Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Plymouth Argyle & Lincoln 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.
Plymouth Argyle form and stats
Plymouth have reached this FA Cup stage through battling and winning against Charlton Athletic. Plymouth participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round replays.Plymouth Argyle are steadily winning League One games and points here at Home Park. 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 7 games. In general it's been a long time since Plymouth tasted defeat here at Home Park, as they have taken at least one point from their last 14 home games in the league.
Plymouth lost their last game at Peterborough United after a 0-1 scoreline. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Fleetwood Town (1-5).
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Plymouth Argyle have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won four, drawn three and lost two.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Plymouth as they have a new game in only three days, a League One match thankfully also at home. Rochdale are visiting.
Plymouth Argyle can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 14 times. On the other hand, Plymouth Argyle have conceded 7 goals.
Lincoln City form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Forest Green Rovers in order to reach 2nd Round of FA Cup. Lincoln was sent out of FA Cup in the 1st round replays last season.As the visiting team in League One matches, Lincoln City have produced an overall stat of 3-2-1 so far.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Lincoln goalkeeper Alex Palmer is eager to challenge this, with his 209 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Two travels in a row for Lincoln City, whose manager M. Appleton could celebrate last time after the League One win against Swindon Town. Ahead of that match was the League One away draw versus Accrington Stanley that ended 0-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by Lincoln in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Lincoln City, four draws and four defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Wigan Athletic in just three days.
Lincoln find the net regularly in their away games. 6 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Lincoln as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last three meetings: one - one - one (Plymouth wins - draws - Lincoln City wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Jephcott 6 goals |   J. Grant 6 goals |  C. Grant 3 goals |
Plymouth Argyle missing players
Lincoln City missing players
| Plymouth Argyle | Lincoln City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 10 | Won | W | 7 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | ||
| 40 | 30 | Scored | S | 20 | 43 | ||
| 36 | 15 | Conceded | C | 10 | 30 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 68% | ||
| 56% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 24% | ||
| 56% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 45% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 320 | 180 | Total Shots | T S | 124 | 270 | ||
| 113 | 71 | Shots on Target | S O | 31 | 77 | ||
| 34% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 65% | 56% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hull City | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 27 |
| 2 | Peterborough United | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 25 |
| 3 | Ipswich Town | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 25 |
| 4 | Portsmouth | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 24 |
| 5 | Charlton Athletic | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 23 |
| 6 | Lincoln City | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 23 |
| 7 | Fleetwood Town | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 22 |
| 8 | Sunderland | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 22 |
| 9 | Accrington Stanley | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 19 |
| 10 | Plymouth Argyle | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 19 |
| 11 | Doncaster Rovers | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 18 |
| 12 | AFC Wimbledon | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 17 |
| 13 | Crewe Alexandra | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 16 |
| 14 | Blackpool | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 16 |
| 15 | Gillingham | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -5 | 14 |
| 16 | Northampton Town | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -9 | 14 |
| 17 | Milton Keynes Dons | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -3 | 13 |
| 18 | Swindon Town | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 13 |
| 19 | Oxford United | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 12 |
| 20 | Rochdale | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 12 |
| 21 | Bristol Rovers | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -9 | 12 |
| 22 | Shrewsbury Town | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 8 |
| 23 | Wigan Athletic | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | -11 | 7 |
| 24 | Burton Albion | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -12 | 7 |