Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Gloucester City & Merthyr Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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 Gloucester and Merthyr Town.
Gloucester City form and stats
Gloucester City have reached this FA Cup stage through battling and winning against Hungerford Town. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round qualifying.The Gloucester coach Mansell and his pawns return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Banbury United.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Chorley (0-3).Gloucester City 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, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Gloucester City scored 4 goals and let in 4 goals during these two games.
Merthyr Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Cirencester Town and Truro City in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. Merthyr Town was sent out of FA Cup in the 1st round qualifying replays last season.The supporters enjoyed Merthyr Town's previous fixture versus Winchester City, a 5-2 win played at home. A crazy, crazy match with plenty of goals last time out for Merthyr, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that fun game, will this fixture be as much fun?
Ahead of that match was the Non League Premier: Southern South away draw versus Chesham United that ended 0-0.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. McClure 6 goals | T. Mitford 2 goals | D. Leadbitter 1 goals |
Gloucester City missing players
Merthyr Town missing players
| Gloucester City | Merthyr Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 12 | ||
| 39 | 22 | Scored | S | 18 | 42 | ||
| 37 | 16 | Conceded | C | 25 | 44 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 56% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 64% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 64% | ||
| 16% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 4.6 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 3.4 | ||
| 5.1 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.6 | ||
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8.4 | 9.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 4.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.1 | ||
| 42% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 57% | ||
| 11.6 | 12.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.5 | 9.8 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 4.3 | ||
