Perhaps a welcome break from league football as East Thurrock United & Kingstonian 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.
East Thurrock United form and stats
Last season, Thurrock's Fa Trophy journey ended in the 3rd round qualifying.Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Thurrock with their five defeats in a row. Not since the AFC Hornchurch game, 21 days ago, have they avoided a loss.
Thurrock are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-2 away versus Margate.
Ahead of that match, East Thurrock United lost 0-8 at home to Enfield Town.Thurrock 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 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; East Thurrock United scored 4 goals and let in 10 goals during these three games.
Kingstonian form and stats
They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 3rd round qualifying.Impressive finishing secured the home win 1-0 against Horsham in their previous game.
Prior to that match, the Kingstonian manager H. Bird faced defeat when travelling to Folkestone Invicta and losing 1-5.It's a day of discovery for Kingstonian as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Kingstonian have played three with the results W2-D0-L1 (win-draw-lost). In these games Kingstonian has scored 4 goals and conceded 2 times.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - four - two (Thurrock wins - draws - Kingstonian wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.East Thurrock United missing players
Kingstonian missing players
| East Thurrock United | Kingstonian | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 15 | 5 | Lost | L | 7 | 8 | ||
| 36 | 21 | Scored | S | 17 | 47 | ||
| 72 | 33 | Conceded | C | 23 | 33 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 68% | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 48% | ||
| 68% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 76% | 92% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 56% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 16% | ||
| 3.7 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 5.1 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.6 | 2.8 | ||
| 0.6 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 6.2 | 5.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.1 | 9.1 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 4.5 | ||
| 58% | 73% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 45% | ||