National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Aldershot Town or Chesterfield that keep their silverware dream alive.
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a National League match only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Barnet, was also a home game here at Electrical Services Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Aldershot Town form and stats
Aldershot Town was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the Fa Trophy.Overall National League stats at home this season for Aldershot Town are 4-1-4 (wins-draw-losses).
A nice win for Aldershot Town last time playing, versus Barnet. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Mohamed Bettamer and J. Sendles-White scoring for the victors. Prior to that, an away loss at Bromley in the National League.
World class coaching! That was the thoughts of D. Searle when Mohamed Bettamer scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 66th minute.
This is expected to be a close game, with Aldershot perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Aldershot Town as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Aldershot Town has won four of these, drawn three and lost four.
Aldershot Town has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. 13 goals have been conceded.
Chesterfield form and stats
Last season their Fa Trophy adventure ended in the 1st round.The visitors are W3-D2-L4 on the road this term. That's in the National League. Chesterfield has drawn their two previous away games.
Chesterfield are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Dagenham & Redbridge. Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Boreham Wood.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by Chesterfield in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Chesterfield, six draws and three defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Chesterfield manager J. Rowe as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Aldershot Town.
Chesterfield are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 9 games (in the league). Chesterfield have conceded 13 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Aldershot won one game, four matches ended with a draw and Chesterfield has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / sixTop Goalscorers
  T. Denton 9 goals |  A. Asante 7 goals |  M. Bettamer 6 goals |
Aldershot Town missing players
Chesterfield missing players
| Aldershot Town | Chesterfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 41 | 15 | Scored | S | 17 | 35 | ||
| 39 | 17 | Conceded | C | 23 | 34 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 72% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 24% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 9.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.2 | ||
| 44% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 33% | ||