Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Farnborough & Braintree Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!
This looks to be an interesting match with lots of spark and bustle as both squads are well refreshed since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's go!
Farnborough form and stats
Farnborough have not come this way in the Fa Trophy without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Hampton & Richmond. Last season their Fa Trophy adventure ended in the 2nd round.A strong away win for Farnborough against Welling United the last match, as Kasimu and Pendlebury were on target. Some amazing scenes last match, when Pendlebury scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time.
In the match before that, Farnborough hosted Hampton & Richmond and drew the Vanarama National League South game 2-2.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Farnborough have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Farnborough friendly games in pre-season: Farnborough played five friendlies, won 2, drew 2 and lost 1. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Farnborough scored {11 goals} and conceded 6 in these five games.
Braintree Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Brackley Town in order to reach 3rd round of Fa Trophy. Braintree Town's mission in Fa Trophy last season failed in the 3rd round.Braintree Town delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Oxford City in their previous fixture.
A 0-0 draw at Taunton Town's stadium before that.Braintree are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.
Just as the home team, Braintree Town have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 2 Braintree Town wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Farnborough three wins, two draws and Braintree Town three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Kasimu 6 goals |  A. Matthews 5 goals | A. Blair 5 goals |
Farnborough missing players
Braintree Town missing players
| Farnborough | Braintree Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 7 | ||
| 45 | 24 | Scored | S | 18 | 38 | ||
| 26 | 11 | Conceded | C | 23 | 31 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 24% | ||
| 5 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 6 | ||
| 1.6 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 10.9 | 10.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.4 | 8.2 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.1 | ||
| 24% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 37% | ||
| 8.2 | 6.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.3 | 9.2 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 3.8 | ||
