Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Spennymoor Town & Darlington face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!
Spennymoor Town and Darlington should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Spennymoor Town form and stats
Action has already taken place for Spennymoor Town in Fa Trophy as they have defeated Runcorn Linnets to reach the 3rd Round. Spennymoor Town participated in Fa Trophy the last season, where they reached the 5th round.Spennymoor Town's last game was hosting Boston United and winning 3-2.
A Vanarama National League North defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Brackley Town.This is expected to be a close game, with Spennymoor Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Spennymoor Town as a small favourite), we find 7 games. Spennymoor has won 4 of these, drawn 2 and lost 1.
Spennymoor Town have prepared for this season with two friendly games versus mixed opposition. Results from training matches should always be treated with caution, but the takeaways from these two matches are 0 victories, 0 draws and 2 losses. In these games, Spennymoor Town have scored {1 goals} and conceded 7 times.
Darlington form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Alfreton Town in order to reach 3rd round of Fa Trophy. Darlington was sent out of Fa Trophy in the 2nd round last season.It's the second away game in a row for Darlington, but there's smiles all around after the 6-2 victory versus Gloucester City last time out. As mentioned above, Darlington was the only team on the pitch versus Gloucester City in their previous game, winning 6-2. This could be a tougher task. It's hard not to mention Lambert's lethal finishing against Gloucester City. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Curzon Ashton at their stadium, the result 2-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Darlington in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Darlington, 4 draws and 6 defeats.
It's a day of discovery for Darlington 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 Darlington have played two with the results W0-D0-L2 (win-draw-lost). In these games Darlington has scored {1 goals} and conceded 5 times.
Head 2 Head
Spennymoor Town have pulled off a streak of 5 consecutive matches without losing (1-4-0) when facing Darlington.Top Goalscorers
  M. Beck 12 goals | J. Lambert 10 goals |  G. Taylor 8 goals |
Spennymoor Town missing players
Darlington missing players
| Spennymoor Town | Darlington | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 39 | 16 | Scored | S | 23 | 47 | ||
| 34 | 12 | Conceded | C | 15 | 30 | ||
| 92% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 52% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 68% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 12% | ||
| 5.9 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.4 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.1 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 10.5 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.5 | ||
| 33% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 40% | ||
| 9 | 6.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.9 | 9.4 | ||
| 3.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.9 | ||
