National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Marine or South Shields that keep their silverware dream alive.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Marine form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Fa Trophy for Marine, as the manager N. Young led his troops to eliminate 1874 Northwich, and reach the 3rd Round Qualifying. Last season, Marine's Fa Trophy journey ended in the 2nd round.The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of four straight victories regardless of arena.
Marine's last game was hosting City of Liverpool and winning 2-1.
Prior to that, an away loss at Wrexham in the FA Cup.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Trafford are coming to town in three days.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Marine friendly games in pre-season: Marine played one friendly, won 1, drew 0 and lost 0. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Marine scored 2 goals and conceded 1 in these one game.
South Shields form and stats
They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 1st round.Home advantage was not enough for Shields in their previous game, as they lost their Non League Premier: Northern-match, hosting Buxton, 0-1.
Preceding that game was the away Non League Premier: Northern victory against Matlock Town with the score of 1-0.It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. South Shields have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats from one fixture.
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Marine victories, zero draws and two South Shields wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.Marine missing players
South Shields missing players
| Marine | South Shields | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 8 | Won | W | 9 | 16 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 44 | 20 | Scored | S | 21 | 39 | ||
| 25 | 13 | Conceded | C | 15 | 23 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 68% | ||
| 60% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 43% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 20% | ||
| 6.1 | 6.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.1 | ||
| 4.6 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.7 | 2.6 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 9.3 | 8.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 9.1 | ||
| 3.9 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.3 | ||
| 26% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 40% | ||