The stakes are high in this match as both teams have a chance to be promoted to League One for next season! The top-3 are promoted directly, and the teams placed 4-7th will earn a ticket for the play offs. Port Vale currently occupy the 3rd place with 66 points. The hosts are 7th in the standings and have grabbed 62 points so far. Both teams have achieved good results lately winning 4 of their latest 5 matches. However, I see the visitors as pretty clearly the better team here by raw class - they have also been more convincing than Salford on the pitch recently. In fact, I think they have a very good chance to hold on to a top-3 position and see them as the 3rd best team in this league. The hosts are in the 10th place in my ranking and would need to improve to finish even on the 7th place.. Port Vale a have better offensive structure and are more creative offensively than Salford. Indeed, they have scored much more goals than the hosts.

Port Vale have definitely played very well lately and could easily have take even more points from the recent matches. They were the better teams against Barrow in their most recent match. Before this played a very strong match defensively against Sutton at home winning 2-0. They allowed Sutton just 1 shot on target. Sutton are about the same level as Salford.. Before this they could have easily beaten Exter, a very good team, who are in the second place in the standings. It was a 0-0 draw at home, but Port Vale recorded 13 goal attempts, Exeter had just 6. Port Vale also had much more shots on goal, completed passes, and dangerous attacks. Salford, on the other hand, played well against Hartlepool winning 2-1 but against Crawley and Walsall - they won both matches 2-1 – it could easily have been a draw or even a loss for Salford! Both matches were very balanced. Salford are clearly over-valued by the betting market here. The visitors should be the favorites! My fans and I have a 72% chance of winning the +0.5 goals handicap bet on Port Vale!

索尔福德在北京时间周三早些时候在半岛体育场举行的英格兰联赛第二轮第 30 轮比赛中主场迎战淡水河谷港。这是英格兰足球的第4级别，这个联赛的水平平均比甲级联赛低很多，更不用说英冠了。这是一个体育联赛，大多数球队都踢非常简单的足球。为每一个球而努力奋斗或多或少是必须的。这场比赛的赌注很高，因为两支球队都有机会在下赛季晋级甲级联赛！前3名直接晋级，第4-7名的球队将获得附加赛门票。维尔港目前以 66 分排名第三。东道主在积分榜上排名第 7，到目前为止已经拿到了 62 分。两支球队最近都取得了不错的成绩，最近5场比赛赢了4场。然而，我认为客队显然是这里更好的球队——他们最近在球场上也比索尔福德更有说服力。其实我觉得他们有很好的机会保住前三的位置，并将他们视为联盟中第三好的球队。东道主在我的排名中排在第 10 位，即使排在第 7 位也需要改进。与索尔福德相比，维尔港的进攻结构更好，进攻更具创造力。事实上，他们的进球数比东道主多得多。

维尔港最近的表现肯定非常好，并且很容易从最近的比赛中获得更多积分。在最近的一场比赛中，他们是对阵巴罗的更好的球队。此前在主场对阵萨顿进行了一场非常强悍的防守，2-0获胜。他们让萨顿只有 1 次射正。萨顿和索尔福德差不多水平。在此之前，他们本可以轻松击败埃克斯特，一支非常优秀的球队，他们在积分榜上排名第二。主场 0-0 战平，但淡水河谷港有 13 次进球尝试，埃克塞特只有 6 次。淡水河谷港也有更多射门、完成传球和危险的攻击。另一方面，索尔福德在对阵哈特尔普尔的比赛中表现出色，以 2-1 获胜，但在对阵克劳利和沃尔索尔的比赛中——他们以 2-1 获胜——这对索尔福德来说很容易打平甚至输球！两场比赛都非常平衡。索尔福德显然被市场高估了。我预测维尔港不败。