📏 Form Guide

Gateshead

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Gateshead will be hoping to bounce back here after a 0-2 National League defeat in their last game at the hands of Forest Green Rovers.

Tom Knowles (5') and Chibuzo Nwoko (56') scored for Forest Green Rovers.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Gateshead haven’t conceded. In fact, Gateshead have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 11 goals in the process. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Heading into this fixture, Gateshead have not won at home in their last 14 league matches. It's simply not good enough.

Braintree Town

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Braintree Town will go into this game following on from a 2-3 National League win in the defeat of Truro City in their most recent outing.

For Braintree Town, the goalscorers were John Akinde (7'), Ben Drake (67' Own goal) and Aidan Francis-Clarke (80', 90'). Freddie Issaka (45') scored for Truro City.

Braintree Town have regularly broken through opposing defences of late, having scored 8 goals in their previous 6 matches. While their manager Steve Pitt will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Braintree Town can also improve defensively after being scored against in 5 of those same matches.

Ahead of this meeting, Braintree Town have not been beaten by Gateshead when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. A very good record, indeed.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 17/12/2016 tells us that Gateshead have won 1 of these & Braintree Town 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

An aggregate of 16 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 6 of them for The Tynesiders and 10 created by The Iron. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The last league meeting between these sides was National League match day 12 on 27/09/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Braintree Town 1-2 Gateshead.

The match was refereed by Declan Brown.

📋 Team News: Gateshead

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Gateshead manager Rob Elliot to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. Connor Pani (Achilles tendon rupture) is out of contention.

⚡ Prediction

In our view, Braintree Town are dangerous enough to put a goal past this Gateshead lineup, but it might not be enough to avoid a loss.

We reckon that it will be a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Gateshead after 90 minutes. Looking forward to seeing how this one unfolds.

Victor Martins, 19:10 04/03/2026