National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Atherton Collieries or Marine that keep their silverware dream alive.
Both contenders have had sufficient rest since their last effort on the pitch. Let's have faith in that this will be an in-your-face game!
Atherton Collieries form and stats
Collieries have not come this way in the FA Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Bridlington Town and Witton Albion. Atherton Collieries was eliminated in the 2nd round qualifying last season in the FA Cup.This match is a FA Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses in this competition.
Atherton Collieries shared the glory with Stafford Rangers in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.
Previous to that game, a FA Cup home match hosting Witton Albion in a game that was won 3-1.Collieries have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and three practice matches played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Atherton Collieries scored 1 goal and let in 11 goals during these three games.
Marine form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Warrington Town, Dunston and Workington in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.When we have look at the FA Cup statistics, we find 3W-1D-0L. This is both home and away. Marine have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 3-0 against Warrington Town in their previous game.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Dunston at their stadium, the result 2-1.It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Marine have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats from one fixture.
Head 2 Head
Atherton Collieries missing players
Marine missing players
| Atherton Collieries | Marine | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 8 | 18 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 30 | 19 | Scored | S | 21 | 49 | ||
| 38 | 23 | Conceded | C | 9 | 22 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 80% | ||
| 52% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 16% | ||
| 36% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | ||
| 40% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | ||
| 4 | 3.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.3 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 3.9 | ||
| 1 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.5 | 7.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 10 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.2 | ||
| 32% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 44% | ||