National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Farnborough or Wingate & Finchley 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.
Farnborough form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.The Farnborough manager Day and his side return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Wingate & Finchley in the FA Cup.
Ahead of that result, a home defeat in the Hampshire Senior Cup against Folland Sports. The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Farnborough's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 5 games, won 2 matches, drawn 0 and lost 3.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Vanarama National League South game versus Slough Town in only four days. This game is also played here at Paddy Power Park.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Farnborough, who have participated in six training matches. Farnborough have won 1 of these, drawn 4 and were beaten in 1 game.
Wingate & Finchley form and stats
Wingate & Finchley delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Farnborough in their previous game; a FA Cup duel.
A loss against AFC Hornchurch was the result prior to that, in a Non League Premier: Isthmian home game.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Finchley when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 9 matches with the visitors losing 3 times, drawing 1 and winning 5 games.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Wingate & Finchley manager Little as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Hashtag United.
It's a day of discovery for Finchley as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Wingate & Finchley have played one with the results W1-D0-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Wingate & Finchley has scored {1 goals} and conceded 0 times.
Head 2 Head
Farnborough and Wingate & Finchley have faced off before this season: Wingate & Finchley - Farnborough 0-0. As for the last four games between these two teams, there's two Farnborough victories, one draw and one Wingate & Finchley win. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Pavey 7 goals |  R. Holmes 2 goals | C. Cullen 2 goals |
Farnborough missing players
Wingate & Finchley missing players
| Farnborough | Wingate & Finchley | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Won | W | 5 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 9 | ||
| 35 | 24 | Scored | S | 15 | 38 | ||
| 41 | 19 | Conceded | C | 16 | 38 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 28% | ||
| 68% | 77% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 5.6 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1.1 | 0.6 | ||
| 4 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 0.9 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 10.6 | 10.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.1 | 1.9 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.1 | 0.7 | ||
| 34% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 117% | 231% | ||
| 9 | 8.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 2.8 | 2.4 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 0.6 | ||
