Perhaps a welcome break from league football as St Albans City & Corinthian-Casuals 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.
St Albans City form and stats
Last season, Albans's FA Cup journey ended in the 4th round qualifying.2W-3D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the FA Cup for St Albans City.
Albans manager I. Allinson and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Corinthian-Casuals in the FA Cup.
In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Braintree Town.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Albans home games with this odds we find two games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in two wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, one match were won by at least two goals.
The manager I. Allinson will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Bath City in only four days.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Albans friendly games in pre-season: St Albans City played three friendlies, won 1, drew 1 and lost 1. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that St Albans City scored 3 goals and conceded 3 in these three games.
Corinthian-Casuals form and stats
They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round qualifying.When we have look at the FA Cup statistics, we find 3W-4D-0L. This is both home and away.
There were no winners in Corinthian-Casuals's previous match, a FA Cup home game that ended 1-1 vs St Albans City.
Preceding that, the 0-3 home loss versus Merstham.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Corinthian-Casuals played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected one time.
A new game in only four days for Corinthian-Casuals, the Non League Premier: Isthmian home match versus AFC Hornchurch. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
These opponents have fought previously this season: Corinthian-Casuals - Albans 1-1. Stats for the former three meetings between these two participants are: one win for Albans, two draws and zero wins for Corinthian-Casuals. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: two games.Top Goalscorers
  S. Jeffers 9 goals | R. Akinola 2 goals |  T. Bender 1 goals |
St Albans City missing players
Corinthian-Casuals missing players
| St Albans City | Corinthian-Casuals | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 38 | 21 | Scored | S | 10 | 33 | ||
| 22 | 13 | Conceded | C | 17 | 31 | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 40% | ||
| 44% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 5.3 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 2.7 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 3.6 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 0.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.6 | 5.8 | ||
| 5 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 2.7 | ||
| 30% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 58% | ||