Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Metropolitan Police FC & St Albans City face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Metropolitan Police FC form and stats
Metropolitan have not come this way in the FA Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Lewes and Farnborough. Metropolitan was eliminated in the 2nd round qualifying last season in the FA Cup.On the other hand, in the FA Cup, Metropolitan Police FC has performed like this (both home and away): 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Imber Court.
Metropolitan enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Farnborough's place. The match ended 1-0.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Farnborough that ended 1-1.Metropolitan Police FC have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and two practice matches played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Metropolitan scored 1 goal and let in 2 goals during these two games.
St Albans City form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Concord Rangers in order to reach 3rd round qualifying of FA Cup. Albans was sent out of FA Cup in the 4th round qualifying last season.St Albans City go into this game after a win, the home game against Havant & Waterlooville that ended 1-0.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Concord Rangers.It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. St Albans City have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeats from three fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Jeffers 8 goals | R. Akinola 2 goals |  T. Bender 1 goals |
Metropolitan Police FC missing players
St Albans City missing players
| Metropolitan Police FC | St Albans City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | ||
| 37 | 24 | Scored | S | 15 | 38 | ||
| 41 | 26 | Conceded | C | 8 | 21 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 40% | ||
| 48% | 47% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 24% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 12% | ||
| 68% | 80% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 7% | Clean Sheets | C S | 60% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 24% | ||
| 3.8 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 5.1 | ||
| 4.3 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.1 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.9 | 11.1 | ||
| 3.1 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.8 | ||
| 41% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 31% | ||