National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Chorley or Blyth Spartans that keep their silverware dream alive.
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 Chorley and Blyth Spartans.
Chorley form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Chorley, as the manager Preece led his troops to eliminate Liversedge, and reach the 3rd Round Qualifying. Chorley participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round qualifying replays.Chorley drew their last game, also a home match. Chester was the opponent, 2-2 the score. The hometeam coach Preece made a successful contribution in the game against Chester, bringing on Sampson who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw.
Previous to that game, a Vanarama National League North home match hosting Gloucester City in a game that was won 3-0.Chorley 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 1 victories, 0 draws and 2 losses. In these games, Chorley have scored 4 goals and conceded 8 times.
Blyth Spartans form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Guiseley in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the 3rd round qualifying.There might be some fixture complaints from Blyth Spartans as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous game, 0-1 against Darlington. Blyth Spartans were so close to getting something from the game against Darlington, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal four minutes into overtime.
Prior to that match, the Blyth Spartans manager Fenton faced defeat when travelling to Hereford and losing 0-3.Just as the home team, Blyth Spartans have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 1 Spartans win, 0 draws and 0 losses.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Chorley five wins, one draw and Blyth Spartans four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Hall 6 goals | B. Ustabaşı 4 goals |  L. McNall 4 goals |
Chorley missing players
Blyth Spartans missing players
| Chorley | Blyth Spartans | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 16 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 40 | 30 | Scored | S | 11 | 29 | ||
| 29 | 19 | Conceded | C | 23 | 42 | ||
| 88% | 88% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 81% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 48% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 44% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 19% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 24% | ||
| 5 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 4.2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.6 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 9.4 | ||
| 5 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.5 | ||
| 32% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 27% | ||
| 8.5 | 8.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 10.6 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.6 | ||
