Perhaps a welcome break from league football as AFC Hornchurch & Braintree Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
The visiting Braintree Town played their last game only four days ago, a Vanarama National League South match.
AFC Hornchurch form and stats
AFC Hornchurch have reached this FA Cup stage through battling and winning against Ipswich Wanderers and Maldon & Tiptree. AFC Hornchurch participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 3rd round qualifying replays.Hornchurch's last game was hosting Cray Wanderers and winning 2-1.
In the game before, an away victory in the Non League Premier: Isthmian match versus Herne Bay with a 6-0 scoreline.This is expected to be a close game, with AFC Hornchurch perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with AFC Hornchurch as a small favourite), we find 5 games. AFC Hornchurch has won 4 of these, drawn 0 and lost 1.
AFC Hornchurch have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Hornchurch scored 1 goal and let in 2 goals during these one game.
Braintree Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Heybridge Swifts in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round qualifying.Braintree Town are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the fixture against St Albans City.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Slough Town in the Vanarama National League South.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by Braintree Town in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Braintree Town, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
Braintree Town played three friendlies in their break from official games, resulting in 2 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. In these three matches Braintree Town scored 9 and conceded 5 goals.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  L. Amantchi 5 goals |  L. Reynolds 3 goals | A. Matthews 2 goals |
AFC Hornchurch missing players
Braintree Town missing players
| AFC Hornchurch | Braintree Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 66 | 32 | Scored | S | 24 | 39 | ||
| 23 | 12 | Conceded | C | 21 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 76% | ||
| 84% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 54% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 24% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 20% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.7 | ||
| 1.1 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9.5 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 9.7 | ||
| 5.1 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.3 | ||
| 53% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 32% | ||
| 7.5 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.2 | 9.9 | ||
| 2.7 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 3.7 | ||
