Perhaps a welcome break from league football as St Ives Town & Needham Market face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Fa Trophy. All the pre-match information is available here!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
St Ives Town form and stats
Ives participated in Fa Trophy the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.Ives's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 2-4 versus Hednesford Town. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Hitchin Town.St Ives Town 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 2 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Ives scored 4 goals and let in 0 goals during these two games.
Needham Market form and stats
They also participated in Fa Trophy last season. This ended in the 2nd round.Needham Market's previous game was their home loss versus Rushall Olympic (1-2).
Before that, Needham secured a home win against Biggleswade Town with the score 3-0.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Needham manager K. Horlock as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Leiston.
It's a day of discovery for Needham Market 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 Needham Market have played one with the results W0-D0-L1 (win-draw-lost). In these games Needham Market has scored 1 goal and conceded 3 times.
Head 2 Head
Head to head numbers (for the previous five meetings): St Ives Town won zero games, three matches ended with a draw and Needham Market got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / fourSt Ives Town missing players
Needham Market missing players
| St Ives Town | Needham Market | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 37 | 17 | Scored | S | 19 | 51 | ||
| 59 | 24 | Conceded | C | 20 | 38 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 70% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 30% | 24% | ||
| 68% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 90% | 80% | ||
| 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 10% | 8% | ||
| 2 | 1.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.7 | 3.1 | ||
| 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 4.2 | 2.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 9.9 | ||
| 1.8 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 5.1 | ||
| 92% | 150% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 45% | ||