National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Southport or AFC Liverpool that keep their silverware dream alive.
The visiting AFC Liverpool played their last game only three days ago, a Counties Leagues: North West Counties League match.
Southport form and stats
Southport are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-2 away versus Hereford.
In the game before, an away victory in the Vanarama National League North match versus Chorley with a 2-1 scoreline.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Southport as they are travelling to their away game against Buxton in the Vanarama National League North. That match is four days after this one.
AFC Liverpool form and stats
The manager was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue. AFC Liverpool suffered a 0-2 loss to Ashton Athletic.
A home win before that, celebrating 3-2 vs Longridge Town.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Liverpool manager as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against West Didsbury & Chorlton.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Archer 9 goals |  N. Watson 6 goals | J. Bainbridge 3 goals |
Southport missing players
AFC Liverpool missing players
| Southport | AFC Liverpool | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 1 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 40 | 27 | Scored | S | 6 | 40 | ||
| 28 | 17 | Conceded | C | 11 | 31 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 78% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 78% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 22% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 11% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 77% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 56% | 28% | ||
| 5.3 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3.6 | 2.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8.8 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| 35% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | ||
| 8.7 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
