Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Hanwell Town & Slough Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!
Hanwell Town's stadium, The Powerday Stadium, has a grass surface. Slough Town have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Slough Town when playing on grass; 4 wins, 10 draws and 12 losses from 26 matches. They have scored {24 goals} in these games and conceded 51.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Hanwell Town form and stats
Hanwell Town have reached this Fa Trophy stage through battling and winning against AFC Dunstable and Cray Wanderers. Hanwell was eliminated in the 2nd round last season in the Fa Trophy.Hanwell Town's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Winchester City. The defeat against Winchester City was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored one minutes into stoppage time (by Barron).
Ahead of that match, Hanwell lost 0-2 at home to Merthyr Town.Hanwell Town are traveling soon after this match as the Non League Premier: Southern South match at Chesham United awaits in three days.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Hanwell Town friendly games in pre-season: Hanwell Town played one friendly, won 0, drew 0 and lost 1. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Hanwell Town scored {2 goals} and conceded 4 in these one game.
Slough Town form and stats
Slough was sent out of Fa Trophy in the 4th round last season.Slough Town play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Hungerford Town.
A 0-0 draw at Welling United's stadium before that.The schedule is very tough for Slough now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Vanarama National League South game at Farnborough is waiting in only three days.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Slough Town have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats from four fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Jackman 3 goals |  B. Harris 3 goals | J. Goddard 3 goals |
Hanwell Town missing players
Slough Town missing players
| Hanwell Town | Slough Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 5 | 14 | ||
| 37 | 18 | Scored | S | 18 | 31 | ||
| 37 | 15 | Conceded | C | 20 | 49 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 56% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 60% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 60% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 24% | ||
| 2.9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 3.4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.4 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 9.2 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.5 | ||
| 3.1 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.7 | ||
| 36% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 30% | ||
| 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.4 | 11 | ||
| 2.6 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.6 | ||
