National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Marine or Scarborough Athletic that keep their silverware dream alive.
Scarborough Athletic could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Vanarama National League North game only four sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Buxton. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Marine form and stats
Action has already taken place for Marine in Fa Trophy as they have defeated Radcliffe Borough and Basford United to reach the 2nd Round. Last season their Fa Trophy adventure ended in the 2nd round.A nice win for Marine last time playing, versus Liversedge. That was also a home game and the match ended 5-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Marine played a great game against Liversedge and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
In the game before, an away victory in the Non League Premier: Northern match versus Morpeth Town with a 2-0 scoreline.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Pilkington XXX are coming to town in three days.
Marine have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and two practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Marine scored {5 goals} and let in {1 goals} during these two games.
Scarborough Athletic form and stats
They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 3rd round qualifying.It's the second away game in a row for Scarborough Athletic, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Buxton last time out.
Prior to that result Scarborough won their away game at Gloucester City in the Vanarama National League North. The scoreline was 3-2.It's a day of discovery for Scarborough Athletic 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 Scarborough Athletic have played four with the results W1-D1-L2 (win-draw-lost). In these games Scarborough Athletic has scored {4 goals} and conceded 6 times.
Head 2 Head
Marine-Scarborough Athletic H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Marine one win, Scarborough Athletic two wins, one draw. two of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  M. Coulson 8 goals | L. Maloney 6 goals | D. Tear 5 goals |
Marine missing players
Scarborough Athletic missing players
| Marine | Scarborough Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 7 | ||
| 40 | 19 | Scored | S | 16 | 48 | ||
| 20 | 8 | Conceded | C | 18 | 38 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 84% | ||
| 48% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 60% | ||
| 16% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 52% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 36% | ||
| 48% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 64% | ||
| 36% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 16% | ||
| 3.4 | 2.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 3.1 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 4.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.8 | 12.5 | ||
| 4.3 | 1.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 6 | ||
| 45% | 143% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 31% | ||
| 7.6 | 2.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.7 | 13.7 | ||
| 3 | 1.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 6.2 | ||
