Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Cray Wanderers & Ebbsfleet United face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Cray Wanderers form and stats
Wanderers have reached this Fa Trophy stage through battling and winning against Bedfont Sports and Kings Langley. Last season, Cray Wanderers's Fa Trophy journey ended in the 2nd round.The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus Folkestone Invicta in the Non League Premier: Isthmian last time out and are looking for a win here.
Heartbreak before that as Cray Wanderers lost 1-2 at Kingstonian's place.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Cray Wanderers as they are travelling to their away game against Bowers & Pitsea in the Non League Premier: Isthmian. That match is three days after this one.
Ebbsfleet United form and stats
They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 3rd round.Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Ebbsfleet United's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Hampton & Richmond game.
Ebbsfleet's previous game was their home loss versus Maidstone United (2-3).
That result followed a home victory 6-0 versus Welling United in the Vanarama National League South.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Ebbsfleet manager D. Kutrieb as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Oxford City.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Ebbsfleet have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeats from four fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the previous two meetings): Cray Wanderers won zero games, one match ended with a tie and Ebbsfleet United have one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / zeroTop Goalscorers
  D. Poleon 9 goals |  R. Bingham 7 goals | J. Martin 2 goals |
Cray Wanderers missing players
Ebbsfleet United missing players
| Cray Wanderers | Ebbsfleet United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Won | W | 10 | 16 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 45 | 23 | Scored | S | 37 | 61 | ||
| 49 | 21 | Conceded | C | 26 | 35 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 82% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 56% | 64% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 44% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 68% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 60% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 16% | ||
| 2.8 | 3.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.6 | 7 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.9 | 3 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 4 | ||
| 6.3 | 9.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 13.3 | ||
| 2.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.6 | 6 | ||
| 72% | 53% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 39% | ||
| 8.4 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.9 | 8.3 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.6 | ||