National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Boston United or Leamington that keep their silverware dream alive.
Leamington could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Non League Premier: Southern game only four sleeps ago.
Boston United form and stats
Last season, Boston's FA Cup journey ended in the 3rd round qualifying replays.Boston United lost their last game at Alfreton Town after a 0-4 scoreline. As you see from the result above, Boston suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Darlington that finished 0-0.Boston United have prepared for this season with four friendly games versus mixed opposition. Results from training matches should always be treated with caution, but the takeaways from these four matches are 1 victories, 0 draws and 3 losses. In these games, Boston United have scored {5 goals} and conceded 13 times.
Leamington form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Coleshill Town in order to reach 2nd round qualifying of FA Cup. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round qualifying.Leamington won their last game, 4-0 versus Berkhamsted played at home. As mentioned above, Leamington was the only team on the pitch versus Berkhamsted in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Barwell at their stadium, the result 2-0.Just as the home team, Leamington have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 0 Leamington wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Boston five wins, two draws and Leamington three victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Mooney 4 goals | J. Knowles 3 goals | K. Ward 2 goals |
Boston United missing players
Leamington missing players
| Boston United | Leamington | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 36 | 23 | Scored | S | 12 | 31 | ||
| 33 | 21 | Conceded | C | 27 | 40 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 44% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 32% | ||
| 3.6 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 3.7 | ||
| 5 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 3.6 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9 | 8.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.9 | 6 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.6 | ||
| 39% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 48% | ||
| 10.6 | 10.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.2 | 7.8 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 3.6 | ||
