National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Maidstone United or Billericay Town that keep their silverware dream alive.
Maidstone have less rest than Billericay Town in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Vanarama National League South game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Ebbsfleet United.
Maidstone's stadium, Gallagher Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Billericay Town have grass 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 Billericay Town when playing on artifical turf; 0 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from five matches. They have scored 4 goals in these games and conceded 9.
Maidstone United form and stats
Maidstone United participated in Fa Trophy the last season, where they reached the 5th round.Happy days for Maidstone United in their previous game, a Vanarama National League South match away at Ebbsfleet United that ended with a 3-2 victory.
Previous to that game, a Vanarama National League South home match hosting Chippenham Town in a game that was won 1-0.With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Maidstone United friendly games in pre-season: Maidstone played two friendlies, won 2, drew 0 and lost 0. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Maidstone United scored 9 goals and conceded 1 in these two games.
Billericay Town form and stats
Billericay's mission in Fa Trophy last season failed in the 2nd round.It's looking increasingly bleak for Billericay who now has to deal with a six game losing streak. Slough Town was the last time a defeat was avoided.
Billericay Town failed to get anything from their last game, a Vanarama National League South home match vs Hampton & Richmond that ended with defeat 0-1.
Prior to that match, the Billericay manager J. Brown faced defeat when travelling to Chippenham Town and losing 0-3.Just as the home team, Billericay Town have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 1 Billericay Town win, 1 draw and 0 losses.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings with these squads: Maidstone won six, Billericay Town were winners in two and we saw two draws. seven games with more than 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Luque 9 goals | S. Corne 4 goals |   N. Wabo 4 goals |
Maidstone United missing players
Billericay Town missing players
| Maidstone United | Billericay Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Lost | L | 9 | 16 | ||
| 46 | 18 | Scored | S | 10 | 30 | ||
| 34 | 15 | Conceded | C | 26 | 54 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 60% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 40% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 52% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 8% | ||
| 28% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 36% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.4 | 5.9 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 13 | 14.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.8 | 9.5 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.1 | 3.4 | ||
| 34% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 31% | ||
| 9.4 | 7.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.4 | 12.6 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.7 | ||