Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Hemel Hempstead Town & Royston 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 no vacation for neither Hemel Hempstead Town nor Royston Town as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Hemel Hempstead Town form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round qualifying replays.A good away victory last time out for Hempstead, who won 3-1 against Dulwich Hamlet.
0-0 away at Weymouth before that.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hemel Hempstead Town as they are travelling to their away game against Hoddesdon Town in the Hertfordshire Senior Challenge Cup. That match is three days after this one.
Hempstead 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, 0 draws and 2 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Hemel Hempstead Town scored 0 goals and let in 3 goals during these two games.
Royston Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Hertford Town in order to reach 2nd round qualifying of FA Cup. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 1st round qualifying.There might be some fixture complaints from Royston Town as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 0-5 against Needham Market. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Needham Market was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Ahead of that, the Hertfordshire Senior Challenge Cup victory away at Ware.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Royston have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeats from two fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Greenidge 3 goals | O. Obi 3 goals | J. Castiglione 2 goals |
Hemel Hempstead Town missing players
Royston Town missing players
| Hemel Hempstead Town | Royston Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 14 | 5 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 25 | 13 | Scored | S | 25 | 46 | ||
| 44 | 19 | Conceded | C | 24 | 35 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 84% | ||
| 52% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 64% | ||
| 36% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | ||
| 8% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 52% | ||
| 16% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 36% | ||
| 40% | 45% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 12% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 2.8 | ||
| 5 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 3.9 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 10.1 | 10.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.7 | 6.1 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.2 | ||
| 29% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 31% | ||
| 10 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.2 | 10.8 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5 | ||
