Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Highworth Town & Melksham Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Highworth Town form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Highworth, as the manager led his troops to eliminate Melksham Town and Holmer Green, and reach the 1st Round Qualifying. Last season, Highworth's FA Cup journey ended in the 2nd round qualifying.The home supporters saw a 0-0 draw versus Melksham Town in the FA Cup last time out and are looking for a win here. Previous to that game, a Non League Div One: Southern S & W home match hosting Willand Rovers in a game that was won 1-0.
This is expected to be a close game, with Highworth Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Highworth Town as a small favourite), we find two games. Highworth Town has won one of these, drawn one and lost zero.
Melksham Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Exmouth and Highworth Town in order to reach 1st Round Qualifying of FA Cup. Melksham's mission in FA Cup last season failed in the preliminary round replays.It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Highworth Town in their previous outing. The FA Cup match ended in a draw 0-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found one similar match played by Melksham Town in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Melksham Town, one draw and zero defeats.
Head 2 Head
Highworth Town-Melksham Town H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Highworth one win, Melksham Town three wins, zero draws. three of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Highworth Town missing players
Melksham Town missing players
| Highworth Town | Melksham Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 9 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 32 | 20 | Scored | S | 24 | 51 | ||
| 33 | 19 | Conceded | C | 16 | 39 | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 64% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 58% | 60% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 28% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0.3 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 22 | 22 | Total Shots | T S | 5 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 2 | ||
| 29% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | ||