National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Port Vale or Fleetwood Town that keep their silverware dream alive.
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 Port and Fleetwood Town.
Port Vale form and stats
Last season, Port Vale's Carabao Cup journey ended in the 1st round.Port faced defeat in their previous match, away at Barnsley (0-7). Port Vale were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Ahead of that match, Port Vale lost 1-3 at home to Plymouth Argyle.This is expected to be a close game, with Port perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Port Vale as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Port Vale has won 5 of these, drawn 2 and lost 2.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Port Vale as they have a new game in only four days, a League One match thankfully also at home. Reading are visiting.
Fleetwood Town form and stats
Fleetwood Town's mission in Carabao Cup last season failed in the 2nd round.The visitors are W0-D1-L0 on the road this term. That's in the League One.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Carlisle United in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1. Mayor got a match rating of 7.65 in that game, top player of the team. Mayor hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 5 times and had 46 successful passes (of 51 total).
Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Ipswich Town in the League One.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Fleetwood Town in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Fleetwood Town, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
After this away game Fleetwood return home for a League One game against Cambridge United. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Fleetwood Town have the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the preceeding ten meetings featuring these two contenders are: five wins for Port Vale, three draws and two wins for Fleetwood Town. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Sarpong Wiredu 1 goals |
Port Vale missing players
Fleetwood Town missing players
| Port Vale | Fleetwood Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 14 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 23 | 10 | Scored | S | 15 | 28 | ||
| 44 | 16 | Conceded | C | 16 | 28 | ||
| 88% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 60% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 12% | ||
| 48% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 36% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 4 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 10.4 | 11.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 10.1 | ||
| 2.6 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.5 | ||
| 35% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | ||
| 9.7 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 12.9 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Barnsley | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| 2 | Bolton Wanderers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Exeter City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Blackpool | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Cambridge United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Charlton Athletic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Shrewsbury Town | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Peterborough United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Stevenage | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Portsmouth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Carlisle United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Fleetwood Town | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Bristol Rovers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Derby County | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Cheltenham Town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Leyton Orient | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 17 | Reading | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 18 | Northampton Town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 19 | Oxford United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 20 | Burton Albion | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 21 | Wycombe Wanderers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| 22 | Lincoln City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 23 | Port Vale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 0 |
| 24 | Wigan Athletic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | -5 |
