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Barrow First Half Goals
In 230 EFL League Two matches, 69.6% of Barrow’s first halves produced a goal, 17th of the 36 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 41.3% of them and conceded in 43.5%.
What Barrow’s first halves look like
Travel costs Barrow at the back: 50.4% of their away matches bring an early goal against, next to 36.5% of home ones. The first goal is usually the last one before the break: a second follows only 38% of the time against 46% division-wide.
There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 230 matches against a typical 140. Two goals before the break is unusually hard to come by, 26.5% of Barrow’s matches against 31.8% across the division.
Three-goal first halves stay scarce, 6.1% of Barrow’s matches against 11.2% for the division as a whole. Barrow guard the first half better than they attack it: 16th of 36 in the division for early goals conceded, 21st for scoring them.
Every figure on this page rests on 230 completed Barrow matches over 5 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Barrow first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 69.6% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 26.5% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 6.1% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.04 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 41.3% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 43.5% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.49 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.55 |
| Matches counted | 230 |
| Seasons covered | 5 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 64.3% | 21.7% | 40.9% | 36.5% | 0.93 | 115 |
| Away | 74.8% | 31.3% | 41.7% | 50.4% | 1.15 | 115 |
Barrow score before halftime 40.9% of the time at home against 41.7% away, a gap of −0.8pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Barrow against EFL League Two
| Line | Barrow | EFL League Two | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 69.6% | 68.7% | +0.9pp |
| Over 1.5 | 26.5% | 31.8% | −5.3pp |
| Over 2.5 | 6.1% | 11.2% | −5.1pp |
Counted from 230 matches · 5 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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