National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Chester or Pontefract Collieries 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.
Chester form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round qualifying replays.Chester's last game was hosting Southport and winning 1-0.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Vanarama National League North home game that ended 3-3 versus King's Lynn Town.Chester have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and two practice matches played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Chester scored 1 goal and let in 2 goals during these two games.
Pontefract Collieries form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Charnock Richard, Stockton Town and Garforth Town in order to reach 2nd round qualifying of FA Cup. Pontefract was sent out of FA Cup in the 4th round qualifying replays last season.Two away games in a row for Pontefract Collieries, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-3 versus North Shields in the Fa Trophy.
Before that match, the win at home against Charnock Richard in the FA Cup (2-1).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  K. Willoughby 4 goals |  K. Hall 2 goals | D. Weeks 1 goals |
Chester missing players
Pontefract Collieries missing players
| Chester | Pontefract Collieries | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 37 | 19 | Scored | S | 18 | 39 | ||
| 34 | 14 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 57% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 29% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 16% | ||
| 4.1 | 4.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 7.3 | ||
| 5.4 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 9.4 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 13.2 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5.5 | ||
| 35% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 18% | ||
| 8.6 | 6.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 6.2 | ||
| 3.6 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.7 | ||
