National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Newport County or Colchester United that keep their silverware dream alive.
The visiting Colchester United played their last game only four days ago, a League Two match. That game was also an away game, at Barrow. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Newport County form and stats
Last season, Newport's FA Cup journey ended in the 1st round.With 2 League Two wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats from their home games, Newport County are certainly not brimming with confidence.
Newport County shared the glory with Northampton Town in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Demetriou, defender, was given a rating of 7.7/10 in that game, top of the team. Demetriou hit the woodwork once, hit three key passes and won 5 of 7 duels.
Before that, Newport County played out a League Two draw 0-0 when visiting Mansfield Town.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Newport County handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Newport as they are travelling to their away game against Leicester City in the Carabao Cup. That match is three days after this one.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Newport County here at Rodney Parade in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 8 games). Newport County's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Colchester United form and stats
They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Colchester United so far with only 1 point returning home. The records show 0-1-7 (win-draw-lose).
Two away games in a row for Colchester, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-3 versus Barrow. Midfield player Judge was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.44/10. Judge served one assist, hit one key pass and had 32 successful passes (of 40 total).
Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Stevenage.Colchester United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 6 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Colchester United as they have only managed to score 5 times from 8 away games in the league. Colchester's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 14 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Newport County four wins, one draw and Colchester United five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  O. Bogle 7 goals |  N. Moriah-Welsh 3 goals |   N. Chilvers 3 goals |
Newport County missing players
Colchester United missing players
| Newport County | Colchester United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 31 | 12 | Scored | S | 9 | 24 | ||
| 29 | 16 | Conceded | C | 17 | 35 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 4% | ||
| 52% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 60% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 8% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 32% | ||
| 4.2 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.5 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.6 | 9.2 | ||
| 1.7 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.6 | 2 | ||
| 65% | 55% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 49% | ||
| 10.5 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.2 | 11.6 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Leyton Orient | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 39 |
| 2 | Stevenage | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 36 |
| 3 | Northampton Town | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 32 |
| 4 | Barrow | 17 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 31 |
| 5 | Swindon Town | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 30 |
| 6 | Bradford City | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 27 |
| 7 | Carlisle United | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 27 |
| 8 | Salford City | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 27 |
| 9 | Mansfield Town | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 27 |
| 10 | Tranmere Rovers | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 25 |
| 11 | Doncaster Rovers | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -1 | 25 |
| 12 | Walsall | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 23 |
| 13 | Grimsby Town | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 23 |
| 14 | Stockport County | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 22 |
| 15 | AFC Wimbledon | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -4 | 19 |
| 16 | Crewe Alexandra | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -5 | 19 |
| 17 | Sutton United | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -7 | 19 |
| 18 | Newport County | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 9 | -5 | 16 |
| 19 | Crawley Town | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -10 | 14 |
| 20 | Gillingham | 16 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -11 | 13 |
| 21 | Harrogate Town | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 15 | -10 | 12 |
| 22 | Rochdale | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -11 | 12 |
| 23 | Hartlepool United | 17 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 19 | -15 | 12 |
| 24 | Colchester United | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 14 | -11 | 11 |
