Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Merthyr Town & Folkestone Invicta face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
These are active days for the hometeam, as they played only four days ago in the Non League Premier: Southern South. That game was an away game at North Leigh, so at least Merthyr Town are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Merthyr Town form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Merthyr Town, as the manager Michael led his troops to eliminate Cirencester Town, Truro City and Gloucester City, and reach the 4th Round Qualifying. Last season, Merthyr's FA Cup journey ended in the 1st round qualifying replays.A strong away win for Merthyr Town against North Leigh the last match.
Preceding that result, a home defeat in the Fa Trophy against AFC Totton. This is expected to be a close game, with Merthyr perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Merthyr Town as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Merthyr Town has won 3 of these, drawn 2 and lost 4.
Folkestone Invicta form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated North Greenford United, Chichester City and Dulwich Hamlet in order to reach 4th round qualifying of FA Cup. Folkestone Invicta's mission in FA Cup last season failed in the 4th round qualifying replays.Folkestone Invicta delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Whitehawk in their previous game; a Fa Trophy fixture.
Prior to that match, the Folkestone manager Cugley faced defeat when travelling to Bishop's Stortford and losing 0-3.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Folkestone Invicta in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Folkestone Invicta, 1 draw and 6 defeats.
Folkestone have another game that requires travelling in just three nights, a Non League Premier: Isthmian fixture against Corinthian-Casuals. A rough itinerary for them!
Just as the home team, Folkestone Invicta have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 1 Folkestone Invicta win, 1 draw and 2 losses.
Head 2 Head
Merthyr Town missing players
Folkestone Invicta missing players
| Merthyr Town | Folkestone Invicta | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 8 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 11 | ||
| 42 | 24 | Scored | S | 12 | 36 | ||
| 41 | 19 | Conceded | C | 16 | 45 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 38% | 24% | ||
| 60% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 2.6 | 0.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 1.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 3.6 | ||
| 0.8 | 0.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 0.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6.1 | 0.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.8 | 7 | ||
| 2.8 | 0.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 2.3 | ||
| 48% | 700% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 48% | ||
| 8.9 | 2.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 8 | ||
| 3.5 | 0.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 3.1 | ||
