Perhaps a welcome break from league football as St Albans City & Metropolitan Police FC face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither Albans nor Metropolitan Police FC as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
St Albans City form and stats
Albans participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the 4th round qualifying.1W-2D-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 0-0 draw away versus Metropolitan Police FC in the FA Cup.
Before that, St Albans City had a Vanarama National League South home game versus Havant & Waterlooville which ended with a victory 1-0.Albans are traveling soon after this match as the Vanarama National League South match at Braintree Town awaits in four days.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the St Albans City friendly games in pre-season: Albans 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.
Metropolitan Police FC form and stats
Metropolitan was sent out of FA Cup in the 2nd round qualifying last season.Total FA Cup statistics for Metropolitan Police FC: 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses.
There were no winners in Metropolitan's previous match, a FA Cup home game that ended 0-0 vs St Albans City.
Preceding that game was the away FA Cup victory against Farnborough with the score of 1-0.Just as the home team, Metropolitan have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 0 Metropolitan Police FC wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
St Albans City and Metropolitan Police FC have faced each other earlier this season: Metropolitan Police FC - Albans 0-0.Top Goalscorers
  S. Jeffers 8 goals | R. Akinola 2 goals |  T. Bender 1 goals |
St Albans City missing players
Metropolitan Police FC missing players
| St Albans City | Metropolitan Police FC | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 0 | 6 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 10 | ||
| 35 | 20 | Scored | S | 13 | 37 | ||
| 21 | 13 | Conceded | C | 11 | 37 | ||
| 84% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 56% | 72% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 44% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 20% | ||
| 40% | 43% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 22% | 16% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 22% | 20% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.8 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.7 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11.2 | 11.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 6.9 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.2 | 2.8 | ||
| 28% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 117% | 41% | ||