National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Plymouth Argyle or Peterborough United that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Plymouth Argyle form and stats
Last season, Plymouth Argyle's Carabao Cup journey ended in the 2nd round.Overall League One results at home this season for Plymouth Argyle are 1-0-0 (wins-draws-losses).
No payout for Plymouth in their previous match, an away game at Fleetwood Town that ended in defeat 1-2. The versatile forward Mayor edged out all the other footballers in that match and got a match rating of 7.44 out of 10. Mayor hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 23 successful passes (of 28 total).
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Barnsley.This is expected to be a close game, with Plymouth Argyle perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Plymouth Argyle as a small favourite), we find 7 games. Plymouth Argyle has won 4 of these, drawn 0 and lost 3.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the League One game versus Peterborough United in only three days. This game is also played here at Home Park.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Plymouth Argyle at home in the league. 1 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Peterborough United form and stats
Peterborough United's mission in Carabao Cup last season failed in the 1st round.1-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Peterborough United in their League One matches away.
Peterborough United won their last game, 3-0 versus Morecambe played at home. Thompson got a match rating of 8.11 in that game, top player of the team. Thompson scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 21 successful passes (of 25 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Cheltenham Town at their stadium, the result 3-2.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Peterborough manager McCann as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Plymouth Argyle.
3 goals so far away for Peterborough United, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings featuring these participants: Plymouth Argyle won three, Peterborough United were winners in seven and we saw zero draws. eight games with more than 2,5 goals, two matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Clarke-Harris 2 goals |   R. Hardie 1 goals | F. Azaz 1 goals |
Plymouth Argyle missing players
Peterborough United missing players
| Plymouth Argyle | Peterborough United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | ||
| 33 | 15 | Scored | S | 16 | 34 | ||
| 19 | 8 | Conceded | C | 17 | 36 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 60% | 46% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 20% | 8% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 44% | ||
| 56% | 69% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 36% | ||
| 5 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.8 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 11.9 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.8 | 10.6 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 4 | ||
| 37% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 34% | ||
| 10.3 | 11.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.2 | 14.5 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 4.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Peterborough United | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Exeter City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | Bolton Wanderers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Sheffield Wednesday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Accrington Stanley | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Charlton Athletic | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Ipswich Town | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Bristol Rovers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Fleetwood Town | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Forest Green Rovers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | Wycombe Wanderers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Plymouth Argyle | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Barnsley | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | Cambridge United | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | Derby County | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 | Oxford United | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 | Port Vale | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 3 |
| 18 | Portsmouth | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | Lincoln City | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Shrewsbury Town | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 21 | Morecambe | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
| 22 | Cheltenham Town | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 23 | Milton Keynes Dons | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 24 | Burton Albion | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -7 | 0 |
