National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Maidstone United or Dartford that keep their silverware dream alive.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Dartford have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 1-3-1 (win-draw-loss) from five matches.
Maidstone United form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Maidstone, as the manager H. Ramis-Hayrettin led his troops to eliminate Chichester City, and reach the 3rd Round Qualifying. Maidstone participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 3rd round qualifying.Maidstone enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Bath City's place. The match ended 3-0 with T. Curran and Joan Luque (2) scoring.
Before that match, a FA Cup win away at Chichester City.Maidstone have prepared for this season with two friendly games versus mixed opposition. Results from training matches should always be treated with caution, but the takeaways from these two matches are 2 victories, 0 draws and 0 losses. In these games, Maidstone United have scored 9 goals and conceded 1 time.
Dartford form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Hythe Town in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. Dartford's mission in FA Cup last season failed in the 2nd round qualifying.A great winning streak in away games for Dartford as they have managed to win four matches in a row as the visitors. Not since the Braintree Town have they travelled home without three points.
It's the second away game in a row for Dartford, but there's smiles all around after the 6-0 victory versus Welling United in the Vanarama National League South last time out. As mentioned above, Dartford was the only team on the pitch versus Welling United in their previous game, winning 6-0. This could be a tougher task.
Prior to that match, a home win 5-1 against Hythe Town in the FA Cup.Just as the home team, Dartford have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 3 Dartford wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.
Head 2 Head
Maidstone-Dartford H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Maidstone United one win, Dartford six wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  J. Luque 6 goals |   A. Azeez 6 goals | J. Robinson 3 goals |
Maidstone United missing players
Dartford missing players
| Maidstone United | Dartford | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | ||
| 58 | 28 | Scored | S | 23 | 49 | ||
| 32 | 11 | Conceded | C | 11 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 89% | 64% | ||
| 52% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 8% | ||
| 64% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 78% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 22% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 16% | ||
| 5.8 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.4 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.8 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 13 | ||
| 6.5 | 7.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.9 | 6.5 | ||
| 36% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 31% | ||