Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Atherton Collieries & Witton Albion 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 Atherton Collieries and Witton Albion.
Atherton Collieries form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Collieries, as the manager B. Cooke led his troops to eliminate Bridlington Town, and reach the 2nd Round Qualifying. Collieries participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round qualifying.The Collieries crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Whitby Town here at The Skuna Stadium in a Non League Premier: Northern match.
Ahead of that match, Collieries won a home game hosting Grantham Town (1-0).Collieries have prepared for this season with three friendly games versus mixed opposition. Results from training matches should always be treated with caution, but the takeaways from these three matches are 0 victories, 0 draws and 3 losses. In these games, Atherton Collieries have scored 1 goal and conceded 11 times.
Witton Albion form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Scarborough Athletic in order to reach 2nd round qualifying of FA Cup. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 1st round qualifying.Witton play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-9 to Matlock Town. Witton lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-9 beating and focus on this one.
Preceding that game was the away Non League Premier: Northern victory against Morpeth Town with the score of 2-1.It's a day of discovery for Witton as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Witton Albion have played four with the results W0-D1-L3 (win-draw-lost). In these games Witton Albion has scored 3 goals and conceded 12 times.
Head 2 Head
Atherton Collieries-Witton Albion H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Atherton Collieries zero wins, Witton Albion three wins, zero draws. three of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Atherton Collieries missing players
Witton Albion missing players
| Atherton Collieries | Witton Albion | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Lost | L | 4 | 14 | ||
| 27 | 17 | Scored | S | 18 | 32 | ||
| 42 | 26 | Conceded | C | 23 | 50 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 84% | ||
| 52% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 24% | ||
| 32% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 28% | ||
| 3.7 | 3.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 0.8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.1 | 6.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 6.6 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.8 | ||
| 32% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 43% | ||