Sheppey United vs Chertsey Town Betting Tips & Preview

Chertsey Town to win

Chertsey Town are the pick to progress in this FA Cup qualifying tie, and the case rests largely on the shape of both sides' recent results and the lone previous meeting between them. Sheppey United have been in decent domestic nick, but Chertsey arrive having strung together a pair of wins of their own and head into this one as the side we make favourites to advance. The 1.80 on offer is simply the market's reflection of a tight contest on paper, not the reason for backing them; the pick is made because Chertsey look the more likely winners on the evidence available, nothing more.

Recent Form

Sheppey United's last five completed matches show a side picking up momentum, with four wins from five and the only blemish a draw away at Kennington back in August. Since then they've beaten Kennington at home, followed up with a win away at Rusthall, then further victories on the road at Redhill and Snodland Town. That's a run that suggests confidence and consistency, and a team that knows how to get results away from its own patch, which will matter here.

Chertsey Town's sample is shorter but no less instructive. They drew at home with Carshalton Athletic on 5 September, then turned it around just two days later with an away win over the same opponents, before adding another victory at home to Greenwich Borough on 19 September. Two wins and a draw from three outings is a solid platform, and the manner of bouncing back from the Carshalton draw with an immediate win suggests a squad capable of responding quickly when results don't go their way.

Head-to-Head

There is only one recorded meeting between these two clubs, and it went the way of Chertsey Town. Back on 7 September 2019, Chertsey won on home soil against Sheppey United, giving them a perfect head-to-head record from this admittedly tiny sample. It's not a huge body of history to lean on, but for what it's worth, the only precedent available favours the side we're siding with here.

Team News

Neither side has any players listed as sidelined in the data available to us. Sheppey United have no notable absences reported, and the same is true of Chertsey Town, meaning both managers should, on the information we have, be able to pick from close to full-strength squads for this fixture.