Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Heybridge Swifts & Braintree Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Heybridge Swifts and Braintree Town.
Heybridge Swifts form and stats
Action has already taken place for Heybridge in FA Cup as they have defeated Clapton, FC Romania and Hitchin Town to reach the 2nd Round Qualifying. Last season, Heybridge Swifts's FA Cup journey ended in the preliminary round.The Heybridge Swifts coach and his side return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Beckenham Town in the Fa Trophy.
In the game before, a nice away win at Hitchin Town. A FA Cup match.
There will be little rest for Heybridge after this match as they are travelling to Witham Town for a Non League Div One: Isthmian North game in only three days.
Braintree Town form and stats
They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round qualifying.It might be tough going out on the road again for Braintree Town, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-4 versus Ebbsfleet United. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Ebbsfleet United was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Concord Rangers at their stadium, the result 3-1.Just as the home team, Braintree Town have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 2 Braintree Town wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Heybridge Swifts one win, zero draws and Braintree Town two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Blair 5 goals |  L. Amantchi 3 goals | L. Reynolds 3 goals |
Heybridge Swifts missing players
Braintree Town missing players
| Heybridge Swifts | Braintree Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 47 | 30 | Scored | S | 23 | 36 | ||
| 36 | 19 | Conceded | C | 21 | 29 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 64% | ||
| 52% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 73% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 55% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 12% | ||
| 52% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 28% | ||
| 7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 4.5 | ||
| 6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.4 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.4 | 9.8 | ||
| 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.1 | ||
| 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 30% | ||
| 17 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.4 | 9.7 | ||
| 7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.6 | ||
