📏 Form Guide

Southend United

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Southend United won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 4-3 National League defeat last time out to Hartlepool United.

For Southend United, the goals were scored by Andrew Dallas (1'), Sam Austin (78') and Charley Kendall (85'). Tyrese Sinclair (31', 63'), Alex Reid (47') and Jamie Miley (71') scored for Hartlepool United.

Fixtures with Southend United have often been absorbing encounters recently with a lot of goalmouth action anticipated. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 21 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 16 of these being chalked up by Southend United. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, though.

Coming into this clash, Southend United are undefeated in their last 8 league matches at home. A very good run at home.

Wealdstone

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Previously, Wealdstone drew 1-1 in the National League tie with Scunthorpe United.

The only name on the scoresheet from Wealdstone was Jack Wells-Morrison (71'). Declan Howe (89') was the scorer for Scunthorpe United.

Proving their involvement in action-packed encounters, we’ve seen goals 23 times in the prior six matches in which Wealdstone have taken to the pitch, making it an average of 3.83 goals per fixture. Their opponents have hit 9 of those goals.

Their prior results show that Wealdstone:

• have left without a victory over Southend United in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 4 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 29/04/2023 tells us that Southend United have won 3 of these & Wealdstone 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

In all, 18 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them for The Shrimpers and 7 created by The Stones. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The last league match featuring these sides was National League match day 7 on 02/09/2025 which ended up with the score at Wealdstone 3-2 Southend United.

The match was refereed by James Oldham.

📋 Team News: Southend United

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Southend United boss Kevin Maher to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength set of players. James Golding (Calf injury) is sidelined.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the view that Wealdstone have it within them to find the net against this Southend United outfit, although that is unlikely to be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re expecting a close game with a 2-1 victory for Southend United after 90 minutes. It really should be an interesting one.

Peter Guest, 11:05 25/04/2026