National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Swindon Supermarine or Dorchester Town that keep their silverware dream alive.
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.
Swindon Supermarine form and stats
Action has already taken place for Swindon Supermarine in FA Cup as they have defeated Willand Rovers to reach the 2nd Round Qualifying. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 1st round qualifying.A nice win for Swindon Supermarine last time playing, versus Dorchester Town. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-2.
Ahead of that match, a home victory hosting Willand Rovers in the FA Cup. This is expected to be a close game, with Swindon Supermarine perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Swindon Supermarine as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Supermarine has won 7 of these, drawn 2 and lost 4.
Swindon Supermarine have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and five practice matches played. These training games have ended with 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Swindon Supermarine scored 12 goals and let in 5 goals during these five games.
Dorchester Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Wimborne Town in order to reach 2nd round qualifying of FA Cup. Dorchester Town was sent out of FA Cup in the 1st round qualifying last season.Dorchester Town play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-3 to Swindon Supermarine.
Before that one, the victory at home against Wimborne Town in the FA Cup (1-0). As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Dorchester in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Dorchester Town, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Dorchester Town played one friendly in their break from official games, resulting in 0 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats. In these one match Dorchester Town scored 0 and conceded 0 goals.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Supermarine seven wins, one draw and Dorchester Town one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Swindon Supermarine missing players
Dorchester Town missing players
| Swindon Supermarine | Dorchester Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 53 | 28 | Scored | S | 8 | 27 | ||
| 30 | 15 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 42% | 56% | ||
| 72% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 68% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 36% | ||
| 4.3 | 3.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 2 | ||
| 5.8 | 6.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.2 | 2.2 | ||
| 1.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8 | 8.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.8 | 3.8 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 1 | ||
| 57% | 52% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 100% | ||
| 9.3 | 10.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 6 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 2 | ||
