National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Chorley or Leek Town that keep their silverware dream alive.
Leek Town could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Non League Div One: Northern West game only four sleeps ago.
Chorley form and stats
Chorley participated in Fa Trophy the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.Chorley's last game was hosting Kettering Town and winning 2-0.
Previous to that game, a Vanarama National League North home match hosting Spennymoor Town in a game that was won 2-0.There will be little rest for Chorley after this match as they are travelling to Atherton Collieries for a Lancashire FA Challenge Trophy game in only three days.
Chorley have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and three practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 0 draws and 2 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Chorley scored {4 goals} and let in {8 goals} during these three games.
Leek Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Worksop Town, Coleshill Town and Atherton Collieries in order to reach 2nd round of Fa Trophy. Leek's mission in Fa Trophy last season failed in the 3rd round qualifying.Leek Town won their last game, 3-0 versus Widnes played at home.
That result followed a home victory 3-2 versus Clitheroe in the Non League Div One: Northern West.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  C. Hall 9 goals | B. Ustabaşı 6 goals | J. Sampson 4 goals |
Chorley missing players
Leek Town missing players
| Chorley | Leek Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 43 | 29 | Scored | S | 27 | 55 | ||
| 27 | 16 | Conceded | C | 10 | 30 | ||
| 88% | 87% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 44% | 47% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 64% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 53% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 12% | ||
| 5.2 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 4.4 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.6 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.3 | 12.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.3 | 9.6 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.8 | ||
| 31% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 88% | 58% | ||
| 7.9 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 7.2 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.8 | ||
