National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Banbury United or Bath City that keep their silverware dream alive.
These are hustling days for the team playing at home, as they had a game only four days ago in the Non League Premier: Southern Central. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Bromsgrove Sporting.
Banbury United form and stats
Banbury have reached this FA Cup stage through battling and winning against Ardley United, Nantwich Town and Basford United. Banbury participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.3W-0D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the FA Cup for Banbury United. Two home wins in a row for Banbury United bring valid hopes of a third.
Banbury enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Bromsgrove Sporting's place. The match ended 3-1.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Nuneaton Town.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Leiston are coming to town in three days.
Banbury 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 0 victories, 2 draws and 0 losses. In these games, Banbury United have scored 1 goal and conceded 1 time.
Bath City form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Shaftesbury Town and Frome Town in order to reach 4th round qualifying of FA Cup. Bath was sent out of FA Cup in the 4th round qualifying last season.It might be tough going out on the road again for Bath, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-4 versus Dorking Wanderers.
That result followed a home victory 5-0 versus Frome Town in the FA Cup.Just as the home team, Bath City have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 2 Bath City wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
Banbury United-Bath City H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Banbury one win, Bath City three wins, one draw. two of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  C. Cooke 6 goals |  A. Fletcher 3 goals | E. Frear 1 goals |
Banbury United missing players
Bath City missing players
| Banbury United | Bath City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 11 | ||
| 40 | 24 | Scored | S | 22 | 45 | ||
| 28 | 14 | Conceded | C | 21 | 47 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 84% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 42% | 40% | ||
| 64% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 20% | ||
| 3.5 | 2.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.7 | ||
| 3 | 1.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.7 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 7.8 | 5.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 10.6 | ||
| 3.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 5.3 | ||
| 33% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 36% | ||