National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Curzon Ashton or United of Manchester that keep their silverware dream alive.
Only a few days to rest for the hosting team, as they had a Vanarama National League North fixture only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Boston United, was also a home game here at Tameside Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Curzon Ashton form and stats
Curzon Ashton was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the Manchester Premier Cup.A nice win for Curzon Ashton last time playing, versus Boston United. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1 with Sinclair, Matthews and Kenyon scoring for the victors.
Before that game, a home win against Chorley in the FA Cup.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Curzon as they have a new game in only four days, a FA Cup match thankfully also at home. Tamworth are visiting.
Curzon Ashton have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and five practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Curzon Ashton scored {4 goals} and let in {10 goals} during these five games.
United of Manchester form and stats
They also participated in Manchester Premier Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals.United of Manchester play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 5-2 victory visiting Marske United. A stark raving crazy game with heaps of goals last time out for Manchester, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that game, will this fixture be as much fun?
Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Workington's place.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Morpeth Town in just four days.
Just as the home team, United of Manchester have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 2 United of Manchester wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head data (for the last ten meetings): Curzon Ashton won three games, three matches ended in a draw and United of Manchester have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  W. Hayhurst 4 goals |  C. Mahon 3 goals |  D. Matthews 2 goals |
Curzon Ashton missing players
United of Manchester missing players
| Curzon Ashton | United of Manchester | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Won | W | 5 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8 | 7 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 34 | 14 | Scored | S | 19 | 42 | ||
| 30 | 20 | Conceded | C | 24 | 38 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 40% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 64% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 42% | 28% | ||
| 56% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 14% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 24% | ||
| 20% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 28% | ||
| 3.4 | 3.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 3.8 | ||
| 5.2 | 6.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.6 | 3.9 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.3 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8.6 | 6.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.4 | 8.7 | ||
| 4 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.7 | ||
| 35% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 48% | 45% | ||
| 11.1 | 11.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 8 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.9 | ||
