Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Morpeth Town & York City 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.
Morpeth Town form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round qualifying.On the other hand, in the FA Cup, Morpeth Town has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.
Morpeth Town travelled for their previous game, a trip to York City that ended 1-1.
Prior to that, an away loss at South Shields in the Non League Premier: Northern.Morpeth are traveling soon after this match as the Non League Premier: Northern match at Nantwich Town awaits in four days.
Morpeth Town 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; Morpeth scored 1 goal and let in 3 goals during these one game.
York City form and stats
They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the 3rd round qualifying.The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the FA Cup stats, they have 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away. It could be a hat trick of victories away for York, as they have won on their previous two travels.
York City's last game was the home draw against Morpeth Town (1-1).
A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Southport.A new game in only four days for York, the Vanarama National League North home match versus Chester. Busy days.
It's a day of discovery for York City 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 York have played four with the results W3-D1-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games York City has scored 7 goals and conceded 4 times.
Head 2 Head
Morpeth Town and York City have played each other already this season: York City - Morpeth 1-1.Top Goalscorers
  C. Donaldson 4 goals | A. Wright 2 goals | M. Beck 2 goals |
Morpeth Town missing players
York City missing players
| Morpeth Town | York City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 12 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 44 | 25 | Scored | S | 19 | 45 | ||
| 45 | 18 | Conceded | C | 19 | 35 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 91% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 68% | ||
| 56% | 64% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 16% | ||
| 76% | 82% | BTTS | BTTS | 78% | 68% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Clean Sheets | C S | 11% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 8% | ||
| 3.8 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.7 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 5 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.9 | 1.1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8.5 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.9 | 11 | ||
| 4.2 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 4.6 | ||
| 37% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 38% | ||