FA Cup: Buckle up for the Darlington - Cambridge City clash

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Competition: England FA Cup
Competition: Sat 24.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Blackwell Meadows (25000 seats)

National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Darlington or Cambridge City that keep their silverware dream alive.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Darlington form and stats

Darlington have reached this FA Cup stage through battling and winning against Tadcaster Albion and Prescot Cables. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 1st round replays.

0-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Vanarama National League North numbers at home for Darlington so far this season. Darlington has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager A. Armstrong and the players. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Darlington, their manager A. Armstrong and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.

A nice win for Darlington last time playing, versus Tadcaster Albion. That was also a home game and the match ended 6-1. Preceding that match was a Vanarama National League North defeat to Kidderminster Harriers (1-3).

As indicated by the result mentioned above, Darlington played a great game against Tadcaster Albion and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

Darlington are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found two matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won zero, drew one and lost one.

Darlington has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 3 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Cambridge City form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Biggleswade United FC, Cheshunt, Stowmarket Town and Halesowen Town in order to reach 4th Round Qualifying of FA Cup. Cambridge was sent out of FA Cup in the preliminary round last season.

Total FA Cup statistics for Cambridge City: 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.

Cambridge had fun at their own home (Blackwell Meadows) last time out, beating Halesowen Town 2-0.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Non League Div One: Isthmian North trip to Brentwood Town.

Head 2 Head

Darlington missing players

Cambridge City missing players

Darlington Cambridge City
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 14   Played P   13 25
11 7   Won W   7 12
5 2   Drew D   1 3
9 5   Lost L   5 10
39 26   Scored S   20 39
39 22   Conceded C   10 25
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   92% 96%
88% 93%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   62% 72%
68% 71%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   46% 48%
32% 36%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   23% 24%
12% 21%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   8% 12%
60% 64%   BTTS BTTS   31% 44%
20% 21%   Clean Sheets C S   54% 44%
20% 14%   Failed to Score F T   23% 16%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
1.5 1.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   0.5 0.9
0 0   Red cards R C   1 2
 
270 171   Total Shots T S   39 72
105 65   Shots on Target S O   15 34
36% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   53% 38%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Gloucester City 3 3 0 0 11 3 2 2 0 0 9 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 8 9
2 AFC Telford United 3 2 1 0 5 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 4 7
3 Spennymoor Town 3 2 1 0 5 3 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 7
4 Fylde 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
5 Chester 3 2 0 1 6 5 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 6
6 York City 3 1 2 0 4 2 2 1 1 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 5
7 Curzon Ashton 3 1 2 0 5 4 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 5
8 Hereford 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 4
9 Southport 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
10 Boston United 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 4 3
11 Guiseley 2 1 0 1 4 1 2 1 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
12 Kidderminster Harriers 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 3
13 Gateshead 3 1 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 2 -1 3
14 Alfreton Town 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
15 Brackley Town 3 0 2 1 2 5 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 0 3 -3 2
16 Farsley Celtic 3 0 1 2 3 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 4 -2 1
17 Blyth Spartans 3 0 1 2 2 11 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 10 -9 1
18 Bradford Park Avenue 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
19 Kettering Town 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
20 Darlington 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 -3 0
21 Chorley 3 0 0 3 2 6 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 1 4 -4 0
22 Leamington 2 0 0 2 2 7 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 2 3 -5 0