Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Merstham & Margate 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.
Merstham form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Merstham, as the manager led his troops to eliminate Balham, and reach the 2nd Round Qualifying. Merstham participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round qualifying.The Merstham manager might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
The Merstham fans got no joy from their last match, a Non League Premier: Isthmian game also here at Moatside Stadium: A 1-3 defeat against Lewes.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Cheshunt and winning 1-0.It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Merstham, who have participated in one training match. Merstham have won 0 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 0 games.
Margate form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Thame 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 Margate as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Non League Premier: Isthmian match against AFC Hornchurch (1-2).
That result followed a home victory 4-2 versus Leatherhead in the Non League Premier: Isthmian.Margate played one friendly in their break from official games, resulting in 0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. In these one match Margate scored 1 and conceded 2 goals.
Head 2 Head
Merstham-Margate H2H statistics last six meetings regardless of arena: Merstham two wins, Margate three wins, one draw. two of these six matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Merstham missing players
Margate missing players
| Merstham | Margate | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 24 | 14 | Scored | S | 14 | 32 | ||
| 45 | 23 | Conceded | C | 18 | 37 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 72% | ||
| 56% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 42% | 28% | ||
| 2.9 | 3.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.8 | 2.5 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 3.7 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.9 | 6.3 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 2.5 | ||
| 71% | 74% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 50% | ||