National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Altrincham or Chester that keep their silverware dream alive.
Chester could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Fa Trophy game only four sleeps ago.
Altrincham form and stats
Last season their Fa Trophy adventure ended in the 1st round replays.Altrincham have played 6 Vanarama National League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Altrincham are confident in defense, having played 356 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Altrincham enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Dagenham & Redbridge's place. The match ended 1-0 with J. Moult scoring. A strong away win before that one, visiting Wrexham and winning 1-0.
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 Altrincham have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won five, drawn one and lost two.
The Altrincham fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 6 matches. 7 goals have been conceded.
Chester form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Bradford Park Avenue in order to reach 3rd Round of Fa Trophy. They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 2nd round.There's been little loot from Chester's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 7 away games in the Vanarama National League North. Chester only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 3 draws.
Impressive finishing from G. Waring, A. Dudley and W. Goodwin secured the home win 3-1 against Bradford Park Avenue in their previous game. Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Boston United.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Chester in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Chester, two draws and five defeats.
Chester find the net regularly in their away games. 8 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Chester have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: five wins for Altrincham, four draws and one win for Chester. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.Top Goalscorers
  D. Elliott 6 goals |  J. Hancock 3 goals | T. Peers 3 goals |
Altrincham missing players
Chester missing players
| Altrincham | Chester | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 9 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 36 | 15 | Scored | S | 18 | 45 | ||
| 26 | 12 | Conceded | C | 26 | 43 | ||
| 96% | 89% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 88% | ||
| 36% | 56% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 80% | ||
| 28% | 44% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 28% | ||
| 40% | 56% | BTTS | BTTS | 79% | 80% | ||
| 44% | 22% | Clean Sheets | C S | 14% | 12% | ||
| 20% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 4 | ||
| 8.3 | 7.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 9.4 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.5 | ||
| 35% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 51% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Torquay United | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 16 | 32 |
| 2 | Sutton United | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 26 |
| 3 | Notts County | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 23 |
| 4 | Bromley | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 22 |
| 5 | Altrincham | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 21 |
| 6 | Wealdstone | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 21 |
| 7 | Woking | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 20 |
| 8 | Wrexham | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 20 |
| 9 | Maidenhead United | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -4 | 20 |
| 10 | Stockport County | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| 11 | Solihull Moors | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 19 |
| 12 | Boreham Wood | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| 13 | Hartlepool United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | -2 | 18 |
| 14 | Eastleigh | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 17 |
| 15 | Chesterfield | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 16 |
| 16 | Halifax Town | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
| 17 | Aldershot Town | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | -1 | 15 |
| 18 | Dagenham & Redbridge | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -4 | 15 |
| 19 | King's Lynn Town | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 16 | -13 | 14 |
| 20 | Barnet | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 20 | -21 | 9 |
| 21 | Yeovil Town | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | -6 | 8 |
| 22 | Weymouth | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -10 | 7 |
| 23 | Dover Athletic | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | -18 | 6 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Gloucester City | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 27 |
| 2 | Kidderminster Harriers | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 23 |
| 3 | Fylde | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 21 |
| 4 | York City | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| 5 | Chester | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 18 |
| 6 | AFC Telford United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | Gateshead | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| 8 | Leamington | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 17 |
| 9 | Brackley Town | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 17 |
| 10 | Farsley Celtic | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -1 | 17 |
| 11 | Spennymoor Town | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| 12 | Boston United | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| 13 | Southport | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | -3 | 15 |
| 14 | Chorley | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -2 | 13 |
| 15 | Bradford Park Avenue | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 12 | -3 | 13 |
| 16 | Hereford | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 17 | Kettering Town | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -2 | 12 |
| 18 | Curzon Ashton | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -11 | 12 |
| 19 | Guiseley | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 11 |
| 20 | Alfreton Town | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -10 | 11 |
| 21 | Darlington | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 22 | Blyth Spartans | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -20 | 5 |