National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Farsley Celtic or Fylde 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.
Farsley Celtic form and stats
Farsley was eliminated in the 2nd round qualifying last season in the FA Cup.The Farsley Celtic manager Wilcox and his crew return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Fylde in the FA Cup.
Before that, Farsley Celtic played out a Vanarama National League North draw 1-1 when visiting Blyth Spartans.This is expected to be a close game, with Farsley Celtic perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Farsley Celtic as a small favourite), we find 6 games. Farsley Celtic has won 0 of these, drawn 2 and lost 4.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Farsley as they have a new game in only four days, a Vanarama National League North match thankfully also at home. Spennymoor Town are visiting.
Farsley Celtic have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and three practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 0 draws and 2 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Farsley Celtic scored 3 goals and let in 9 goals during these three games.
Fylde form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round qualifying replays.Fylde delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Farsley Celtic in their previous game; a FA Cup duel.
A 0-0 draw at Kidderminster Harriers's stadium before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by Fylde in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Fylde, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Bradford Park Avenue in just four days.
Just as the home team, Fylde have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 3 Fylde wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
Head 2 Head
Farsley Celtic and Fylde have faced off before this season: Fylde - Farsley Celtic 1-1. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's two Farsley Celtic victories, two draws and four Fylde wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Haughton 5 goals |  J. Spencer 2 goals | A. Clayton 1 goals |
Farsley Celtic missing players
Fylde missing players
| Farsley Celtic | Fylde | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 6 | 16 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 23 | 13 | Scored | S | 12 | 35 | ||
| 37 | 22 | Conceded | C | 9 | 19 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 45% | 60% | ||
| 40% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 45% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 20% | ||
| 3.7 | 3.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 4.4 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 9.8 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.9 | 11.1 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 4.2 | ||
| 22% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 34% | ||
| 11.1 | 10.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.3 | 9.1 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 3.9 | ||
