Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Spennymoor Town & Chorley face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!
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!
Spennymoor Town form and stats
Last season their Fa Trophy adventure ended in the 3rd round.We have seen two home losses in a row now for Spennymoor, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
The Spennymoor Town crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Gateshead here at The Brewery Field in a Vanarama National League North match.
Before that, Spennymoor Town played out a Vanarama National League North draw 1-1 when visiting Bradford Park Avenue.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Spennymoor have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found six matches with the results: Won three, drawn two and lost one.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Spennymoor Town as they are travelling to their away game against Gloucester City in the Vanarama National League North. That match is four days after this one.
Spennymoor 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 0 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Spennymoor Town scored 4 goals and let in 4 goals during these two games.
Chorley form and stats
They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 2nd round.Chorley has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Boston United for a Vanarama National League North game that ended a draw (2-2).
Before that, Chorley secured a home win against Kettering Town with the score 3-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Chorley in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Chorley, three draws and five defeats.
It's a day of discovery for Chorley 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 Chorley have played three with the results W1-D1-L1 (win-draw-lost). In these games Chorley has scored 2 goals and conceded 3 times.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last seven meetings: four - one - two (Spennymoor Town wins - draws - Chorley wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Taylor 10 goals |  C. Hall 7 goals | R. Ramshaw 4 goals |
Spennymoor Town missing players
Chorley missing players
| Spennymoor Town | Chorley | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 41 | 27 | Scored | S | 8 | 37 | ||
| 37 | 19 | Conceded | C | 11 | 25 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 64% | ||
| 60% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 27% | 40% | ||
| 44% | 62% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | ||
| 60% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 32% | ||
| 5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.9 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.1 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.6 | 13.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.9 | 12.9 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 5.7 | ||
| 35% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 27% | ||
| 12 | 9.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.3 | 8.9 | ||
| 5.1 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.5 | ||