Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Hyde United & Darlington 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 Hyde United and Darlington.
Hyde United form and stats
Hyde have not come this way in the FA Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Warrington Town and Rylands. Last season, Hyde United's FA Cup journey ended in the 1st round qualifying.The Hyde supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Nantwich Town and win 1-0.
Before that, Hyde United had a Non League Premier: Northern home game versus Guiseley which ended with a victory 2-1.This is expected to be a close game, with Hyde United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Hyde United as a small favourite), we find 17 games. Hyde has won 7 of these, drawn 4 and lost 6.
Hyde United have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Hyde United scored 0 goals and let in 1 goal during these one game.
Darlington form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Southport in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. Darlington was sent out of FA Cup in the 2nd round qualifying replays last season.The regulars enjoyed Darlington's previous match versus Blyth Spartans, a 1-0 win played at home. Liddle came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Blyth Spartans last time out, making the manager Armstrong feel like a tactical genius.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Peterborough Sports in the Vanarama National League North.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Darlington in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Darlington, 5 draws and 4 defeats.
It's a day of discovery for Darlington 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 Darlington have played two with the results W0-D0-L2 (win-draw-lost). In these games Darlington has scored 1 goal and conceded 5 times.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Beck 8 goals | J. Lambert 2 goals | J. Hazel 2 goals |
Hyde United missing players
Darlington missing players
| Hyde United | Darlington | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 34 | 16 | Scored | S | 10 | 29 | ||
| 24 | 14 | Conceded | C | 16 | 31 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 92% | ||
| 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 68% | ||
| 40% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 32% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 52% | ||
| 44% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 42% | 28% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.4 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.9 | 1.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 10.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.9 | 8.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.3 | ||
| 32% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 32% | ||
| 8 | 8.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 10.3 | ||
| 2.9 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.8 | ||
