National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Alvechurch or Nuneaton Town 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.
Alvechurch form and stats
Action has already taken place for Alvechurch in FA Cup as they have defeated Mickleover Sports and Harborough Town to reach the 3rd Round Qualifying. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 1st round qualifying.In their previous game, led his Alvechurch to a defeat away at Nuneaton Town. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Lye Meadow.
In the match before that, Alvechurch hosted Leiston and drew the Non League Premier: Southern game 3-3.This is expected to be a close game, with Alvechurch perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Alvechurch as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Alvechurch has won 5 of these, drawn 2 and lost 2.
Alvechurch have prepared for this season with two friendly games versus mixed opposition. Results from training matches should always be treated with caution, but the takeaways from these two matches are 1 victories, 0 draws and 1 losses. In these games, Alvechurch have scored 3 goals and conceded 4 times.
Nuneaton Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Leamington and Belper Town in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round qualifying.Nuneaton Town won their last game, 3-1 versus Alvechurch played at home.
Before that, Nuneaton travelled to Stratford Town and returned home with a draw after the Non League Premier: Southern game finished 1-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Nuneaton Town in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Nuneaton Town, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Nuneaton are hosting Bedford Town in the Non League Premier: Southern only three days away.
Just as the home team, Nuneaton Town have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 0 Nuneaton Town wins, 0 draws and 2 losses.
Head 2 Head
Nuneaton Town have won or drawn the last 6 matches (5-1-0) versus Alvechurch.Alvechurch missing players
Nuneaton Town missing players
| Alvechurch | Nuneaton Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 13 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 42 | 23 | Scored | S | 19 | 36 | ||
| 34 | 14 | Conceded | C | 11 | 27 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 8% | ||
| 64% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 28% | ||
| 3.8 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 5.5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 5 | ||
| 10.7 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8.1 | ||
| 5.5 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 3.8 | ||
| 25% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 38% | ||
| 11.3 | 10.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 8.5 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.4 | 3.2 | ||
